1 Build-A-Bear... Bildabare.... Bilderbare.... Bilderberg.

You on that Alex?

2 I thought that on the "day after tomorrow" everything got covered with ice. Oh well. Shows what I know.

3
Merry Christmas, kids!

Guess what? Granny is gonna die tomorrow because we didn't pass health care reform! She'll be gone forever and that's sad.

4 This is pretty old, in terms of updates.  The CEO apologized and removed the "webisode" from the website.

I think she deserves credit for acting quickly and appropriately.

She knows which side of her bread is buttered.

5 Silly liberal, money making companies like Build-a-bear are for capitalists.

6 Ho ho ho. Merry Christmas! All of those on my naughty list are going to get a fat lump of coal in their stockings! Then they can burn the coal and kill the planet.

7 Do they have a video about how anyone who opposes Comrade Chairman MaObama is a birther, Klansman?

8 Mommy everytime you turn on the lights do you know a penguin dies? You make me so sad mommy for da killing of da penguins. I hate you mommy. For Christmas I want you to die so you stop the global warming that is killing Santa and the polar bears.

9 And by "stocking" I mean your bottom, and by "fat lump of coal," I mean my gray, pathetic junk.

10 Sounds more like the The Bild-a-erbergers to me.

11 I find Build a Bear stores to be a great place to talk to little kids about candy and puppies. And I like to help them build their own bear. I also like to show them how I like to stuff it.

12 Mommy did you vote for Obama? Did you know that if you didn't you are on Santa's naughty list because Obama stands for peace and for stopping of the global warming that is killing the polar bears? I hope you aren't on thenaughty list mommy.

13

Ella: No sir, not next Christmas, even before this Christmas! It'll happen two days before the day after tommorow, which is today!

FIFT.  Now it's more in line with that infamous South Park episode.

14 Did someone say Build-A-Beer?

15 CHILD [with wide, staring eyes, in a blank diction]: SANTA, we will all die if we don't destroy the system of capitalism tomorrow. [Meanwhile, other blank, zombie-like CHILDREN move toward SANTA] SANTA [Confused]: But how will we make the toys? How will the children be fed and clothed? CHILD [turning menacingly on SANTA]: Do you dare question the truth of global climate change? You must be an enemy of mankind. CHILDREN [in unison] SANTA must be purged. SANTA must be purged. SANTA must be purged...

16 Da Bears.

17 #7, How about I expropriate your name for The Wøn^® = Comrade Chairman MaObama. 

Truly an enlightened turn of phrase. Good on ya!

18

 think she deserves credit for acting quickly and appropriately.

I think she deserves a swift kick in the ass for putting this bullshit up in the first place.

19
Eating candy canes will make your teeth fall out and then you'll be a toothless racist? You don't want to be toothless racists, do you, kids?

Ho! Ho! Ho!

20 The next video she puts up will be a bunch of kids sitting around the Mao decorated christmas tree singing "Oh commie Christmas Tree".

21

Kids did your parents vote for Republicans? If so they are against Obama's healthcare bill and want people to die! They are all going on my naughty list.

Ho ho ho!

22 And now for Build-A-Bear's next franchise, Build-A-Bankruptcy.

23 Right maddog, right.  It's better to pile on when people discover they've screwed up.  My point was the post should include an update to the effect that the goofball CEO corrected her original error and removed the moronic video.

24 I had never heard of "build-a-bear" before.  This had to be the work of some dumb ass liberal that they did not have under proper control.

Noting like pissing off half of your potential clients by getting involved in bullshit political ads.

I hope someone got fired.

25 It makes shopping so much easier when companies take themselves off the list of candidates.

26 We went to Build-a-Bear last night. My daughter got a bear covered in peace symbols and dressed it military garb and my son got a camouflage bear. I asked him what outfit he'd like for his bear and he said none, a camo-bear doesn't need a stupid outfit.

27 Is there a video by the Fisting Czar telling kids to only have sex with people who support the global warming climate change fraud agenda?

28 I call bullshit on this cartoon!  Those bears would totally eat the penguin.  Also how does a balloon get stuck on a cloud?

