DR. SEUSS
Made his books 50 years ago and people still remember them. Top that Twilight.
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Thneeds.
Everyone needs a Thneed!!
2nd!!
lol 3rd! I’m going to see New Moon this Sat with a couple of friends… I’m not a huge fan, but the ideas presented in the book are fun to toy with…
If by “toy with” you mean have a mormon wet dream.
Wow, you totes dissed twilight. That will show them.
I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees.
You sir…were brought up right!
Hitler wrote some books 70 years ago. I think most people remember him too.
Just one, and it’s a steaming pile of crap- I read it in college. If Hitler had not become one of the most reviled people on the planet, it would have fallen into obscurity. The books of Dr. Seuss are the opposite- the books outlived him, even though Seuss as a person has remained fairly obscure.
Also, both were Germans (well, Hitler was Austrian, but you know what I mean), Seuss made cartoons and films against Nazi Germany and I’m sure you can connect them to Kevin Bacon somehow.
Theodore Geissell actually did some anti-Nazi propaganda cartoons in his early career.
He was one of the originators of the Pvt. Snafu cartoon series made for the education of the new GIs.
Um yeah, but they don’t remember the BOOKS like the above picture said….
Your logic is faulty, Dr. Seuss is practically required reading for young children, Twilight is obviously a literary fad.
1 – That’s tragically optimistic
2 – It’s too soon to tell
3 – Making post after post about the awfulness of Twilight (not that I’m against it) will only keep people from forgetting it.
I can only hope that it’ll be remembered FOR being awful, but you can’t deny that it’s everywhere.
Just check out failblog if you don’t believe them.
Well, Plan 9 From Outer Space has become a classic by way of being awful, so maybe the Twilight series of movies will be similar in stature
The whole Twilight “phenomenon” is extremely similar to the stir VC Andrews’ books (“Flowers in the Attic”, “Petals on the Wind”, etc.) made when I was in my teens. The only difference between them is that Twilight had the full benefit of the interwebz on its side, for word-of-mouth promotion. Both series are trashy, they’re both inhaled greedily by a teen-to-twenties audience (the bulk of it anyway) and while they may be remembered, they likely won’t be required reading anywhere. We all may hope.
Omg, people actually know those horrible V C Andrews books? I randomly found one in the library and read it, it’s sickening
Twilight cannot be as bad as Flowers in the Attic or Petals on the Wind, I made myself see the movie and while it’s cheesy, it didn’t make me want to puke.
I hate Dr. Seuss’ Books.
Hush thy tongue, blasphemer!
Yeah, they’re a pretty challenging read.
oh my god! why? im 16 and me and my little brother read them all the time!!!
He will not read them in a box…
Or in a hat, or eating green eggs and ham. I do not like green and ham.
Will he read them with a fox?
He will not read them with a fox, or whilst wearing stripy socks.
you should never say that this stuff roxxxxx
This is a waste of pwnage potential. There’s enough awesome left over after Dr. Seuss trounces Twilight and all Twilight-related material for him to also trounce all three Eragon and all seven Harry Potter books. And probably another crappy series or two that I can’t even think of right now.
Agreed, even though I heart Harry Potter big time. Dr. Seuss is so much win that he just wins everything.
It was a bit unjust of me to lump HP in with the others. It’s much better. Still, my love of it mostly died with the last three books, mostly because they started to sound like something I could read on fanfiction.net.
Dr. Seuss wins EVERYTHING.
“Still, my love of it mostly died with the last three books, mostly because they started to sound like something I could read on fanfiction.net.”
I agree. There should be a large group of other people who have also noticed this. Surely.
Everyone noticed, I think. But I still love the books because I grew up with them and count it as the thing that I can really remember waiting for the release (I apologize for the awkward phrasing, but I tried several ways and nothing worked).
Besides, it’s still better to have /sane/ published fanfiction, cop-out that it may be, than to have the crazy insane crack-fic that I’m told the Twilight books have become. Can you imagine crack-fic of something that’s already as messed up a Twilight?
This was done with Shakespeare a few months back.
