Look who is 100 today

I still have, somewhere, my copy of Winnie The Pooh that was a leaving present from my Infants' School teacher when Dad's work move forced us - and many other families - to move to a new place about 100 miles away. She signed the flyleaf with her best wishes and exhortation to "Keep Reading"

When a company I worked for went through enormous convulsions to gain ISO9001 accreditation - forced by its primary customer - I placed a quote on the wall of my "office".

It is from a conversation between Pooh and Owl, in the tale of Eeyore's lost tail. Pooh had visited Owl to seek his help in finding it. From memory the dialogue is very close to this:

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Owl (who love long words but could not spell his own name) told Pooh that " The Customary Procedure in such cases is.."

Pooh held up a paw. "Excuse me, I'm a bear with very little brain. What does 'Crustimoney Proceedcake' mean'?"

"The Thing To Do", replied Owl a little crossly.
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I can't help extending the vowels in my head there.

I decided that dialogue sums up the ISO900x bureaucratic grotesquery, perfectly.

So formative in my love of books and humour. I can still hear my Dad's voice reading to us as children in the 50s and the books will always be the REAL thing. Never watched more than excerpts of the Disney version, but since I think this is a quintessentially British (even English) creation, with all due respect to that wonderfully successful corporation, theirs was not Mr Milne's creation.