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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: Skooz
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posted on
05/25/2005 7:04:09 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: Dashing Dasher
OK. I won't get any work done today...........
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posted on
05/25/2005 7:05:15 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Admit Nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter Accusations.)
To: Skooz
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posted on
05/25/2005 7:06:12 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: Dashing Dasher
After being aroused by a teddy bear for the first time in my life, this is close enough.
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posted on
05/25/2005 7:07:26 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Admit Nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter Accusations.)
To: Dashing Dasher
ROFL!
I'm still trying to figure out what kind of sicko would even come up with a 'Pervert Bear', or 'Bondo Bear'!
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posted on
05/25/2005 7:09:03 AM PDT
by
MamaTexan
(I would rather stand with the few who are right than the many who are wrong!)
To: MamaTexan; pissant
I'm still trying to figure out what kind of sicko would even come up with a 'Pervert Bear', or 'Bondo BearPissant
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posted on
05/25/2005 7:10:16 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: Skooz
Nope. No Adam's apple. I looked real hard. She looks kosher to me. :0) Yeah, if you're into the 'hairy legs' look :)
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posted on
05/25/2005 7:11:45 AM PDT
by
MamaTexan
(I would rather stand with the few who are right than the many who are wrong!)
To: Enterprise
Kinda has a "Whoopie Goldberg" mouth. Other than than, she appears to be "Nancy Pelosi" chic.
Your comparisons have merit, that's for sure. But I was thinking of another hot momma:
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posted on
05/25/2005 7:12:38 AM PDT
by
Jaysun
(No matter how hot she is, some man, somewhere, is tired of her sh*t)
To: Jaysun
Yeeeeeeeeee! It's Pigzilla!
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posted on
05/25/2005 7:14:35 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(Coming soon from Newsweek: "Fallujah - we had to destroy it in order to save it.")
To: Jaysun
Well, there went my .............. nevermind.
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posted on
05/25/2005 7:14:59 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Admit Nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter Accusations.)
To: Dashing Dasher
Pissant I knew he was full of holes, but I DIDN'T realize he was Swiss :)
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posted on
05/25/2005 7:17:41 AM PDT
by
MamaTexan
(I would rather stand with the few who are right than the many who are wrong!)
To: Dashing Dasher
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...Uh, wow. Just wow.
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posted on
05/25/2005 7:18:45 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(A champion of dance, my moves will put you in a trance, and I never leave the disco alone.)
To: Jaysun
Argh! My eyes!
You KNOW you're supposed to give your fellow FReepers a 2 minute warning....right?
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posted on
05/25/2005 7:19:02 AM PDT
by
MamaTexan
(I would rather stand with the few who are right than the many who are wrong!)
To: Jaysun
You just ruined my thread with that picture of THAT WOMAN!
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posted on
05/25/2005 7:21:55 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: Dashing Dasher
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posted on
05/25/2005 7:22:58 AM PDT
by
teenyelliott
(Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
To: Jaysun
Beastiality is not attractive, my friend.
ssshhhhhhhhhhh . . .
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posted on
05/25/2005 7:24:23 AM PDT
by
teenyelliott
(Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
To: teenyelliott
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posted on
05/25/2005 7:27:41 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: teenyelliott; pissant
PA..
Teeny called my bear a (sob) whore!
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posted on
05/25/2005 7:28:39 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: Dashing Dasher
You'll have to defend yourself. Teeny's already taken too many bites out of my ass yesterday!
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posted on
05/25/2005 7:30:37 AM PDT
by
pissant
(headache gone!)
To: Dashing Dasher
You just ruined my thread with that picture of THAT WOMAN!
I apologize. It was her or Lewinsky, I just had to make a decision - perhaps it was the wrong one.
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posted on
05/25/2005 7:31:03 AM PDT
by
Jaysun
(No matter how hot she is, some man, somewhere, is tired of her sh*t)
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