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find_sam@hotmail.com wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE><tt>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!</tt>
<p><tt>Our best guess was that it came from a Doctor Suess book.</tt></blockquote>
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.
<p>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....
<blockquote TYPE=CITE><tt>--> Sam</tt></blockquote>
"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.
<p>--Amanda
<br>Look what we found
<br>In the park
<br>In the dark.
<br>We will take him home.
<br>We will call him Clark.
<br>He will live at our house.
<br>He will grow and grow.
<br>Will our mother like this?
<br>We don't know.
<br>--O.F.T.F.R.F.B.F.</html>