[OT] garden gnomes...

[Slynky]

Originally posted by Ragnarok:
Awhile back here in my hometown this group of people, I think it was some church group would take 10 pLastic pink flamingos and randomly put them in peoples yards. So at any given time someone would have 10 flamingos in their yard when they didn't even want them. It was the stupidest thing I have ever seen done. I know some people even went out and threw the flamingos away. But I can't say I blame them. Thankfully we didn't get hit due to living 5 miles out of town.

Maybe some weird Version of being "toilet papered", perhaps.

[capnq]

I once saw 8 flamingos pulling Santa's sled.

[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by minipol:
You think garden gnomes are bad? There are people who put geeze statues (garden geeze? ) in their front lawn and dress them up. They change the clothes when a certain event arrives like 4th of july, christmas and so on.
These people *really* need help

Yeah, like we're in any position to judge others on their personal weirdness. Just look at the Phong's Head and Name Changing threads if you don't believe me.

EDIT - BTW, anybody remember Elf Bowling from a few years back? Elf, elf, baby....

[ June 25, 2003, 12:18: Message edited by: General Woundwort ]

[minipol]

Hehe, very true.
If never heard of Elf Bowling. I did hear about dwarf throwing however

[Erax]

We have a ceramic snail in front of the house (my wife got it as a gift). We don't exactly have a front lawn, so it's sitting inside a large vase beside the front door. She says she wants to put 'other stuff' in the flower boxes beside the garage, but thankfully there's no room there for gnomes.

[Growltigger]

I have a garden gnome. It is a granite carved statue of a gnome like figure urinating a la "Mannikin Pis"

It was a present from my brother who is slightly weird and pokes badgers for fun..

The gnome is kind of lurking in the herbaceous border but when I get my garden landscaped, I suspect he may get relegated to behind the compost bin

[tesco samoa]

When I lived with my parents... The crazy old german across the street ( sorry for sterotyping germans,,, not all of them are old ) had about 100 garden gnomes.... NOne were ever stolen.

Why. He had this huge deer.... That was the target... But it took about 4 people to move it...

At christmas he would create the Birth of Jesus with all the garden gnomes.... and then go griswal with the lights. It was rather disturbing..... People would drive from all over to see the display...

[Slynky]

I'll just bet people who have garden gnomes, pink flamingos, and other manmade infestations of brightly-colored pLastic and ceramic displayed in their yard are the same types of people who stand beside you in elevators and whistle as if they are the only person in the universe, sit in the cubicle beside yours and always use the speakerphone instead of the handset, sit right behind you in a theatre of 200 seats when 199 of them are empty, and park their shopping buggy on the middle-right side of an aisle while they stand on the middle-left side of the aisle trying to figure out if the 12-ounce can of beets costs more (or less) per ounce than the 16-ounce can does.

(ok, OK, so I'm having a bad day )

[Gryphin]

So Slynky, any other pet peeves?

[Loser]

Originally posted by Slynky:
shopping buggy

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That's an element of the southern dialect of which I was not aware. Got any more?