First, I watched a dog and Pokeman. http://www.videosift.com/video/Pokemon-love
Now it's Winnie the Pooh. What is it with dogs and stuffed toys? Maybe we're missing something.

Nah, that's not love; that's just lust. Wtf, go for it!

Did you see the dog and Winnie the Pooh. There's a theme going on here. http://www.videosift.com/video/Winnie-The-Pooh-You-Slut

Naw MW, my opinion is that you DON'T see, and ya don't respond rather, you react. Case in point, the message I sent to you on your profile which is public for restrictions not my own, the same restrictions soon to be discarded. I approached you attempting to explain my motivations rather, by singling-out a comment of yours on this thread, that publicly and rather smugly, poo-poohs my observations and manner. Can't slight ya for the offense to my manner and could give a giggity-goddamn-....CAN if you attack me with a view to putting a feather in yer clever-cap...as do all other users with the same manner.

Such is the nature of the freedom of speech with a view to enlightenment or otherwise, such is the nature of the website I enjoy to be a part of.

Dude...My opinions are like my asshole. I got one like everyone else and it's dear to me. On the contrary to yer insights...EVERYTHING I SEE AFFECTS ME. Be it a screen-shot, a title, a mood, turn of phrase, or another's particular take on something I've seen before...EVERYTHING. To deny that anyone you know is the same, would be like lying when describing your own fantasies to another.

Ignore is an illusion as well. who can ignore the voyeur?? Who can ignore a naked human in public? Who can ignore hunger? A better man than I, that's fer sure....

Olbermann going pooh pooh over FOX News again? Seriously, no one likes a sore lose.

I heard that the "Pooh" part was due to the bear's flatulence.

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Wow so can I say that I initially limited myself to books I've discovered only in the past 6 years or so, and that currently influence the way I read, write and see the world (not to mention kick stupendous ass), but EDD's mention of Winnie the Pooh made me wish I'd done the reverse. So since I started it I'm going to post another list.

First I am allowing all of you to rag on me/sympathize with me now because I was one of the few people on this planet who didn't read or have read to her any of the LOTR books as a child. Any monetary donations to make up for my deprived childhood are welcome. I suppose until I get assigned to it in class (or get my degree, whichever comes first), I will need to add all these to my goodreads account.

So my (other) list:

1. Milne - Winnie the Pooh
2. Cormier - The Chocolate War
3. Raskin - The Westing Game
4. Smith - White Teeth
5. Plath - The Bell Jar
6. Thompson - Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
7. Marquez - A Hundred Years of Solitude
8. Bantock - Griffin and Sabine
9. Mitchell - Gone with the Wind (I skipped class to finish this, and have yet by my own volition to see the movie)
10. Curtis - The Watsons Go to Birmingham

Yes, alas, Farm Frenzy and its offshoots are one of my favorite ways to procrastinate from various reading and writing assignments. LOL.

By the way, what do you translate?

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The *quality was well-deserved. Although I kind of feel your pain and then again I kind of don't

I took a brief stint in English A1 (supposedly for native speakers, mostly World-lit analysis) course as a part of IBO diploma programme. It included Lermontov, 1984, Ancient Mariner, Kafka etc. etc. etc. Decided it wasn't for me, but that's mostly because other group members were even less-qualified to pass as native speakers than I was and also I simply had already read most of what was on the mandatory reading list.

Still, English is my life-long mistress. No wonder I'm 'moonlighting' as a translator/interpreter now.

*edit - I looked below and were you really playing Farm Frenzy? My wife can't get enough of those kinds of games.

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Thanks! I still read Pooh and Catcher every once in a while, even though the first time I read both was probably because I was assigned them in class (read: English major). Interestingly enough all but a couple of the books on my list were ones I have read for leisure in-between classes. I guess that says a lot.

