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  • LarryA: The Bear Hug is funnier, in the way that NK humor is “funny.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » My Favorite on That List of North Korean Jokes 2010

  • The Bear Hug is funnier, in the way that NK humor is “funny.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » My Favorite on That List of North Korean Jokes 2010

  • The Great Hug is a favorite, always liked The Phantom of the Opera's Friend and Cortez and Montezuma but Oh My! HA HA HA indeed.

    “Robin, who was supposed to be at Andover,...” 2009

  • But Amalah’s Daily Dose post about the Group Hug is not, technically, a Group Hug Post so much as it is a shout-out to the Group Hug – a very, very welcome shout-out because, um, Amalah.

    The Weekly Squeeze | Her Bad Mother 2006

  • He no longer talks of the need to understand young criminals, as he famously did in a 2006 speech, dubbed his "Hug a Hoodie" address by pundits in reference to the hooded tops often associated with teenage delinquents in Britain.

    U.K. Leader Blames Riots on 'Moral Collapse' Alistair MacDonald 2011

  • His perpetual headache was lack of funds to buy analytical equipment, but in the wake of the dissolution of the medical research center known as the Hug, the Parsons had given him an electron microscope, a Zeiss operating microscope, several other specialist microscopes, new spectrometers and a gas chromatograph.

    TOO MANY MURDERS Colleen McCullough 2009

  • As a teenager with autism, Grandin developed something called a Hug Machine, or Squeeze Machine, to calm her down when she was overstimulated.

    Liz Spikol: New Technology and New Clothing for People with Autism 2008

  • Joe Goddard sounds like he's having much more fun with his mate and fellow DJ Raf Rundell as The 2 Bears, labouring the gag somewhat by dressing as bears, employing a ghostly sample of The Teddy Bears' Picnic on the opening track here and giving the novelty house of their first single the title Bear Hug.

    Evening Standard - Home 2012

  • LONDON - It wasn't long ago that David Cameron launched what became known as his "Hug a Hoodie" campaign - an initiative born of a public outcry over Britain's ill-behaved youths, and one that ended in ridicule when hooded youths mocked the then opposition leader during a photo opportunity.

    FOXNews.com 2011

  • It wasn't long ago that David Cameron launched what became known as his "Hug a Hoodie" campaign - an initiative born of a public outcry over Britain's ill-behaved youths, and one that ended in ridicule when hooded youths mocked the then opposition leader during a photo opportunity.

    The Seattle Times 2011

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