Look, even I hate Twilight. But really books are a strange thing. What maybe crap this generation could be the next Hamlet in 50+ years.
So when 50 years pass by, return to this topic, and go from there.
Writing doesn’t just magically change. It doesn’t suddenly get good. IF twilight is remembered it will be because of the same no nothing fangirls who like it now. It will fade when they start to grow up.
I’ve read crappy 17th-century travel literature in class because it was written by women (groundbreaking!). I’ve also read crappy South African detective novels in class just because they were written by black people after Apartheid. So.. who knows how future critics will evaluate Twilight.
But I agree with you, it is badly written, has a predictable plot and shallow characters… I hope people will realize that 50 years from now.
but Stephanie Meyer isn’t a minority, and she hasn’t done anything new. Thirteen year olds have published better vampire novels than her. If anyone, they’d be reading Amelia Atwater-Rhodes beacsue she did something rare.
Wow, you spelled “know” wrong. And I’m the “no” nothing fangirl. You sir, fail. Plus, I thought “no” nothings were dumb. Odd that I’m taking the ACT in the seventh grade and reading Anna Karenina. If I’m dumb, smart Twi-Haters must be geniuses! Wow! Oh wait, most of them are like you, and “no” nothing. Thank you, and choke on my paganism.
Yes yes, the fact that you read Tolstoy at such a tender age clearly indicates that you are a true literary genius, and all the books that you enjoy are masterful works capable of withstanding the test of time.
Dream on. You may enjoy the story line, but the books are still predictable, repetitive, and poorly written. Instead of offering a solid defense of your beloved books, you attack the person. You are a perfect example of what I despise about Twilight fans. Not a one of you can give a better reason for calling them great than ‘They’re so awesome! I love them! It’s so real!’
He’s a creepy stalker, she displays clear self-destructive and obsessive tendencies, and the other characters are merely there to prop them up. What excellent roll models!
Oh, and, by the way, WTF does your paganism have anything to with this discussion?
First off… “Twi-Haters”? Really?
Second of all, no one cares how smart you are. No one here is saying, “oh, I’m so smart so everything I read must be amazing!!”
OMG, I’m a math major with a 4.0 at a top-ranked university, and I love Vince Flynn novels, so they must be works of literary GENIUS!!
I wish you hadn’t sullied the great name of Seuss by putting the word “Twilight” near him. He’s the best ever and nothing can ever, ever trump him. I only have to hear his name and my mood lifts at least two points.
*mood points based on a scale of 1-10.
Yay! me too!
The Seussinator is amazing! (thats what my little brother calls him)
Sure we’ll remember Twilight in 50 years. It’s bound to make it to some “Top Worst Books” lists for sure.
LOL you’re right on that one
If Twilight hasn’t already.
Stupid, it’s to soon to tell. Twilight hasn’t been out 50 years nerd
It’s not too soon to tell. Twilight sucks right now, and it will suck 50 years from now. Dr. Seuss books have been good since the day they were printed. See the difference?
I do!! 8D
all this Twilight bashing has to stop, it’s stupid.
are you a guy?
I have only met 2 guys who have read it.
one was gay and sadly stereotypical.
The other was my ex-boyfriend who is in the JROTC and I have absolutely no idea why he read it.
it made me a little creeped by him for about a week.
Some boy lost a bet in school and had to read it.
Another read Twilight for a bet, lost, and had to read all of the other books. Poor guy.
I read half of the first chapter, got a headache, and wondered how my friend got through the entire series. As self-destructive as it seems, she read it to see just how awful it was.
If you keep mocking it, maybe it WILL be remembered.
Greek poet Homer wrote his material over 2000 years ago. People still remember him
P.S.
Anyone who makes a comment saying d’oh after this one is
a)An uncultured idiot
b)Liable to get a bad case of bullet-in-head disease.
Plus, he’s still extra-cool because they named that baseball thing after him.
Anyone who gives criteria for the next person posting is
A) An idiot
B) An idiot
Anyone who said “d’oh” would probably be making a joking reference to the show rather than actually misunderstanding you. Being a fan of the Simpsons does not make you an uncultured idiot. It’s entirely possible to be familiar with the real Homer and that blind Greek guy.
