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Hardcore teddy banned from bear parade
Reuters ^ | 05/24/05 | Staff

Posted on 05/25/2005 6:25:00 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher

ZURICH (Reuters) - A giant dominatrix teddy bear wearing a leather mask and brandishing hand-cuffs has been banned from sober Zurich's street display of man-sized model bears, the project's artistic director said Tuesday.

While tourists pose for snaps next to a brightly-painted and benign array of models such as the "schoolteacher bear" and the "skier bear," "Baervers" -- a pun on the German for perverse -- has been deemed too steamy for the financial capital's streets.

"This bear is perverse, dominatrix and hardcore. We had to ban it because of the children," Beat Seeberger-Quin, the project's art director, told Reuters.

The offending bear, which sports bright red lipstick, a corset and thigh-length leather boots, stands atop a pedestal bearing the words "first class service."

Some 600 teddies, variously decorated by artists, stud the streets of Zurich and its airport in the "Teddy-Summer" project.

The controversial model had been allocated a place near Zurich's Paradeplatz, home to Switzerland's top banks such as Credit Suisse and UBS, before Seeberger-Quin spotted the final design and decided to ban it.

The dominatrix bear's creators now seek a private home for their sadomasochist teddy. At least "Baervers" will not face the same hazards as his publicly-displayed peers, some of which have been vandalized or even kidnapped.

"Two or three of the bears have been splashed with paint, and one bear -- a nice small bear wearing a little dress -- has been stolen," Seeberger-Quin said.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: dombear
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To: Allegra; All

Well keep safe, will ya! And give the soldiers a HUGE THANKS from all the freepers!!!!

Love to find out more about what you're up to when ya recover from looking at Skooz in that picture!


101 posted on 05/25/2005 8:23:31 AM PDT by pissant (headache gone!)
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To: Allegra
I mean "my way posthaste." See, I just got all flustered and distracted...

{swoon}

ROFL!

Sure, I'll send them your way ASAP!

Would you like them to arrive in broad daylight, or would you rather they arrive clandestinely so you don't have to 'share'?

:)

102 posted on 05/25/2005 8:24:12 AM PDT by MamaTexan (I would rather stand with the few who are right than the many who are wrong!)
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To: Allegra
Hey, are you in Iraq now?

Yep.
Home, sweet home. ;-)


While you're there...
Can you kiss a soldier for me!
Thanks!

103 posted on 05/25/2005 8:24:28 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
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To: BerthaDee
HAIRBALL
104 posted on 05/25/2005 8:25:18 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
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To: BerthaDee
Ya know Lady...I could have happily lived the rest of my life without seeing that!

:)

105 posted on 05/25/2005 8:26:45 AM PDT by MamaTexan (I would rather stand with the few who are right than the many who are wrong!)
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To: MamaTexan

Hey, I have that shirt!


106 posted on 05/25/2005 8:27:06 AM PDT by pissant (headache gone!)
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To: MamaTexan
I just thought you were having a 'Yoda' morning

Nope. Just a moron moment.

107 posted on 05/25/2005 8:30:28 AM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: Dashing Dasher; thag
Ooooo, don't let thag see that, he doesn't like to be called a hairball. He gets very angry and starts, well, he starts ripping my clothes off.

titter

108 posted on 05/25/2005 8:32:23 AM PDT by Finger Monkey (H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act - A consumption tax which replaces the income tax, SS tax, death tax, etc.)
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To: teenyelliott; pissant; MamaTexan

Teeny gets jealous when Pissant flirts with Dasher.

Or... as Yoda would say, "Pissant flirts with Dasher, jealous Teeny gets. "


109 posted on 05/25/2005 8:32:54 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
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To: MamaTexan
Would you like them to arrive in broad daylight, or would you rather they arrive clandestinely so you don't have to 'share'?

Oh, let's go for the after sundown option. (Which is right about now.)

I've been away from home too long and I don't wanna share those guys. ;-)

{Slipping back over to that first page for another look.}

110 posted on 05/25/2005 8:32:54 AM PDT by Allegra (The Green Zone....It's a Blast.)
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To: Dashing Dasher
Ummmmm, you think that is cute?????

(backing away slowly)

111 posted on 05/25/2005 8:34:14 AM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: Allegra

Send pix of what you have over there. I'm sure you have some hunks ...

I live in SF and we just have gays, lesbians, tran-sexuals and metro-sexuals to look at around here.


112 posted on 05/25/2005 8:34:39 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
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To: teenyelliott

I was giving an example....


113 posted on 05/25/2005 8:34:57 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
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To: Dashing Dasher; pissant
While you're there...
Can you kiss a soldier for me!

It would be my pleasure. Happy to oblige.

114 posted on 05/25/2005 8:35:07 AM PDT by Allegra (The Green Zone....It's a Blast.)
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To: Dashing Dasher
I do not. I welcome the extra free time.

And if you don't stop that infernal Yoda crap, I'm gonna put your bear under my car.

115 posted on 05/25/2005 8:38:11 AM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: teenyelliott
If you take your pills, the bear will die not.


116 posted on 05/25/2005 8:42:14 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
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To: Dashing Dasher
"Pissant flirts with Dasher, jealous Teeny gets. "

LOL!

(But you realize pissant flirts with just about everybody....right?)

117 posted on 05/25/2005 8:42:47 AM PDT by MamaTexan (I would rather stand with the few who are right than the many who are wrong!)
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To: MamaTexan

New information crushed Dasher, if said is true.


118 posted on 05/25/2005 8:45:25 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
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To: Allegra
Oh, let's go for the after sundown option. (Which is right about now.)

OK. Lie down, close you eyes, and they'll be there eventually :)

(OH! OH! Kiss a soldier for me too......and he doesn't even HAVE to be from Texas!)

119 posted on 05/25/2005 8:46:41 AM PDT by MamaTexan (I would rather stand with the few who are right than the many who are wrong!)
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To: Dashing Dasher
I live in SF and we just have gays, lesbians, tran-sexuals and metro-sexuals to look at around here.

I must admit, I've become a bit spoiled. I've been surrounded by nobly manly-men for quite some time. And the younger guys are all good clean-cut, noble men. Nothing pierced, no mohawks, no snotbag attitudes...

I did however, observe a few young Iraqi men (very sweet) who work for us standing around today taking a break and jamming out to some rap music. I thought "Oh, man, we are so corrupting these people..." LOL

120 posted on 05/25/2005 8:48:16 AM PDT by Allegra (The Green Zone....It's a Blast.)
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