[HPFGU-OTChatter] One fish, two fish...

[Amanda Lewanski]

find_sam at hotmail.com wrote:

> The other day at Uni, a friend and myself were having a discussion
> about the phrase that goes something like, 'one fish, two fish, red
> fish, blue fish.' Both of us knew the phrase from childhood, but we
> weren't sure if this was how the phrase went, if it did indeed end in
> 'red fish, blue fish', or even if it featured fish!
>
> Our best guess was that it came from a Doctor Suess book.

Yep. It's called "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish."  ..black
fish, blue fish, old fish, new fish..This one has a little car...This
one has a little star...Say! What a lot of fish there are! etc.

Wonderful book. One of the ones my mom would try to read with different
inflections, just to ease the boredom, and we'd correct her. Alas, that
she did not live to hear my daughter correct *me* when I read with
different inflections, just to ease the boredom....

> --> Sam

"That Sam I Am! That Sam I Am! I do not like that Sam I Am!" (nothing
personal--the opening of Green Eggs and Ham, another bit of timeless
literature. I still think my poetry style has been forever imprinted by
Seussian rhythms.

--Amanda
Look what we found
In the park
In the dark.
We will take him home.
We will call him Clark.
He will live at our house.
He will grow and grow.
Will our mother like this?
We don't know.
--O.F.T.F.R.F.B.F.
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