[imporesweemo]

I am curious why does Herman always talk about pooh in his posts?

[nvideoe]

Because he is just a silly old bear who doesn't think anyone should take him any more seriously than he takes himself which is still far more than he probably deserves. O bother!

[avavavava]

A pity Pooh was unable to buy the house, recently on the market, where the Pooh books were written.

http://residentialsearch.savills.co....-detail/291154

[SueveDobe]

I am curious why does Herman always talk about pooh in his posts?

But when you realize that there is a local connection then the title is even more enlightening.

[cemDrymnVem]

I just checked - AA Milne's house is still for sale. A snip at £2m!

[boxcigsnick]

" But his arms were so stiff ... they stayed up straight in the air for more than a week, and whenever a fly came and settled on his nose he had to blow it off. And I think – but I am not sure – that that is why he is always called Pooh."

[favwebbb]

" But his arms were so stiff ... they stayed up straight in the air for more than a week, and whenever a fly came and settled on his nose he had to blow it off. And I think – but I am not sure – that that is why he is always called Pooh."

A definite sign of a copyists' error when compared to the original manuscript.

Everyone knows that coming from where he did the original oral tradition actually said: " But his arms were so stiff ... they stayed up straight in the air for more than a week, and whenever hordes of mosquitoes came and settled on his nose he had to blow them off. And I think – but I am not sure – that that is why he is always called [the long suffering] Pooh."

[aLZ9zKsO]

I don't that Herman talks about the pooh so much. Rather he just is the pooh.

Fr David

[66paptroump]

I don't that Herman talks about the pooh so much. Rather he just is the pooh.

This is funny to me because it reminds me that when I first signed onto Monachos in '06 I was so dumb I initially thought Herman was doing a routine related to Benjamin Hoff's book, "The Tao of Pooh."

I think I even made a post that included a quote from that book to see if I could flush Herman out, or if would respond in kind back then . . . but then I found out otherwise--Herman just *is* the Pooh.

"Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie,
A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.
Ask me a riddle and I reply:
'Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie.'"

[Pynctyncroast]

"But his arms were so stiff ... they stayed up straight in the air for more than a week, and whenever hordes of mosquitoes came and settled on his nose he had to blow them off. And I think – but I am not sure – that that is why he is always called [the long suffering] Pooh." Mosquitos? No wonder he settled in England! Here we have only flies, though a few mosquitos have recently been reported - no wonder our Border Agency gets criticised.

[egoldhyip]

Mosquitos? No wonder he settled in England! Here we have only flies, though a few mosquitos have recently been reported - no wonder our Border Agency gets criticised.

Well my family and I, my dad especially, will vouch for there being plenty in this part of the England .

[tobaccoman]

Being a mosquito myself, especially to HTP, I was doing some revisionist literary critique like a fancy east coast university prof, in order to mask my true efforts. But I was unmasked by the foucaultian efforts of Fr. Raphael.

[Thorwaywhobia]

Well my family and I, my dad especially, will vouch for there being plenty in this part of the England .

There never used to be mozzies in England but we've noticed a few in Essex this last year or two. Perhaps they haven't got to Sussex yet!

[VYholden]

Here's a piece from Hoff's book that I kind of like:


Within each of us there is an Owl, a Rabbit, an Eeyore, and a Pooh. For too long, we have chosen the way of the Owl and Rabbit. Now, like Eeyore, we complain about the results. But that accomplishes nothing. If we are smart, we will choose the way of Pooh. As if from far away, it calls to us with the voice of a child's mind. It may be hard to hear at times, but it is important just the same, because without it, we will never find our way through the Forest.
I like it as he also wrote:


While Eeyore frets . . .

. . . and Piglet hesitates

. . . and Rabbit calculates

. . . and Owl pontificates

. . . Pooh just is.

HUH?

[largonioulurI]

I have a cat who just Is. Difficult, indeed impossible, to explain, but there is no better summation of what this gentle, laid-back, mellow, loving puss is all about. So if Pooh's Is is the same as Mr B's Is, I, at least, know what Hoff means, even if I can't put it into more words.