# All the Whos down in Whoville lynch the Grinch

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 19, 2016, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-whos-down-in-whoville-lynch-the-grinch/775131 "2016-12-19T14:03:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-whos-down-in-whoville-lynch-the-grinch/775131/1 "2016-12-19T14:03:30Z")

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Surely this has been done before? After the Grinch returns all their Christmas stuff, the Whos thank him by nailing up his flayed carcass in the dining hall\*. But I couldn’t find any examples online. Anyone?

eta:\* alternately, “And he, he himself… the Grinch… was carved as roast beast”

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**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-whos-down-in-whoville-lynch-the-grinch/775131/2 "2016-12-19T15:07:06Z")

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Won’t happen. The Whos are pure in heart and spirit. Nothing upsets them. Even all that noise Noise NOISE from the whohinklers and the gumtinklers. That would upset any normal person. But not the Whos down in Whoville. Of course they forgive the Grinch.

They’re Canadians.

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**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-whos-down-in-whoville-lynch-the-grinch/775131/3 "2016-12-20T20:19:15Z")

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I think you’re right **Just Asking Questions** , just watch the polite little way they swing open like a little gate to let Grinch and sleigh into their song circle.

The Whos aren’t angry at the Grinch, because they don’t even care about the presents and the roast beast, they just want to sing “Fahoo foray, dahoo doray”

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-whos-down-in-whoville-lynch-the-grinch/775131/4 "2016-12-20T20:20:41Z")

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They were _going_ to lynch him, but they’d already cut down all the truffula trees.

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**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-whos-down-in-whoville-lynch-the-grinch/775131/5 "2016-12-20T21:01:44Z")

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Aw, I thought this was going to be a new Mafia signup thread…

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**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-the-whos-down-in-whoville-lynch-the-grinch/775131/6 "2016-12-21T20:37:02Z")

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> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> …They’re Canadians.

I’m pretty sure Pete, Roger, and John are from London.