Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for November 08, 2018

Some will say it is a sweet read, but others will say it’s a dilly.

Once you read, you have read, or so it is said

http://www.philnel.com/2013/02/06/seusswrong/

Be sure to watch the interview with Dr. Seuss, too. The back and forth regarding the pronunciation of his name is interesting.

I like how his horns or whatever are completely ignored.

I hate that pickle so much.

So what’s the big dill? It is, after all, my bread and butter.

Can it really be considered literature without a pickle?

How did he become encucumbered by those horns?

A very clever and successful ink salesman.

And he said it several hundred years after you died.

I can read in bed, i can read on the pot.

I draw the line at reading in the bath.

He’s a big draw at Pickle Fest every year.

The alkaline in the pickles counteract the acid in the alcohol.

Don’t be gherkin around, Theodor.

“How camest thou in this pickle?” …

—The Tempest (King Alfonso, Act 5, Scene 1)

Sometimes a pickle is just a wocket.

Where are the pickle police when you need them? Security has gotten so lax around here lately. #pickleshavefeelingstoo

I’m worried about this Pickle Obsession that Sister is manifesting of late. And I worry, too, though perhaps needlessly, about a quasi-Shakespearian actor declaiming Dr. Seuss in misquotation. ’Tis not a Pretty Pickle!