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Alaska’s Fat Bear Week kicks off with online voting to crown the most oversized ursine
AP via msn ^ | 22 Sep 2025 | MARK THIESSEN

Posted on 09/23/2025 12:03:13 AM PDT by blueplum

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon, the portliest brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula will battle it out to see who will be named the fattest of them all in the wildly popular online voting contest called Fat Bear Week....

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: alaska; brooksriver; fatbearweek; katmai; otisforever
voting starts 9am 23 Sep
meet the bears
voting
video - bracket reveal / bear introductions
1 posted on 09/23/2025 12:03:13 AM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

JD Pritzker in a bear outfit was disqualified. Went back to wearing his Bigfoot one.


2 posted on 09/23/2025 12:10:51 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: blueplum

I thought she left the country.


3 posted on 09/23/2025 12:19:23 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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Thought this was about the hirsute and sometimes corpulent male homosexuals who use that term to describe themselves.


4 posted on 09/23/2025 3:43:36 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is goings to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: blueplum

My money is on Joy Behar.


5 posted on 09/23/2025 4:07:53 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: blueplum

I demand equity. At least one white bear needs to be included.


6 posted on 09/23/2025 4:29:49 AM PDT by pas
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To: pas

Nope. The black bears need their own place where they can be without the weight of past colonialism which continues to oppress them.

(I’m still working on mastering a word salad argument for the black college students that want to self-segregate...)


7 posted on 09/23/2025 4:57:38 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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To: blueplum

“After gorging all summer on sockeye salmon...”


Sockeyes have a very short season...

It should read:

“After gorging all summer on salmon...”


8 posted on 09/23/2025 5:33:56 AM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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