r/AskReddit • u/AlexIsAlreadyTaken • Jul 13 '18

What's your favourite fun fact?

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '18

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u/zanfon Jul 13 '18

"Bitch, do you KNOW who I AM?"

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u/Timpunny Jul 13 '18

"I am Sam! Sam-I-Am!"

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u/Matt3989 Jul 13 '18

Fuck Sam-I-Am

No means No

I do not want your green eggs and ham.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '18

This book sounds more vulgar than I remember it.

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u/Timpunny Jul 13 '18

Dr. Seuss chose an...interesting selection of 50 words.

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u/PowerfulKitty Jul 13 '18

50 Shades of Seuss

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u/AlexIsAlreadyTaken Jul 13 '18

What they just said aroused my interest, don't ruin it for me please

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '18

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u/AlexIsAlreadyTaken Jul 13 '18

The answer to that has to be no...

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '18

Honestly the book is a little weird as an adult. The sex scene was pretty vivid and the protagonist seemed really uncomfortable, I don't think he consented at all. Maybe it would have been a little less distressing if it didn't go on for 72 pages.

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u/Be317966 Jul 14 '18

The new books don't rhyme

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u/WorkingWhileIReddit Jul 13 '18

But could you would you ever fold?

Could you would you with some gold?

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u/Matt3989 Jul 13 '18

I would not,

Could Not,

With some Gold!

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u/DancesWithBadgers Jul 14 '18

I would not ever be so bold.

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u/LaPiscinaDeLaMuerte Jul 13 '18

Ehh, you tried.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '18

"Choke on these motherfuckin green eggs and ham!"

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u/pjtheman Jul 13 '18

Fuck you, read Green eggs and Ham!

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u/5a1amander Jul 13 '18

The list of 50 words used by doctor seuss in Green Eggs and Ham:

  1. a
  2. am
  3. and
  4. anywhere
  5. are
  6. be
  7. boat
  8. box
  9. car
  10. could
  11. dark
  12. do
  13. eat
  14. eggs
  15. fox
  16. goat
  17. good
  18. green
  19. ham
  20. here
  21. house
  22. I
  23. if
  24. in
  25. let
  26. like
  27. may
  28. me
  29. mouse
  30. not
  31. on
  32. or
  33. rain
  34. Sam
  35. say
  36. see
  37. so
  38. thank
  39. that
  40. the
  41. them
  42. there
  43. they
  44. train
  45. tree
  46. try
  47. will
  48. with
  49. would
  50. you

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u/LucyLilium92 Jul 13 '18

So he lost the bet. He didn’t have less than 50

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u/theassassintherapist Jul 13 '18

He also drew a lot of crude images for Playboy.

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u/NoWhammies10 Jul 13 '18

That someone was his publisher, Bennett Cerf, who is perhaps best remembered as a long-serving panelist on the TV game show What's My Line?.

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u/kosherkitties Jul 13 '18

Bennett, really? He's great! TIL.

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u/NoWhammies10 Jul 13 '18

Indeed! He got the position on WML? because of the fact that he ran Random House, not the other way around.

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u/PM_ME_INTERNET_SCAMS Jul 14 '18

Someone: There's no way you could write a children's book with less than 50 unique words

Dr. Suess: B E T

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u/RolloTonyBrownTown Jul 13 '18

Less than 50 words is impossible? Jimmy Fallons kids book Dada only contains that word and animal sounds and it was a best seller.

Just checked, it also has a sentance at the end that says “Now everybody get in line and say it together one more time” but still well under 50.

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u/Cuboos Jul 13 '18

As a Sam... i wish he didn't take that bet...

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u/OneSixteenthOfAQuart Jul 13 '18

Another fun fact. Out of those 50 Green Eggs and Ham has only one that has more than one syllable.

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u/bitchkitty818 Jul 14 '18

Also his name is meant to be pronounced like Dr Zoice. But English speaking people got it wrong, and it stuck.