Drat and Double Drat

Or

TA-TA for now
(A shared epitaphany for Monty, Tammy and I)

Or

Down the Drain

(Plaudits for Monty)

Or

I’ll Get You Smurfs, If It’s the Last Thing I Ever … (THUD)
(Further laudatories for Monty)

Tragedy struck the Hundred Acre Wood again, as Paul Winchell, voice of Tigger for 30 years, has died at 82. A gifted ventriloquist, Winchell co-starred with dummies Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff on The Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney Show in the 1950s. Among the other characters Winchell brought to sound included Gargamel in "The Smurfs," Dick Dastardly in Hanna Barbera cartoons, Zummi on “The Gummi Bears,” Fleegle on “The Banana Splits Adventure Hour,” Boomer in “The Fox and the Hound,” and the Dow Scrubbing Bubbles. Winchell also held more than 30 patents, including an artificial heart he invented in 1963. He donated it to the University of Utah, where it served as inspiration for Robert Jarvik, who developed the heart first implanted in patients in 1982. He also invented a disposable razor, a flameless cigarette lighter, an invisible garter belt and an indicator to show when frozen food had gone bad after a power outage.