[TheForge] Re: Important Stuff / slightly off topic

Tue Feb 5 12:54:34 2002

I guess if your taste tells you to buy a PPF (plastic pink flamingo) it 
probably wont stop you from looking up its butt either.

Adam 

lama writes: 

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Phil Rosche <[email protected]>
>> It is awful quiet.  Maybe someone should bring up a controversial topic?
>> _______________________________________________
> 
> OK Phil, you asked for it, here's the real issue
> now facing the world of public art... 
> 
>     Pink Flamingo Villainy 
> 
>  Something sinister has been done to the world's preeminent icon of
>  the art and science of bad taste -- the plastic pink flamingo. 
> 
>  Don Featherstone designed the plastic pink flamingo in 1957 -- an
>  achievement for which he was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize some 39
>  years later. 
> 
>  Recently the manufacturer, Union Products of Leominster,
>  Massachusetts, altered the flamingo mold to remove the Don
>  Featherstone signature that has graced the rump of every genuine
>  Featherstone-designed flamingo manufactured since 1986. They have
>  been refused to answer inquiries from the public or the press. 
> 
>  On the scale of world events this is not important, but it is
>  wrong. 
> 
>  The Annals of Improbable Research (AIR) has teamed up with the
>  Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) to call for a boycott. Before you buy a
>  new plastic pink flamingo, peer at its butt. If you don't see Don
>  Featherstone's signature, go buy a used bird instead. 
> 
>  To see photos of (1) a good flamingo and (2) a mangled, de-
>  Featherstoned flamingo -- and for basic info about the boycott --
>  see <http://www.improbable.com/projects/mingo/flamingo-protest.html> 
> 
>  Please join the boycott! Please spread the word!
> dave m. 
> 
> 
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