Mmm, “Homer’s Odyssey”, and Homer having to cross the River Styx, which is of course accompanied by a soundtrack by Styx, to wit, “Lady”.
“Oh my god, this really IS hell!”
Even the series makes the jokes.
Yay! Someone else who thought of “Homer’s Odyssey”. I love that he kept a picture of it in his livingroom.
technically, Homer who wrote the Illiad should count as the “real” Homer since Homer Simpson never actually existed…
I was being sarcastic.
I don’t see what that has to do with which Homer to referr to as “real.”
d’oh. just to spite you.
BTW, watching Simpsons does not make you uncultured: it only means that you watch the Simpsons, even if you use it to reference blind dudes…
Aww you beat me to it. D:
D’oh (I know who that Homer is)
85 million copies since 2005. And New Moon will utterly shatter every other movie grossing. It’s already broken pre-sale records on Fandango. Bash it all you want, but there’s about 85 million people who will disagree. I’m just sayin…
Uuum, you know about the logical fallacy called “argumentum ad populum”?
Your “argument” just means, that there are more retards out there than we did even *imagine*.
Which really is pretty depressing if you want the good of others (including them).
Luckily, I only care about the good of those who care about the good of me. Which pretty much narrows it down to a tiny amout of helpful people. And a mass of useful idiots (including Twighlight fans), that I can use as cattle to fulfill my plans.
(Don’t whine. They are used as cattle anyway. And they even want it. But other than what they are used for now. I want to make the world better for us all!
1) You say 85 million like it’s a big number lets compare (85 million is for the entire series) that makes it 15 million short of the Guinness book of world records, 45 million short of the chronicles of narnia, 215 million short of Goosebumps, 315 million short of Harry Pothead,
2) to beat titanic, every person who bought the book (assuming every book was bought by a different person, and no one had more than one book in the series) would have to see New Moon…twice.
but wait…that’s for the entire series. Twilight itself only sold 18 million copies. That is 2 million behind Jaws, 3 million behind The Godfather, 11 million behind The Very Hungry Caterpillar, 12 million behind To Kill a Mockingbird, 48 million behind The Catcher in the Rye, 62 million behind The Da Vinci Code, 82 million behind the Hobbit, 132 million behind The Lord of the Rings, and 2 billion 482 million behind the lowest estimates of the Bible.
Yeah, but that many fangirls all over ready to shriek at the mention of the increasingly stress-inducing series have a magnifying effect. I’m sure it isn’t really at all that…AAAAACK! IT’S IN MY NEWSPAPER!
Can you give me a link to the source where you found all the numbers (if you ever see this reply)? I’d love to show them to my Twifan sister.
Actually it’s more of a case of fangirls going and seeing it 10-20 times before it’s out of theaters.
It’s Titanic all over again.
‘OMG!! like, I totally saw it 10 times!’
‘OMG!!! I Saw it 14 times this weekend!!’
‘Omg, let’s go like, see it, like again!!!!’
‘SQUEEEEEE!!’
*gag*
85 million people, huh? Let’s break that down, shall we?:
50% of them are idiotic women who believe that shoes should be a form of currency and refer to soap opera actors by their character’s names;
40% are teenage girls who use the word “like” an average of 5 times per sentence;
The other 10% are gay men. No explanation needed.
Only like 1/3 of those ticket sales are people who will only see it once.
How is it I can agree with the idea presented here so thoroughly, why also being annoyed at the whole thing?
I do hope that Dr. Suess’s books remain classics, as they’re very smartly written and don’t assume that children are idiots simply by virtue of being young. Most books in that age range tend to be either very moralistic or else saccharine tales about how much your parents love you. While Dr. Suess’s books do have lessons, they tend to promote exploring the world for yourself instead of presenting the message as some sort of moralistic truth that all good children must follow. They also have historical value (in the time they were published, this promotion of individuality in children was rare compared to today) and reach a wider audience – the characters of Suess are not bound in race, class, and gender to the same degree that most are. So, yes, they deserve their reputation.
