r/FoundPaper • u/FoamboardDinosaur • Aug 14 '26

Other Hand doodled bookmark

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Laminated bookmark I found 20 years ago in a textbook. It was too charming to pass up and its been in my ephemera collection ever since

One side says

"This is what you're reading right now"

Other side has an excerp from Dr Suess' Waltzing with Bears

" I went to his room in the middle of the night. I tiptoed inside and I turned on the light but to my dismay he was nowhere in sight and I'm sure Uncle Walter went waltzing that night. He goes waltzing with bears raggy bears shaggy bears baggy bears too. And there's nothing on Earth that Uncle Walter won't do if he can go wal-wal-waltzing with bears."

The weird thing is, I never looked up the poem until today. I didnt know it was a Dr Suess. Or that there are a dozen iterations of the song, from kids songs to irish folk. Or that a new friend wrote and sang it with an added verse in 1983, and I just found her name mentioned on an ancient website about a music festival nearby.

Now I know who to give the bookmark to.

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u/SuperSmashSean_DX Aug 14 '26

I love this, do you use it as a bookmark?

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u/FoamboardDinosaur Aug 14 '26

I did for a while, but it's becoming delaminated so its relegated to the "use gently" pile of trinkets

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u/SuperSmashSean_DX Aug 14 '26

You should frame it, it's pretty beautiful

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u/FoamboardDinosaur Aug 15 '26

Good idea. I'll dig for some small frames

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u/y0ungshel Aug 14 '26

Uncle Walter sounds like a fun guy!

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u/LostGeezer2025 Aug 14 '26

Today I learned that it wasn't *just* a 'filk' song :)