Polar Bear Pants

[tongodeon]

My co-worker Sylvian is a very cool guy. He went to college for structural or mechanical engineering and loves talking about applications of different conctrete mixes, the unusual corrosive properties of aluminum, or innovative ways to dig a basement for a skyscraper without caving in the basements of the neighbor skyscrapers

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[rimrunner]

I've heard that polar bears are probably the smartest and most aggressive of all the bears. More than grizzlies, even, which is just scary.

[merde]

outstanding!

is he *cough* cute?

[tongodeon]

Hard to say. He's definitely not classically attractive but he's cute in a quirky "Wan' to 'ear about de time a dronk Inuit blew up my town?" sort of way.

[merde]

oh baby, send him my way! i could tell him about the time a drunk neighbor shot a hole through my house while cleaning his elephant gun!

fuck that "fuck american" shit. fuck canadian, that's what i say!

[merde]

also: http://www.chem.ucla.edu/~alice/explorations/churchill/bearsafety_smell.htm

[mskala]

I seemed to recall reading on an urban legends Web site that the old story about bears being attracted to menstruating women, had been debunked, so I looked into it. Turns out that according to this information from Yellowstone, it's true that there's no such evidence for black bears and grizzly bears... but there is scientific evidence for menstruation odours attracting polar bears.

Then of course, there's the standard Polar Bear Joke you've all heard: you can't outrun the bear, but you don't need to; you only need to outrun your partner.

Bear jokes

[creepyanonymous]

And then there's the one about how to tell the difference between a grizzly bear and a black bear: Climb a tree. If it climbs up after you, it's a black bear. If it knocks the tree down, it's a grizzly.

[mskala]

Stupid LJ not supporting editing of comments... I forget to include the item that was actually the main one I wanted to include in that: namely, that although pepper spray may be useful as a weapon when you're attacked by a bear, it should not be used as a repellant (the way many people try to) because it actually attracts bears.

[matrushkaka]

My father was in the Coast Guard. In 1957, he was aboard the USCGC Spar, which along with the USCGC Storis and Bramble completed a historic mission - they completed the first deep-draft traverse of the Northwest Passage, and were the first vessels to circumnavigate the North American continent; they started in Newport, RI, went south through the Panama Canal, north to Alaska, across the Passage, and back to RI

[lexica510]

For anyone who's in or near Oakland, if you want to get an up-close-and-personal appreciation of how omigodBIG a polar bear is, visit the East Bay Restaurant Supply store (roughly Oak and 4th St., I think - next to 880, on the east side). They have a stuffed & mounted polar bear in a case in their lobby. Very impressive, although I'm still unclear on the connection between bears and kitchen supplies...

[xtingu]

Ya know, the polar bear sous chef. All the big restaurants have 'em nowadays.

[tongodeon]

If the East Bay Resturant Supply Store ends up being featured in Lost I will congradulate the farsighted thinking of the writers.

[omarius]

We 'Merkins hunger for more Baffin Island stories!

[merde]

yeah, get this guy a livejournal.

hey, i wonder if there are any lj'ers there... searching...

what do you know? 39 lj'ers in Nunavut.