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Misery Bear buys a “happiness machine” in hopes of relieving his misery. But you know that’s not going to happen. He gets a new friend, whose true nature you will recognize before Misery Bear does. A BBC Comedy production. -via The Daily What
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This is the real reason people sleep with teddy bears. They don’t let you down, no matter what. This great image titled Sweet Halloween Dreams is by DeviantART member begemott. Link -via Buzzfeed
In 1880, German seamstress Margarete Steiff began making stuffed animals for children. The first stuffed bear she made is called model 55 PB, and may be the earliest teddy bear in existence. Her nephew Richard Steiff registered the design in 1903. A New York toy vendor ordered 3,000 of the bears, and the Steiffs built a factory to fulfill the order, but the bears disappeared! Toy bear expert Leyla Maniera explains:
“The order was definitely made,” says Maniera, “We have samples of the boxes so we know they were boxed up and shipped.
“The archives have copies of orders right from the beginning. We do know the orders were made, they were packed and shipped, but sadly to this day we don’t know what happened to the 3,000 bears.”
So how about that theory about the bears being lost at sea? Gunther Pfieffer, author of four books about Steiff bears, does not believe it.
“The mystery first appeared in 1953 with the 50th anniversary of the teddy bear. A clever employee of the marketing department was writing a little festival book and that’s the first time this story came up.
“So I guess it was just a good marketing idea, nothing else.”
But if they were shipped, why have none ever appeared in attics or auction houses?
Read the whole story at BBC News, then look in your attic to see if you might have a 55 PB. They are worth a ton of money! Link -via the Presurfer
(Image credit: The Steiff Museum)
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Teddy bear tosses are promotional events, typically at hockey games. The stuffed animals are collected and donated to hospitals and other charities. The very cheerful video above shows “the London Knights teddy bear toss on December 4th, 2009 against the Guelph Storm. The bear count was 8232.”
Via Unique Daily.
There is a more comprehensive (and professionally composed) video at this link that follows a Hungarian teddy bears toss from the rink through the distribution to children.
File this under irony: State Farm gave away some 800,000 cuddly "State Farm Neigh Bears" to show what good neighbors they are, only to recall them because the teddy bears’ eyes could pop off and choke a kid.
Maybe they should change their motto to "Like a good neighbor, you know, the one who’ll choke your kids, State Farm is there." I kid, I actually have a State Farm policy, and my agent has always been nice to me, though I’ll be suspicious the next time I get a teddy bear from them
Link – via Rue The Day!
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Can’t go anywhere without your cuddly teddy bear? Sebastian Errazuriz made a coat for people who can’t part with their stuffed animal for just one second: Link (Flash Website, click on Limited Edition > Fasion > Coat N2) – via designers block
Everything you’ve ever heard of that "terrible twos" is right. But thank the gods of commercialism, there’s a gadget for everything nowadays, including a timer for time outs.
Here’s a Teddy Bear Timer, which supposedly teaches your kid the concept of time, but I think it’s just another toy for him or her to play with while supposedly contemplating their bad deeds during a time out.
Link – via foolishgadgets
If your loved ones don’t like nerdy gifts, maybe they’ll like these instead. Here’s an InventorSpot article on the 15 strange and bizarre gifts for the weirdos in your life.
Includes gems like this one, the Decapitated Teddy Bear Lamp: Link
