Happy Birthday, A. A. Milne

[filkertom]

On this date in 1882. How very appropriate, given the new iTom song. :)

Do you have a favorite Pooh story? I think mine will always be the one where he gets stuck in Rabbit's front door, and Rabbit uses his legs for towel racks until Pooh gets thinner....

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[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

I do, but it's not precisely a Pooh story, and makes me sound like a bit of a dork, but bear with me. ;) My dad used to read the books to me and my sister, chapter by chapter, and do all the voices. The first fanfic I ever wrote was about Winnie-the-Pooh. I think I was three, and I didn't know the alphabet yet, or how to make letters. I took some pieces of paper and cut them into fourths so they would be the proper size for a book, and drew "words" on it in lines of little squiggles, and bound the whole thing together with a hole punch and orange yarn. And sometimes when I was a little less small than that, I would be lying around house doing Not Much of Anything, and there would be a knock on the door, and I would hear my dad saying 'Why, Pooh! Fancy you coming around! And Piglet, too!' and I would scamper downstairs, and have tea with Pooh and Piglet, and Owl would be very bad about landing on the upper shelves and knocking things over, and Rabbit would have brought too many of his friends and relations, and the whole house would be very crowded and noisy until it was absolutely time for me to go to bed and for all of them to go back home to the Hundred Acre Wood.

This last Christmas, I went to see my parents and we were decorating the tree. It was rather bad as Christmas seasons go, because my grandma (and idol) died the day after I got there, and the day after that there was a windstorm and the power went out for nearly a week, and there were some other smaller things like a lost credit card and a fall and some lost mail. So there was this mad rush up to Christmas, to get everything finished and clean and decorated so that the relatives coming over would have a good holiday anyway (and the train, which is Very Important Indeed, but I'm getting off the subject). So in the midst of decorating the tree my sister said, 'Do you remember when Pooh and Piglet used to stop by for no reason?' And in the midst of this, we all played it again, and I believe Piglet was trying to get into the cookies, and Owl was perching on the ceiling fan, and Eeyore was going on about how nobody was going to enjoy Christmas anyway. And I realise this makes me sound like a bit of a dork at best, and my whole family as utterly mental at worst, but sometimes you have to retreat into the Hundred Acre Wood or whatever the memories are that you have, and rest for a while. So I don't much mind sounding a bit mental, really. :)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Mental? I would've been sitting there plotting Tigger's trajectory as he bounced from head to head. So many hugs to you.

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

Well, you're cool like that. ;) And Tigger is quite a danger to Christmas tree ornaments.

Thanks.

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

I have to cheat for my answer, as it's Peter David's "The TARDIS at Pooh Corner" (parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, since they don't seem to be properly connected one to another)), which gets the win for managing, in an odd way, to be true to both fandoms.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Heh. Reminds me of the bumper sticker:

"Bother," said Pooh. "Eeyore, ready two photon torpedoes and lock phasers on the Heffalump. Piglet, meet me in Transporter Room Three."

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Sign me up for an Expotition In Which We Learn The True Nature of Rabbit and See the Value of a Rumbly Tumbly.

Or possibly for Being a Rain Cloud.

It's hard to choose. (And I almost became a third cheater by insisting on The Tao of Pooh, save that it's not a story, per se.)

[dubheach.livejournal.com]

Pooh sticks. The story makes me laugh every time I read it.

[dubheach.livejournal.com]

Oh. you wonderful person. I can almost hear the lot of them at your house and now will have to instigate tea with my own family. That's such a lovely idea.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

There are so many I love... At the moment I'll choose "...IN WHICH PIGLET IS ENTIRELY SURROUNDED BY WATER", though I have a fondness for Poohsticks too, and the coming of Roo.

[poltr1]

I have a particular fondness for "In Which Tigger Comes To The House And Has Breakfast". This, of course, was heavily adapted (and edited) from the original story for the Disney story.

[rook543.livejournal.com]

When I was at Disneyworld, I say a cookbook in a gift shop called "Cooking With Pooh"

I don't think that's the best name for a cookbook...

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

And honey, I miss you :)

I'll never again be able to hear the word "Pooh" without hearing your little ditty in the back of my head.

[kshandra]

This is a wonderful story. Thank you for sharing it with us all.