Twilight, on the other hand, has a much more limited appeal. It is written for a very specific audience and is wrapped in the cultural values of a limited group (white, middle class, heterosexual, conservative teenage women in modern America), does not heavily break for an already well known formula, and is written in popular style. It just doesn’t have the properties that turn books into classics. While I have a great deal of critique on the subjects of the book, the mere fact that it is not going to become literary canon is not all that surprising. I have to say that most modern books that I read and love – even as a student studying literature – are more than likely not going to become classics for these exact same reasons. That doesn’t mean that they’re bad books, and it certainly doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy them. If Palahniuk or Gaiman or Kureishi are not being read even twenty years from now, it won’t make me like them any less (although personally I believe Kureishi will be).
I guess my point could be easily summarized as two statements:
- First: While there are many parts of the Twilight novels that deserve critical attention (as I believe that ALL media should be analyzed, and no book should ever be simply read – the reader needs to be active and part of the process) the fact that it won’t last as literary canon is one of the shallowest of potential objections and honestly comes off as a failure to examine the text and instead resort to using it’s lack of longevity as a flaw when, in fact, Twilight is simply one among millions of books that will eventually pass into obscurity.
Second: I should not attempt to waste time on my short breaks from writing my thesis to make comments on internet sites as I clearly have absolutely no sense of perspective and give an unnecessarily academic (and overly, painfully verbose) answer, not at all helped by the fact that my mind apparently cannot switch out of scholarly rhetoric in such a short break so that my replies are both long winded and doubtlessly come off as pretentious to the point of being childish and laughable.
Does it help if I promise I really do think in critical terms all the time, no matter what I’m writing or reading or watching or does that just make it worse? God, I’m like this caption: potentially correct, sure, but most certainly annoying.
Well, your honesty and objectivity are refreshing, at least… :p
One “word”: tl;dr! ^^
Just to clarify, you think Twilight was written for heterosexuals?
….and conservatives?
Well, it was written by a Morman. But my gay roommates would love to disagree with the heterosexual statement.
It isn’t necessarily that it is written solely for heterosexual so much as it is written to hetronormative standards just as it isn’t as if it is written solely for white, middle class readers and, indeed, it does appear to have a large following and I am almost positive that there are all types of people who read these books. However, the books do have a white, middle class lens (oh, that’s all wrong, but words are being hard). Of course, it’s hard to notice since most American mainstream culture is white, middle class, and heternormative. This doesn’t stop most people from enjoying many forms of media. As a girl who grew up in blue collar and low rent areas until I was lucky enough to enter college, I can say that probably 90% of American based literature I read reflects the values of the middle class. So much so that I realized very young that the fact that we had to sleep in churches and hotels was something you didn’t tell others because I always thought of myself as middle class since everything I consumed promoted the middle class ideals. Hell, I have worked myself into debt to go to college and while I love education and would love to think I have only the best of intentions, I do recognize that I am working towards those middle goals, and I do have moments where I still feel ashamed of my past. Why should I? My father worked over thirty years in a blue collar job: hard, manual work. He still does at 56! I don’t suppose I’m explaining it very well, but it’s a strange feeling to look back and be proud of my dad while realizing that I have totally disowned that background and I see it in the media all around me. I should be proud of myself for getting scholarships and getting out of that situation, that’s what media says and when you hear it enough it becomes difficult to see it anyway but in that particular view.
My situation is difficult to use as a good example, possibly because my thoughts on it are very troubled. I think it’s better seen in the way that, for example, many studies show that young black girls often identify the white dolls as being the most desirable or tend to always pick the lighter skinned model when asked which one they look like. Because white is promoted so heavily as being the standard, children of other races that grow up in this culture associate themselves with the white dolls and while models. Then, of course, as we grow up and find ourselves in that always fun awkward stage of figuring out our identity, these young women must go through an experience I cannot even begin to understand, and more than likely it happens at a subconscious level – I mean, how many of us as preteens has the self insight to truly examine why we think the way we do? – and it creates this sort of situation where you have young women who have gone through childhood watching shows and reading books and identifying with these white characters and it does create a lot of problems.
