Am I the only parent who ever found the Winnie the Pooh stories terrible?

[Dixon Carter Lee]

They're boring as hell, dry as toast, and kids stare at you like you're reading the financial section.

Thank God for Disney.

 

[Bob_Bytchin]

They're boring as hell, dry as toast, and kids stare at you like you're reading the financial section.

Thank God for Disney.

I thought that about Rocky and Bullwinkle.

** One Disney movie I want released on DVD, but will never be released - Song of the South.

 

[DéjàNu]

Most be because its canadian


like Superman


and



basketball

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I think it's available overseas.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Winnie the Pooh was named after a goose or something from Winnipeg, so, maybe you're right.

 

[Angel]

They're boring as hell, dry as toast, and kids stare at you like you're reading the financial section.

Thank God for Disney.

http://www.just-pooh.com/tao.html

 

[Bob_Bytchin]

I think it's available overseas.

Amazing that the live actor James Baskett won an Oscar for the movie, yet the movie is touted as racist in nature. True pity.

 

[Bob_Bytchin]

Winnie the Pooh was named after a goose or something from Winnipeg, so, maybe you're right.

The original Pooh Bear is available for you viewing pleasure at the Smithsonian I believe.

 

[DéjàNu]

Re: Re: Am I the only parent who ever found the Winnie the Pooh stories terrible?

http://www.just-pooh.com/tao.html

Two books about Tao being explain with Pooh

HOFF, Benjamin. The Tao of Pooh, New York, Penguin Books, 1982, 158 pages

HOFF, Benjamin. The Te of Piglet, New York, Penguin Books, 1992, 257 pages

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I only saw the film once, when I was a kid, so I have no idea if it's racist.

I'd love to be able to tell for myself.

 

[Angel]

Re: Re: Re: Am I the only parent who ever found the Winnie the Pooh stories terrible?

Two books about Tao being explain with Pooh

HOFF, Benjamin. The Tao of Pooh, New York, Penguin Books, 1982, 158 pages

HOFF, Benjamin. The Te of Piglet, New York, Penguin Books, 1992, 257 pages

Thank you! I was about to run and look for my "The Tao Of Pooh" when you posted.

 

[CoolidgEffect]

I liked Winnie the Pooh and so do my kids. Maybe you just don't do the characters very well.

One book I didn't like that my kids did was Good Night Moon. It must have inspired the Tellitubies for boredom.

If a DVD is available over seas can it be play on a US DVD player? I thought there was some sort of Zone Code. (I don't think the term Tar Babies is PC anymore)

 

[Bob_Bytchin]

If a DVD is available over seas can it be play on a US DVD player? I thought there was some sort of Zone Code. (I don't think the term Tar Babies is PC anymore)

Not on all DVD players

Certain APEX models will play ANYTHING...and my Pioneer will play DVD's from all regions as well as MP3's and all types of CD-R/CD-RW's, VCD's, SVCD's etc...

Check here for a list of what certain model of DVD players can do:

http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdplayers

 

[sunstruck]

I like you a teeny bit less right now Dixon. lol I love Pooh. I think Milne found a way to be both ireverent and moral with that little bear.

 

[Freya]

Winnie the Pooh was named after a goose or something from Winnipeg, so, maybe you're right.

LOL! Winnie the Pooh was named after a black bear cub owned by a Canadian during the first World War. He donated it to the London Zoo where the author's son (Christopher Robin) used to see it, and subsequently named his own teddy bear Winnie.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Maybe you just don't do the characters very well.

From "Pooh Goes Visiting":

Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs; and when Rabbit said, 'Honey or condensed milk with your bread?' he was so exited that he said, 'Both' and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, 'But don't bother about the bread, please.' And for a long time after that he said nothing...until at last, humming to himself in a rather sticky voice, he got up, shook Rabbit lovingly by the paw, and said that he must be going on. 'Must you?' said Rabbit politely. 'Well,' said Pooh, 'I could stay a little longer if it-if you-' and he tried very hard to look in the direction of the larder. 'As a matter of fact,' said Rabbit, 'I was going out myself directly.' 'Oh well, then, I'll be going on. Good bye.''Well good bye, if you're sure you won't have any more.' 'Is there any more?' asked Pooh quickly. Rabbit took the covers of the dishes, and said 'No, there wasn't.' 'I thought not,' said Pooh, nodding to himself. 'Well Good-bye, I must be going on.'

