Not a teddy bear

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:43 PM +0000 9/13/10, Charles C Doyle wrote:
>I believe no one has mentioned koala "bears."

Or panda "bears", which are also closer to the prototype of today's
teddy bears than TR's original from the 1902 cartoon...

LH

>When my sister and I were small children (c1950) we each had a real
>stuffed koala (sent or brought as gifts from relations way across
>the ocean somewhere), and we regarded them as teddy bears.
>
>--Charlie
>
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>
>The idea that a taxidermist's full-sized, stuffed bear might seriously be
>designated a "teddy bear" is so far out that I never even thought of the
>possibility.
>
>Stuffed real bear: not a teddy.
>Stuffed toy bear of any description I can reasonably imagine: teddy.
>
>JL
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