[OT] garden gnomes...

rdouglass · #1 June 25th, 2003, 08:06 PM

I heard recently (can't remember the source) that there are 10 times as many pLastic lawn flamingos as there are real flamingos in the US....not in my neighborhood!!!

Ragnarok · #2 June 25th, 2003, 08:09 PM

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.

Slynky · #3 June 25th, 2003, 09:39 PM

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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 · #4 June 25th, 2003, 11:52 PM

I once saw 8 flamingos pulling Santa's sled.

Erax · #5 June 26th, 2003, 02:36 PM

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 · #6 June 26th, 2003, 02:38 PM

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 · #7 June 26th, 2003, 02:48 PM

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...