or boredom? I love E Gorey! He retired to cape cod and there is a tiny little museum there dedicated to him. I collect little hardback books by him when I find them.
Main Entry: en·nui
Pronunciation: "än-'wE
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from Old French enui annoyance, from enuier to annoy -- more at ANNOY
: a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction : BOREDOM
ahh - I knew the house had an l'k connection.
I have several of the anthologies.
His stuff is so weird but it never fails to crack me up.
Maybe if I introduced Mo to the Wuggly Ump, Winnie wouldn't be quite so scary.
Of course, Beth!
Good point about winnie, Boomer. I also loved Where the Sidewalk Ends by Silverstein. And, my fav in that book was the trash one.
I know I know some poems, but think of them now.
My daughter liked these books, thats a pic of a video. The graphics are fantastic.
One moer thing - my neice and I love McBoing Boing too. Suess is so dang fun to read aloud!
There was a little girl
The author is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/835.html
Re: And when she was good, she was very very good....
boomerang wrote:Does anyone know the author of this little poem?
There was a little girl who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead
And when she was good she was very very good
And when she was bad she was horrid
I'm also looking for SHORT quotes or verse or snippets from other writing regarding people and their behavior - not necessarily horrid behavior - but all types of behavior.
Thanks!
Yes I know this well! It is about my daughter.
paulaj wrote:Emerson, he was trying to teach people how to pronounce "forehead."
Yup...Far-head and har-rid
My personal fave is Shel Silverstein.
If you have to wash the dishes
And you drop one on the floor,
Maybe you won't have to wash the dishes anymore.
Slovenly Peter? "Anything to me is sweeter than to see shock-headed Peter" ?
I am insulted on behalf of all Slovenes. Why, it's a discrimination if not an outright racism. pffft!
Wrong info
This person is acttuly posting false information. Must be a child
The poem is actuuly by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow just a normel poem by him no hes trying to get people to pronounce forehead as forried. That all untrue look this all up online its easy enough to do
OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD.
You mean someone posted something that wasn't true? On the internet?
Untruths are really even worse than misspellings, actually, I mean only a child would misspell words, right?
Dag--
Check out the pictures.http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Slovenly+Peter&gbv=2
Now do you really want to claim kin with this guy?