29 These lunatics are beneath contempt.

30 "Mommy, why does that man have a shirt on that says 'I heart CO2?' Mrs. Olsen said CO2 its bad... " #tcot #sgp #hhrs #teaparty

(I have this saved on my cell phone, and Tweet it all the time)

31 OT: Bin Laden's family found at a secret compound in Iran?

32

To be fair, this clip was much less extreme than their second choice:

Build-a-Bearville Capitalist Running Dog Massacre

33 The really sad thing is that people who would boycott these hippies might have kids who want to go there.  How do you explain to a kid who wants a teddy bear that you're conscientiously withholding business as a consumer protest against hoax science?

Mixing politics and children, that's some low class shit right there.

34 The "greening" of every story you knew as a child is one of the fastest growing industries in America. 

Sure makes being creative a breeze, e.g.:

The three blind mice went blind from PCB's.

The Little Old Lady was forced to live in a shoe because an evil polluting corporation bulldozed her house for a coal fired power plant.

The Big Bad Wolf is shot dead by Sarah Palin from a helicopter.

Toys R Us ought to calling any minute.

35 Is there a video by the Fisting Czar telling kids to only have sex with people who support the global warming climate change fraud agenda? Yes, you'll be able to obtain this video at your new community healthcare collective. It will inform you about fisting, how to make your own K-Y jelly, and how to identify anti-Obama tendencies in your parental units, and who to inform about it! Come down today!

36
Sarah Palin is gonna come to your house tonight and steal all your presents, kids. Then's she's gonna come into your bedroom and give birth to a baby. Is that what you want, kids?

Ho! Ho! Ho!

37 Why do I have the suspicion that most Americans think "Arctica" is continent?

What creeps me out most is the cheap quality animation that's acceptable these days.

38 I give this video a solid "doubleplusgood."

39

Well it's the jolly old fat mans own fault,globetrotting around using eight tiny carbon emitters when he could have gotten away with using four.If he was truly concerned about the polar bears he'd off four the reindeer.Dasher is a little long in the tooth and really Rudolph is only useful on dark and gloomy nights.

40 I thought that on the "day after tomorrow" everything got covered with ice. Oh well. Shows what I know.

Posted by: mr.frakypants at December 23, 2009 11:07 AM (PonvG)

Your deniers don't get it.

If there is less ice - Global Warming

More ice - Global Warming

Same amount of ice - Global Warming

Storms - Global Warming

Drought - Global Warming

Sun rises in the east - Global Warming

Barrista screws up your espresso - Global Warming

And I can make up, sorry, provide the numbers to prove each of these points. Its SCIENCE!

41 CO₂ is evil kids. Hold your breath or you are going on my naughty list!

42 OT: Bin Laden's family found at a secret compound in Iran? Soon they'll find bin Laden's body, and we won't have to be in Afghanistan anymore. Wouldn't that be convenient wonderful?

43 Very interesting article today in Belmont Club and Small Dead Animals.  It seems that fearless leader went nonlinear in Copenhagen.  To quote Shrek, he's a "donkey on the edge".

44 Here's their back-down from their site.  Apparently, they got bitched a blue streak:

Letter from Maxine Clark regarding online webisodes, posted December 22, 2009 Dear Associates, Guests and Partners,

We have received inquiries regarding our online webisodes and would like to provide you with the following information.

Our goal is to entertain and engage the imagination of children with our stuffed animals, our store environment, and online. Our intention with the Polar Bear story was to inspire children, through the voices of our animal characters, to make a difference in their own individual ways. We did not intend to politicize the topic of global climate change or offend anyone in any way. The webisodes concluded this week with Santa successfully leaving on his journey to deliver gifts around the world. The webisodes will no longer be available on the site.

I started Build-A-Bear Workshop as a place for families and children to come for a fun experience combining imagination, creativity and empowerment. I have always placed great value in the trust that our Guests have in our brand.

At Build-A-Bear Workshop we also strive to encourage kids to help others by participating in their communities. We listen to parents and kids about topics that they are interested in and care about. We especially value the input of parents. We are listening and taking all points of view into consideration for the future.

45 36 Sarah Palin is gonna come to your house tonight and steal all your presents, kids. Then's she's gonna come into your bedroom and allegedly give birth to a baby. Is that what you want, kids?

Fixt.

46 After they killed Santa, all the children sat around the tree and cried for hours, mourning the death of the innocent tree and giving thanks to Gaia.

47 Shouldn't the title of the video be "Under the Red Star" instead of "under the North Star"

48 I fowarded the Big Hollywood link on twitter yesterday and got a tweet back inviting me to join the boycott page on Facebook to "fight back against socialist corporations".

