Editing Heffalump (section)

==Cultural impact==
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Since the 1950s heffalumps have gained notability beyond the Pooh stories.

* The term "heffalump" is whimsically used by adults to describe an elephant, or a child's view of an elephant.<ref name=OED>[[Oxford English Dictionary]], second edition, 1989: "A child's word for ‘elephant’. Now commonly in adult use."</ref>
* The term "heffalump trap" has been used in political journalism for a trap that is set up to catch an opponent but ends up trapping the person who set the trap (as happens to Winnie the Pooh in ''The House at Pooh Corner'').<ref>''[[The Spectator]]'' (22 August 1958). "The Conservatives are not going to leap into the heffalump-trap in which their opponents... reside". Cited in the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]''.</ref>
* The protagonist, Gnossos Pappadopoulis, in [[Richard Fariña]]'s 1966 novel ''[[Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me]]'' believes his best friend to be named Heffalump for the majority of the novel, although Gnossos discovers in Cuba that Heffalump's birth name was Abraham Jackson White.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.richardandmimi.com/beendown.html |title=Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me |publisher=Richardandmimi.com |access-date=2019-05-29}}</ref>
* There is an orchestral score called ''To Catch a Heffalump'' (1971) by Willem Frederik Bon.<ref>{{cite book|title=To catch a heffalump, for orchestra (1971).|publisher=Donemus|date=1 January 1971|oclc=19557428}}</ref>
* The Swedish newspaper ''[[Expressen]]''{{'}}s Heffalump Award is an annual literary prize awarded to the year's best Swedish author for children and young adults.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boksampo.fi/sv/kulsa/saha3%253Aud069e991-fc81-4edf-a9b0-fd610ef918be|title=Expressens Heffaklump|website=www.boksampo.fi|access-date=2019-11-30}}</ref>
* A search for "heffalon particles" is the subject of an April Fool's Day paper posted on a scientific pre-print server.<ref>{{cite arXiv|last1=Barr|first1=Alan J.|last2=Lester|first2=Christopher G.|title=A search for direct heffalon production using the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider |eprint=1303.7367|date=29 March 2013|class=hep-ph}}</ref>
* The heffalump operator "=>" is used in the [[BCPL]] programming language for structure references.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Curry|first1=James|title=BCPL Reference Manual|date=14 September 1979|publisher=Xerox PARC|location=Palo Alto, CA|page=6.9|url=http://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/alto/bcpl/BCPL_Reference_Manual_Sep79.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/alto/bcpl/BCPL_Reference_Manual_Sep79.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* The 2018 [[Cosmo Sheldrake]] song "Come Along", featured in an ad for the [[iPhone XR]], contains the line "Come along, catch a Heffalump".
* The longstanding Labour MP for Liverpool Walton from 1964 to 1991, [[Eric Heffer]], taciturn and portly, was often known in satirical media stories as "The Hefferlump", initially in Private Eye magazine and then elsewhere.
* The 2020 Song ''Heffalumps'' by [[Sematary]] and Ghost Mountain references Heffalumps.
* In March 2024, shortly after ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2]]'' was released, it was announced that ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 3]]'' had entered development, and will feature Heffalumps.<ref name="Pooh3_Variety">{{cite web |last=Ritman |first=Alex |date=2024-03-28 |title=Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 3' Confirmed (EXCLUSIVE) |url=https://variety.com/2024/film/global/winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey-3-confirmed-1235954467/ |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref>
* The videogame Diplomacy is not an Option features Heffalumps.