If your flamingo doesn't have a signature on its bum, the terrorists have already won.

January 24, 2002 12:02 PM

If your flamingo doesn't have a signature on its bum, the terrorists have already won. Someone has secretly monkeyed with the classic plastic pink flamingo -- and outraged connoisseurs are calling for a worldwide boycott of America's beloved bauble of bad taste.
posted by stuporJIX (9 comments total)

now you've done it. you got me all nostalgic for the years i lived in spanishtown. the best damn neighborhood on louisiana.
posted by danOstuporStar at 12:14 PM on January 24, 2002

My flamingo is of 1984 vintage, pre-signature, though it has been specially modified with internal flashing Christmas lights. Classy.
posted by MrMoonPie at 1:35 PM on January 24, 2002

*grin* What a walk down memory lane. Back when I lived with my parents, in a very upscale *sticks nose in air* neighborhood, our neighbors couldn't stand the pair of flamingos prominently displayed in our front yard. One night, the flamingo mafia came and took them away...
posted by SpecialK at 2:14 PM on January 24, 2002

Uhr? If they were made for thirty years without the signature, then it's the signature that is unnatural and its removal is merely a return to the flamingo's natural state.
posted by kindall at 2:16 PM on January 24, 2002

AIR is a great zine...my family never had plastic lawn animals...but i used to get AIR newsletters thru a BBS many moons ago.

kindall...if this is an AIR-headed protest, it is half-joke.
posted by th3ph17 at 2:18 PM on January 24, 2002

I promise. I'll never buy a plastic flamingo, with or without a signature on the ass.
posted by crunchland at 2:28 PM on January 24, 2002

now you've done it. you got me all nostalgic for the years i lived in spanishtown. the best damn neighborhood on louisiana.

Not only the best damn neighborhood, the best damn Mardi Gras parade! I'll put the pink flamingos up against Bacchus beads anyday. (okay, okay, the Zulu Coconut trumps them both, but still...)
posted by ColdChef at 2:54 PM on January 24, 2002

Yeah, well, it would be funnier if it made sense.
posted by kindall at 5:30 PM on January 24, 2002

Cartoonist Berke Breathed, in mid-80s Albuquerque, violated a housing covenant by placing pink plastic flamingoes in his yard. He got back into compliance (though not the hearts of his neighbors) by painting the birds "adobe" tan.
posted by Carol Anne at 7:29 AM on January 25, 2002