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== Literature ==
* At the end of ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh|Winnie the Pooh]]'' by [[AAA. MilneA. (Creator)Milne|AA Milne]], Christopher Robin throws a party to reward Pooh for his heroism during a recent flood. Due to the vagueness of his award speech (''"This party'' [...] ''is a party because of what someone did, and we all know who it was, and it's his party, because of what he did, and I've got a present for him and here it is."'') there is some confusion over who the guest of honour is, and Eeyore launches into an acceptance speech before things are straightened out. Something of an oddity, in that Eeyore is not normally the sort to assume that he's the winner; on the contrary, he's so [[The Eeyore|incorrigibly pessimistic]] that he figures he must be the guest of honour because otherwise he wouldn't have been invited at all.
* In one of the ''[[Babysitters Club]]'' books, the members of the eponymous club each coach a regular babysitting charge to appear in a children's beauty contest. The rivalry between the girls is so intense that they can no longer babysit together, but all lose to a heavily made up child beauty queen with several other titles to her name.
** This also happens in the ''Little Sister'' [[Spin-Off]] starring Kristy's stepsister, Karen. Her gymnastics teacher is announcing who qualified for a special traveling team, and Karen stands up to greet the teacher and "accept" the invitation right before she reads the last name; one of her classmates grabbed her and yanked her back down before she could embarrass herself further.
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