# Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 24, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuzzy-wuzzy-was-a-bear/613893 "2012-02-24T23:28:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuzzy-wuzzy-was-a-bear/613893/1 "2012-02-24T23:28:36Z")
[Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.](http://i.imgur.com/fHlTV.jpg) Fuzzy Wuzzy is going to eat your face off for laughing at him. ---
**Author:** ![katie1341](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@katie1341](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katie1341)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuzzy-wuzzy-was-a-bear/613893/2 "2012-02-25T00:04:24Z")
:eek: What the fuck is that? ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuzzy-wuzzy-was-a-bear/613893/3 "2012-02-25T00:15:04Z")
[link](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1225042/Germanys-bald-bears-Fur-disease-afflicts-Dolores-baffles-vets.html) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuzzy-wuzzy-was-a-bear/613893/4 "2012-02-25T00:53:25Z")
> [@orcenio](#): > > [link](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1225042/Germanys-bald-bears-Fur-disease-afflicts-Dolores-baffles-vets.html) Does the Mail hire English-speaking copy editors? “She lethal claws are clearly visible”? “These is how Dolores would have looked”? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuzzy-wuzzy-was-a-bear/613893/5 "2012-02-25T01:05:01Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Does the Mail hire English-speaking copy editors? “She lethal claws are clearly visible”? “These is how Dolores would have looked”? I noticed that as well. I also thought it was odd that it said “Vets have been left baffled by the condition of the bespectacled bear” and “The spectacled bears have a thick, dark coat normally” in another. Not only that, IMHO (as a non-writer) ISTM it would be less clumsy to have said “This is what a healthy [type of bear] would look like.” ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuzzy-wuzzy-was-a-bear/613893/6 "2012-02-25T03:43:57Z")
That bear looks like something out of “Where the Wild Things Are.” ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuzzy-wuzzy-was-a-bear/613893/7 "2012-02-25T05:06:10Z")
Don’t feed the yao guai. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuzzy-wuzzy-was-a-bear/613893/8 "2012-02-25T20:11:48Z")
Awww, not so fuzzy! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuzzy-wuzzy-was-a-bear/613893/9 "2012-02-25T20:18:14Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > [Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.](http://i.imgur.com/fHlTV.jpg) At first I thought it was a guy in a creature suit. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuzzy-wuzzy-was-a-bear/613893/10 "2012-02-26T06:07:07Z")
The BRFO (Bigfoot Field researchers Organization) insisted one mangy bear in Pennsylvania actually was a [Squatch](http://www.bfro.net/avevid/jacobs/jacobs_photos.asp). ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuzzy-wuzzy-was-a-bear/613893/11 "2012-02-26T07:42:35Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > At first I thought it was a guy in a creature suit. Same, the rear leg looks like a human knee in a poorly-fitted bearsuit. But the other pictures look genuine. Just an unfortunate angle! And I don’t know about you, but I’m not used to seeing furless burs. ---
**Author:** ![MsJinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@MsJinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsJinx)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuzzy-wuzzy-was-a-bear/613893/12 "2012-02-26T11:06:53Z")
The St. Louis Zoo had a hairless chimp, but it didn’t look much different than one with hair: > **[Ashes, the Hairless Monkey](http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/ashes-the-hairless-monkey.html)** > > Ashes is a 13 year old chimpanzee that has literally no hair on its body. When he was born, Ashes had a beautiful fur, but by the time he turned one, he was completely bald. Looking at his arms I can understand why a chimp could easily rip a human's...