Lisa Lisa, funny blog.  My parents have a couple of white ones if I am not mistaking.  Yawn.. time for bed soon!

Surely someone will launch a plea and protest!  I have a couple that were a gag gift from my kids several years ago.  Their legs won't stay put in this rocky ground, so they are usually just laying around.  

My neighbor accuses my cats of hunting them and leaving them dead.  No self-respecting cat would eat a flamingo

My mom has a couple on the front lawn to keep away the squirrels and other creatures.

Get this! I just read that some cities put bans on the pink flamingos, so they started producing blue ones!

This is SO funny!  I really love the pink flamingos -they are so awful that they are great. 

I've always wanted to move to one of those neighborhoods with a list of cc&r's a mile long just so I could break the rules and put them out on my lawn...

My neighbor, yes, in Minnesota bought one last year.  I nearly laughed until I cried.  She put it in the back where only she and I could see it.  Somehow it fit next to her brick patio.  She'll be sorry to know they have now become extinct as hers lost it's pink from the sun.  Maybe that's how white ones are made?

The pink flamingos have got to go! (In a humane way of course) to make room for the plastic cows

Moo

Hysterical!  I remember the first time I saw a pink flamingo many years ago.  I was astounded even then, but the plastic cow -- now there's an idea before its time, way, way before.

'Tis a sad day indeed! I have to wonder what furture archeologists will surmise about our culture when they uncover these millions of pink flamingos?

Jay Merton 

A home stagers nightmare in living colour!

On more than one "Sunday drive" I've nearly gotten whiplash doing a double take because of what...or how much, someone has put on their lawn. 

Funny post, Our favorite lawn ornament is still a horse....A Live One!

Lisa,

I have a collection of really tacky Christmas decorations.  This is one of my favorites.  Santa is almost as big as the small house that he stands in front of.  People do some amazing things during the holidays.

So Sad.....

We must start a Plastic Pink Flamingo Breeding Project IMMEDIATELY!

Ya know- I bet we could actually get government money..........

Can't tell you all the cracks people made at me when I moved from Cleveland to Boston then St. Louis in the 70s. I always thought pink flamingos were associated with certain Cleveland neighborhoods. So did the people making the jokes from other cities. Over the years it became cool to have them. I was shocked to see the last factory was NOT in the midwest!  Does this mean if you have one it's value increases like retired beanie babies did? GREAT post!

I love the pink flamingo! But now that I have seen them, I think I really love the Moo man cows:)

May the pink flamingos have fun wherever they go in their afterlife playing with our pet rocks. 

so does that mean the groups who have been doing 'flocking' as fundraisers will now have priceless eBay items in their sheds?  (if you don't have 'flocking' in your area, you wake up with 100 pink flamingos in your yard and to get rid of them you make a suggested donation to the group who put them there-and you can have them flocked to another house if you want)

We used to live in Minnesota. We had pink flamingos in our yard--even in the snow! At our moving sale, they were the first items that were purchased! Now, that we live in Florida, the pink flamingos are banned in our community. We're so sad that they are no longer being manufactured in the us---I'm sure they'll be revived in China and we'll see them back on the market.

Jay and Linnea Hanley

I won't use the phrase that we refer to in my area when we see them in someone's yard, but I'll say that they are not well received.

I take it this is an example of Supply and Demand at work?

Pink flamingos weren't bad. compared to some of the things I see now.

So Funny, As a native New Englander, I did not see  many of the aforementioned birdies, but i was truly apalled by my first glimpse of one. Tacky Tacky Tacky! was all I could think.

There was a nice house in NY not far from mine that had a garden of  plastic flowers lining  the front foundation. I cringed every time I drove by!

Now I am picturing an afterlife playground with pet rocks, pink flamingos and trolls!

When you compare the pink flamingos to the cows, I say the flamingo wins. As an owner of a bull dog I can say the similarity of they are so ugly they are cute is uncanny. I am also a fan of the happy hour signal.

Oh no!!!

What will we do now?  :)

Just reminds me of the nursery in the area that got in trouble several years ago for putting them out as displays in front of their property.  The end was that the city lost and they were allowed to display them at which point they went to being obnoxious about it and filled the grassy area in front of their business with them   Ah, justice!  lol

Thank you for all of the comments.  I'm sitting here just giggling.  Giggling at you guys, and what, on AR earns a star!  I sweat over a post and get two comments, and put up a post about extinct pink flamingos, get a star and loads of comments. This tells me this is a group in need of a good chuckle!!  Ya'll are too funny.  I suspect we'll see plastic cows before too long.  AFterall, I am in the midwest! Mooo!

No Pink Flamingos here in New York but I do get tired of the Gnomes. Oops, I hope they didn't here me.

Friends of ours gave us four flamingos this year while camping. I see that the company that sold them have gone out of business. Maybe if we hold on to them long enough they will become collector items.

Thanks Jay 

I have 2 pink flamingos in my back yard , but I forgot all about them, until this flamingo blog aired up. But really I think they are beautiful animals/birds.

This is the only story I remember hearing on NPR today. The little guys make an impact don't they? But this might be the perfect opportunity for Angus to moooove into the market!

My HOA was soooo restrictive you had to get permission to "pass gas".  I read the the list and discovered that about the only thing it did not list was pink flamingos...so I had a 6' neon pink wrought iron one in my front yard.  It has become the my new trademark.  I've traded in the chaining to a tree and the bra burning....GO WOMEN OF THE 60's!!!!  (besides, we need our bras now).

It is sad.  Very Sad.  Very very sad.  I've never owned one, but they've always given me a laugh.  I wonder if I can still find some before they become super expensive collectors items.

Several years ago on NPR they aired a story about a family who had a couple of the flamingos in their front yard.  they woke up one day and the flamingos were gone,  Over the next several months the family received pictures of the flamingos in front of various national landmarks, until one morning they looked out their front window and the flamingos were back.  They never did find out who took the flamingos.

Now that is a hilarious story.  Almost as good as the roaming gnome from TV.

I thought you were going to say they got ransom demand notes!

OMG!!!! this is sooo stupid...i love flamingos...there like my favorite animal and your gonna tell me that we cant put them in my freakin front lawn...your stupid you idiots!!