[HN Gopher] Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham
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       Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham
        
       Author : amanuensis
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2020-08-11 20:58 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | drrevjj wrote:
       | ...and an eloquent, nuanced, and powerful reading of the tome:
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       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1mqg4C0awA
        
         | qrybam wrote:
         | ...or a more modernist rap of the same:
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         | https://youtu.be/nwDGRUzv3SE
        
       | Jtsummers wrote:
       | https://brianjayjones.com/2020/08/11/sixty-years-of-green-eg...
       | 
       | For the those who don't want to read a twitter thread but want a
       | posting by the original author.
        
       | CarbyAu wrote:
       | For me the genius of "green eggs and ham" is that you read it to
       | your kid at about the time they become more picky with their
       | food. So the book is a lesson too.
       | 
       | Some days I really want to read this book to my kid:
       | https://www.amazon.com.au/You-Have-F-king-Eat/dp/1501238663
        
       | kanobo wrote:
       | "Cerf bet me fifty bucks I couldn't write a book using only 50
       | words," he said later. "I did it to show I could." This
       | encapsulated the lesson I learned from the recent Michael Jordan
       | documentary - take silly bets and trivial insults seriously and
       | you can be driven to do great things.
        
         | yesenadam wrote:
         | Gee, just 5 minutes ago I was thinking on how Werner Herzog bet
         | Errol Morris that Morris wouldn't finish the documentary he'd
         | started, or Herzog would eat his shoe. Now _that_ is a friend,
         | and a great motivating bet. And I loved _Gates of Heaven_.
         | 
         | "After a few unproductive months, he happened to read a
         | headline in the _San Francisco_ Chronicle that read,  "450 Dead
         | Pets Going To Napa Valley". Morris left for Napa Valley and
         | began working on the film that would become his first feature,
         | _Gates of Heaven_ , which premiered in 1978. Herzog had said he
         | would eat his shoe if Morris completed the documentary. After
         | the film premiered, Herzog publicly followed through on the bet
         | by cooking and eating his shoe, which was documented in the
         | short film _Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe_ by Les Blank.
         | ...Critic Roger Ebert was and remained a champion of the film,
         | including it on his all-time top ten best films list. "
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         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol_Morris
        
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