Comments for sursumcorda.salemsattic.com/post/common-culture

Comment #1328

2019-05-06T03:27:15Z

More or less. You can see the original image here.

Comment #1327

2009-04-19T22:24:27Z

I believe the 50-word limit was for Green Eggs and Ham, not Cat in the Hat. If the version I remember is correct, it was from a bet between Theodore Geisel and his publisher or editor.

Comment #1326

2009-04-19T14:21:41Z

If you start from the beginning and count unique words, you exceed 50 before coming to "cat."

Comment #1325

2009-04-19T14:00:03Z

But why isn't "cat" in the list? Isn't that integral to the story?

Comment #1324

2009-04-19T13:50:35Z

Comment #1323

2009-04-19T11:40:39Z

A Fly Went By!

Comment #1322

2009-04-19T10:21:47Z

Yes, that's it. Maybe it's just the way my brain works on puzzles, making wholes out of parts—I do that with musical fragments, too—but I've read that story so many times the list popped out The Cat in the Hat like one of those Magic Eye puzzles.

Sheep, lake, sky...

Comment #1321

2009-04-19T01:31:13Z

Ok. After Jon's clue, I know what it's all about. It's not really that old - I wrote it on the back of the recipe, not the other way around, I'm pretty sure. That recipe was found in the September 2005 issue of Sursum Corda News, paper edition. I was counting words in The Cat in the Hat, because I thought I remembered that Dr.Seuss wrote it with a list of only 50 common words. Once I got past 50, I stopped. Later I found that the list was 200 words. I believe I was wondering about making bits for Jonathan.

Comment #1320

2009-04-18T21:30:11Z

If you have sally then why wouldn't you have cat?

Comment #1319

2009-04-18T16:40:49Z

How about all the words from a Dr. Suess book? It seems like Sally is one of the kids in The Cat in the Hat.

Comment #1318

2009-04-18T12:31:02Z

Funny. Must just be the way my brain thinks. It jumped out at me, instantly, without any thought. I'll wait a little longer to see if anyone else has an idea before revealing the answer.

If you want, print it out and take it to church tomorrow; I'll be shocked if no one in that group can see the pattern. In fact, please try an experiment for me: Read the words out loud to Jonathan, and see if anything strikes him.

Or maybe I'm just crazy, like my friend whose memory is good but not remarkable in general, but who can tell you, for many if not all of her friends, their birth dates, wedding dates, and the dates of any other important event in their lives, such as the birth of a child or the death of a parent.

Comment #1317

2009-04-18T11:38:06Z

It's definitely my handwriting. However, I'm baffled.

Comment #1316

2009-04-17T14:33:05Z

Was that the order in which I wrote the words?

Comment #1315

2009-04-17T11:21:47Z

A very appropriate reaction, and one I should have though of myself! But no, I'm sure it wasn't a Boggle game.

Comment #1314

2009-04-17T06:23:07Z

With a word like "nothing" she shouldn't have been given the three letter handicap!!!