[Sca-cooks] Re: [Sca-cooks]OT-The One True Tigger

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Mark Calderwood wrote:
>
>> I think the alleged Disney Tigger was in fact invented by A. A. Milne,
>> father of Christopher Robin and creator of Winnie-the-Pooh,
>
>
> Tigger was created by A.A. Milne for his stories which were written in the
> 1920's and -30's, based on one of his son Christopher's stuffed toys. The
> stories were illustrated by the artist E. H. Shepard. "Disney Tigger", like
> "Disney Pooh" et al, are an abomination perpetuated by Disney in the late
> 1950's, and having had all charm, dry wit and subtlety mercilessly bled out
> of them at the hands of the nefarious "Uncle Walt", bear little resemblance
> to the original stories and characters.

True, but the bastardization of his work by "Uncle Walt", a man who
appears to have been pretty nasty, but was still beloved of probably
billions of children over the decades, is probably _exactly_ what a man
like Milne deserved. P.G. Wodehouse, on the other hand, besides being
brilliant in an offhanded, careless sort of way, was also one of the
kinder authors of the twentieth century, and did not deserve what he got
at Milne's hands.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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