[PLUG] Dr. Seuss - Why Computers Sometimes Crash (fwd)

[Zot O'Connor]

On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 20:13, Jeme A Brelin wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Evan Heidtmann wrote:
>            -- DementDJ at ccip.perkin-elmer.com (DementDJ)
> 
> Of course, it's not meant to sound like Dr. Seuss.. it doesn't follow his
> style at all.

While it is not Cat and the Hat, and I do not know "Turkey in the
Straw," it is a pretty close match to "I have a Wocket in my Pocket." 
Perhaps Dr. Seuss copied Turkey...  it is an odd book for Dr. Seuss. 
Remember Seuss did not have one cadence, but several.  Having read over
20-30 different Seuss books (I did not know he wrote that many) I can
attest that he has more flow to his words, once you get it, than most
authors.  When you read the same book 40-50 times, you notice these
things.  "What was I Scare of" and "Too Many Daves" clearly do not flow
like Cat and the Hat (Scared is fairly close to Ziegler's as well).

Oddly I am merely cleaning my emails at the moment, *and* I just read
Wocket to my daughter last night.  I can tell you it is the same
cadence.

I find it more annoying that due to mainstream press things become -like
or "derivative of" too easily.  In older times we called them styles. 
Yes a unique author may have started it, but others followed and it
occasionally improved the art.

Another example is Monty Python.  When doing Improv, if you dared do a
British accent, people would later refer to a that "Monty Python
Sketch," as though there was never any other absurdist comedians in
England.  While this is somewhat of an honor to Monty Python, it also
stifles a possible flow of art.

This impact OSS as well.  While there are plenty of half-ass projects
that do the same thing, people often say "you do not need to redo that,
Y already works."  Well, I think the broad spectrum of OSS improves
gradually, even if the project in question sucks rocks.


> 
> It's clearly written to follow the tune of "Turkey In The Straw".
> 
> This is as annoying as every mildly humorous song on OpenNap being
> labelled as "Weird Al".

I agree about this.  Some of the songs I tried labeled as Wierd Al were
an isult to both the original artist, and Weird Al.

> 
> J.
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