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But Dr. Bill, if you could return to being an adolescent, you would probably know more than you know now. As everyone knows, and as Mr. Twain noted, as an adolescent you would certainly know more than your parents, at least.
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Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
--Bob Dylan, "My Back Pages"
I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.
--Bob Seeger, "Against The Wind"
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Somehow I never experienced the omniscience of adolescence. It was during the Depression, and nobody was cocky.
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I seem to remember reading in one of the Pooh books (Pooh Bear, not Pooh Bah) the phrase "Winnie- ther-Pooh," uttered by Christopher Robin. I don't have it with me at the moment. Confirmation, anyone? It occurs to me that the original Pooh books might be online, if they are old enough to be public domain. We could just LIU, online or otherwise! 
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The Duchess of Windsor when asked if she would like to be young again :
"Oh no, the poor dears have all thier mistakes ahead of them."
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The Duchess of Windsor when asked if she would like to be young again :
"Oh no, the poor dears have all thier mistakes ahead of them."Which "poor dears" would include her hopelessly pubescent husband, no doubt. Although he may not have seen it that way. 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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A UK tabloid said that the Duke of Windsor had gone from being an Admiral in the British Navy to being third mate on an American tramp.
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pooh itself (as in to belittle, or pooh-pooh a notion) goes back further:
In my youth ( cried the sage!!) the use of both "pooh" and "Bah!" as interjective exclamations to express disapproval was still alive (but only just - it was likely to bring amused glances, and you were more likely to hear the terms used in fun than in earnest.) "Pooh" is dismissive, as keiva has already ably demonstrated. "Bah" was an ireful comment, as in:- "Bah! Stuff and nonsense! I've never heard such rubbish in my life!" Definitely the sort of stuff for which excalmation marks were invented. The Gilbertian character, Pooh-Bah (Lord High Everything Else), Hello, Jackie!! was a haughty person with a great sense of his own worth allied to an even greater sense of the unworthiness of everybody else in the world. At one point in the opera, he traces his ancestry back to a primeaval amoeba, on the basis that only the top families can trace their family trees back more than a couple of hundred years. He looks down on everyone else, and is dismissive of all of the ideas of the world (apart from his own ideas, or those that will bring him an immediate cash bonus!) The name typifies the character, which is, itself, a hefty dig at the aristocratic politicians of the day (c1860s, probably - my book of G&S is downstairs and it takes too long on the stair lift to go and get it!) who were a patrician lot, and some of them were very patronising. As to Winnie-the-Pooh , I also have read the bit about the fly on the nose, but hadn't heard about the black swan.
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The Gilbertian character, Pooh-Bah (Lord High Everything Else) was a haughty person with a great sense of his own worth allied to an even greater sense of the unworthiness of everybody else in the world. Cana' speak for others, Laddie, but for myself I would be happy if Old Hand or Veteran was the top designation. ( S*i*g*h* -e) --No offense meant to anyone as we have no control over "titles" except to stop at a title we like and that shows we've been around awhile and start again with a new "name" -- Must say I am not looking forward to Carpal Tunnel -- already had that and it's no fun a'tal, a'tal.  As one Poster wrote in a PM concerning taking titles seriously : " Pooh-Bah -no. High Priestess -yes!" Couldn't agree more. Aloha and s to all!
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I may be an old-timer (going into late 50s) but I do have a five-year-old and a three-year-old running around the house......."The rites of Pooh-bah tea."
What, you're my age, but have rug rats? Did you enter pooh-bah-tea very, very late?
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