49 It really doesn't matter that the video was removed. This is just further proof that the inmates are running the asylum. Who in this company approved this to begin with? How was it even permitted to be released? There's zero accountability, until after the fact.

50 I call bullshit on this cartoon!  Those bears would totally eat the penguin.  Also how does a balloon get stuck on a cloud?

Posted by: Julescat at December 23, 2009 11:30 AM (cQzDI)

Oh come on, if we show respect to our fellow creatures they will treat us with respect.

Like this poor caged polar bear right here, I am going to show my commitment to interspecies harmony by jumping over the wall and giving the poor guy a hug.

/Jumps

Come here you big lug. What a big smile you have, and what pretty claws!

AHHH!!!! Stop eating me!!! Help Help! For the love of Gaia doesn't anyone have a rifle?!?

51 Sort of fitting that Build-A-Bear is using Santa Claus to brainwash kids about AGW.  Neither one really exists.

52

A pole is a geographic location, one that's not defined by the presence of ice.

53 "We did not intend to politicize the topic of global climate change or offend anyone in any way. The webisodes concluded this week with Santa successfully leaving on his journey to deliver gifts around the world. The webisodes will no longer be available on the site." Good enough for me.

54 Sort of fitting that Build-A-Bear is using Santa Claus to brainwash kids about AGW. Neither one really exists. CHILDREN [teeth dripping SANTA's blood, turning to the new voice]: CRUSTY must be purged. CRUSTY must be purged. CRUSTY must be purged...

55 Wasn't "The Day after Tomorrow" the name of that idiotic movie in 2004? The movie that showed global warming leading to a new ice age covering everything north of Kentucky? Which would include the North Pole?

56 Guess what? Granny is gonna die tomorrow because we didn't pass health care reform! She'll be gone forever and that's sad.

Posted by: Santa Claus at December 23, 2009 11:08 AM (z37MR)

Uh, didn't you get the memo Santa?

Granny is an evil, polar bear killing, global warming creating, health care spending useless eater.

We had to deny her request to exhale carbon dioxide earlier today.

On a positive note, Granny's surplus carbon credits allowed Al Gore to fly to Tahiti today to attend an environmental conference.

57 I'm trying to build "forced collectivization" and "Kulak" bear, can anyone help me?

58 We are fighting an enemy who is unethical and has shown a tendency toward social brutality. We fight like the Brits in the revolutionary war=easy targets. A tenuous environment to say the very least. If we resort to their tactics the media screams about the ethics we abandoned at the same time ignoring the ethics of the left. Our alternative media like Breitbart seem to be the best weapon.

59

Why do I have the suspicion that most Americans think "Arctica" is continent?

Yes, I confess, I'm incontinent. Thank goodness for Depends.

60 I was so sad I wasn't asked to make a guest appearance

61
That wasn't a mountain of ice.  It was a mountain of frozen elf semen.  Elves like to keep their hands "busy".  They sold "Mt. Spooge" for stem cell research so they could pay off the Chinese they had subcontracted the toy building to when the bottom fell out of the market earlier this year.

All this will be made clear in part 2.

62 What do you want for Christmas little boy? A Choo Choo Train? WTF kid those emit carbon which kills the planet. Get the hell off my lap you evil tea bagging flat earther!

63

Da fuck?? Could this be true??

Baracky putting off healthcare to focus on jobs??? Da fuck!!

 

64

Bah, when the kiddies start getting on you about Green stuff, just tell them that the TV and computer games take energy, so we will cut them off first.

The impulse will die out after a day or so of noodling around without entertainment.

65

What a great childrens story. I propose a reshoot of the ending;

Children: Santa you don't understand! While you denied the warming the ice is gone!! 

loud crying from all the precious childred...

Santa; STFU!

santa pulls out his bag of magic dust, spreads it on the ground and poof! A thousand year ice age commences!

cut away to Al Gore weeping and eating a sugar cookie..

THE END!

 

66 OT: POTUS is saying healthcare debate to be postponed until February to focus on economy?  WTF does that mean, and why?  Maybe some non-faked horrendous job numbers about to come out?  HotAir:
http://tinyurl.com/ya8s3ox

67

"Bah, when the kiddies start getting on you about Green stuff, just tell them that the TV and computer games take energy, so we will cut them off first."

Don't have a kid yet but God help whatever teacher that fills his head up with that bullshit. God help them.

68 Yep, CO2 is eeevil and using those awful fossil fuels kill the planet.

So kids, turn off your furnaces and heaters, quit using electricity and live this winter without any outside source of heat.

