I'd like to point a very, very
sad fact.
No, Tigger is not
dead. Although
he might as well be.
All of the
writeups in this
node, presumably, refer to the character in
A. A. Milne's
Winnie the Pooh series of short tales, usually pulished in a single book. However, the character the writeups in this node do DESCRIBE is the bouncy tail-hopping tiger in the
Disney adaptation of
A. A. Milne's tales. In
Milne's book, there is never a mention of Tigger actually being a
tiger - he is Tigger,
the one and only. Since
Christopher Robin has probably never seen a real live
tiger,
Tigger's image might be quite
different from what we would
expect. Neither did Tigger bounce on his
tail, although
bounce he did, nor did he spell
Tigger as T - I - Double 'Ga' - ER.
You cry rampant
commercialism? I give you Tigger, friends. I wonder if any of the people here so much as touched the actual
book.