Same when I say that it’s hetronormative. You have gay and lesbian kids who find very few representations of themselves in media, and those that they do have are more than likely side characters or characters who are expected to fall into very typical heterosexual roles even within a homosexual relationship. Twilight definitely conforms to those roles, and even goes as far as to promote them rather strongly (which actually I don’t have a problem with so much. I mean, I much prefer it to books and other media that want to pretend that they’re “better than that” when they in fact rely on the same hetronormative standards as most).
And now, of course, hours later I am riding that sweet buzz of having finished off a major part of my thesis, but can’t seem to make sense so I apologize if I have failed to clarify and only furthered to obscure my original point. Also, I realize that it’s difficult to explain precisely because before you can say “this book promotes heternormative standards” first you have to accept that relationships and sexuality are culturally defined for us, and that we are subject to social scripts and that a truly objective view is impossible. Then you have to accept that since we’re so greatly shaped by our culture that potentially every thought and value we have and accepted as definite human nature could, in fact, just be cultural training. Then suddenly the simplest ideas because open to questions and then you become and English student. Trust me, it’s a terrible fate.
I suppose it also helps if you believe that diversity rather than total cultural assimilation is a positive thing and that subconscious thoughts such as identifying white skin as somehow more beautiful are actually very harmful. Because I’ve been surrounded by a handful of students these last two years who all are studying in the same general area as I am, I tend to forget that the basic tenets of what makes up the bulk of critical theory I now read is not, you know, generally true of everyone. It’s easy when you become specialized to stumble with those things. My brother – who is a math major – loves to talk about theories that are based on theories that are based on principals that he knows so well he forgets that I occasionally get stuck on multiplication. I love listening to him because he gets so excited about it, but I feel bad making him backtrack to things that he hasn’t really thought about for years, they’re just like knowing addition.
I read less than one word of that…..
Good god, woman! Are you writing a term paper on this? I give you an F. See me after class.
You spelled Seuss “Suess” in the second paragraph if you count the question, first sentence, 5th word.
Ah! A kindred soul! I, too, find flow, organization, syntax, and language to be so incredibly easy. I completely fail at grammar and spelling. Both bore me. I love your theory on why this is so. I might add that as one can gain understanding of language from reading, it’s actually fairly hard to learn grammar that way. Sure, some things you can pick up on, but most of it actually has to be taught.
I almost went in the reverse order you described for learning how to write. My grade school teachers slammed us with outlining and drafting and beat us with the 5 paragraph essay until we bled. I got B’s consistently, because my writing rejected the five paragraph essay. I got to college and learned that it’s because I was already writing at a college level. I was getting A’s with half the effort.
I guess I am an exception though to that “suck at math” rule, as I do thoroughly enjoy math and sciences. I think the way one creates and uses organization and structure in writing is very similar to the processes of math and science, whereas math and science have very little creativity. That’s why I love language: it needs both an organized, detail oriented mind, and a creative one.
I agree with you on the poetry thing, but not so much the being a complete bastard part.
Not so much a complete bastard as a complete poser. You have come to show your brains and knowledge, and stuff totally unrelated to a “funny” site. I appreciate people that know how to speak so, congratulations. As you said before, yes some of your spelling is terrible, yet no one is perfect. But, the internet? Really? In that case, a literature forum would suit your needs better, non?
And I don’t understand how you can say your grammar and spelling is horrible and say you are an English student and you love literature so much. I could go on and on in a battle of brains here like you like to do but it is completely unnecessary and this is not the place. I hope you caught my drift.
And Bram Stoker dit write a book about vampires over a hundred years ago.. that is more relevant and even harder to top for the sparkly ones.
I hated vampire stories until I studied classic vampire stories in a gothic lit class. Hardly anyone knows that “Dracula” could stay in the light. And was Jewish. Dracula wasn’t even my favorite. I recall a story called “Camilla.” But I digress. I wonder what Stoker would think of Twilight…
And now, my children, imagine if *Twighlight* were the thing that people remembered about today in 50 years! ^^
I think I just died a little inside.
