Oh Jesus! Noooooo!

[rgraham666]

The plastic flamingo is dead!

Sob.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I find it hard to believe that only one company was making htose hideous things?

 

[angela146]

I find it hard to believe that only one company was making htose hideous things?

According to the article... "Union Products made 250,000 of its patented plastic pink flamingos a year in addition to other garden products."

I assume it was a design patent, meaning that they were the only ones allowed to produce it.

 

[Grushenka]

Mr. rgraham666: I am the foster mother to three pink darlings (rescued from a trailer park 'suburb' of Bakersfield, CA). I don't know how I'm going to break this news to them, but thank you for the warning, it would have been too traumatic had they heard it from the television.

Grushenka (newb)

 

[TheeGoatPig]

According to the article... "Union Products made 250,000 of its patented plastic pink flamingos a year in addition to other garden products."

I assume it was a design patent, meaning that they were the only ones allowed to produce it.

I figured as much. Other things are patented and still produced by multiple companies though.

 

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[Rumple Foreskin]

Gone from this realm, but not from our hearts.

http://dustmybroom.com/photodump/dead_pink_flamingo_111705.jpg​

Rumple Foreskin

 

[R. Richard]

Dead they may well be, however they will live on in [some of] our memories!

 

[Aurora Black]

Kill them all.

 

[rgraham666]

Mr. rgraham666: I am the foster mother to three pink darlings (rescued from a trailer park 'suburb' of Bakersfield, CA). I don't know how I'm going to break this news to them, but thank you for the warning, it would have been too traumatic had they heard it from the television.

Grushenka (newb)

*HUGS* Grushenka. I feel you pain.

So sad that such a tragedy bought you to this place, but welcome. *HUGS*

 

[TxRad]

Number 6 birdshot in a 12 gauge shotgun works wonders on them....

I told the ex i never wanted to see one in my yard.... came home from work to find four.... four shots later there was a lot of pink plastic bits left.....

 

[Zeb_Carter]

My grandmother, bless her heart, had two plaster flamingos in her back yard next to her birdbath. They started out bright pink but soon faded to a powder pink. I remember as a child playing with them...making them bounce back and forth. They were stuck in the ground on steel legs.

I miss those pink birds.

 

[carrie-on]

If the pink plastic flamingo is dead,then someone needs to come and tell his brothers and sisters that are stuck in the ground in front of a restaraunt in town. I don't want pink tears all over me,so I'm not telling them the news!!

 

[drksideofthemoon]

Call me a redneck, call me what you will, but I have two of the gorgeous, plastic birds in my backyard!! I'll tell you what, they are damned easy to take care of, no feeding, just a hosing down once in a while...

 

[Aurora Black]

Call me a redneck, call me what you will, but I have two of the gorgeous, plastic birds in my backyard!! I'll tell you what, they are damned easy to take care of, no feeding, just a hosing down once in a while...

Take me, cowboy.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Call me a redneck, call me what you will, but I have two of the gorgeous, plastic birds in my backyard!! I'll tell you what, they are damned easy to take care of, no feeding, just a hosing down once in a while...

My mother has two fo them on the front lawn, and we aren't any of those things we're supposed to be calling you.

 

[snowy ciara]

From the article

Featherstone and Plante are hoping for a resurrection. Plante has been seeking another company to buy the molds. So far, two companies in the U.S. and one in Canada have expressed interest.

Bearing in mind that I've been living on Doritos, Nyquil and Amoxicillin for the past week, I'm now wondering: If the molds are sold to another company, and they get resurrected, are they then undead flamingos or something? And what does an undead flamingo live on?

 

[rgraham666]

From the article



Bearing in mind that I've been living on Doritos, Nyquil and Amoxicillin for the past week, I'm now wondering: If the molds are sold to another company, and they get resurrected, are they then undead flamingos or something? And what does an undead flamingo live on?

The same as any other zombie. "Braaaains!"

 

[cloudy]

From the article



Bearing in mind that I've been living on Doritos, Nyquil and Amoxicillin for the past week, I'm now wondering: If the molds are sold to another company, and they get resurrected, are they then undead flamingos or something? And what does an undead flamingo live on?

Zombie flamingos.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

A guy a few towns over from me does a different sport with his flamingos every season in his front yard. A baseball game in spring, football in summer, basketball and hockey in the winter. All birds complete with helmets, bats, bases, goalposts, nets etc. It's hysterical. People actually stop their cars and take pictures.

 

[SeaCat]

Well Gawd Damn,

All of our Trailer Park Decorations are slowly going away.

First they did away with the Soda Can Tabs so we can't make those neat chains of them.

Then they started banning the use of Tires and Toilets as front yard planters. (They said the Tires are a health threat and they said the Toilets are just plain tacky. What do they know?)

Now they're doing away with our beloved Flamingoes. Good thing I have a bunch of them Stockpiled.

Next thing you know they'll ban Clotheslines.

Cat

 

[cloudy]

Well Gawd Damn,

All of our Trailer Park Decorations are slowly going away.

First they did away with the Soda Can Tabs so we can't make those neat chains of them.

Then they started banning the use of Tires and Toilets as front yard planters. (They said the Tires are a health threat and they said the Toilets are just plain tacky. What do they know?)

Now they're doing away with our beloved Flamingoes. Good thing I have a bunch of them Stockpiled.

Next thing you know they'll ban Clotheslines.

Cat

...and Christmas lights except at Christmas. What is the world coming to?

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Well Gawd Damn,

All of our Trailer Park Decorations are slowly going away.

First they did away with the Soda Can Tabs so we can't make those neat chains of them.

Then they started banning the use of Tires and Toilets as front yard planters. (They said the Tires are a health threat and they said the Toilets are just plain tacky. What do they know?)

Now they're doing away with our beloved Flamingoes. Good thing I have a bunch of them Stockpiled.

Next thing you know they'll ban Clotheslines.

Cat

At least there is always "Mary on the Half Shell".

http://www.trouserenthusiast.com/pics/0005.jpg

 

[MagicaPractica]

Why can't I bring myself to care one way or another? *shrug*

 

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