Significance to those "shadows" in yards..

Have you been hallucinating?

BBB

tacky? you are indeed boorish.

Didnt know what they were called. Ive often een the black "shadows" of cowboys leaning against a tree or an animal. Most of these are quite tacky and should be avoided.
Pink flamingoes are tres cool. They are so retro looking especially in odd numbers gathered around something of visual interest.

We have cement geese on the front porch. My wife often dresses them in costumes .

I've never seen one and wasn't sure what you meant, so I looked them up lol. I found all kinds of 'em! This one was the funniest:

I think she's been smokin' that wacky tabaccy, or shrooms.

Oh!....oh I linkat, I didn't see you there.

Shadows, oh yeah, sure....I see shadows on my lawn all the time.

um.....what did you find out about "stars"

I prefer classy lawn decorations like these....

this silhouette of dys, right/



I think they must be one of the first things people learn to make in shop class.

Well that one I'd put up!

I am going to start looking at all the yards/houses, etc. and come up with some more weird questions.

Yes that is the one - the cowboy. Everytime we drive up to Maine or NH we see tons of this crap. Does someone really think these are cool?

In this town about 30 miles south of here, there are some really spectacular displays of bad taste. I had to office out of that place for over a year. Not a day went by that I didn't want to slit my throat.

I like it when someone can't leave well enough alone.

There's this house that has a nice white picket fence, very clean looking.

Now, I could maybe see a bit of whimsey, where the owner could put a wood goose neck/head out between 2 of the pickets (I never would, but I could see how someone living in this POS country town could do that.)

But Nooooooo......

They have to put at least THIRTY of these stupid looking things sticking out.

The first time I had to pass this house, I almost started crying, it was so awful.

The house next door had that fat butt lady bending over thing.
I'm not kidding.

Bad neighbor lol.......

But if it wasn't for these horrid displays - what the heck would we talk about.

The thing is - do these people really believe this crap looks good or do they like the humor in ruining the landscape.

I gotta get me one of these:



or

How about gnomes, which is what I am minus the beard and pointed hat... I was at the drag strip because my brother was a driver and mechanic for a Top fuel funny car team... My Sister in law said: Did you hear Mick hit an Elf??? Do you mean a gnome??? In my defense, it was pretty loud there...Not an elf; An Elk...

I think the correct term might be silouette.

You mean like this?

I think it can go either way.

My mother, and I'm saying this in the kindest possible way, had the most horrendous taste in, well. Everything.

More's the pity that she could have afforded nice things. She just really liked crap....and really thought it looked good.

Years ago, when I went home for a brothers wedding, my mother had gone on and on about some damn thing she had done in front of the house. It didn't surprise me when I got there, that her artistic expression had consisted of taking a plastic reclining deer, and one of those plastic swans with a hole in its back for flowers, and plunked them down next to each other, like they were in love. The crappy plastic flowers sticking out of the swans ass was really the cherry on the top.

Once she told me she had the front door painted this really beautiful color.

Oh yeah? What color mom?

"Oh, it's bee-you-ti-full. It's the exact same color as a Mylanta bottle."

I kid you not.



Personally, I would have gone with the pepto-byzmol

That isn't me again...If some one is using me for a model I want my cut, dammit...

See, call me tasteless or not, but I would put one of those mooning Gnomes somewhere in my landscape. Ihave several glades with chairs and stuff where one would look good. I have one Gnome whose leaniong on a rake and , when my wife painted it (in some yenta pottery class) she has the rake handle pinted a flesh like color so it looks like this little gnome is sporting a huge woody. Very cool.