Teddybear collectors are known as arctophiles from the Greek words 'arcto' (bear) and 'philos' (lover).
Amy, Lulu and Morgan, the teddies from Bananas in Pyjamas.
The song, wherein TeddyBear wants to ride around with truckers, just as he dreamed of doing with his own truck-driving father (who is deceased), was a major country hit in 1976.
There was a mermaid bear; a bear rowing a boat; a bear traveling with a passport; a his-and-her bear taking their wedding vows before a congregation of bears; even a young, attractive female bear standing in her bathroom dressed in a teddy.
Though some were specifically purchased for the museum, adding onto the initial collection of founder Frances Pew Hayes (whose collection began with an M&M bear given to her in 1985 by a grandchild), many more of these bears have come here by donation accompanied by touching, often tearful, tales.
Humanizing the bears as Brownie is prone to do, he explained that the risks of such an operation should seriously be considered; besides -- judging from the scar tissue -- the injury was clearly not new and teddy had undoubtedly adjusted to being hard of hearing.
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