October 29, 2006
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Plastic Flamingo
The plastic flamingo may be gone forever.
The company that produced the original version of the plastic flamingo is going out of business on Nov 1. Horsesrmylifeald sent me this link: http://www.charter.net/news/read.php?ps=1014&id=13199573&_LT=HOME_LARSDCCI1_UNEWS
Would you want a pink flamingo in your front yard?
Comments (152)
Never!!
probably not.
I used to have one…
no. however i used to know a guy who’s parents had their WHOLE house in flamingos. you name it, it had a flamingo on it or in it.
YES
it would look weird, but itd be soo coool
haha. personally no.
but it wil be dearly missed.
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Sure, but I don’t have a front yard!
no. I can think of better things to decorate my yard.
I would buy one to keep them from going out of business.
I bet I could donate it to someone’s tacky front yard.
Businesses closing makes me sad…
nope. I’d like an apartment actually. No mowing!
I Would Like A Penguin. (fight Mental Illness Stigma)
If I lived in Florida. Maybe.
They make excellent shooting targets! They don’t break completely apart when shot. I love those.
No.
i wouldn’t want a pink flamingo anywhere close to my property…anyone for a neighborhood flamingo ban? But I guess it is sad that the company is shutting down…where/when did the craze start, anyway?
Umm, no, but I do like plastic flamingo’s because I laugh whenever I see one in someone’s yard.
no, never
I’d want millions of them.
lol no… they’re being replaced by gnomes
No, not for my yard. That’s sad that the pink flamingos will now be vintage though
Speaking of pink flamingoes, there is some company that will deliver a buttload to put on somebody’s lawn for a special occasion!
No, thank you.
Yes. Right next to the nome.
yeah!
re soonaquitter’s comment : you know, my office several years before i was hired decorated the path to the door in pink flamingos for a couple of ladies’ over the hill birthdays…..and it is still discussed a lot….they must be memorable!!!
Heck yes I’d like a flamingo in my yard!
In high school I remember a goup of my friends were talking about a band names. Someone came up with: Pink Flamingo Yard Sale.
I can’t believe they’re going out of business. It’s kind of depressing.
No, never. Hey to each their own, but I’ve always thought they were pretty cheesy. Them, and gnomes. Now, a few fake deer, rabbits, something along that line, I would do.
Not on my lawn. But I want a plastic flamingo.
Who in the world decided that it was cool to put a plastic flamingo on the lawn? I mean, I’m not criticizing the idea, I’m just wondering where it came from. It’s so *random*. Why not a plastic camel? Or a plastic koala bear?
hell YEAH… a ritual around here is to get 50 pink flamingos on your lawn when you turn 50… i won’t be 50 for 2 years, and have been waiting for like … 50 years!!!! and now you tell me i won’t get flamingoed after all????
damn. that sucks.
Personally, no, but I have a friend who’s obsessed with flamingoes and will probably be very sad hearing this news, lol =).
What exactly would the flamingo do for me? Um, no thanks.
I’ve wanted one my whole life.
I like to buy them and put them in other people’s yards. Ask BillBryant, he’ll tell you.
One of my best friends has a NINE FOOT flamingo in her front yard.
Regardless to say…
Good riddance.
I kind of just want one because most any business shutting down is sad, and because it would be the most random thing, me having a plastic flamingo in my yard, in the winter, in Michigan… and not even in the suburbs.
Nah……. but I’d put one in my backyard!!! I’ll have to start watching for them in garage sales………
uh, gonna have to go with a big, resounding NO on this one…
heck yes!
no
They can’t just do away with the pink flamingo, that’s like doing away with cheese. Ok maybe not, but seriously, it’s the pink flamingo!!
Hell No, Unless there were hundreds of them.
no.
I have been looking for them ever since I heard the news. They are all gone it is all so sad
Only a real one.
I don’t have a yard, I live in an apt.
I think of retirement communities in Florida when I see those things on lawns.
not really i see lots of people with it but i don’t see why *shrugs*
already have 2…but I collect flamingos, so that’s probably why
Yes.
My good taste tells me no… my Patriotism also tells me no… unless the Flamingo is holding a sparkler and an american Flag, but not to close or the flag could catch fire and then it would be more like an Al Qaeda falmingo…
heck yeah!
I wouldn’t want one personally. But I’m sure trailer parks across the nation will be devastated.
Haha, I might
Depends where I lived, I guess
Not a huge deal though
flamingos need love, too.
yar.
Oh most definitely. If I had a front yard.
Well, actually … when I put more thought into it, garden gnomes are MUCH cuter. My friend Chelsea has garden gnomes, nice stone ones, hiding all around her yard. So much nicer and less … pink and glaring than the flamingo.
Kind of too wierd for me lolz.
I’ve heard of working it into a fund raiser of some sort that you actually pay (rent) for them for a short time. I would consider renting pink flamingos… if it were for a good enough cause. haha
ohhhhh, not the pretty little flamingo’s!
they’re so.. beautiful..
i wish i had a whack of them.
i’d decorate them according to holidays and give them all names like bob and martha.
it’d be my own pink plastic soap opera.
tres sad that they’re going away…
They make a great prank. Ever heard of “flamingo-ing” someone?
Not in MY yard but I do love ‘em!
It depends on the area in which I live. If my neighbors would consider it artistic, then maybe.
