'Green Eggs and Ham' Put Into Latin

"Ecce Eduardus Ursus scalis nunc tump-tump-tump occipite gradus pulsante post Christophorum Robinum descendens . .. "

I have an actual hard copy of Winnie ille Pu in my bedroom bookshelf. . .

My knowledge of the structure of Latin has been an enormous help in learning all of the modern languages I later learned.

Hoc est verum. And learning Latin, starting at age 14, was the best thing I ever did for my English. Latin grammar--precisly in that it is not English and thus not instinctive--helps you to learn how grammar works. And Latin vocabulary is the best thing for expanding your English vocabulary.

Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
I sent your post to my brother.
He sent me this in return:

"I memorized it from Mad Magazine. If you're doing that from memory, you're pretty close. I recall it going rather like this:

'Twas Brillo, and the GE stoves
Did Proctor-Gambel in the Glade;
All Pillsbury were the Tastee Loaves
And in a Minute-Maid.

"Beware the station-break, my son!
The voice that lulls, the ads that vex!
Beware the doctor's claim, and shun
That horror called Brand-X!"

He took his Q-Tip Swab in hand,
Long time the tension headache fought,
Till Dristan he by a Mercury
And Bayer-breaked in thought!

And, as in Bufferin Gulf he stood,
The station break, with Rise of Tame
Came Whisking through the Pride-Hazed wood,
and cream-rinsed as it came!

"Buy one! Buy two! We're almost through!
The Q-Tipped Dash went Spic & Span!
He Tide AirWick, and with Bisquick
Went AeroWaxing Ban!

"And hast thou Dreft the station break?
Ajax the Breck! Excedrin boy!
O Fab wash day! Cashmere Bouquet!
He Handy Wrapped with joy!

'Twas Brillo, and the GE stoves
Did Proctor-Gambel in the Glade;
All Pillsbury were the Tastee Loaves
And in a Minute-Maid."

:)

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