[Magdalen] More screws definitely seem to be coming loose...

[Jay Weigel]

My former parish's youth group will "flock" someone's hose for a set fee at
certain times of the year. It's one of their fundraisers. They also sell
flamingo insurance in case one is flocked, which insures a swift cleanup :-)

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I was the happy subject of 50 birthday surprise Flamingos on my lawn back
> in the day.  Golly, over a quarter century ago!!!!!  A church youth group
> had nothing to do with it. :-D
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
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> On 8/3/2016 4:28 PM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
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>> One occasional custom in this area is for church youth groups to "sell"
>> flamingos at $1 apiece for birthday celebrations. Someone orders a number
>> of flamingos equal to the person's age, and then the kids plant them in the
>> recipient's yard under cover of darkness.
>>
>> Grace Cangialosi
>>
>> "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us
>> guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."    Dietrich
>> Bonhoeffer
>>
>> On August 3, 2016, at 4:21 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>>
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>>
>> In a message dated 8/3/2016 3:46:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> gracecan at gmail.com writes:
>>
>> That is  totally bizarre! Do you suppose he thought she was
>> plastic?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>         The (plastic) pink flamingo craze is everywhere.  It would be
>> interesting to find how this craze originated.  Being a John
>> Waters fan, I tend to relate it to his first color film, "Pink
>> Flamingos,"
>> but OTOH that film already uses plastic pink flamingos, so the
>> phenomenon must have started earlier.
>>   In any case, I have 50 of them in my garden and they are visible
>> from the street.  I periodically move the flock, much to the
>> amusement of passersby.  My Alma Mater has an annual pink
>> flamingo time when the main undergraduate mall is decorated.
>>   Just google Bascom Hall UW-Madison Pink Flamingos.  There
>> are plenty of pictures..
>>       David S.
>>
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