Friends! While we recognize that not everyone out there celebrates Christmas, we DO recognize that it is generally Christmas time in the greater IMPORTANT BEAR NEWS forest, so if you wanted to celebrate Christmas or put up a Christmas tree or spend a lot of money on elaborate white elephant office gifts or whatever, now is that time. That said, it's also entirely possible that this will be the last full issue of IMPORTANT BEAR NEWS to be published here in the Year of Our Bear 2015 [annos ursus 2015], which means there's a lot to be said about the BEARS. The bears have done many things this year. They've eaten (as they always do), they've slept (as they also usually do, pretty regularly). But they've also been hunted viciously by not one but several different states full of bored and clumsy hunters (FLORIDA, WE STILL DON'T APPRECIATE IT AND WE HOPE YOU REMEMBER THIS NEXT YEAR WHEN YOU THINK IT'S A FUN AND NICE IDEA TO SHOOT MOTHER BEARS AND ORPHAN THEIR CUBS. BREAKING NEWS: IT IS NEITHER NICE NOR FUN.) They've walked on four feet, and two feet, and waved and cuddled and grown and died and roared. The bears, to put it quite simply, were bears, and we wouldn't want it any other way. Go forth, make good end of year BEAR cheer, and tune in next year for all the most IMPORTANT BEAR NEWS that's fit to print (in a newsletter, with a few dozen subscribers.) To the bears!

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Teddy bear (theodore roosevelt), soft toy in the form of a bear. Developed simultaneously by toymakers Morris Michtom in the United Statesand Richard Steiff in Germany in the early years of the 20th century, and named after President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, the teddy bear became an iconic children's toy.

food: the good intentions and deepest dreams of its so-called 'owners.' Teddy bears are also known to feast on the souls of easily corrupted and vastly spoiled youth.

habitat: Teddy bears are known to reside in, around and beneath the beds or sleeping areas of the youth, inside or near stuffed animal baskets and, often, in the rear dashboard area of sedans or cars. When young, teddy bears live among others of their kind in either large warehouse-like industrial spaces or in bits and pieces in mall-based assemblage factories that are also known as torture chambers for wayward bears.

[Via Wikipedia / ImaginationLand]

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