Winnie the Pooh is Canadian. "Winnie" is short for Winnipeg. (Your
trivia for today.)
Kate
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Katherine L. Hardigan
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On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Mike wrote:
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> Wow! this is really a fascinating and fun cultural exchange.
> I am a bit of
> an Anglophile, I would love to visit when I can afford it,
> but then again,
> maybe my Miss Marple, Barbara Pym, Winnie the Pooh, Margaret
> Drabble, Miss
> Read and Charles Dickens are preferable to a boring modern
> reality.
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>
> Er... who are Barbara Pym and Margaret Drabble? I've never heard of a
> Miss Read, either. I confess I have heard of Winnie the Pooh and I can't
> stand Dickens. I think there is a Miss Marple TV programme that elders
> watch. We have lots of full-on trance and hard house clubs over here in
> quaint old England, though. Strangely, when people come over here, they
> tend to stand in a queue in the rain outside Madame Tussauds to see a
> bunch of waxworks of dubious celebrities. Never quite figured that one
> out.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike
> http://www.otdirect.co.uk
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