[Magdalen] Creator of Cultural Icon RIP

[Jay Weigel]

The same youth group also sells "rolling insurance" at Halloween. If you
buy it and your yard gets "rolled" (aka "TP'd") they will come out and
clean it up. That's a particularly nasty job if it rains.

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Jo Craddock <jocraddock at gmail.com> wrote:

> Our youth group started doing this a few years ago as an Epiphany season
> fund raiser. The most popular Mardi Gras parade/krewe in Baton Rouge is
> that of Spanish Town, a politically-incorrect, very edgy parade, that
> started in the eclectic neighborhood bordering the state capitol, so
> usually goes with a political theme. The mascot of Spanish Town: the pink
> flamingo. The City Park lake is filled with six-foot wooden pink flamingos
> near the start of carnival season, and it just grows from there.
>
> http://www.spanishtownmardigras.com/parade.htm
>
> All to say: the flamingos were in *high* demand, and we had several
> families disappointed that they *weren't* flocked, thus having the
> unofficial BR Mardi Gras mascot all over their front yard. In fact, this
> year, we had to set a three-day limit for keeping the flock in one's yard,
> and were able to charge additional fees for a longer period!
>
> Peace,
> Jo
>
>
>
>
> On 06/24/2015 4:50 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>> >>
>>>>
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>
>