A few "facts" about bears, from my comments in an amusing "Bearskin Rug" post "about" bears:
- It seems that in the last century or so, bears have achieved an understanding of human art, one of the few animals to do so. They generally practice a form of scrimshaw, a medium for which their claws are handily adaptable to. Their work is largely of the magical-realistic style, and mostly concerns issues of ecology, climate, and an ongoing debate having to do with nuts in chocolate.
- Bears are actually largely hairless, much like humans, having little hair on their bodies except for on their heads. The so-called "bearskin" is actually a jumpsuit-like covering that bears weave using their own head-hairs. It may be due to the decrease in popularity of the "bearskin rug" that bears have taken up carving, since they are no longer having to spend all their time stockpiling and making new coats to replace those stolen by bearskin hunters.
- Bears could save themselves a lot of trouble if they would wear clothes, instead of their woven bearskin suits (fleece sweat-clothes would work admirably), but refuse to for aesthetic reasons. They also find depictions of bears in clothing, such as in Maurice Sendak's "Little Bear" stories, to be highly offensive. There is a rumour that they had contacted legal council, but the contact seems to have advanced to the eating stage and they have been since black-balled by all reputable advocacy agencies.
3 comments:
Nietzsche was a bear? well that explains much. it is easy to be brilliant when you do not have to deal with diabetes.
you may have a future in comedy dave.
maybe you need to have talk with google about your word verification. this time, i got the ridiculous hoop of "sikpvmgx" to jump through.
word verification is way outside of my scope. Sometimes they're short, sometimes they're long. I've yet to figure it out. Mine right now (I've not logged in) is "wrlgx". I've had some real whoppers at your site, though.
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