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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: MamaTexan
The best looking one, of course. That one. Right there.
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posted on
05/25/2005 7:56:06 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Admit Nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter Accusations.)
To: Skooz
62
posted on
05/25/2005 7:56:18 AM PDT
by
Finger Monkey
(H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act - A consumption tax which replaces the income tax, SS tax, death tax, etc.)
To: Skooz
63
posted on
05/25/2005 7:56:45 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: BerthaDee
64
posted on
05/25/2005 7:57:00 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: Dashing Dasher; BerthaDee; teenyelliott
Sticks and stones may break my bones
But whips and chains excite me!!!!
*thwack*
65
posted on
05/25/2005 7:57:40 AM PDT
by
thag
(When Life Hands You a Lemon, Make Lemon Juice. Then You Can Squirt it in Your Enemy's Eyes......)
To: Dashing Dasher
66
posted on
05/25/2005 7:58:15 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Admit Nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter Accusations.)
To: teenyelliott; Dashing Dasher; pissant; thag
TEENY!Do not abuse DD.
Bad girl.
I swear she was raised better than this.
I am soooo ashamed.
Spank me.
Wha . . .?
67
posted on
05/25/2005 7:58:22 AM PDT
by
Finger Monkey
(H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act - A consumption tax which replaces the income tax, SS tax, death tax, etc.)
To: thag
This cracked me up...
68
posted on
05/25/2005 7:59:20 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: BerthaDee; Dashing Dasher
NOW, I defintely want pictures from your Vegas trip!
69
posted on
05/25/2005 7:59:23 AM PDT
by
pissant
(headache gone!)
To: Jaysun
Rosie was bad, but a group of queers? And do you have a source for that accusation? (LOL)
Queer they MAY be, but North OR Southbound, they're a heck of a lot better looking than Ramblin' Rosie!
70
posted on
05/25/2005 8:00:18 AM PDT
by
MamaTexan
(I would rather stand with the few who are right than the many who are wrong!)
To: Dashing Dasher
LOL!
I once had a client at my desk wearing a TShirt that read:
Cuffs and leather and a whip that stings-
These are a few of my favorite things.
71
posted on
05/25/2005 8:00:53 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Admit Nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter Accusations.)
To: MamaTexan; Jaysun
Queer they MAY be, but North OR Southbound, they're a heck of a lot better looking than Ramblin' Rosie! And nearly as manly.
72
posted on
05/25/2005 8:01:36 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: thag
Grab your ankles, my bad little teddy bear.
Lick, Bertha.
73
posted on
05/25/2005 8:01:56 AM PDT
by
Finger Monkey
(H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act - A consumption tax which replaces the income tax, SS tax, death tax, etc.)
To: Dashing Dasher; BerthaDee
"Bertha's getting kinky! "
....and I want the pix!!!
74
posted on
05/25/2005 8:03:16 AM PDT
by
thag
(When Life Hands You a Lemon, Make Lemon Juice. Then You Can Squirt it in Your Enemy's Eyes......)
To: Dashing Dasher
Don't mind me. Apparently I'm an idiot, so my jabs don't count.
I wrote "You are bear is a whore." My bad.
75
posted on
05/25/2005 8:03:20 AM PDT
by
teenyelliott
(Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
To: Dashing Dasher; BerthaDee; pissant; teenyelliott
"This cracked me up... "
Thag can't come to the telephone right now...he's tied up.....bwahahahahaha........
76
posted on
05/25/2005 8:04:56 AM PDT
by
thag
(When Life Hands You a Lemon, Make Lemon Juice. Then You Can Squirt it in Your Enemy's Eyes......)
To: teenyelliott
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posted on
05/25/2005 8:05:03 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: MamaTexan
Queer they MAY be, but North OR Southbound, they're a heck of a lot better looking than Ramblin' Rosie!
Fair enough.
78
posted on
05/25/2005 8:05:58 AM PDT
by
Jaysun
(No matter how hot she is, some man, somewhere, is tired of her sh*t)
To: Skooz; Jaysun
The best looking one, of course. That one. Right there. O! THAT one!
(grin)
(BTW...Did you see what Jaysun said about you?)
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posted on
05/25/2005 8:06:07 AM PDT
by
MamaTexan
(I would rather stand with the few who are right than the many who are wrong!)
To: Skooz
I once had a client at my desk wearing a TShirt that read: Cuffs and leather and a whip that stings-
These are a few of my favorite thing
.
I can only hope you are a parole officer.
80
posted on
05/25/2005 8:06:39 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
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