[Magdalen] Creator of Cultural Icon RIP

[Jay Weigel]

Actually, I believe the flamingo insurance is not against being flocked,
but insures cleanup in the event one is flocked.

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> A source of income for the youth group of my former parish in TN...you can
> pay them to "flock" someone of your choice (place a large number of said
> cultural icons about their lawn in dead of night). They also sell "flamingo
> insurance, which one may purchase against being "flocked", so they come out
> ahead in either direction.
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
> wrote:
>
>> "Don Featherstone did not invent Phoenicopterus ruber: Nature took care
>> of that eons ago. But what Mr. Featherstone did nearly six decades ago — in
>> the process indelibly altering the landscape of midcentury America — was to
>> cast the creature in plastic and attach slender, rodlike legs for planting
>> it in the ground."
>>
>> Read it all:
>>
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/business/don-featherstone-inventor-of-the-pink-flamingo-in-plastic-dies-at-79.html
>>
>> (Not to be confused with the great 1972 movie of the same name)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jim
>>
>> "The enemy isn’t liberalism;
>> the enemy isn’t conservatism.
>> The enemy, is baloney." - Lars Erik Nelson
>>
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