perfidy

It is the centenary of the birth of Theodore Geisel, the man who made it possible for Jesse Jackson to read "Green Eggs and Ham" on SNL and permanently damage my brain. For all kinds of nonsensical activities involving crude and perversely drawn creatures and words that don't mean a thing but rhyme very well, go here, or here. 

"The Lorax speaks for the trees!" If there is anything aside from the sanctimoniousness, lies, arrogance and delusion that turned me away from the environmentalist movement, it's that phrase.

[wik] It has been pointed out that I got the quote wrong. Here is the correct quote, in context - we're all about context:

"Mister!" he said with a sawdusty sneeze,

"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

And I'm asking you, sir, at the top of my lungs"

he was very upset as he shouted and puffed

"What's that THING you've made out of my Truffula tuft?”

It should be noted that the Lorax' fear is overwrought. Clearcuts are, after all, only temporary meadows. Who hates meadows?

[alsø wik] While looking for the actual words the actual Lorax spoke instead of the wrong words in put in my quote, I found this:

Rejected Dr. Seuss Books:

1. One Bitch, Two Bitch, Dead Bitch, Blue Bitch
2. Herbert the Pervert Likes Sherbert
3. Fox in Detox
4. Who Shat in the Hat?
5. Horton Hires a Ho
6. The Flesh-Eating Lorax
7. How the Grinch Stole Columbus Day
8. Your Colon Can Moo---Can You?
9. Zippy the Rabid Gerbil
10. The Cat in the Blender
11. Marvin K. Mooney, Get the Fuck Out!
12. Are You My Proctologist?
13. Yentl the Lentil
14. My Pocket Rocket Needs A Socket
15. Aunts in My Pants
16. Oh, the Places You'll Scratch and Sniff!
17. Horton Fakes an Orgasm
18. The Grinch's Ten Inches