BOOM...hit em' between the eyes Ted

[detbuch]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Cruz lost me with his green eggs and ham nonsense. It's hard to take someone seriously who recites DR Seuss on C-Span
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Nonsense? Your dissing one of the most revered, influential, and popular books in the English language.

It has been a model for different media productions (music, TV, movies); been referred to by a US judge, been an all-time best seller; has been a teaching aid for various philosophies including objectivism; a model of literary brevity (only 50 different words used in the text); a supporter of social justice such as anti-discrimination; interpreted as an example of various religious teaching including Vedic, Judaic, and Christian views; and a literary work to influence various political principles--even Marxism (the Chinese banned it once as an example of early rather than evolved and progressive Marxism).

If you like Bernie Sanders, there should be a lot in Green Eggs and Ham that you would support.

Well . . . yeah . . . there is really not much in it. But a lot of "smart" folks, and even regular folks, who swear good stuff by it.

[spence]

Originally Posted by detbuch

Nonsense? Your dissing one of the most revered, influential, and popular books in the English language.

It's a good book but my favorite is still Fox in Sox. Try reading that after a few glasses of wine

Didn't Cruz seem to not realize the book was about tolerance for new ideas?

[scottw]

Originally Posted by spence

Didn't Cruz seem to not realize the book was about tolerance for new ideas?

no, it was about trying to get him to eat something that looked disgusting, I don't remember it being shoved down his throat and all of his dietary options taken away in the future in order to make him "like" it

in GE&H Part II we learn that while the green eggs tasted ok.... they were in fact contaminated with salmonella and he dies a slow death....food poisoning(and socialism/progressivism) are not "new ideas"

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by scottw

in GE&H Part II we learn that while the green eggs tasted ok.... they were in fact contaminated with salmonella and he dies a slow death....food poisoning(and socialism/progressivism) are not "new ideas"

Thats OK - the US hasn't tried to fuilly implement it yet - just because it barely works in other homogenous countries doesn't mean that the formerly great melting pot (we are less encourage to melt these days) can't pull it off with our fearless academia