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National Pink Flamingo Day was created in 2007 by Dean Mazzaralla, the mayor of Leominster, MA, to honor Don Featherstone, an American artist most widely known for his 1957 creation of the plastic pink flamingo. These lawn ornaments have become a pop culture icon.

My flamboyance of flamingos approve:

I like John Waters, but it's one of the most disgusting movies ever made.

In one of the film's most infamous scenes, Cookie and Crackers have sex while crushing a live chicken between them as Cotton looks on through a window.

I'll pass.

Look at all the cute little flamingos

Meanwhile, some flamingos have been known to subsist in a chlorinated water environment.

Tampa International Airport’s famed flamingo finally has a name (Jan 2023)

HOME by artist Matthew Mazzotta is a 21-foot floor to ceiling sculpture of a flamingo has been a popular stop for guest boarding and arriving into Tampa International Airport pictured on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022 in Tampa.

After more than 65,000 entries and 37,000 votes from around the world, the 21-foot flamingo sculpture at Tampa International Airport finally has a name: Phoebe.

Dang, I was holding out for Flamy McFlamface.

I've been trying to convince my wife to take a ride over there to look at Phoebe, but I think she's afraid I'd try to sneak it out to our car

Is that a raccoon?

jztemple2 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 9:36 pm Is that a raccoon?

Assuming you are asking a serious question, it's a red panda.

Red “panda”, which “modern genetic evidence places it in close affinity with raccoons, weasels, and skunks”

TheMix wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 9:40 pm

jztemple2 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 9:36 pm Is that a raccoon?

Assuming you are asking a serious question, it's a red panda.

Yes, it was a serious question, but let's not get carried away and assume in the future that I might be asking more serious questions. It did look like a weird raccoon.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 9:41 pm Red “panda”, which “modern genetic evidence places it in close affinity with raccoons, weasels, and skunks”

Thank you. I just wondering if that red panda could get over that glass wall... although the more serious question is, would it even want to get over that wall?

The most disgusting John Waters movie ever. I'm surprised they celebrate it with its own day.

Sir Flamingo t-shirt

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2023 10:47 am Sir Flamingo t-shirt

Classy!

Also customizable:

Now I know what I want my wife to make me for my birthday!

I thought you might approve.

Perhaps a scaled-down version could be constructed.