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You think that would be improved by a higher voice?

 

[RawHumor]

You think that would be improved by a higher voice?

Maybe, maybe not. I think the real point here is that you could probably make a few Lit-women wet if you recorded yourself reading that verse.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I like you a teeny bit less right now Dixon. lol I love Pooh. I think Milne found a way to be both ireverent and moral with that little bear.

I understand the kid grew up hating his father for publishing the stories.

I love the films, they're one of the few things you can put on for very little kids and not have to worry about anything scary or hurtful. They're charming, and the writing is very good. But the books, as well written as they are, are boring, with their long extended sequences of polite Victorian speech. I think parents like them more than kids.

 

[CoolidgEffect]

From "Pooh Goes Visiting":

Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs; and when Rabbit said, 'Honey or condensed milk with your bread?' he was so exited that he said, 'Both' and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, 'But don't bother about the bread, please.' And for a long time after that he said nothing...until at last, humming to himself in a rather sticky voice, he got up, shook Rabbit lovingly by the paw, and said that he must be going on. 'Must you?' said Rabbit politely. 'Well,' said Pooh, 'I could stay a little longer if it-if you-' and he tried very hard to look in the direction of the larder. 'As a matter of fact,' said Rabbit, 'I was going out myself directly.' 'Oh well, then, I'll be going on. Good bye.''Well good bye, if you're sure you won't have any more.' 'Is there any more?' asked Pooh quickly. Rabbit took the covers of the dishes, and said 'No, there wasn't.' 'I thought not,' said Pooh, nodding to himself. 'Well Good-bye, I must be going on.'

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You think that would be improved by a higher voice?

I think Pooh has a little more of a self depricating quality. Try it again but don't make him sound so whiney.

 

[RawHumor]

II love the films, they're one of the few things you can put on for very little kids and not have to worry about anything scary or hurtful.

Actually, there was one dream sequence that was pretty scary for kids. I think it was in "A Blistery Day". The one about ephalumps and woozles.

 

[sunstruck]

Maybe, maybe not. I think the real point here is that you could probably make a few Lit-women wet if you recorded yourself reading that verse.

That is just SICK! lol


Dixon every kid under 5 I've read Pooh to sits happily and contentedly. It's not jumpy and exciting like Seuss. It's bedtime reading.

 

[bluemuse]

Actually, there was one dream sequence that was pretty scary for kids. I think it was in "A Blistery Day". The one about ephalumps and woozles.

That would be "blustery", darlin.......as in windy. Not "blistery", as in hotter 'n bug fuck.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I feel the same away about the original Peter Rabbit stories. They're wonderfully written, and have an absolute charm, but the language is stuffy and formal. Again, something parents enjoy more than kids (the illustrations are very good).

There is an excellent English animated series of the tales, which retain most of the language, nicely abridged, and marries it with a lovely watercolor animation. The only thing to equal the Pooh films for quality and gentleness.

Perhaps it's that we're in a new century, and many of the passages that deal with manners and mannerisms were more successful then because they were more visible in a child's day to day life (though I can't imagine a child, even a Victorian child, ruminating overlong about how a man smokes his pipe).

And don't even get me started on "Alice in Wonderland", which makes for a great variety of sig lines and mental gymnastics, but awful reading for anyone under six.

 

[RawHumor]

That would be "blustery", darlin.......as in windy. Not "blistery", as in hotter 'n bug fuck.

I stand corrected, thanks! I knew what I meant, I just didn't type it correctly.

 

[bluemuse]

Actually, there was one dream sequence that was pretty scary for kids. I think it was in "A Blistery Day". The one about ephalumps and woozles.

Oh..I forgot to say in my other post that I find that dream sequence ALMOST, but not quite as disturbing as the part in Dumbo when he is drunk. Now THAT is disturbing stuff.