"Oh save me from those pale green pants with nobody inside them!"

We love Dr. Seuss!
I checked out a book last Friday, The Sneetches and Other Stories, and that book is so freaking funny. There are two stories in that book that I'd never heard or read before, "Too Many Daves" and "What was I scared of?". I love them. For your enjoyment, here is "Too Many Daves":

Too Many Daves
Dr. Seuss

"Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave
Had twenty-three sons, and she named them all Dave?
Well, she did. And that wasn't a smart thing to do.
You see, when she wants one, and calls out "Yoo-Hoo!
Come into the house, Dave!" she doesn't get one.
All twenty-three Daves of hers come on the run!
This makes things quite difficult at the McCaves'
As you can imagine, with so many Daves.

And often she wishes that, when they were born,
She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn.
And one of them Hoos-Foos. And one of them Snimm.
And one of them Hot-Shot. And one Sunny Jim.
And one of them Shadrack. And one of them Blinkey.
And one of them Stuffy. And one of them Stinkey.
Another one Putt-Putt. Another one Moon Face.
Another one Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face.
And one of them Ziggy. And one Soggy Muff.
One Buffalo Bill. And one Biffalo Buff.
And one of them Sneepy. And one Weepy Weed.
And one Paris Garters. And one Harris Tweed.
And one of them Sir Michael Carmichael Zutt.
And one of them Oliver Boliver Butt.
And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate...

But she didn't do it. And now it's too late."

Lily thinks the part that says "Oliver Boliver Butt" is the most hilarious thing she's ever heard. But I was rolling at "Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate".... :)
The other story, "What was I scared of", is about this (person? creature?) little guy who kept seeing this pair of pale green pants around town, and he was scared because the pants were walking and bike riding, and there was no one in the pants. Turns out the pants were just as scared as "little guy" and all he really wanted was to be friends. Haha, now I know you all think I'm nuts, but I love Dr. Seuss' sense of humor and under all the insanity there lies a good message! You can't get much better than that.