First, we must all admit the severe limitations upon clinical analysis posed by the distance of the subjects, none of whom were directly interviewed by the authors nor any of their adjuncts. The fact that the subjects are wholly fictional, and that their closest living associate, Mr. Milne, is long dead, is obviously an insurmountable obstacle to the study, but it must nevertheless be recognised as the limitation that it is. All opinions and conclusions are thereful entirely conjectural at best, despite the best intent and efforts of the investigators.

Second, I do not wish to suggest that the study may have been done in haste, possibly overlooking important details, but even the most dense reader must surely notice and wonder at the authors' substitution of 'honey' for Milne's originally-written 'hunny'. While the latter may rightly be considered a dialecticalism, perhaps even exclusive to the Hundred Acre Woods community and its denizens, some readers, myself included, are surely concerned that this attempt to project outside normative linguistic values upon this very isolated and insular society must at least suggest some degree of cultural bias on the part of the investigators. It is only in the interest of scientific honesty and integrity that we must ask if such bias, however small, may affect the authors' impressions of their subjects.

Moreover, it is also worth noting that not a few milenologists have implied that the referenced 'hunny' may not, in fact, be precisely the same substance as the 'honey' with which we are all familiar. We cannot entirely dismiss the possibility that this 'hunny' may have psychoactive properties which may compel some users to seek it with enthusiasm and vigor above the norm for merely favoured foodstuffs.

Yet another detail with which I take a personally contrary view is the assumption that Mr. Pooh is very necessarily a 'brown bear' as we would know such a creature generally. He has always looked sort of ochre to me. I admit that this may result from a congenital abnormality of my vision which provides me less saturation of subtractive colour than is average, but as far as I am aware, my vision does not cause me to see actual colour tones differently, merely less vividly. Still, he seems altogether too yellowy to be truly 'brown', don't you think?

Also, what's with that thing around his neck? Is he gay, or what?

In any case, ordinary bears, brown and otherwise, seem to like honey plenty fine, and yet we do not presume any of the same sort of disorders upon them. Although I've never seen one with a thing around its neck. Except at the circus. I think. It was a long time ago, I'm not sure now.

I didn't think the other characters were important enough to write about, either here or in the original article. Except in this sentence, but that's it. While it's very valuable to take note of Mr. Pooh's contemporaries and associates, as they certainly cannot be inconsequential to his life and psychology, I think it's best to study one subject at a time, don't you? Besides, who's sold the most stuffed toys, huh? Right.