I'm guessing after a day or two of trying this they'll come around and realize they can believe their cartoons, or they can live.

Do you want to believe your liberal political betters?  Or do you want to live and not freeze to death?  Since this is a free country this is entirely the choice of each individual and I won't get in your way if you decide you want to turn your furnace off and freeze to death.

Oh, and no burning firewood either.  Cutting down trees is super-mega-bad.  Pretty sure everyone who thinks fossil fuel usage to heat homes is bad knows cutting down and burning trees is bad too.

So, you know, your call.  Freeze to death or use fossil fuels.  I'm not even going to bother pretending like I know what you should do, make that choice for yourself kids.

69 Hey! Why haven't they made my commemorative unicorn yet?

70 but but but....(whiping tears from her eyes)... but....20 people die every minute from not having da healthcare that Obama is trying to give to dem. Why would he wait to save dem?

71

how come the penguin says "so that's what a polar bear looks like"

I thought the penguin and polar bear worked on a project together.

72

So the Build-a-bear CEO is saying, essentially, moveon.org?  That's how I read it.  Prior to getting ripped for it, their business plan seemed to have been:

Step 1: Scare kids about Global Warming

Step 2: ???

Step 3: Profit!

73 Original Headline:
Build-a-Bear joins the AGW cult

Better Headline:
Build-a-Bear gets caught being longtime advocate of AGW cult, uses clever euphemisms to cover their tracks and pretend they're not.

74

POTUS is saying healthcare debate to be postponed until February to focus on economy?  WTF does that mean, and why?  Maybe some non-faked horrendous job numbers about to come out?  HotAir

Got to distract the populace from this barbed c*ck of Satan called healthcare.

 

LOOK!!!!! A NEW SHINNY!!!!!

75 Mommy I don't want a Barby Doll anymore. Those are capitalist tools of the patriachy to keep the gender roles intact and women in their place.

76 I wonder what the carbon footprint is of one of their crappy bears?  You gotta' figure that if they are made of cotton, there's the impact of all those evil cotton fields, or if they're made of synthetics, you've got those earth-killing chemical plants... then there's all that shipping to consider!  Egads! 

Let's boycott them to save Gaia. 

77

 but but but....(whiping tears from her eyes)... but....20 people die every minute from not having da healthcare that Obama is trying to give to dem. Why would he wait to save dem?

FIFY

78 You can't spell SANTA without SATAN.

Now, back to my Scrabble^tm game.

79 To be honest I think they are wasting their time with the kids. I remember our teachers saying the metric system was going to be instituted in the U.S. and we had better learn it now. That was in the 70's.

80 Which one of the elves looks like Mao?

81 Maxine has taken down the "webisode" but offers no appology. See here.

82

#76  Let's boycott them to save Gaia. 

You beat me to it, Y-not.

But even if Build-a-bears were killing Gaia, I wouldn't give a fig, since Gaia is a giant bitch.  She thought she could get rid of me by just asking Perses to take a swing at me...

83 man I cant even get a bear anymore without this crap....

they are getting a call, one more family who will not be shopping there

84

Damn, I promised we'd take our daughter there for her bday this weekend.

Well, I'll just have to be really rude to the poor innocent clerks working there.

85 Isn't it odd how white Santa and the elves are? The bears too. That is NOT a very diverse crowd, therefore we don't have to pay attention to their concerns or opinions.

86

It's still better than Disney. Using stars with their own private planes to make commercials telling my kids they can make a difference by turning off a light.

87

Letter from Maxine Clark regarding online webisodes, posted December 22, 2009

We did not intend to politicize the topic of global climate change or offend anyone in any way.

The cow is just trying to cover her ass after the fact. Everyone involved in this knew what they were doing. She didn't think there would be any opposition to this shit in Barry's brave new world.

At Build-A-Bear Workshop we also strive to encourage kids to help others by participating in their communities.

Yes and they can all become good little community organizers.

88

 " My point was the post should include an update to the effect that the goofball CEO corrected her original error and removed the moronic video"  Posted by: SAHMmy at December 23, 2009 11:23

...and fired the Junior Commissar within her organization who came up with the stupid propaganda in the first place.

Then we can talk forgiveness.

89 Right maddog, right.  It's better to pile on when people discover they've screwed up.  My point was the post should include an update to the effect that the goofball CEO corrected her original error and removed the moronic video.