No, but flamingo-ing someone’s front yard sure is fun.
Not in my yard. No way…no how.
If I had a beach house.
why yes. if i had a lawn. for my sims, i had flamingos on my lawn
I love them, but it would make it harder to mow the lawn…
on my birthday!
my mom is obsessed with them!
No.
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As a joke, yes.
I remember those things in Sims. I used to put like 859769847 surrounding the house and then have the people kick every single one.
Good times.
No my dog would eat it.
thats a hilarious picture
I’d first need a front yard of my own to NOT want one in it. How about a hot looking naked woman in my front yard? Now, that would be much better than a plastic pink flamingo. Don’cha think?
I don’t have a front yard. But I’m going to start hoarding these pink flamingos! Thanks for the tip!
In my back yard.
just for the fuzzy warm feeling, yes.
oh no!!! I dont have a lawn right now but when I do I will imeadiatly start collecting them.
I have two. They come out for special occasions….
uh….no…
not really…
I gave a couple to my little sister as a gag wedding gift.
thats ssssooo ssaaaddd(=
my family has this prank that we play we always put a flamingo in the yard of the family member that is on vacation.
like on time we went to nc w/ my grandparents[on my dads side] and my moms sister came over and put a light-y up flamingo in our yard(= it was kinda kool. lol. but those are plastic ones but we still get each other with those. when my grandma turned 60 we got 60 flamoingos put in her yard(= althou some of them were stolen. lol.
ah no………. but i like lawn gnomes………….
I see no reason to decorate my lawn in that matter. I would much prefer lion statues.
No. Someone put them on my grandfather’s yard a few months ago. He just took them down and put them in his garage… The dude who put them there wasn’t too happy.
No pink flamingos for this lady!
Buh-bye!
No, I mean HELL NO…………..Oh Hells Bells…………..
No, not for yard decor but if it was for someone’s birthday, then yea. Why not?
No, absolutely not!
Nope…
never
Oh great! I hope my neighbors don’t hear that-they’ll stock up!!
doesn’t hurt if i have one
My mother had a couple in her back yard. The hurricane destroyed them.
I have 2 light up geese already sitting on my front porch…
So having a flamingo or 20 would be fun. (And it might drive my neighbors crazy!)
Haaaa!
XxooxX
Jane
No!
NOOOOOOOO not my flamingoes!!!!! I love flamingoes…
LOL LOL
I woke up one morning and my front yard was covered with pink flamingos! LOL LOL It was a joke played on my son by his friends. They had put the flamingos in the yard during the night. We left them there all day and the kids came back that night and picked them all up. It was a hoot!
nope
I want a freakin’ army of them!!!
Maybe we need to use the power of the internet to save the plastic flamingos. We can’t let them go extinct.
Um no thanks.
No. The stupid neighbour children would just try to ride it and break it.
Yes, they are that stupid.
not my front yard. but i have one in my back yard, looking in my bedroom window.
ew! no! but i will misss those little guys!
No
I don’t have to put them in my yard. Others do it for me.
Front lawn, no…. back lawn, HELL YES!
NO!
Heck no.
Someone got rich off those gaudy things. Fun while it lasted, hope they saved some of the money.
Oh…my answer.
No.
Not so much in the front yard, but I do want one.
YES
Haha, yeah, I love cheap garden stuff. It’s cool. My sister has one that sings and dances to oldies.
I would be proud to have a flamingo family in my yard, if and when I get a yard of my own. For now, I have to bask in the glory of Mom’s flamingoes.
I have some already.
Bill and Ted…
…one day they will leave me and have an excellent adventure.
No.
As a joke duct-taped to my dorm door might be neat, but never in my lawn.
no, but in my backyard, yes.
Maybe if I was on crack.
yellow pants & pink flamingos are my life.
other companies will make them.
I want a whole flock of them.
Sure, why not? xD
no
YEAHH! Absolutely.
There was a camel table at the furniture store that I wanted. And the salesman was like, “You’d be the only person in Charlottesville with it…”
eww, No, those things are ugly and plus that is what red necks put in their yard in their trailer park!
No, but it makes me realize how much I take those tacky lawn decorations for granted.
They’re just one of those timeless things. =/
Not in my yard but in someone elses yard if they turn the big 4-0(40 pink flamingos) or 5-0(50 of them) or 6-0(60 of them) etc…….
Or another idea……..have 8 of them pulling Santa in a sleigh
Or gathered around a Nativity scene…
NOPE.
xD Not in my own, but I love seeing them in other people’s yards; they’re just amusing.
…Maybe that’s why they’re going out of business. o___O
I can’t imagine a world without those beautiful plastic birds!
on the Sims, i have like 100 of them in one of the people’s houses and its funy when you make them kick it
I’d rather not have plastic water fowl on my lawn.
Heck YES! I’m a Floridian! They’ll now just be traded on EBAY.
they are a bit tacky, but they are fun to see in other peoples yards.
Probably not, lol.
-KrIsTiN-
no, but maybe a plastic dragon-dinosaurous rex. XD
No, but I will miss the company! Poor flamingoes!!!!
nice site =)
peace.
Alexis
Tacky!
ewww no that’s for peopel who live in trailers!!! (white trash!!!) sorry if i offened any1!!!!
on the sim’s when I have poor familys!!!
not unless i’m in florida.
Yes,I mean it is so kitschy it’s cool.
YES