Our flamingoes serve the purpose of guarding "Twinkie II" while we are away. They guard the outside premises while my wife's six large Pound Puppies guard the inside. Security doesn't get any better than this!
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Originally Posted by moosetags
Fred and ethel are our main Flamingos. They are the plasticc type with the wire legs. They are our daytime guardians. At night, we have Francine, our neon Flamingo.
Oh thats funny. I have camped with two Pink Flamingos named Fred and Ethel for 20 years. Those two have been through all styles and modes of camping and are now very happy to be in an Airstream.
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I posted them out in front of SilverToy one morning since I thought - "What the heck, they are cute! People will think they are funny and come up and talk to us about them. We'll get to know the folks as friends and it'll go from there.
Well, everywhere I go with those 2 birds, they pack the crowds with regularity. Up they go, and ten minutes later I am overrun with people asking every known question to man about them......
So I too need to know the origin on the Flamingos! The Forum WILL COME THRU!!!!!! I am sure of it....
Heck I like to position them in poses around the unit with tools and such. They are fixing it right???.... On not!
I'll bet my last dollar that they come around "since there is just the loveliest group of poeple that come around in these Silverry lookin thinggys." Animal attractionism!!!!!!!!!!!! The silver helps too!!! I think.
Not that this was any help in even the most tangential way..... but there you go non-the-less. Hope it help with a chuckle or 2.
Update, while at Jackson Center in July we bought a pair for our Airstream travles. We also have a set of Pink Flamingo lights for the awning. I also saw one that I wanted to get but haven't yet. It is a plant stand with planting tools in its wings. I have a link somewhere.
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It started back in the 50s.
Was considered yard art back then...not for your camper, for your house!
They became so tacky, that now they are so far out, there back in.
Now when used at a campsite is a sign of total relaxsation...
Your in a different state of mind...
A different world...
Not nessasarly the 50s, just not in the rat race.
A warning to all Airstream owners:
A mutant strain of the harmless pink flamingo has recently be spotted here in Michigan, They are 6 feet tall and glow in the Dark, So far no attacks on humans have be reported , but we are sure it is just a matter of time befor they attack. They currently seem to hang out around CCD and Vintage units at Metro Detroit Rallies. Better photos to follow.
There is a company in Atlanta that will come out to a "recipent's" house and install pink flamingoes on their lawn during the night. I think the cost is like $10/flamingo. It is a gag type thing like you would do for someone's 40th birthday or something. Anyway, the recipient wakes up the next morning with a flock of flamingos on his/her front lawn!
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