Inflatable christmas lawn ornaments

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:32 pm

I hate those things.
Hate them.
I'm using the word hate here, and I don't use it often.
I hate inflatable whatchamahoozits in people's yards.

Clark Griswold would be proud of em, though.

DCrom · Post by **DCrom** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:33 pm

Nanohedron wrote:
jsluder wrote:I have to caveat my "destroy them all" vote. One house in our neighborhood puts out an inflatable "Vampire Tigger" at Halloween which I actually like. Sure, it's tacky... but it's Tigger as a Vampire! What's not to like?
Sometimes tacky is good.

I always wanted to cover my front yard with as many pink flamingo lawn ornaments as it could hold.

Heh. My parents have lived in the same cul-de-sac for about 30 years now - it was a new tract when they moved in, so they knew all the original owners.

For years, there was a single battered and tacky plastic flamingo that made the rounds regularly - whoever received it last would wait a few weeks, then sneak out at night to plant it on someone else's lawn.

They are the only original owners left, these days - all the others have moved away over the years. But I don't think the custom died until the last of them were gone.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:36 pm

fearfaoin wrote: Maybe a nice blow
up scene featuring the Oak King battling the Holly King to bring
the sun back? That'd confuse 'em!

Do it. Do it.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:42 pm

DCrom wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:
jsluder wrote:I have to caveat my "destroy them all" vote. One house in our neighborhood puts out an inflatable "Vampire Tigger" at Halloween which I actually like. Sure, it's tacky... but it's Tigger as a Vampire! What's not to like?
Sometimes tacky is good.

I always wanted to cover my front yard with as many pink flamingo lawn ornaments as it could hold.
Heh. My parents have lived in the same cul-de-sac for about 30 years now - it was a new tract when they moved in, so they knew all the original owners.

For years, there was a single battered and tacky plastic flamingo that made the rounds regularly - whoever received it last would wait a few weeks, then sneak out at night to plant it on someone else's lawn.

They are the only original owners left, these days - all the others have moved away over the years. But I don't think the custom died until the last of them were gone.

Now that's cool. Too bad, the passing of a tradition like that.

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:48 pm

I'd say they're a huge backslide in culture, but this is a world where Britney shows her good to the camera so, I guess we've been sliding for a while

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:52 pm

Lee Stanford wrote:That's it... I'm going to find the 70 foot tall Michael Flatley blow up ornament and have him step dance over those little plastic santas!!!

Oh, please don't do that. I think if given the choice, I'd rather have the santa in the snowglobe

Montana · Post by **Montana** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:55 pm

izzarina wrote:
Lee Stanford wrote:That's it... I'm going to find the 70 foot tall Michael Flatley blow up ornament and have him step dance over those little plastic santas!!!
Oh, please don't do that. I think if given the choice, I'd rather have the santa in the snowglobe

We could require that the ornament keeps his shirt on...

Post by **Nanohedron** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:58 pm

Across the street from my cousin's house, a neighbor wrapped his elm tree in red lights from base to branches. It looks like a huge artery.

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 5:10 pm

Every Who
Down in Who-ville
Liked inflatables a lot...

But ol' Tyler,
Who lived somewhere in Utah,
Did NOT!

Tyler hated those blowups!
They've ruined the season!
That's why Tyler gets angry whenever he sees 'em.

It could be they remind him of liferafts and shipwrecks.
It could be, perhaps, that his neighbors are rednecks.
But I think that the bitterest tear in his cup
Might be that he never could blow the things up.

missy · Post by **missy** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 5:14 pm

BWHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Fearfaoin wins post of the week!!!!!

Charlene · Post by **Charlene** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:50 pm

I think they're cute. It's only for a month or so anyway.

We don't have any, because: 1. They're too expensive. 2. I'm sure somebody would destroy it, just like they cut the lights on the outside tree last year, and 3. We don't have room to store it.

chas · Post by **chas** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:14 pm

Now, if I put a Little Ms. Pinky on my lawn, I'm sure the neighbors would kill me soon after my wife did. The only difference between her and these other things is, well, the others haven't been immortalized by Frank Zappa. Which doesn't count in their favor as far as I'm concerned. I'd really love to put an inflatable Billy the Mountain in my front yard, but it doesn't get enough light for Ethel, the tree growing off of his shoulder.

Lee Stanford · Post by **Lee Stanford** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:14 pm

Tyler Morris wrote:
Clark Griswold would be proud of em, though.

Dude I swear to god I'm watching Christmas Vacation right now!! My wife went down to check the laundry and I thought i'd check in here.

Amen!!!!!

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 9:42 pm

They just add to the way too much spent on yard ornaments that could be given to some worthy cause that actually helps people at this time of year, IMHO.

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 9:56 pm

Nanohedron wrote:
jsluder wrote:I have to caveat my "destroy them all" vote. One house in our neighborhood puts out an inflatable "Vampire Tigger" at Halloween which I actually like. Sure, it's tacky... but it's Tigger as a Vampire! What's not to like?
Sometimes tacky is good.

I always wanted to cover my front yard with as many pink flamingo lawn ornaments as it could hold.

Pink flamingoes are not tacky . . . they are classic kitsch.

Inflatable vampire Tiggers are ok. It's the inflatable snow globes that get me.

A woman living next to someone I know has an inflatable merry-go-round. It pumps up until it's full, then the motor switches over to making the thing go around. This chick has so much crud on her lawn and roof that it spilled over to next door on both sides, and she's had to run electric lines in from her neighbors' . . . and nobody can do laundry at night when it's all flashing, pumping, and spinning.

I only hope the things are so poorly made that they prove to be short-lived.

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