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oh and what the hell, anything that helps me exercise some healthy verbal diarrhea is *quality

The *quality was well-deserved. Although I kind of feel your pain and then again I kind of don't

I took a brief stint in English A1 (supposedly for native speakers, mostly World-lit analysis) course as a part of IBO diploma programme. It included Lermontov, 1984, Ancient Mariner, Kafka etc. etc. etc. Decided it wasn't for me, but that's mostly because other group members were even less-qualified to pass as native speakers than I was and also I simply had already read most of what was on the mandatory reading list.

Still, English is my life-long mistress. No wonder I'm 'moonlighting' as a translator/interpreter now.

*edit - I looked below and were you really playing Farm Frenzy? My wife can't get enough of those kinds of games.

In reply to this comment by blahpook:
Thanks! I still read Pooh and Catcher every once in a while, even though the first time I read both was probably because I was assigned them in class (read: English major). Interestingly enough all but a couple of the books on my list were ones I have read for leisure in-between classes. I guess that says a lot.

In reply to this comment by EDD:
oh and what the hell, anything that helps me exercise some healthy verbal diarrhea is *quality

Thanks! I still read Pooh and Catcher every once in a while, even though the first time I read both was probably because I was assigned them in class (read: English major). Interestingly enough all but a couple of the books on my list were ones I have read for leisure in-between classes. I guess that says a lot.

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oh and what the hell, anything that helps me exercise some healthy verbal diarrhea is *quality

-Le Petit Prince by de Saint-Exupéry, because it permanently shaped the way I look at (and interact in) any and all attachments.
-Vinnie the Pooh, because in it's simplicity it provided unique and oh-so-valuable insights on social norms and the psychology of friendship.
-The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, because it gave me the final nudge to become a true bookworm. I like to boast - at age 5 or 6, I read it cover-to-cover in about 9 hours (refused lunch and dinner until I'd finished ).
-The Catcher in the Rye - I guess the most straightforward and requires no explanation.
-A Hero of our Time by Lermontov, because it presented me with a fatalist byronic hero and gave me a clear idea of someone I was very much like and I DID NOT want to become.

and last but definitely not least:
-The Lord of the Rings to which I practically exclusively owe my English skills - I started Book 1 in 1999, I think, with the thickest available dictionary in hand, which honestly, at first had to utilize for practically every sentence but finished Book 6 (not a month later) having clearly surpassed my English teacher in vocabulary and speech fluency.

It has happened before and it will happen again (I mean this kind of Sift Talk), so I guess it was just a matter of time before I participated.

I only stated the couple of books that actually altered my life somewhat (I'm saying this because I always somehow got the impression other people made their lists based on how artsy/fancy their titles sounded, which I really hope isn't true in most cases among Sifters).
Anyway, I guess it's also worth saying that I read every one of these before the age of 15, which helps explain why and how they have influenced my life to some extent.

It's funny though - by the time I was 16 I'd also read and re-read Hesse, Huxley, Orwell, Dostoyevsky, Nabokov, García Márquez, Rand, Joyce, Vonnegut, Fitzgerald, Kerouac, Burgess, Hemingway, Rushdie and other "classics", but most some of these managed was to entertain me mildly (Vonnegut, Hesse, Huxley, Joyce - yes, I really did enjoy reading Ulysses), while I actually hated having to finish some of them (Orwell, Rand, Burgess).

P.S. Oh and I think I speak for us all when I say - Sagemind - WHAT. THE. F*CK??

>> ^Sagemind:
I have to give two lists!

FICTION:
Clive Barker - Imagica
David Farland - Runelords
Dan Millman - Way of the the Peaceful Warrior
Frank Hurbert - Dune
John Fowles - The Magus
Alexander Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo
L Ron Hubbard - Battlefield Earth
Jack L Chalker - Lilith: A snake in the grass
Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel’s Dart
Jack Kerouac - On the Road

Just look at what it did to Winnie the Pooh:

First the rock'n'roll, and next thing you know, he's worshipping at Satan's altar. So tragic.

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God McCain's whistle is almost unbearable. He sounds like the Beaver from Winnie-the-Pooh.

Is there anyone else noticing how the other guy (not Peter) just nails the voice of Rabbit from Disney´s "Winnie the Pooh" series of cartoons

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