Painterly bee resting on a broken golden honeycomb with drops of honey in warm amber light.

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Winnie the Pooh · 1926

Winnie the Pooh

When you go after honey with a balloon, the great thing is not to let the bees know you're coming.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Pooh offers earnest advice for a very silly plan: sneak up on the bees. His logic is solemn and childlike, as if the balloon were a perfectly reasonable honey tool. The humour is how seriously he treats it.

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