Re: Overheard at the library - re Dr. Seuss

Lenona321 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I was in the kids' library, writing my authors' birthday lists, when I heard a
> very bright-sounding 11-year-old(?) boy complaining bitterly to the librarian
> about the new "Cat in the Hat" movie. She said: "Sounds as though you read the
> review in the paper!" I walked up to him as he sat down at the computer and
> said in a grave voice (but still smiling): "You can take consolation in the
> fact that that's one book most kids will hear before they see the movie." He
> said (verbatim): "Mike Myers should be assassinated!"

Why should the librarian assume that he couldn't have made up his own
mind?