quarta-feira, julho 30, 2008
Pooh
"Winnie is a girl, didn't you know that? Winnifred is a female name…"
http://www.behindthename.com/name/winnifred
Poor little Winnie, what confusion must be going on in his/her little head.
Fortunately, we can stop all that and vouch for his identity - as we have been assuming it to be so far -, calling upon the authority of the author himself !
Of course, we would respect Winnie leading an alternative lifestyle, if (s)he would be so inclined.
It's just that in this case, a better alternative seems to be for him to change his name at the civil registry so as to avoid further confusion in the future.
We'd suggest something unmistakably male, such as… Humphrey, Cary, or Anne Marie.
"Winnie-the-Pooh, commonly shortened to Pooh Bear and once referred to as Edward Bear, is a fictional bear created by A.A. Milne.
[…]
In the first chapter of Winnie-the-Pooh, Milne offers this explanation of why Winnie-the-Pooh is often called simply "Pooh": "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."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh_%28character%29
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http://www.behindthename.com/name/winnifred
Poor little Winnie, what confusion must be going on in his/her little head.
Fortunately, we can stop all that and vouch for his identity - as we have been assuming it to be so far -, calling upon the authority of the author himself !
Of course, we would respect Winnie leading an alternative lifestyle, if (s)he would be so inclined.
It's just that in this case, a better alternative seems to be for him to change his name at the civil registry so as to avoid further confusion in the future.
We'd suggest something unmistakably male, such as… Humphrey, Cary, or Anne Marie.
"Winnie-the-Pooh, commonly shortened to Pooh Bear and once referred to as Edward Bear, is a fictional bear created by A.A. Milne.
[…]
In the first chapter of Winnie-the-Pooh, Milne offers this explanation of why Winnie-the-Pooh is often called simply "Pooh": "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."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh_%28character%29
