[91] Cottleston Pie

this week's theme: poems written by fictional characters - metapoets, if
you will.

Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie,
A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.
Ask me a riddle and I reply
Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie.

Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie,
Why does a chicken? I don't know why.
Ask me a riddle and I reply
Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie.

Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie,
A fish can't whistle and neither can I.
Ask me a riddle and I reply
Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie.

    -- A. A. Milne

This charming little snippet of verse was written by one of my favourite
characters, a Bear of Very Little Brain, Winne-the-Pooh. I remember
having been fascinated by the surrealism of the 6th line from my
childhood days, long ago when all the world and time was young...

... I continue to be fascinated by it :-)

As for what sort of beast a Cottleston Pie is, a search of the Web
revealed only the following URL:

http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~chpeters/cottleston_pie/

Enjoy!

thomas.

From: Prashanth Khambhammettu <prashanth@>

I did a search for this cottleston thingamajig and it turns out that
somebody holds a recipe for it. You might want to check out the ingredients
at http://www.zaalberg.freeserve.co.uk/meal9909.htm .

Cheers,
Prashanth

From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@>

Hippety hoppety
Winnie the Pooh, when you
Ask him a riddle will
Simply reply

With the endearingly
Incomprehensible
"Cottleston Cottleston
Cottleston Pie"

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From: "Binderup, Emma (FMS-07)" <ebinderu@>

The Tao of Pooh has an interesting piece about the "true" meaning of this
poem- quite interesting you should check it out. :-)