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Title: Who is your favorite of Theodore Geisel's characters?
Post by: Duchess Tapioca on 12 Dec 2005, 23:32

Here we talk about our favorite characters that Dr. Suess made up.
We also talk about why we like them and what they taught us and philosophy and life.

My favorite was the Lorax:
(http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/7813/programslorax4bb.gif)


He is my favorite because he taught me how sad it was when trees died while having a funny mustache.

Title: Who is your favorite of Theodore Geisel's characters?
Post by: yelley on 13 Dec 2005, 06:36

double post argh.

Title: Who is your favorite of Theodore Geisel's characters?
Post by: yelley on 13 Dec 2005, 06:37

i agree with you on the lorax bit, duchess.

fun fact - i can recite the whole book of dr. seuss' abc's. this is very important. big a little a what begins with a? aunt annie's alligator, a a a.

Title: Favorite Seussians...
Post by: LeeZion on 13 Dec 2005, 12:43

I don't know about characters. I go either by whole books or by incidents in the books. Like so:

1) One of my all-time favorite Dr. Seuss books is also one of his least-known. The King's Stilts. Gotta love those nizzards and Patrol Cats!

2) I loved I Had Trouble Getting to Solla Sollew. As an adult, I noticed a subtle joke in there that I completely missed when I was a child. One of the boy's troubles is he is stuck running though a tunnel with 500 birds "going all the wrong way." The joke is that THEY aren't going the wrong way, HE is! Out of all the troubles he experiences, that one is entirely his own fault.

3) Still on Solla Sollew, I can recite the bus stop scene by heart.
Well, the bus stop was there. That part was just fine.
But next to the bus stop was a small sign
Saying "Notice to passengers using our line
We regret to inform you our driver, Butch Myers,
Ran over four nails and has punctured all tires.
So, until further notice, the 5:32
Cannot possibly take you to Solla Sollew.
But we wish you a most pleasant journey by feet.
(Signed) Bus line president, Horace P. Sweet."
So I went on by feet, thanks to Horace P. Sweet.
And that Horace P. Sweet almost ruined my feet!

4) The scene with the pants with nobody inside 'em scared me out of my wits when I was little. The funny thing is, even though I was old enough to read for myself, the title of the story (and hence the message) went completely by me — "What Was I Scared Of?"

Title: Who is your favorite of Theodore Geisel's characters?
Post by: Duchess Tapioca on 13 Dec 2005, 12:58

A copy of The King's Stilts is on a shelf in my parent's house, as well as I Can Lick Thirty Tigers Today (That one taught me about... perservence?)

Also there are parodies. (http://www.seuss.org/seuss/seuss.parody.html)