tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047165.post2454809183748707197..comments2023-10-20T11:58:07.221-04:00Comments on babblebook: it's early for fireworksesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01029156681791421501noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047165.post-88636282716300987992007-06-20T16:17:00.000-04:002007-06-20T16:17:00.000-04:00I considered mentioning Howl ( as in "I saw the be...I considered mentioning <I>Howl</I> ( as in "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness"), but it seemed in this context somehow inappropriately apropos [grin]...Andrew Ironwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02762705024248590935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047165.post-36525426541866318622007-06-18T14:27:00.000-04:002007-06-18T14:27:00.000-04:00Faerie Tale Theatre (back from the 80s) had a grea...Faerie Tale Theatre (back from the 80s) had a great <I>Pied Piper of Hamelin</I> with Eric Idle as piper-cum-narrator. Worth checking out if you haven't seen it (it incorporates a fair bit of the poem).Dannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12515117596561911488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3047165.post-55004531744944879022007-06-18T09:35:00.000-04:002007-06-18T09:35:00.000-04:00I memorized James Whitcomb Riley's The Raggedy Ma...I memorized James Whitcomb Riley's <A HREF="http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/James-Whitcomb-Riley/13678" REL="nofollow"><I>The Raggedy Man</I></A> for my fifth grade poem. My mom helped me pick it out and then helped me practice it. I don't remember her doing that very much - helping me with homework (although she assures me that she helped me all the time and that I only remember the two times that she was not there to help me with something is a deficiency in my memory and not her parenting which is probably right), so this poem carries found memories. <BR/><BR/>I've always been good at memorization, but accents (and especially reading written-out accents or dialects) have never been my strong suit. So "An' he opens the shed -- an' we all ist laugh" was tricky for me. <BR/><BR/>If memory serves, my recitation was flawless. On the note card where my teacher, Mr. Web, gave us comments and a grade, he noted that my poem was longer and harder than all the other kids' poems and that he was proud of me.The Wifesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11484582291405100510noreply@blogger.com