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

[Sheryll Townsend]

--- Amanda Lewanski <editor at texas.net> wrote:
> 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.
> 
I love that part, it's my favourite bit of that book.
I always wondered what *my* mother would do if I found
a *Clark* and brought him home!

Sheryll

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"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup."

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