Hey! It’s Sam Waterston’s father!
LOL..I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who saw Sam Waterson resemblance
Steph, is your last name Meyer?
Probably not, because Stephanie (with an A, the Twilight author is called Stephenie) criticized the Twilight series. If you could be bothered to read the huge wall of text (took me 2 minutes), you’d know that
Also, I sincerely hope Stephenie Meyer has something better to do than to defend her work on a website dedicated to satirizing pop culture.
Good point…
I’d like to think that Stephenie Meyer had something better to do than Twilight… but that’s not likely to happen.
I’d like to think that Stephenie Meyer would enjoy punching herself in the c**t before writing another Twilight book. But then, it’s all about the money…
Shakespeare.
Wrote his plays/poetry 400 years ago, yet people still remember his genius. Top that, Dr. Seuss.
Did Shakespeare have a cartoon cat that always could cheer anybody up, write books that taught generations of children how to read, and make it all rhyme, be worth reading, and have a real moral?
I didn’t think so.
Shakespeare has plenty to offer in regard to “real morals”. His stuff is definitely worth reading. I’d say writing in iambic pentameter is harder than rhyming.
Besides, we still use the words Shakespeare made up, while Seuss’ inventions are silly and not uttered outside of his own stories.
That’s not to say that Dr. Seuss should be forgotten. His material is awesome, just in a different way.
Yeah, but the thing about Dr. Seuss is that it’s not a chore to read. I don’t dislike Shakespeare, but while I’ve met lots lf people who complain about having to read his work, I’ve yet to meet anyone who complains about having to read Dr. Seuss.
Yea verilly did Master Shakespeare writeth forth his plays and verilly after four centuries did people still perform the plays, and yea these people still speaketh in the way that Shakespeare did writeth. (Has the mock medieval English pisseth anyone off yet??) Actually this still reading the books after 50 plus years isn’t a new thing. As has been stated Shakespeare and Homer (what about Soakrates
) And to get a bit more modern you’ve got P G Wodehouse with Jeeves and Wooster (and others) and G K Chesterton (with his Father Brown book, and his A Man named Thursday (with a fair old twist in the tale), and even better H G Wells with his War of the Worlds, and of course the biggy (to which everyone these days still refers to with regard to Surveilance Society and Big Brother) George Orwell and 1984, and of course Tolkien (And his story about one hobbits problem with his ring (fnar fnar 
). So there isn’t any real biggy about the books being 50 years and still being read and enjoyed. It just goes to show that book then are probably better written and of a more substancial nature than books nowadays. (Most books now are much like pop stars now, written quickly to corner a specific market, which soon fizzles out leaving little trace of it’s existence. Like I said the same thing has happened to Pop Stars – Very few pop stars of nowadays will be remembered 20, 30 years down the line., as they are created by Marketing Managers to fill a gap in a market, or created by media experts. There is very few stars nowadays of the level of The Beatles, Status Quo, Bob Marley, Elvis, Simon and Garfunkel, or anyone else
I agree that Dr. Seuss isn’t exactly the best example of what the captioner was trying to say, but I felt the need to defend Dr. Seuss. Every comparison that everyone has been making is actually ridiculous. Twilight isn’t really the same type of book as any of the examples. Even comparing Meyer to Stoker isn’t accurate because “Twilight” is just a teensoap in book form. With. . . non-blood-sucking, sparkly vampires.
what is everybody’s problem with twilight.. it was just someones idea in their head that they turned into a book.
If you’re going to annoyed with anyone be annoyed by the stupid fan girls that ruin it. If their were fangirls over Harry Potter, everyone would hate that too
erm, there are. I do.
My problem with Twilight–besides the fact that reading it made me groan in physical pain, but that is genuinely just a matter of taste–is in fact the fandom. Fandom can make me hate just about anything, except Jell-O. I mean, there’s ALWAYS room for Jell-O.
“If their were fangirls over Harry Potter, everyone would hate that too”
What do you mean “if”?
