The Bear Hall of Fame
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GO bart bear
Bart kicks ***,I think a real animal and beloved member of a family should win.Not some made up cartoon bear who always says...only you can prevent wildfires????what the hell.cant say the message is off but this is a bear hall of fame,which in my mind should be for actual bears and not animated or people with the name bear.
Smokey the Bear
Smokey has my vote and has for the past 40 years
Bai is an awesome panda. She deserves to be in the hall of fame.
congratulations Smokey Bear - it wouldn't really be a Bear Hall of Fame without YOU :)
Smokey the Bear!
Bai is such a sweet and devoted mother. She gets my vote.
The Moon Bears, in need of rescue from a life of slavery to the Chinese and Vietnamese traditional medicine industry would be my vote!
How about some support for these Moon Bears who really do have an awareness story that needs to be told by MNN?
More info: http://www.animalsasia.org/index.php?UID=2J0NIOGTVCWA
Well, it's November 2nd, and I'm still able to vote. Bart the Bear is leading with 38%, Smokey the Bear is in second with 28%, and Bai Yun is in third with 23%.
What about Bear from BJ and the Bear (who wasn't a bear, but a chimp)?
Also, Smokey WAS an actual bear!
Go Smokey........Go Smokey
baiyun is the best!
Go Smokey Gooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!
Smokey Bear always will be my #1 VOTE!!! Go Smokey!
Bear Bryant was the best in his time! Now Jopa is the best! But I'm making waves...No pun intended!
Roll Tide!!
Bear Bryant was the best football coach of all time. ROLL TIDE
I think Bart should win, he was in some of my favorite movies.
Wildfire were running rampant across the country, and an icon was created...then that horrible NM fire left behind one small cub, clinging to a burned tree. The cub was rescued and the real Smokey Bear became the symbol of what can happen if WE are not careful with fire. He spent is life spreading the word that "Only YOU' ....His legacy lives on today. Go Smokey!
I was hoping the nominees would include the grizzly bear from the TV show, "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams"
Smokey Bear rocks! And he was real - found as a cub by the Taos Pueblo Snowballs, a fire crew, in the early 1950's! Go Smokey!
Aw, noone loved the Berenstains? those were awesome books!
The one the only fire prevention bear SMOKEY. I work for him and I preach his message "ONLY YOU..."
Paddington Bear!!
Actually smokey started out as a character and they found some bear to be him. not really the same thing.
Actually smokey started out as a character and they found some bear to be him. not really the same thing.
uuuh...Smokey Bear was a real bear
I hope Bart wins this b/c he was an actual BEAR, not a character. However, I agree that Gentle Ben and Knute (the polar bear) should be here! Also, what about Brutus, who was raised by a guy named Casey, from Nat Geo Wild?
Oh yes, Gentle Ben, Smokey the bear and Winnie the Pooh bear! They Will always be the BEST bears in the world!!!
Damn, I misread the link, thought this was the BEER hall of fame. :(
What about The Golden Bear, Jack Nicklaus?! The greatest golfer in the history of the game; Presidential Medal of Freedom winner; the quintessential family man (who certain other golfers fell embarrasingly short of becoming); philanthropist and advocate for children's health care; and good-will ambassador for sports and our country. List is heavy in fictitious characters. Would have been nice to add one more real person with real substance.
I'd like to nominate Bare ***.
I say a REAL bear should win!
...Which would narrow it down to Bart and Bai...and well...all Bai did was have babies.
So bart it is!
Bai Yun has done so much more than have babies. Her ability to be trained has enabled them to do important research that has furthered what we know about Pandas. She is one hero Mom.
Yes, Bai had several babies..and those babies are helping to re-plenish the dwindling panda population :-)
Bart the Bear was wonderful, and after watching his dosumentary, I loved him even more. Such a gentle, loving giant and a great actor.
smokey the bear...smokey the bear...
prowlin and a growlin and a sniffin the air..
he can find a fire before it starts to flame..
that's why we call him smokey..
that's how he got his name ..
GOOOOOO SMOKEY !!!
BART THE BEAR WAS IN MY FAV. MOVIE,' AN UNFINISHED LIFE' WITH MORGAN FREEMAN AND
ROBERT REDFORD AND THE SWEET CHILD, MISS GARNER AND JOSH LOGAN AND JENNIFER LOPEZ
Thanks for all the additional suggestions! Keep them coming. I love reading about everyone's favorite bears.
Agreed — I wish Knut was there. Not much polar bear love on the list this year, sadly.
We hope that if you do this again you will consider Hope. She was a very important research bear from Ely, MN, part of the WRI research bears. She was half of a 'mixed' litter that Dr Lynn Rogers has been studying with the goal of educating people about black bears. Tragically Hope was killed this past September 16th by a hunter.
I voted for Smokey because he has been around all of my life and teaches a very important lesson to children!
If you do the Bear Hall of Fame again, please consider having Hope the black bear (daughter of Lily) as one of your choices. She was known and loved world wide...a real bear as opposed to some of your choices this year...and was used in classrooms to educate children about wild bears. Thank you!
Although Smokey is my TOP choice, if Yogi makes the cut will BooBoo get to go into the Hall of Fame with him? I hope so - cuz Yogi without BooBoo just wouldn't be complete :)
What about Knut, the polar bear?!? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_%28polar_bear%29
Well, I guess someone is really stacking the votes now.
