[Jo Freddie]

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When Walt Disney created this Winnie The Poop bear.

Pardon Cranks? have you been neglecting your medication again?

During the first World War, troops from Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada) were being transported to eastern Canada, on their way to Europe, where they were to join the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade. When the train stopped at White River, Ontario, a lieutenant called Harry Colebourn bought a small female black bear cub for $20 from a hunter who had killed its mother. He named her 'Winnipeg', after his hometown of Winnipeg, or 'Winnie' for short.

Winnie became the mascot of the Brigade and went to Britain with the unit. When the Brigade was posted to the battlefields of France, Colebourn, now a Captain, took Winnie to the London Zoo for a long loan. He formally presented the London Zoo with Winnie in December 1919 where he became a popular attraction and lived until 1934.

The bear was also very popular with Christopher Robin, son of author A.A. Milne. It was his favourite animal at the Zoo, and he often spent time inside the cage with it. The bear was Christopher Robin's inspiration for calling his own teddy bear Winnie... Winnie the Pooh (this teddy bear started out with the name of Edward Bear). The name Pooh originally belonged to a swan, as can be seen in the introduction of Milne's 'When We Were Very Young'.
Pooh meets Tigger outside his house

A.A. Milne started to write a series of books about Winnie the Pooh, his son Christopher Robin, and their friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. These other characters, such as Eeyore, Piglet, Tigger, Kanga and Roo were also based on stuffed animals belonging to Christopher Robin. The characters, Rabbit and Owl, were based on animals that lived, like the swan Pooh, in the surrounding area of Milne's country home, Cotchford Farm in Ashdown Forest, Sussex. It is this area on which the 100-Acre-Wood was based.

'Winnie-the-Pooh' was published by Methuen on October 14th, 1926, the verses 'Now We are Six' in 1927, and 'The House at Pooh Corner' in 1928.

The Pooh-books had also been favourites of Walt Disney's daughters and it inspired Disney to bring Pooh to film in 1966.

(History of Winnie the Pooh)

[Cranky Old Man]

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Pardon Cranks? have you been neglecting your medication again? ... bla bla bla ...

I have never used any medication, or visited a doctor for that matter, in my life.

And you are even more retarded than I already expected if you don't realize Winnie is a Disney invention. Alan Alexander Milne no doubt stole the idea for his books from Disney. Notice the small print in this image clearly states Disney, not Milne, owns the copyright.

[MisterM]

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They are all "boys", why they are hugging and smiling like that?!? I have seen similar kind of images on web sites that are full of pornographic material. And only meant for gaysexuals.

YiC, M

[Jo Freddie]

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I have never used any medication, or visited a doctor for that matter, in my life.

That explains a lot Cranks

And you are even more retarded than I already expected if you don't realize Winnie is a Disney invention. Alan Alexander Milne no doubt stole the idea for his books from Disney. Notice the small print in this image clearly states Disney, not Milne, owns the copyright.

You do understand the concept of transfer of copyright?

A. A. Milne left the rights to Pooh, and his other characters, to five beneficiaries: The Garrick Club, Westminster School, The Royal Literary Fund, the A. A. Milne Family and the E. H. Shepard Family. Mrs. Milne sold the film rights to Disney in 1961. Christopher Robin Milne sold his rights to the other copyright holders before his death in 1996.

Sometime around 1998, the Garrick Club sold Disney the rights to all of A. A. Milne's characters until 2026 (when the copyright expires). On March 4, 2001, the Sunday Times of London reported that Disney paid an estimated $340-to-$350 million for the rights to the royalty stream, as well as future use of the characters in any media, from the A. A. Milne Trust.

Disney first bought rights to Winnie-The-Pooh (enabling it to use the Pooh characters freely in movies, television shows, theme parks and merchandising) in 1961 and has renewed those rights every year, paying twice-yearly royalties to a group of rights holders. Disney now has the rights to the Winnie-The-Pooh until the copyright expires in 2026. The copyright holders received lump-sum payments for their interests, rather than having to collect their money a bit at a time over the next 25 years. They will retain the publishing rights to the original A.A. Milne book.

Dutton Books was the original copyright holder for his published works, and have a copyright on the books and classic illustrations.

The heirs of Stephen Slesinger, who bought the US rights from "Pooh" author A A Milne in 1930 and began licensing them to Disney in 1961, claim the powerful firm has cheated them out of hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties.

Mr Slesinger's widow agreed to negotiate the rights deal with Disney after his death.

A first agreement was reached in 1961 and renegotiated in 1983.

On 19 February 2007 Disney lost a court case in Los Angeles which ruled their "misguided claims" to dispute the licensing agreements with Slesinger, Inc. were unjustified, but a federal ruling of 28 September 2009, from Judge Florence-Marie Cooper, determined that the Slesinger family had granted all trademark and copyright rights to Disney, although Disney must pay royalties for all future use of the characters. Both parties have expressed satisfaction with the outcome.

[Alphonse Alban]

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Of course Disney invented these perverted stories and we know perfectly well why you are trying to defend Walt Disney. It is in Disneyland where you go pray to your meatballs.

