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URGENT HELP: words needed for a Dr Seuss poem please?

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I urgently need some help from yahoo users please.

At very short notice I have been asked to deliver a reading at the funeral of the young son of a family friend tomorrow (Friday). The person who was scheduled to deliver the reading is too emotional and cannot face doing it - so they have asked me to stand in.

The reading is part of a poem by Dr Seuss called "Thinker Upper". It beings

"a thing my sister likes to do some evenings after supper, is sit upstairs in her small room and use her Thinker Upper."

The family have the reading written out for me to read, but I really want to pactice a few times before the gathering. I was sure I had a copy in a box of books I kept from childhood, but cannot find it. Nor can I find the words on the web.

Does anynone have the words for me please ? Or perhaps you have a link to a Dr Seuss site which contains the poem. Any help would be really appreciated. Thank you.

Update:

Azriel - thank you so much. That is perfect. You are a star!

Update 2:

Tracey, I am in London UK. Sadly the libraries have closed- but as it's now 1017pm. But thank you anyway ;)

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I can't find out anything except it's in the book "I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today & Other Stories", but I was wondering if you could run to your library and get the book there?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I've never read that poem, so I'm not sure if this is accurate, but I found this on the net, I hope it helps:

    A thing my sister likes to do

    Some evenings after supper,

    Is sit upstairs in her small room

    And use her Thinker-Upper.

    She turns her Thinker-Upper on.

    She lets it softly purr.

    It thinks up friendly little things

    With smiles and fuzzy fur.

    She sometimes does this by the hour.

    Then when she's tired of play,

    She turns on her UN-Thinker

    An un-thinks the things away.

    Well.......

    One eventing she was thinking up

    Some fuzzy little stuff,

    And Sister sighed, "This stuff's all right,

    But it's not fun enough.

    "I've got to think up bigger things.

    I'll bet I can, you know.

    I'll speed my Thinker-Upper up

    As fast as it will go!"

    "Think! Think!" she cried.

    Her Thinker-Upper gave a snorty snore.

    It started thunk-thunk-thunking

    As it never had before.

    With all her might, her eyes shut tight,

    She cried, "Thunk-thunk some more!"

    Then, BLUNK! Her Thinker-Upper thunked

    A double klunker-klunk.

    My sister's eyes flew open

    And she saw she'd thunked a Glunk!

    He was greenish.

    Not too cleanish.

    And he sort of had bad breath.

    "Good gracious!" gasped my sister.

    "I have thunked up quite a meth!"

    She turned on her UN-Thinker,

    Tried to think the Glunk away.

    But she found that her UN-Thinker

    Didn't seem to work that day.

    The Glunk just smiled and said, "Dear child,

    You can't Un-thunk a Glunk.

    Ask anyone. They'll tell you

    That a Glunk can't be UN-thunk.

    "I'm here to stay forever

    In your lovely, lovely home.

    And now, with your permission, dear,

    I'll use your tele-foam.

    "I'll call my mother every night.

    It giver her such great joy.

    She lives nine thousand miles away

    And I'm her only boy."

    "Long distance is expensive!"

    Sister cried. "Get off that line!"

    But the Glunk dialed Texa-Kota-Cutt

    1-2-3-4-0-9.

    "Hello, dear mother," gabbed the Glunk.

    "I hope you're feeling fine.

    And don't worry 'bout the phone bill.

    It's all paid by a friend of mine.

    I've just called you up to tell you

    How I love you. Oh, I do!

    And today I did some cooking

    And I cooked some Glunker Stew.

    Let me tell you how I did it.

    You may want to make some, too.

    "You take a cup of applesauce.

    You add a pinch of straw.

    You drop in fourteen oysters,

    Seven cooked and seven raw.

    You beat it to a frazzle

    With a special frazzle-spade.

    Then you pour it in a rubber boot

    Half filled with lemonade.

    Then you toss it in the mixer,

    Where you spuggle it and spin it...

    "Stop!" my sister yelled.

    "This costs ten dollars every minute!"

    "Money?... Pooh!" The Glunk just laughed.

    "Don't think of things like that."

    Then he said, "Now, darling mother,

    Let me see. Where was I at?

    Oh. You take it off the mixer

    When the stew is nicely pink.

    Then you add a hunk of something...

    Hunk of chuck-a-luck, I think.

    Then you chuck in chunks of chicklets.

    Then you plunk in seven cherries.

    And THEN you plunk in, Mother dear,

    Three dozen kinds of berries.

    "Now, Mother mine, please do this right.

    Those berries that you're plunking...

    Unless you plunk them with great care...

    Will keep the stew from glunking."

    "Stop! Stop!" my little sister screamed.

    "It's not a funny joke.

    My father can't afford this call.

    My father will go broke!"

    "Now, you keep still!"

    The Glunk snapped back.

    He kicked her in the shin.

    "Don't you interrupt my mother

    When she's plunking berries in.

    "Now, mother, plunk one berry. Blue.

    Now, plunk one berry. Razz.

    What's that?... You have no raspberries?...

    Oh, everybody has.

    But, if you don't have berries, razz,

    A Schnutz-berry will do.

    You have a Schnutz. I know you have.

    Now plunk it in the stew...."

    And he went on talking berries

    With his dear old darling mother.

    He jabbered and he blabbered

    One whole hour. And then another!

    He talked three hundred dollars' worth.

    My sister shook with fright.

    "This Glunk might cost us millions!

    He might jabber on all night!

    My father will be ruined!

    We'll be penniless! We're sunk

    Unless I can Un-thunk him.

    Oh, I MUST Un-thunk this Glunk!"

    And that is how I found them.

    She was standing there UN-thunking

    ... The Glunk still talking Glunker stew...

    That Glunk was not Un-glunking!

    Then I gave her

    Quite a talking to

    About her Thinker-Upper.

    NOW...

    She only

    Think up fuzzy things

    In the evening, after supper.

  • 5 years ago

    We read that on Monday during English. We were talking about how accepting nerds into society can benefit us and whatnot, then about how becoming a nerd can help us become successful. It was very boring

  • 1 decade ago

    "Oh the things you can think!

    I can think like a Thinker-Upper, only I wear pink.

    Or maybe I can thunk like a Glunk.

    It's very important to know how you think what you've thunk.

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