[extropy-chat] Happy Thursday

[Jef Allbright]

Thanks Amara.  I appreciate the wisdom of Pooh, and your sensitivity and 
astuteness in sharing it.

Here are links to a few of my favorites that you may enjoy.

<http://www.jefallbright.net/node/view/1613>
<http://www.jefallbright.net/node/view/1612>
<http://www.jefallbright.net/node/view/1611>

- Jef

Amara Graps wrote:

>
> Now one autumn morning when the wind had blown all  the leaves  off
> the trees in the night, and was trying to blow the branches off,
> Pooh and Piglet were sitting in the Thoughtful Spot and wondering.
>
> "What I think," said Pooh, "is I think we'll go to Pooh Corner and
> see Eeyore, because perhaps his house has been blown down, and
> perhaps he'd like us to build it again."
>
> "What  I  think," said Piglet, "is I think we'll go and see
> Christopher Robin, only he won't be there, so we can't."
>
> "Let's go and see everybody," said Pooh. "Because  when you've  been
> walking in the wind for miles, and you suddenly go into somebody's
> house, and he says, 'Hallo, Pooh,  you're  just in time for a little
> smackerel of something,' and you are, then it's what I call a
> Friendly Day."
>
> Piglet  thought  that  they  ought to have a Reason for going to see
> everybody, like Looking for Small or Organizing an Expotition, if
> Pooh could think of something
>
> Pooh could.
>
> "We'll go because it's Thursday," he said,  "and  we'll go to wish
> everybody a Very Happy Thursday. Come on, Piglet."
>
> They  got  up;  and  when  Piglet  had  sat down again, because he
> didn't know the wind was so  strong,  and  had  been helped  up by
> Pooh, they started off. They went to Pooh's house first, and luckily
> Pooh was at home just as they got there,  so he  asked  them in, and
> they had some, and then they went on to Kanga's house, holding on to
> each other,  and  shouting  "Isn't it?"  and  "What?"  and "I can't
> hear." By the time they got to Kanga's house they were so buffeted
> that they stayed to  lunch. Just at first it seemed rather cold
> outside afterwards, so they pushed on to Rabbit's as quickly as they
> could.
>
> "We've  come  to  wish you a Very Happy Thursday," said Pooh, when
> he had gone in and out once or twice  just  to  make sure that he
> could get  out again.
>
> "Why,  what's  going  to  happen  on  Thursday?"  asked Rabbit, and
> when Pooh had explained, and Rabbit, whose life was made up of
> Important Things, said,  "Oh,  I  thought you'd  really  come  about
> something," they sat down for a little . . . and by-and-by Pooh and
> Piglet went on again. The wind was behind them now, so they didn't
> have to shout.
>
>         "Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
>
>         "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
>
>         "And he has Brain."
>
>         "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
>
>         There was a long silence.
>
>         "I  suppose,"  said  Pooh,  "that  that's  why he never
>         understands anything."
>
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