Comments on: A Debaculous Fiasco

By: Doubledealer

Doubledealer — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 03:35:35 +0000

There’s a bit more detail on the search for a commencement speaker here, as well as the full three stanzas:
http://www.humanity.org/voices/commencements/dr.seuss-geisel-lake-forest-college-speech-1977

My uncle ordered popovers
from the restaurant’s bill of fare.
And when they were served,
he regarded them
with a penetrating stare …
Then he spoke great Words of Wisdom
as he sat there on that chair:
“To eat these things,”
said my uncle,
“you must exercise great care.
You may swallow down what’s solid …
BUT …
you must spit out the air!”

And …
as you partake of the world’s bill of fare,
that’s darned good advice to follow.
Do a lot of spitting out the hot air.
And be careful what you swallow.

By: Dalex

Dalex — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 20:47:43 +0000

Is there any connection between this Bart and Terwilliger and Bart Simpson and Sideshow Bob?

By: Farty

Farty — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 21:42:42 +0000

I wonder if ZZ Top got inspiration from Dr. Terwilliker’s Twin Guards?

By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 01:20:18 +0000

Just checking back in.

By: Jaques Strappe

Jaques Strappe — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 15:03:03 +0000

This film mesmerized me when I watched it on TV as a child. Saw a pristine copy on the big screen as an adult and was disappointed by the rather lame content, but the stunning, imaginative imagery was as dazzling as always.

By: Ole

Ole — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 03:04:21 +0000

Could I ask for a miracle, silly though that it could be, that folks read and understand those stanzas before they tweet?

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 14:06:40 +0000

Regarding lingering hints of WW2 symbolism, he didn’t leave the horrors of war behind. His “The Butter Battle Book” was published in 1984 and is an allegory about atomic/nuclear weapons, the futility of mutual destruction, and how nationalism can lead to horrible consequences over trivial things.

By: Ed Sullivan

Ed Sullivan — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 02:20:51 +0000

Dr. T. hasn’t been forgotten by film-makers; Frank Darabont and Michael Sloane had a piano teacher named Irene Terwilliger in 2001’s The Majestic, and young Bart Collins would have approved of her student ‘Luke Trimble’ going off-program when compelled to try to remember a Liszt piece at an impromptu recital…

https://youtu.be/D9_jf3JK3Oo

By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 00:00:07 +0000

Wal W:

Sorry, but I’m lost. The Good Doctor was born in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Why do you say English was a non-native language? What did I miss in the article?

By: Wal W

Wal W — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 13:03:31 +0000

Always good to read that a couple of favourites were friends as well as professional colleagues — I had no idea that Geisel/Seuss even knew Hans Conried, of whom I was also a fan, even before his Snidely Whiplash days. Funny that for as long ago as that was, now, I had no trouble whatsoever in remembering exactly what he looked and sounded like.

Of Dr Seuss, of course, I’m sure everything that could have been said about him has been said by now, but I stand in absolute awe at his ear for the rhythm of what for him was a non-native language.