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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: Dashing Dasher; teenyelliott
New information crushed Dasher, if said is true. Dasher cry not, pulling leg, Mama was!
(Wonder if teeny is banging her head on the keyboard, yet :)
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posted on
05/25/2005 8:49:40 AM PDT
by
MamaTexan
(I would rather stand with the few who are right than the many who are wrong!)
To: Allegra
It's almost worth making the trip to see:
guys are all good clean-cut, noble men. Nothing pierced, no mohawks, no snotbag attitude
122
posted on
05/25/2005 8:50:53 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: MamaTexan
She may be running for a gun.
Dasher not able to, Mama help stop.
123
posted on
05/25/2005 8:51:59 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: Allegra
standing around today taking a break and jamming out to some rap music. I thought "Oh, man, we are so corrupting these people..." LOL LOL!
Just wait...maybe they'll discover country & western!
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posted on
05/25/2005 8:52:16 AM PDT
by
MamaTexan
(I would rather stand with the few who are right than the many who are wrong!)
To: Dashing Dasher
Dasher not able to, Mama help stop. Screwed Dasher is. Mama be gone!
125
posted on
05/25/2005 8:53:58 AM PDT
by
MamaTexan
(I would rather stand with the few who are right than the many who are wrong!)
To: MamaTexan
Anytime I walk into a retail establishment and they are blasting RAP - I write a letter or call the home office of the company and complain.
I will not listen to that crap - without a gun to my head.
/off soapbox - must return to yoda-speak
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posted on
05/25/2005 8:54:57 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: Dashing Dasher
I will not listen to that crap - without a gun to my head. LOL! I know some folks listen to it by choice, but the only time I have it on is when the alarm clock goes off....my instant reaction upon reaching consciousness is 'Turn that mess OFF!!'
(BTW- I always wondered if there wasn't a reason that 'rap' rhymed with 'crap' :)
127
posted on
05/25/2005 9:03:09 AM PDT
by
MamaTexan
(I would rather stand with the few who are right than the many who are wrong!)
To: Dashing Dasher; pissant
hee haw. That's funny.
But it's not a mood. I'm mean and angry all the time. Right, pissy man?
128
posted on
05/25/2005 9:03:48 AM PDT
by
teenyelliott
(Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
To: MamaTexan
I spoke to a guy last night that bragged that his son was in a band - it seems his a friggin' DJ!
Wow!! Did he go to College for that!? What talent! He spins records? By himself? You must be so proud.
AAAAAHHHHH!!!
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posted on
05/25/2005 9:04:32 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: teenyelliott; pissant; MamaTexan
We noticed - perhaps intravenous midol?
130
posted on
05/25/2005 9:05:07 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: MamaTexan; Dashing Dasher
OH MY GOD YOU TWO ARE GONNA MAKE ME FREAK OUT!!!!!
131
posted on
05/25/2005 9:05:38 AM PDT
by
teenyelliott
(Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
To: teenyelliott
LOL!!!
132
posted on
05/25/2005 9:08:46 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: Dashing Dasher
Wow!! Did he go to College for that!? What talent! He spins records? By himself? You must be so proud. ROFLMAO!
He could at least used a little imagination and said he was in animated electronics or something!
Some folks just have NO imagination :)
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posted on
05/25/2005 9:09:52 AM PDT
by
MamaTexan
(I would rather stand with the few who are right than the many who are wrong!)
To: teenyelliott; Dashing Dasher; MamaTexan
But it's not a mood. I'm mean and angry all the time. Right, pissy man? True, except when you are Pole Dancing or I'm spanking you.
134
posted on
05/25/2005 9:10:45 AM PDT
by
pissant
(headache gone!)
To: Dashing Dasher; carolinacrazy; BerthaDee
Maybe intravenous valium would work. I am very high strung.
My husband seems to think smacking me around helps, but I disagree. ;)
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posted on
05/25/2005 9:10:52 AM PDT
by
teenyelliott
(Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
To: teenyelliott; Dashing Dasher
You are bear is a whoreAll your base are belong to us.
136
posted on
05/25/2005 9:11:55 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: pissant
You gotta come up with a new trick, pony.
137
posted on
05/25/2005 9:12:16 AM PDT
by
teenyelliott
(Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
To: teenyelliott
Maybe he's doing it wrong!?
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posted on
05/25/2005 9:12:35 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: teenyelliott; Dashing Dasher
Foaming she is....restraint she has learned not!
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posted on
05/25/2005 9:12:43 AM PDT
by
MamaTexan
(I would rather stand with the few who are right than the many who are wrong!)
To: MamaTexan
140
posted on
05/25/2005 9:13:32 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
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