Passion for words

I just learned the difference between impassible and impassable. As in:

Heavy snow had rendered the road impassable; luckily, heavy drink had rendered me impassible.

From Now we are six.

Some weeks it runs around my brain almost constantly, but A.A Milne's classic couplet of nonsense poetry,

But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever.
So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.


is just that--nonsense...

Unless you change six to twenty. Then it makes sense.