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                       Pink flamingos and burrowing owls
                                        
> The plastic pink flamingo may go the way of the dodo bird.
> 
> The iconic lawn ornament is on the verge of extinction after 49 years of
> existence.
> 
> Union Products Inc., the Leominster maker of the kitschy rendition of the
> long-legged tropical creature, is scheduled to shut down Nov. 1.
> 

“Not a leg to stand on: Plastic flamingos face extinction [1]”

Wow.

An American (if kitschy) icon is going away.

It reminds me of an idea I had. I wanted to run for the FAU (Florida Atlantic
University) [2] Student Government under the Silly Party, given the antics
the Student Government was going through at the time [3]. My plan was, once
elected, to buy thousands of pink flamingos and use them to form the FAU logo
on the lawn in front of the Administration building. After a month or so, I
would then sell off each pink flamingo as “an Official Florida Atlantic
University Pink Flamingo Logo Pink Flamingo” (yeah yeah, I know—the mascot of
FAU is the  burrowing owl [4]. Details, details).

It never got past the idea stage (and I never mentioned it to anyone) and now
now it'll never happen under any Student Government.

Pity.

[1] http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=163337
[2] http://www.fau.edu/
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2005/01/19.4
[4] http://www.owlpages.com/owls.php?genus=Athene&species=cunicularia

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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