I found this very amusing rant on a message board (cleaned up a bit):
First of all, why are you living at the base of Mt. Crumpet? I think that, if I lived at the base of the mountain where the Grinch lives, if I lived in a place where relatively often (often enough that our township has a person who’s job it is to live in a mushroom-bunker and watch for the Grinch), the Grinch comes down the mountain with his “Paraphenalia Wagon”, kidnaps children and exposes them to some sort of insane psychotropic mist which sends them into a black void of terror, surrounded by horrible spectres of evil which rival even The Grinch himself, I’d move.

Don’t want to move? Fine. Build a wall. Dynamite the road down Mt. Crumpet. String some razorwire and lay some landmines. Just kill The Grinch already. What are you, Quaker-whos?

Remove all the tree-stumps. If there are no tree-stumps, then there’s no place for the Gree-Grumps. No place for the Gree-Grumps? No Gree-Grumps period. And if there’s no Gree-Grumps about, then when that sour-sweet wind starts a-blowing, no Gree-Grumps will start a-growling. Those tree stumps just sit there doing nothing but sheltering Gree-Grumps, and as you can see, those Gree-Grumps are nothing but trouble. Do you really need the tree stumps?

Kill the Gree-Grumps. Again, if there are no Gree-Grumps, then when that sour-sweet wind starts a-blowing, then no Gree-Grumps start a-growling. No Gree-Grumps a-growling means that stupid pond won’t start a warbling, or whatever.

And if that pond isn’t a warbling, the Hackencracks won’t start a-yowling. And if the Hackencracks don’t start a-yowling, The Grinch won’t start a-howling. And as the end of the movie showed quite decisively, if The Grinch isn’t a-yowling, he can’t go about his Grinching, he just heads back up the mountain to wait around for that sour-sweet wind to start a-blowing, so as to set the Gree-Grumps a-growling, which in turn upsets the pond, inciting the Hackencracks to begin a-howling, irritating The Grinch into a-yowling, and in general setting off an unfortunate chain of events.

In short, People of Whoville, do the following:

-Stop wasting your tax dollars on that impotent “Grinch Watchmen” who just sits there and (after everyone knows The Grinch is on his way, lets you know that, yes, he’s still on his way.
-Uproot the tree-stumps, thus driving the Gree-Grumps from their home.
-Kill the now homeless Gree-Grumps
-Drain the pond which houses the Hackencracks
-Kill any surviving Hackencracks
-Kill The Grinch

Idiots.

Dickens is ALWAYS funny! He’s a wonderful writer whose characters are the most interesting and fun of any author I’ve ever read (and that covers a LOT of territory)….

Do you like Sidney? (Or is it Sydnie for a boy? — joke –)