This one?
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.
Thass whatithought. Dang, teeny scared me.
A HARD copy!
LOL----SNORK!!!
Maybe it was subliminal, but I didn't even catch that one until you pointed it out.............. ;0)
That is one hairy man.
That's a handful!
Might require two.
Don't forget the wetnaps.
PS... I have a shirt that says your tagline.
This one?
No, but close.
I believe mine was a special forces t-shirt.
I'll look...
"Hardcore teddy banned from bear parade"
I stopped reading when I discovered this
wasn't about Kennedy.
Just be happy it wasn't:
"HARDCORE TEDDY (KENNEDY) NOT BANNED FROM BARE PARADE"
"HARDCORE TEDDY (KENNEDY) NOT BANNED FROM BARE PARADE"
Perhaps nothing in the 21st century as frightening as this has been written.
Thank you - I'm considering a career change. I want to be a horror novelist. (or is that a novel horrorist)
Ping
No no no.
Your current career is at the top of the food chain.
:0)
,,, what aren't we quite being told here?
,,, Swiss Tony told me you guys have plenty of storage space and have a penchant for art that's less mainstream.
Art?
,,, arte. There, I know four letter words are easier for you.
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