Posted by: SAHMmy at December 23, 2009 11:23 AM (Dn+2j)

Yeeeeeeah. See that assumes posting the video was an "error". I certainly don't believe it was some innocent mistake and I doubt anyone else here does.

The more likely scenario is they posted this crap on purpose and then backed it off when they got bitched at for it. See the difference? This wasn't an "Oopsie! I pressed the wrong button and this ended up on our website. My bad!" This was an "Oopsie! We posted this 'to inspire children, through the voices of our animal characters, to make a difference in their own individual ways' (her words) and, since most parents don't appreciate people preaching at their kids, we managed to piss a bunch of people off and now we're sorry."

Which in my opinion makes them deserving of all the ridicule. If they'd refrained from pushing this asshattery in the first place and just focused on selling their bears to the kiddies, there would never have been a problem.

90

We did not intend to politicize the topic of global climate change or offend anyone in any way.

Funny but the topic of global climate change is purely political as a topic period; communist really.  

91

 Santa can move his jolly old ass to the South Pole then. This is a guy who circumvents the entire world in a single night delivering presents to millions of children's homes. The location of his headquarters is not a big impediment to his work.

 Hell Santa could even request TARP funds to defray the cost of the move.   

92 I've always been creeped-out by their window displays with the bears stirring up pots of bear stuffing.  Makes me think of Jeff Dahmer keeping bits of people all over his apartment.

93 Well I guess with all this warm weather we don't need that little blinky freak Rudolph around anymore.

94
Whats next for Build-A-Bear?Next year Christmas might be canceled because Santa is distraught about not being allowed to legally marry his long time gay lover.

95

I asked him what outfit he'd like for his bear and he said none, a camo-bear doesn't need a stupid outfit.

In a few years from now, when the Ho-ho-hobama Elves come around in their Rainbow-bus to take all the kids off to Diversity Camp, I predict they will get as far as this kid's house, and no further.

96

I predicted this very type of thing on another website I visit, in response to the Coldenhagen ads being shown on the run-up to the conference:

I'm waiting for them to come out with one that shows Santa's house and workshop collapsing into the sea, drowning the screaming elves while Santa narrowly escapes in his sleigh, and one tear trickles down his cheek like the Indian Native American chief in the 1970s anti-littering commercials.

Comment by angryoldfatman — December 13, 2009 @ 8:28 pm

97

Out, damned sockpuppet!

98

I'm trying to build "forced collectivization" and "Kulak" bear, can anyone help me?

The loss of one teddy is a tragedy. The loss of a million teddies is a statistic.

99 Oh, and maybe they can also sell "Build-A-Cave" so the kids can see where we'll be living in our non-carbon-emitting world of tomorrow.

100
#96


You would think with all those freaking elves they could manage to build a few boats

101 I want to thank the folks a build a bear for their very helpful advertizing campaign. It is now obvious even to my pitiful intelligence, that I don't want what you are selling. Nice work!!!

102

A pole is a geographic location, one that's not defined by the presence of ice.

Some sciencey flat-earther is trying to fool Mother Nature.  It's not nice to be a dickhead with Mother Nature, is it, boys and girls?  Mother Nature has a very big dickhead too, and his name is Al Gore.  Better watch out.

103 Next year Christmas might be canceled because Santa is distraught about not being allowed to legally marry his long time gay lover.

There's a joke here about elves, isn't there?

104

We did not intend to politicize the topic of global climate change or offend anyone in any way.

Jeebus, is this woman tone-deaf or what?

A) Politicize Global Cimate Change?  That's like threatening to lower the sophistication of the Three Stooges!

B) Offend anyone?  Poor baby, did you believe Marketing again, when they told you that Mommies and Daddies will find being taken for a foolish twits to be highly complimentary?

105 The error was to her bottom line.  She IS a capitalist in a down economy, afterall.

She did get the message.  I guess I am weary of people who think like I do beating the opposition over the head.  Helps them to remain convinced that we're nutjobs and extremists.

I guess if you want to keep flogging a dead horse, you have a right to do that.  But when you complain about something even after the something has been removed, you just look like someone wanting to bitch.

It's a free country.  For now.

