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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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My poor bear.... being discriminated against....
To: pissant
Look what they did to my bear!
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posted on
05/25/2005 6:25:25 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: Dashing Dasher
ROFL! Good find.
I can't believe the insensitivity the Swiss show toward you!
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posted on
05/25/2005 6:28:42 AM PDT
by
pissant
(headache gone!)
To: pissant
After all I've done for them....
I eat their cheese - even with the holes.
Sniffle..
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posted on
05/25/2005 6:29:42 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: Dashing Dasher
And think of all the pansyass Swiss men whose only real joy in life is the whippings you inflict!
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posted on
05/25/2005 6:31:33 AM PDT
by
pissant
(headache gone!)
To: Dashing Dasher
Here's the perverse teddy in question:
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posted on
05/25/2005 6:32:04 AM PDT
by
Jaysun
(No matter how hot she is, some man, somewhere, is tired of her sh*t)
To: Jaysun; Dashing Dasher
Other than the dark hair, that looks like Dasher!
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posted on
05/25/2005 6:34:20 AM PDT
by
pissant
(headache gone!)
To: Dashing Dasher; cyborg; Miss Behave; SilentServiceCPOWife; BerthaDee; teenyelliott; MamaTexan; ...
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posted on
05/25/2005 6:40:01 AM PDT
by
pissant
(headache gone!)
To: F16Fighter; Lazmataz; Petronski; Skooz; shaggy eel; Enterprise; Mr. Jeeves
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posted on
05/25/2005 6:42:14 AM PDT
by
pissant
(headache gone!)
To: Jaysun
Thanks!
I couldn't find the pix.
You are handy to have around...
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posted on
05/25/2005 6:42:58 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: pissant
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posted on
05/25/2005 6:43:38 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: Jaysun
She could march in my parade anyday.
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posted on
05/25/2005 6:45:23 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Admit Nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter Accusations.)
To: Dashing Dasher
Thanks!
I couldn't find the pix.
You are handy to have around...
No problem. Lucky for us I've been lusting over it for hours, so it happened to be close by.
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posted on
05/25/2005 6:51:16 AM PDT
by
Jaysun
(No matter how hot she is, some man, somewhere, is tired of her sh*t)
To: Skooz
She could march in my parade anyday.
Look again friend - I pretty sure I saw an adam's apple.
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posted on
05/25/2005 6:53:05 AM PDT
by
Jaysun
(No matter how hot she is, some man, somewhere, is tired of her sh*t)
To: Jaysun
Nope. No Adam's apple. I looked real hard.
She looks kosher to me. :0)
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posted on
05/25/2005 6:54:12 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Admit Nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter Accusations.)
To: Jaysun
I like you - you're weird.
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posted on
05/25/2005 6:55:44 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: Dashing Dasher
bwhahahahahahaha! tooo funny!
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posted on
05/25/2005 6:58:30 AM PDT
by
mistress_of_tantra
(There are two sides to every story then there is the truth...I fight for the truth)
To: pissant
Other than the dark hair, that looks like Dasher! Well, that would be hard to judge without a corresponding picture of DD in a matching outfit........
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posted on
05/25/2005 6:59:04 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Admit Nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter Accusations.)
To: pissant
i am still laughing over this
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posted on
05/25/2005 7:00:18 AM PDT
by
mistress_of_tantra
(There are two sides to every story then there is the truth...I fight for the truth)
To: pissant; Jaysun; Dashing Dasher; Skooz
Kinda has a "Whoopie Goldberg" mouth. Other than than, she appears to be "Nancy Pelosi" chic.
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posted on
05/25/2005 7:00:43 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(Coming soon from Newsweek: "Fallujah - we had to destroy it in order to save it.")
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