“Isn't it funny
How a bear likes honey?
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
I wonder why he does?”
A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh
Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
“Please bear in mind throughout that IT IS MEANT TO BE FUNNY.”
— Evelyn Waugh, book Decline and Fall
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Decline and Fall (1928)
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