[Jo Freddie]

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Of course Disney invented these perverted stories and we know perfectly well why you are trying to defend Walt Disney. It is in Disneyland where you go pray to your meatballs.

No, Disney is just another arm of the American Cultural Imperialist machine, like McDonald's and Starbucks.

[Henry Poppendorfer]

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You are certainly right to be worried. Winnie the Pooh is nothing more than blasphemy sugar-coated with talking animals. The proper term for this kind of sin is "anthropomorphism," also colloquially known as "Furry Syndrome," and it's a deadly, sinful import from none other than African paganism, where every ape, lion, and gourd has a mouth. Biblically, either these animals have been given speech by the Lord (as in Numbers 22:28), or they have been possessed by demons (as in Matthew 8:30-32), and considering how these animals spend all their time talking about sharing and doing good to others, and none talking about the Lord God, I think we can safely assume that it is the latter.

In other words, Winnie the Pooh is a teddy bear possessed by a wicked demon, as are all the other talking animals. All of them should be rebuked in Jesus' name and probably burned, and Christopher Robin should be stoned as per Leviticus 20:27 simply for associating with evil spirits like that. He himself is no doubt a wicked sinner, perverting God's word and treating demons as friends.

[MisterM]

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There is even Winnie-The-Poop personality test. They are trying to get innocent children to associate themselves to these monsters. Would you like you kid to think himself as depressed homersexual? I don't.

YiC M

[Born Again Bob]

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There is even Winnie-The-Poop personality test. They are trying to get innocent children to associate themselves to these monsters. Would you like you kid to think himself as depressed homersexual? I don't.

YiC M

It called me a Heffalump. I feel I have grounds to sue.

[Johansen]

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I remember growing up with this and enjoying it! Kindergarten and School encouraged it, of course. Those days are, luckily, long gone.

[JustGotSaved]

I remember growing up with this and enjoying it! Kindergarten and School encouraged it, of course. Those days are, luckily, long gone.

I was always grossed out by the honey-play and confused about my moms interest. Seeing south parks Randy marsh covered in j@@z finally opened my eyes. See my previous post in this thread
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[Apparenta]

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This is the most absurd thing I have ever read as well as all these comments! I have been a Christian since I was 11 and am very proud of the fact that my children and I love God and know where we're going when we're done with this world!! I have a mentally disabled child so just like Piglet does this mean he's not going to heaven? He doesn't understand spoken or written language and stutters and can't put together full sentences at 12. He reads at a grade 2 level, can barely keep up in Math, Science and Social Studies. He's great at PE. I have many friends that are homosexual as I am a Christian and DON'T JUDGE I know for a fact they don't eat poo!!!

Are you not scared to stand before God when your time comes and answer to being hypocritical, judgemental, and a close-minded Christian??? When I hear things like this it makes me so ashamed to be a Christian. This is not the God I know, this is not what is in the bible. “Do not judge so that you will not be judged” For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye? “You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye. Matthew 7:1-5

[Mary Etheldreda]

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whine whine whine

Sorry, but bonding with your retarded baby doesn't make God love him any more. And yes, just like Piglet, he won't be going to heaven. Neither will you with this haughty attitude.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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This is the most absurd thing I have ever read as well as all these comments! I have been a Christian since I was 11 and am very proud of the fact that my children and I love God and know where we're going when we're done with this world!! I have a mentally disabled child so just like Piglet does this mean he's not going to heaven? He doesn't understand spoken or written language and stutters and can't put together full sentences at 12. He reads at a grade 2 level, can barely keep up in Math, Science and Social Studies.

SCREEEEECH! Stop right there, lady.

If you have a mongoloid baby, then you've obviously done something to seriously offend Jesus. Because God hates retardeds.

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

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I have a mentally disabled child so just like Piglet does this mean he's not going to heaven?

What did you do to anger God so much to cause Him to retardify your son? Or did he commit the sins?

I have many friends that are homosexual as I am a Christian and DON'T JUDGE I know for a fact they don't eat poo!!!

Have you never heard of a "rim job"? That's when a homosexual sticks his tongue into another's behind.

Why do you not judge? The Bible commands it. Oh, I bet you don't read the Bible, do you, Missy?

Are you not scared to stand before God when your time comes and answer to being hypocritical, judgemental, and a close-minded Christian???

Not at all. I'm not a hypocrite; I practice what I preach. God commands us to judge with righteous judgment, and demands complete obedience . . . not this "open-mindedness" you secular humanists love so much.

When I hear things like this it makes me so ashamed to be a Christian. This is not the God I know, this is not what is in the bible. “Do not judge so that you will not be judged” For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye? “You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye. Matthew 7:1-5

Thanks for quoting that in full. Now read and understand it.

It is not telling us not to judge; it is telling us not to judge hypocritically.

Note that it says to first remove the beam from your own eye, and then remove the one from your brother's. In other words, remove your own sins; then call out the sins of others.

We've eliminated sin from our lives. Why haven't you? Is it because you love your sinful lifestyle more than you love Jesus?