The difference is that Harry Potter is not all or nearly all fan girls. Yes, I’m sure both HP and Twilight have readers from all walks of life. But I’m willing to bet the percentages are wildly different…
The thing about Harry Pothead is that it’s been condemned by churches as satanic and accused of promoting devil worship. Twilight promotes chastity.
Chastity = seriously uncool
Devil worship = seriously cool
What the hell is Twilight?
…Oh, wait, I forgot about that movie. Sorry.
Well Twilight hasn’t been out 50 years yet. Who’s to say people *won’t* remember Twilight in 50 years? Too early to say.
And well, I forgot about Dr. Seuss about 20 years ago, haven’t even thought about him until today. So there goes your theory, smart guy.
Well, you must’ve had a terrible childhood full of abuse. Sucks to be you!
Sorry, that’s a lame caption. Dr. Seuss was a pseudonym (or pen name), Twilight is the name of a book series.
It hasn’t been 50 years since Twilight was released, so this makes absolutely no sense. If you don’t like something you usually don’t talk about it non-stop, whether you are referring to it derisively or not. I don’t like peanut butter, but I don’t caption every pic I see with, “This is bad, but it is NOTHING compared to peanut butter.” “Or, millions of people enjoy jelly, take that peanut butter!” Get a life!
Twighlight has “stars upon thars”
The annoying thing that bites in it has lots of teeny, sparkly “stars upon thars”. All over its body. Icky. I think that thinking about it caused a little part of me to die.
I do not like The Cullen Clan.
I do not like them Sam I Am.
I do not like them up in Forks.
I do not like them much you Dorks.
I do not like them in my shows.
I do not like them as you knows.
I do not like The Cullen Clan.
I do not like them Sam I Am.
I do not like The Volturi.
I do not like their Italy.
I do not like young Nessie now.
I do not like her much (and how!)
I do not like The Cullen Clan.
I do not like them Sam I Am.
(Note – the views expressed in this poem, such as it is, do not necessarily reflect the views of the author, since I think Twilight rocks).
Oh!! That just makes me ROFLMAO!!! Well done Ib!! That is probably the most apt and appropriate thing anyone has added to this thread.
Moses wrote a few books 3400 years ago, and those books are in a collection that is currently the best selling book in the world. And has been for a very ling time. TOP THAT SEUSS! SHAKESPEARE! N00BZ!
Sorry to reply to a troll-like statement but here goes.
1. Moses is very likely a fictional character (like many possibly an amalgam of many other famous Jewish Slave Rebellion Leaders.) His so called books were likely written by others. (His so called 10 commandments are not “rules handed down to man by God” but are simply basic rules for survival of an upcoming community (and also for survival in the Desert)
2. The Bible CANNOT be simply thought of as one book as it was added to by many different authors, a couple of hundred years after “the birth of christ”, over the course of several hundred years (even the same book of the Bible can have several authors)
Wow……Twilight just got owned.
Dr. Seuss-RIP.
YES! THAT’S AWESOME!!!!
“Made” his books.
Normally, some form of the verb “write” would be used.
Try again in 50 years.
Funny thing bout Dr Seuss… he HATED children. But realized the books would be profitable.
Still they are well written.
It would be fine if you cut out the word twilight and just had “Top that” or said WIN
A lot of people don’t know that “Seuss” is correctly pronounced to rhyme with “rejoice”.
I didn’t know that!
That’s if you’re speaking German. If you’re speaking English, you would pronounce it the English way. Doesn’t mean it’s incorrect.
Haha! this is perfect! I just got out of a music rehearsal for Seussical, a musical based on his books.
What’s Twilight???
Sounds gay.
*lifts rock*
Oh, hello!
A book that requires you to be into vampire love stories….
See,now that’s just silly. The books are quite good,15 year old girls and bad movies ruin the reputation of the books.
Plus, Dr. Seuss contributed to the library of UCSD (which is now named after him), and has his own little museum inside.
