The 2,000,000th post game

MELISSA & JOEY:
Melissa Joan Hart/Sabrina Spellman

Christopher Rich/Archie Andrews

TODAY IS

5 bottles of beer on the wall.
5 bottles of beer.
Take one Down, pass it around,
4 bottles of beer on the wall.

I can totally make some balloon animals for your kid’s birthday party this weekend, though.

Yeah, don’t you remember I took that balloon animal class last year at the community center?

I got really good, too!

I mean, it did nothing to help alleviate my fear of broccoli...

...but it still became something of a passion.

Just don’t ask me to dress up as a clown.

And

An early version of the Grinch character appeared in 1955 in a Seuss story called “The Hoobub and the Grinch.”

The Grinch was the first adult and the first villain to be the main character in a Dr. Seuss book.

Dr. Seuss said he was inspired to write the book one December 26, when he saw “a very Grinch-like countenance in the mirror…I wrote the story to see if I could rediscover something about Christmas that I obviously lost.”

Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seus’ real name) struggled with the ending of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. He told an interviewer: “I got hung up getting the Grinch out of the mess. I got into a situation where I sounded like a second-rate preacher… Finally in desperation…I showed the Grinch and the Whos together at the table, and made a pun of the Grinch carving the ‘roast beast.’ … I had gone through thousands of religious choices, and then after three months it came out like that.”

Charles Cohen, a Dr. Seuss biographer, theorizes that Geisel derived the name “Grinch” from the French word grincheux, which means “grouchy.”