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Re: Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham

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Post by CarbyAu » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 11:19 PM UTC

koolba wrote: post #8

CarbyAu wrote: post #7

For me the genius of "green eggs and ham" is that you read it to your kid at about the time they become more picky with their food. So the book is a lesson too. Some days I really want to read this book to my kid: https://www.amazon.com.au/You-Have-F-king-Eat/dp/1501238663

I like this one by the same author: https://www.amazon.com/Go-F-Sleep-Adam-Mansbach/dp/145584165...

That one was first and I think the best. Novelty of the thing I guess. I am not as tempted to use that as a lesson, but this morning we had our "creepy stalker child" moment.

It's weird. When parents watch kids sleep they think "Aww, aren't they cute..."

but when the kids watch the parents sleep it's "...Holy motherfucker!!! ... oh, don't do that to me kiddo."

Re: Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham

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Post by dang » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 11:29 PM UTC

Jtsummers wrote: post #3

https://brianjayjones.com/2020/08/11/sixty-years-of-green-eg... For the those who don’t want to read a twitter thread but want a posting by the original author.

Changed from https://twitter.com/brianjayjones/status/1292552188464705536. Thanks!

Re: Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham

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Post by a_e_k » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 11:32 PM UTC

qrybam wrote: post #6

drrevjj wrote: post #2

...and an eloquent, nuanced, and powerful reading of the tome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1mqg4C0awA

...or a more modernist rap of the same: https://youtu.be/nwDGRUzv3SE

Moxy Fruvous also did a song inspired by the book:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzUdmFecExo

Re: Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham

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Post by gumby » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 11:36 PM UTC

This was a great book to try to get my six year old to use English. He liked to read it aloud.

It took a few years to get to a second one though.

Re: Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham

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Post by ggcdn » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 11:36 PM UTC

Its a great catchy book, and it was interesting to learn more about the origins of it. Both my 3yo and I can recite it from memory.

Re: Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham

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Post by RickJWagner » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 11:37 PM UTC

For those too young to have seen it, I present the Reverand Jesse Jackson narrating 'Green Eggs and Ham'. A classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1mqg4C0awA

Re: Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham

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Post by dmurray » Wed, Aug 12, 2020, 12:07 AM UTC

genericone wrote: post #9

Offtopic, but on the topic of green eggs, several differents breeds of chickens can lay green, and even blue and lavender colored eggs.

Do you mean the shells, or the yolks? The illustrations in the Seuss book show lime-green yolks.

Re: Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham

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Post by unityByFreedom » Wed, Aug 12, 2020, 12:25 AM UTC

CarbyAu wrote: post #7

For me the genius of "green eggs and ham" is that you read it to your kid at about the time they become more picky with their food. So the book is a lesson too. Some days I really want to read this book to my kid: https://www.amazon.com.au/You-Have-F-king-Eat/dp/1501238663

Did you offer your kids food with a goat, on a boat?

Re: Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham

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Post by kevin_thibedeau » Wed, Aug 12, 2020, 12:41 AM UTC

dmurray wrote: post #17

genericone wrote: post #9

Offtopic, but on the topic of green eggs, several differents breeds of chickens can lay green, and even blue and lavender colored eggs.

Do you mean the shells, or the yolks? The illustrations in the Seuss book show lime-green yolks.

You just have to let them mature:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg

Re: Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham

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Post by CarbyAu » Wed, Aug 12, 2020, 12:52 AM UTC

unityByFreedom wrote: post #18

CarbyAu wrote: post #7

For me the genius of "green eggs and ham" is that you read it to your kid at about the time they become more picky with their food. So the book is a lesson too. Some days I really want to read this book to my kid: https://www.amazon.com.au/You-Have-F-king-Eat/dp/1501238663

Did you offer your kids food with a goat, on a boat?

We are not so desperate yet! :-)

We wish he would learn the "try it" strategy for food, like the end of the book does. Once he tries it, he stuffs himself!

But he seems to have learned the "deny eating strenuously" strategy of the whole story.

Maybe we should apply authoritarian censorship and read him only the last few pages...