Jynx, your mother needs to get her priorities straight. Mine was in despair because Littlebro completely refused to read anything he did not have to; he’d even wait until his friends had read whichever books they’d been assigned for Spanish class, so they would be able to tell him the story.
I’ll just ease over to the other side of the room, as far from Swampy as possible.
Wise move, flytrap! On the other hand, the **bear **likes to think he’s funny and who am I to bust his little bubble… 
Lunch is done - very unsatisfying. Probably due to lack of chocolate.
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So going back to the OP. I remember One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue fish being an awesome book as a child, but I had the hubs read it to the twins last night and it was long and there was no coherent theme or story line. It read like 4 stories in one. I was confused. Was Dr. Seuss was on acid or something?
I’ve long suspected he was. Thankfully he wrote in English and in verse; while attempts at translating his books (or the horrible, horrible movie based on them*) into Spanish aren’t much more incoherent than the original, they end up being quite unsellable. The attempts I’ve seen didn’t have the verse, so there isn’t even a rhytm and rhyme to offset the weirdness - weird is common in children’s books, but not to that level.
- I happened to watch about five minutes of it once while channel surfing. That particular bit managed to communicate that “milk is bad for you” - gee, very educational! :smack:
I always figured Dr. Seuss was just having fun with the language and using it to engage children.
Dr. Seuss is trippy and was probably trippin’ but ya gotta admit his books have a certain appeal not just to kidlets but to adulterated humans too. Well the English speakin’ adulterated humans.
flytrap that’s a biiiiiig fish! Looks like it’d fry up real nice. 
Oh, the Lutherans voted to join in with us Episcopalians and become one church as of January. One of the main items on last night’s agenda at Vestry meetin’ was to ratify the MOU to that effect. What does this mean? Well, we now have an Episcopal church that has two services on Sunday, an early service that uses the Lutheran liturgy and a later, main service from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Yeah, that really cleared that all up didn’t it.
Oh and N.O.L. was good. Plus I had cookies!
I had cookies too. Hommade peanut butter cookies. They were lovely.
Hullo,** Jynx**! Welcome!
But do the Lutherans keep Kosher?
Read One Fish…It isn’t like Cat in the Hat or The Grinch, there is no story or coherent theme. It jumps from fish to look at all these weird pets we have to look at all the stuff we can do that you should try to do back to the weird pet thing (I think). And it’s like 3 times as long as his other books. I must have been a weird kid to like that book. I think it was because I liked fish and thought I was going to be a marine biologist like Cousteau.
I do remember loving Zoobooks. I got the subscription for almost 3 years.
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Flytrap I am given to believe that Lutherans will chow down on bacon and ham with the best of 'em.
**Apes **- that was my point - there didn’t need to be a story - it was just fun with words!
My daughter got Zoobooks for years! I wonder if she kept any?
Mea Culpa! Please forgive me MMP Goddess (FCM) and Gods (Swampy & Doggio).
Please take these humble offerings offerings as a sign of my sincerest appology.
For MOOOOOM May I offer virtual fairy chocolatey truffleness http://www.trufflefairy.com/
For Swampy may I offer virtual swamp beer http://greatblackswampbrewing.com/
For Doggio may I offer ummmmmm…this wierd beer brand I found an image of…http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fLs57LeuX5E/SX9r2dCpjJI/AAAAAAAAATw/tW6xXsiqa58/s1600-h/Dogs_Bollocks.jpeg
I hope these tributes, however insignificant will appease the mighty ones.*
*(please dont thunder bolt and lightnening me…very very frightening me)
Gallileo
Jinx thanks! I’m sure doggio is used to dawg slobber in his beer. My sis has a dawg, Troy, an American Pit Bull and the biggest baby you ever saw, who will do his best to sneak a sip of any open beer he spies. Cracks me up!
No! We will not let you go!! 
White Chocolate over here, please!
The Cat in the Hat has a pretty good translation into Hebrew 
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MOOOOOOM, as far as what I wear whilst working from home, it’s finally cold enough that I can slip on my crazy warm LL Bean moccasins. Any other time of year they’ll melt your feet off, especially living in Swampy’s necka’thawoods as I do. Other than those, I usually just pull on a pair of khaki’s or jeans and a sweatshirt.
What about summertime, you ask? Just a yellow banana hammock and a heavy gold necklace works nicely :p.
Swampy, I worked full-time from home for about 5 years, now I’m back to doing one or two days a week, mainly so peoples can admire my countenance during meetings. Bleh. Oh well, at least I have a job.
Welcome, Jinx! I’m new to the MMP too. It’s fun here!
Th ct n th ht.
Up, irk, over-caffeinated: I stopped off at Subway for a sammich and it took three tries before I got out a coherent sentence (three sentences, actually, because I compiled them all together into one incomprehensible jumble).
Find of the week for me: I’ve been using Starbuck’s Via instant coffee packets because I don’t have ready access to coffee-making implements in the house I’m renting a room in. They’re normally $10 for 12. Starbucks is selling a christmas package, $16 for 25, with five of each of five different types. Assuming they’re all drinkable (one type is decaf, however, so I shall save those for tasty, warm, evening beverages), that’s noticeably cheaper than the usual price, so I shall be buying a box a week and stockpiling them for the long, cold winter of no coffee maker.
Tried two different types this morning, total of four cups of coffee, which goes a LONG way towards explaining the over-caffeination.
Carry on.
I’m disproportionally excited by this: last night I was tweeting about Batman: The Brave and the Bold, as I do every time I watch it, because it’s serious quite close to the best cartoon ever. And one of the animators retweeted me.
I am easily excited.