h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Everyone knows that the wonderful thing about tiggers is that tiggers love to bounce. But tigger is the only one of his kind in the world. Where did he come from then? Surely there must be some other tiggers out there to produce the baby tiggers. Maybe kanga got into a dangerous but short lived affair with a tiger?!? This would explain the bouncing thing and why roo seems to quite like tigger.

there is one clear answer to your conundrum. tigger is the only tigger because he is the product of a surreal imagination. he probably exists in a land where bananas look like people and light bulbs are things we eat. winnie the pooh is the better character anyway. ("where do poohs come from?" is the real tricky question!)

Ahh much can be learnt from the pages of Pooh. My entire outlook on life is based on the very first lines, in the very first book;

"Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels there realy is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment to think f it"


says it all realy, DNA eat your heart out, this is the true ultimate answer.

Chris

my outlook on life is also based on the book. it is very philosophical in it's own way

Actually, Piglet's the one I'm really worried about. Isn't he rather small to be keeping house on his own?He seems to have had a mother, who told him about Trespassers Will. Where is she now?

I worry about eeyore - clearly a manic depressive and with either leprosy or body dysmorphia, yet he wanders round the woods unsupervised. Is this where "care in the community" came from?

clearly eeyore (like myself) doesn't have access to prozac

Poor Eeyore doesn't need drugs.. All he needs is a house (or at least a shelter) that doesn't cave in on him within the first 5 minutes of its existance.

'Nonnie

I think that all Eeyore ever wanted was to be left alone. It must have been really embarrasing for him to have bits falling off all the time.
There seems to be a lot of substance abuse in winnie the pooh. Tigger (who is definatly my favorite) must be on something. All his excess energy just isn't normal. And then there is pooh bear, with his quite frankly disturbing addiction to honey.

... or is the honey just A.A. Milne's representation of some kind of drug, thus showing that you will become a bear of very little brain. (cute and cuddly and adorable and happy and wanted and everthing else you could possibly want to be)

That would explain pooh bears really bad memory. My housemate is convinced that pooh bear is a child of the 60's!!

he was before his time!

Isn't he a handmade stuffed animal?

Not in any parallel universe the rest of us have visited

As Johnny Vaughan says: "Just because my friends aren't real, doesn't mean they aren't friends"
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Although I think "Winnie the pooh" etc. is best read as achild when you don't have a problem with stuffed toys living rich and varied lives with Christopher Robin. This whole "Tao of pooh" philosophy nonsense is just not good at all

One of the very few books that benefits from translation into Latin,though.

I have met the real Christopher Robin - well I met him when I was about 11 and he was a middle aged man. It was very weird - he is a dealer in rare books and the like and knows my Dad.

He is very nice from what I remember of him.

I just thought that the handmade part might explain his uniquness. I in no way deny his personality, nor the origin therof.

The Paul-ine bible seems to have benefitted spectacularily from being translated into Latin .

{What nationality was Paul, then? I thought he was a Roman and therefore spoke Latin}

Interesting how the post about the real Christopher Robin has been inserted before the question on stuffed animals. I think we can safely say that when he was at school and in the navy, the real CR felt that he _had_ been stuffed - by his father