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|    Alexander Koryagin to All    |
|    Strange a bit    |
|    23 Sep 24 13:36:40    |
      MSGID: 2:221/6.0 66f144b8       PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 kco 20240921       NOTE: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101       Thunderbird/31.7.0       CHRS: CP866 2       TZUTC: 0300       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2024-03-02                     Hi, All!                     In Winnie-The-Pooh and All, All, All, by Alan Alexander Miln I read:              -----Beginning of the citation-----        THE Piglet lived in a very grand house in the middle of a beech-       tree, and the beech-tree was in the middle of the forest, and the Piglet       lived in the middle of the house. Next to his house was a piece of       broken board which had: "TRESPASSERS W" on it. When Christopher Robin       asked the Piglet what it meant, he said it was his grandfather's name,       and had been in the family for a long time. Christopher Robin said you       couldn't be called Trespassers W, and Piglet said yes, you could,       because his grandfather was, and it was short for Trespassers Will,       which was short for Trespassers William. And his grandfather had had two       names in case he lost one -- Trespassers after an uncle, and William       after Trespassers. "I've got two names," said Christopher Robin       carelessly.               "Well, there you are, that proves it," said Piglet.        One fine winter's day when Piglet was brushing away the snow in       front of his house, he happened to look up, and there was Winnie-the-       Pooh. Pooh was walking round and round in a circle, thinking of       something else, and when Piglet called to him, he just went on walking.       ----- The end of the citation -----                     Why at first the author used "the" before Piglet, and then he trashed it into       the dust bin, probably having tired of it? ;-)              Bye, All!       Alexander Koryagin              ---         * Origin: nntp://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0)       SEEN-BY: 10/0 1 90/1 102/401 103/1 705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 129/305       SEEN-BY: 153/757 7715 154/10 214/22 218/0 1 215 601 700 720 840 850       SEEN-BY: 218/860 870 880 930 221/1 6 360 226/30 227/114 229/110 114       SEEN-BY: 229/206 300 317 426 428 470 664 700 240/1120 266/512 282/1038       SEEN-BY: 291/111 301/1 113 320/219 322/757 335/364 341/66 234 342/200       SEEN-BY: 396/45 460/58 712/848 5020/400 1042 5075/35       PATH: 221/6 301/1 218/700 229/426           |
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