(I know Lumpy isn't canonical, but he's the only relevant icon I have. And, well, he makes me happy.)

[fuuberry.livejournal.com]

Oh.. This topic's brought happy tears to my eyes, thinking of the fond memories I have. I always loved Being a Rain Cloud.

When I was very, very small, probably about 3, right up until I was about 10, when the city cut it down, we had this gigantic tree in front of our house, and it had one part that always looked like a little window to me, and I always insisted that it was Piglet's House.

My mum has the whole collection of toys they made with sawdust filling, I think she still treasures them.

[kshandra]

"Oh, bother," said the Borg, "we've assimilated Pooh."

[kshandra]

Why, oh why, did I have to come across these links while I was at work? I can't read them now - and I WANT to!

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

<StarshipHeartOfGoldDoor>Glad to be of service!</StarshipHeartOfGoldDoor>

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

I am going to go get a cup of coffee, just so I can spit-take. XD

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

My favorite is the story of the Great Flood, titled "In Which Piglet Is Entirely Surrounded By Water" -- I want Christopher Robin's umbrella 'cos it's large enough and waterproof enough to float with both CR *and* Pooh in it.

[folkmew.livejournal.com]

Me too!
"It rained, and it rained, and it rained....."

I like a LOT of the stories but that is always one that comes to mind. Especially on very rainy days.

I'm quite fond of the one where Pooh finds eyeore's tail also. And the one where Roo says "Look at me swim! I'm swimming! Look at me swim!!!"

Oh and Pooh sticks!!

er... you did say one favorite didn't you Tom... ;-) (and gee - why *don't* I have a WTP icon!??) Ah now I do. :-)

[folkmew.livejournal.com]

And btw - although I admit, I remember enjoying them as a child, and they have some good character acting for voices... we still refer to the Disney Pooh as "the anti-Pooh" around our house. I finally let the kids watch the videos that someone gave us, but I like the books MUCH better. :-)

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, it is dorky, but at least you're not part of that crowd who obsesses over imaginary stuffed animals so much that it crosses over into scary.

You know of whom I speak.

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

"He ate my medicine! He ate my medicine!" shouted Roo excitedly

Though actually my favorite passage regarding Pooh and friends is probably from "Foley Is Good (And The Real World Is Faker Than Wrestling)", in which he relates his relation to Pooh and his food obsession and compares the Hundred-Acre Wood gang to a huge dysfunctional family, ending with;

"And that would only leave Roo, Kanga's boisterous little boy... I love that guy, he's adorable!"

[chaosdancer.livejournal.com]

Oh, Chapter Three has gone and made me cry. But perhaps it's just a Crying Sort of Day. Sometimes those aren't all bad. Sometimes one needs a Good Cry (as opposed to a Bad Cry, which is very unpleasant and messy).

[ororo.livejournal.com]

When I was about four, I had a record player (remember those?) and a 33 of Winnie the Pooh and the Hunny Tree, and the story of Pooh getting stuck in Rabbit's front door.

I had stuffed toys for days, including a donkey with wheels that I could ride on. The donkey, of course, was Eeyore, one of my bears was Pooh and I would act out the stories to the record being Christopher Robin.

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

I think that is probably my favourite too. My sister and dad and I used to play it whenever we could find a bridge! (Which is probably not a surprise, considering what I've already admitted. *g*)

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

Aww! Thanks, that's sweet of you, and you definitely should. :)

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :) It just seemed like the time and place, didn't it?

(And aww, he's lovely!)

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear...

Now I can't help but imagine a conversation between Eeyore and Marvin!

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

Either the Blustery Day or the one about when it would not stop raining. I am terrible with story names when it comes to Pooh since I did not read them myself (they were read to me).

[fuuberry.livejournal.com]

Gracious, how had I forgotten.. As I grew older, I grew more and more fond of Eeyore's birthday...though I can't remember the title. It brings happy sort of tears to my eyes every time I think of just how happy he was to be able to put Piglet's broken balloon into Pooh's empty honey pot and take it out again.

[folkmew.livejournal.com]

OH YES! Ok, that might be my favorite story now that you remind me. I think it is incredibly sweet, especially the gracious way that Eyeore tells piglet how wonderful it is to put the balloon in, and take it out, and put it in, and...

Yes that's very good. Thanks for reminding me!