From: "John Oellrich" 

Mike,

I have a friend who lives in a large condo/townhouse development with the
usual restrictions about what can be done on the exterior of the unit. Two
years ago some other of Ray's friends started planting pink plastic
flamingos in front of his unit (normally after Ray had partied hardy around
a holiday or a birthday) and them spiriting them away a night or two later.
The first time Ray was in a complete panic knowing that the condo
association would take a very dim view of plastic flamingos. He called the
condo association and asked what he should do about the flamingos in his
front yard. They asked if they were alive. No. Well then just remove them.


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john

oellrich{at}earthlink.net


"Mike Nice"  wrote in message
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>
> Pulled by 8 tiny...WHAT?
>
>   http://home.att.net/~niceman/flamingos/WhatToMyWonderingEyes.html
>
> The story behind this one is that it's a few houses down the street from
where I work. It's in the
> upscale part of a small town. Several years ago one of the ladies on that
street went to a designer
> in another city and said "I have $x,000; please decorate my house for
Christmas". And so began a
> tradition called "lights on Main" with everyone decorating with Martha
Stewart style lighted paper
> bags lining the sidewalk and everything else you can think of.
>
>   The couple who lives in this house resisted every year. This year they
were told "There is no law
> that you have to decorate your house for Christmas, but you really do need
to decorate your house".
> Well, they decorated and I made it into a Christmas card -
>
>   (They won 3rd place!!)
>

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