106 The elves can take the white ships to the West and be done with all this AGW. At least I think that's how it goes.

107 Thanks for the updates... sorry it took me so long to get back to it. Stupid work on X-mas eve eve.

108 This is so stupid.  When the earth's polarity completes its shift, there'll be plenty of snow at the north pole, and a continent underneath it, too.  So Santa has to move - so what?  He's got a MAGIC SLEIGH, a bunch of indentured elves, and he gives most of  his shit away every year on Christmas Eve.  So really, how much work could moving possibly be for Santa, especially around January 1?

109 Wow, that's just about retarded.

110 I'm really sorry to see them stumble into this, as my four-year-old has one of their products that she cannot live without.

I'm doing my best to boycott GE, Apple, et al but these guys I might have to make an exception...

111

You would think with all those freaking elves they could manage to build a few boats
Sorry. The elves belong to the UAW and so aren't allowed to perform nonstandard duties not specified in their contract. (They will, however, be building some in their free time for the private use of their UAW stewards.)

112

a bunch of indentured elves,

We prefer the term "voluntary carbon repayment representatives" to the term "indentured elves".

113 I'd boycott them if I... you know... liked spending money to build teddy-bears. 

C'mon guys, you keep getting upset at people I can't boycott to join in... are the strippers doing anything wrong?  Jack Daniels?  Jim Beam?  The Crown Royal Company?  Marlboro?  How about guns?  Video games?  Computer hardware?   Give me something to work with here.

Nobody is going to believe that I was going to rush out and "build a bear", but for this incident.  If my friends heard I was building a bear they'd simply hope it was purely robotic and not blended with Dr. Frankenstein-style Taxidermy.

Well that's not true, all my friends but one would hope that... he'd head over to see if he could help if it wasn't pure robotics.  And maybe look to add flames or explosives... you know, that kind of friend.

114

Next time I'm at the mall I'm gonna leave a cup filled with ice outside of the Build-a-bear.  If everybody does it then the mountain can be rebuilt!!!

115 I just posted my dismay over at her personal blog site. But since: 1) the site is moderated, and b) the other posts on there are never more contentious than What Color Bear Should We Offer Next? I think it'll never see the light of day.

116 Say, ya know what this needs? The "Downfall" treatment. Wasn't there a link to a site where you could do that? I mean yeah, it's in English. But it might still be funny. Plus I need to make one from the Hitler version for a colleague.

117

Yeah, I figured the same thing, Zorachus, seeing as it is, obviously, a policed site.

118 Andy, I'm sure she's trying to keep it light over there, so I respect (for lack of a better word) her desire to moderate. She doesn't need me and my alcohol-fueled rage bothering the children. But it's fitting that someone who pushes out propaganda like that would also censor differing opinions. Anyone have Tim Robbins' number? My dissent is being chilled.

119 Might as well just show the kiddies South Park's Woodland Critter Christmas

I especially like the Blood Orgy... Hail Satan... Perfect for the Liberal Fascists

120 Can someone tell these idiot liberals there are NO PENGUINS at the North Pole? Penguins are exclusively in the southern hemisphere! Dumbasses!

121 My children love Build-A-Bear, but as soon as I saw this story I immediately sent them a email stating that we would never shop there again and to get political scaremongering out of their mission statement.  I'm sure others wrote as well and this is what can be accomplished with many voices complaining to a corporate entity.

Any time I see this kind of thing I email the company, even if I don't shop there.  We have to brush them back off the lefty plate with some inside pitches (letters & emails).  If they know we are watching them and we are vocal maybe they will think twice before pulling this kind of garbage in the future.  I encourage everyone to do the same.

122

NO PENGUINS at the North Pole

I think Aussie Tim Blair once linked to a BBC "news" page that had reported endangered penguins at the North Pole, too. "Dumbasses" is right.

123

All th fixin's for a BaB make the long, carbon-intensive voyage from China to your local merchandising sloth-pit, so there's that to consider.

I'd like to point out that perfectly viable bears are made by hand, every day, in Vermont.  U. S. A., mothavukka. 

And, if you can believe their rerun TV ads, they regularly cause spontaneous orjazm amongst the office help. Something you don't even ask of a Bilda Bare. 

124 Talent Agent:     Well.  That's a hell of an act.  Whadya call it?

Build-a-Bear:     "The Aristocrats"!

125 Thanks for the link--and for all who popped over and gave Maxine some grief.
I love how she had a separate complaint number for investors--bet that mailbox filled in seconds.
Merry Christmas all.
 

126 They deserve to end up as a cautionary tale told by CEOs trying to scare their marketing department.

127 I thought it was two days before the Day After Tomorrow.