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I'm not sure what there is to say about this one. First of all what is the conection w/ basements and bathrooms? Does the kid just say the wrong thing? And as glad as I am that the teacher, who wasn't very nice to him, got it in the end......did I miss the punchline? I hate to sound negative, so tell me what I missed?

I thought this story was ok. After I read it, I thought the whole time the bathroom was in the basement and he wasn't supposed to use the word basement but the proper word bathroom. I like how the story was based on being a kid and being embarrassed to ask to go to the bathroom, or another example would be when you had dry throat trying to raise your hand to ask to get a drink when you could barley talk. I didn't get the part that referenced these letters in parentheses (NIBROC). I wasn't sure what that stood for.

I also found it interesting that this story is one of the first stories King ever wrote... and that he even wrote this story in high school!

I think basement might be a Nor eastern term for bathroom,you all know how Steve likes to throw in tidbits from his youth.

Here There Be Tygers" is a short story written by Ray Bradbury, originally published in New Tales of Space and Time in 1951. It was later collected in Bradbury's short story collections R is for Rocket and The Golden Apples of the Sun. It deals with a rocket expedition sent to a planet to see whether or not its natural resources can be harvested for the human race. They discover a paradise which seems to provide for them whatever they desire even as they think of it. They ultimately decide to leave the planet and report that it is hostile and of no benefit to humans. A teleplay of this story was written by Bradbury for possible use on the television program The Twilight Zone, but Rod Serling and the producers of the show deemed it too expensive to film on the show's rather tight budget. This led to the end of Ray Bradbury's rather brief association with the show, which resulted in just one of his stories ("I Sing the Body Electric") being used.

The reference is to the phrase "Here be dragons" used by medieval cartographers as warnings on unexplored portions of their maps.
--Wikipedia



My little brother wrote a story or two like this when he was in 5th grade---not saying that it's bad, but it certainly seems like an early, early piece that maybe Gordie Lachance could have written. :)

other than napkin dispensers and some obscure festival in Kentucky I cannot find any use for (NIBROC). Someone should ask Mr. King. Maybe THAT could be the question to ask while in an elevator with Stephen King.

I don't remember much about this one-was there a tiger in the basement of the school or something? I wanted to shed some light on the whole "basement" thing. Apparently in a lot of schools the bathrooms used to be in the basement so kids would ask to go to the "basement" instead of the bathroom. I'm from MA, don't know if that was a New England thing or not. It wasn't like that when I was in school but I had a teacher in 5th grade who always said "if you need to go to the basement" and he explained the reason why one day.

This story reminded me of another King story, I think it was "Suffer the Little Children".

This has always been my least favorite King story. I always skip it when I read this book.