At Last! I'm sure...

[lsanderson]

debgeisler can now sleep more soundly.

November 17, 2006
Op-Ed Contributor
In the Pink No More
By JENNY PRICE

Los Angeles

ON Nov. 1, just two months shy of its 50th birthday, the plastic pink flamingo went extinct. Or more accurately, it stopped reproducing, when its manufacturer, Union Products, shut down the factory in Leominster, Mass. More

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[supergee.livejournal.com]

We display three plastic flamingos on our lawn, thus proclaiming ourselves simultaneously transgreesive and tacky.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

And so another Sekrit Plot is foiled by the vagaries of life.

Y'know, Union Products went under despite the best efforts of Flamingo Montoya's Best Beloved. Yes, MCFI's wholesale purchase of flamingos by the gross was several years ago now. Sacred Oaths to the Fannish Deities prevent me from revealing to specifics of the letter A Certain Someone sent to Union Products inquiring after other merchandise we hoped they could provide. Alas, their shutdown means we'll have to look out of state (and perhaps internationally) for the needed merchandise.

For fannish values of "needed," mind you.

debgeisler may be sleeping more soundly, but the rest of fandom might be wiser not to. Some people have wholesale licenses and aren't afraid to use them.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Well, that was certainly mystifying.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Um, my friend Sterno's family acquired a bunch of flamingos for his yard last summer. Since he doesn't need them any longer, I can ask if they need to find a home.

FWIW, the flamingos aren't being produced any more, but the molds have been preserved. If you wanted to start up a new business ("Plastics."), this could be your chance.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

The factory may be history, but fortunately for plastic flamingo lovers everywhere, Archie McPhee still has them in stock. Get 'em quick, folks, or miss out on owning a little piece of history.

They have canonical rubber chickens, too. (Which, paired with snug-fitting stoppers, make highly amusing wineskins ...)