Who would honor the author of the Twilight series with a museum at a high-ranked university? Most people don’t even know her name…
Aw, Theodor Geisel. He’s one of the writers who helped me learn how to read. Even if his heart wasn’t always in the right place, even if he didn’t like kids, I remember that part of my childhood with a smile and a nod of thanks.
As a kid, I LOVED it that he didn’t like kids. It made his books all the more fun!
(Oh. Maybe *he’s* the reason *I* don’t like kids. Something to tell my therapist!!!!!)
how about give em 50 years….
Twilight hasn’t been around for fifty years moron
I think the caption is too old now to be funny…and really, all the twilight haters should get over themselves. Yes. We know; you don’t like the books. Shall we get on with bashing a new fad then?
Theodore Seuss (pronounced like Royce) Guissel was a very creative man who made political cartoons in college and started making animation for the Army in WWII to encourage men overseas to keep away from the local women. God love him. An old picture of him and his sister looks amazingly like Sally and I from the cat in the hat, including the big bow on her head. Look into his history, he lead a fantastic and varied life.
The new moon commercial was crap.
okay, obviously this is true, but can people please stop pretending that hating twilight makes you some kind of literary genius? it´s a romance vampire novel written by a mormon. what did you expect?
How to make a Roflrazzi that will make the front page:
(Old cultural reference) was (explain its basic reason for existing) and (it/he/she/they) is STILL more (explain its basic reason for being more awesome) than (New cultural reference).
My god, it just keeps getting funnier and funnier.
Stephanie Meyer connot write to save her life… and has no idea what a thesaurus is either. It was a good idea, but did she dumb it down for teens. Man that is just insulting.
U SUCK!!!!
Wow shouting insults because a person doesn’t enjoy Twilight? How mature and noble of you Jordin. :] Just Remember that everyone has a opinion and shouldn’t be insulted because it differs from someones elses.
Thank you Al.
I LOVE TWILIGHT, NEW MOON, ECLIPSE AND BREAKING DAWN!!! and dont forget about midnight sun…
…good for you?
really? okay may be i should walk into a Jewish church(or whatever they got) and shout how i think may be Hitler wasn’t THAT bad and see if they’ll totally agree. and that’s as logical an idea as what you just did now.
a) It’s called a synagogue.
b) Do you really believe that Twilight was as bad as the Holocaust? There’s a difference between saying “Twilight is better than The Cat in the Hat” and saying “Hitler was awesome!!!”
Dr. Suess had a pen name and wrote books about weird stuff that rhymes and STILL kicks Twilight’s butt.
why is every body h8ting on twilight? there vampires never hurt anybody >.< i was going to see them tomorrow but then i recived swine flu…..
More like Mad Cow Disease
Karma knows what’s best.
Dr. Seuss > everything >>>>>>>>>> My Stained toilet paper > Twilight
I don’t like the Twilight series because, while reading them to explain to my wife, in detail, why it sucks, it caused me real *physical* pain attempting to suspend my disbelief long enough to digest a pedophile-stalker-vampire-bully and a self destructive-obsessive-naive-halfwit.
I don’t normally read in the bathroom but I had to reading Twilight. Not because I felt I had to vomit. More like I had to because it made me want to move my bowels.
it hasnt been 50 years yet so yeah
how can you even think to ask if twilight can top dr. seus when twilight is one of the best movies of all time and there are t-shirts and stuuf that you can get? you can even get life size cut-outs of the stars, including taylor lautner!
“t-shirts and stuuf that you can get”?
You realize that’s called “merchandise”.
Dr. Seuss has that too. A lot of it. I’m sorry it’s not sold at Fangirls R Us or wherever you shop…
And I don’t think I can think of anything to say to that “one of the best movies of all time” comment.
ATTENTION: The previous post is a prime example of a Twitard. I don’t hate everyone who reads/likes Twilight (in fact, many of my best friends do), but people like this piss me off. If you are going to defend it, at least learn to speak/type in proper English. And come up with good defenses.
if a shmoo had a clue, they would know what to do…or something like that.
Well people will remember Twilight if you keep bringing it up. Yeah, I’m smart-assing it.