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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:22 AM
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About the inflatable Christmas/Holiday yard thingies
I offer this thread as a place for you to vent or relish on this new *HOT* trend this year.

Let me say this first-you know those SpongeBob lawn ornaments (he is sitting on a wrapped package)???? Well from the side it looks nothing like SpongeBob ifyouknowwhatI'msaying ;-) and I think you do.
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Rising Phoenix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:23 AM
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1. I don't like them one bit...
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:25 AM
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2. Full frontal SpongeBob
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LaraMN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:28 AM
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3. Yeah, well WAY too many people have these damn things in their yards
YEAR-ROUND, here:


usually they're little girl-and-boy bums, though.

One house in my town is flanked by a plethora of pig cut-outs. They circle the entire perimeter of the house and many are HUGE. It's fucking sick.:eyes:
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:34 AM
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8. Oh gods, YARDBUTTS
x(
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LaraMN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:37 AM
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11. Yes! "Yardbutts!" I never know what to call them.
There's also someone not too far from my town that has a bathtub nativity in their yard all year. I know I'm not an expert on religion by any means but that just seems kind of heretical.:P
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:41 AM
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13. mmmm Northern Minnesota
How Kitschy!

I hate yardbutts, btw! I think they are so tacky...and they are usually a permanent installment in someone's yard. Have you seen the ones with the man standing with his hand on the woman's arse? Tres tacky!
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LaraMN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:43 AM
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15. But they're so CUTE and so CLEVER!
Ha ha! They're bending over! Like they're gardening! But they're just wooden cut-outs! Isn't that just genius?!:puke:
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jane_pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:41 AM
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14. Ha! Have you seen the one where the boy also has a hand reaching
out to the lady's butt?

:rofl:

SOOOOO lame, but they crack me up. Or the ones that also have the pet dog's butt?

:rofl:


Ah, people.
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LaraMN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:47 AM
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18. Our town is a bit too socially conservative for the ass-grab ones.
Lousy sense of humor and dirt-free minds....what a utopia I reside in.
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jane_pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:54 AM
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20. That's just wrong. Even here I saw Bush signs with grab-ass lawn people.
People need to lighten up.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:28 AM
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4. These have been the 'Hot New Trend' now for about 10 years
and I absolutely abhor them. They just have the words "Behind the doors of this home lives trash"
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:29 AM
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5. Really? They just are getting here to Va.
but then we are talking about Delaware aren't we?
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:33 AM
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6. Actually 10 years ago I was living in Pennsylvania
Although an annoying trend I see only in Delaware is people putting memorials to their dearly departed loved ones on their cars. It's like tombstones on fricking wheels
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jane_pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:34 AM
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7. It gives me great joy when they deflate because of the cold.
They've been around my neighborhood for a few years now--haven't seen this spongebob one yet though.
Mostly Santas and Frosty the Snowmen. I am not a fan.

I'm still waiting for a giant inflatable Santa-kneeling-near-baby-Jesus thing. I want it to be about 9 feet tall, and if possible, fitted with blinking lights too. Maybe some kind of music could blast forth from it as well. And it should rotate, so people in all directions get a chance to see it in its full glory.
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:57 AM
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21. The day that happens, I'm there...
...with a pitchfork. :evilgrin:
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jane_pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 11:21 AM
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22. Ha! Please let me come with! n/t
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:34 AM
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9. I have an eight foot snow globe with snowmen on my front porch
It really snows!!!!



Scrooge.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:35 AM
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10. Ha!
My wife said that she wanted one of those

We went on our own wacky light tour over the weekend.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:38 AM
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I use a snowman theme for Christmas because you can leave
it up for a while. I am too lazy to redecorate every month.
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Shine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:38 AM
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12. Sorry, I think they're waaaaay tacky.
just my opinion, of course.
:hi:
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wovenpaint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:43 AM
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16. Thanks for bringing this up
These have been around here for a few years now. Of course, freedom of expression is important to me and I'll fight for a person's right to display a SpongeBob lawn decoration (cringe).

That being said, why, oh WHY??? Some people have many of these displayed-at approx $50.00 EACH!

This year it's the polar bears in white lights-what do polar bears have to do with this holiday??? Except the drinking of Coca Cola?

So, I ask ask again....WHY??? What's wrong with a nice light display instead of these "store window" scenes?

Thank you for allowing me to vent.:rant:

*sigh*

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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:44 AM
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17. some are cool (no pun intended)
Someone in my neighborhood has parked an old Land Rover in front of their house and filled it with inflatable snowmen that they light up at night. I almost wrecked gawking at it
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Blue Diadem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 10:54 AM
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19. I don't care for the inflatibles because they just lay there in a pile
unless you run the power 24/7. I do have the old style plastic Christmas decorations. Over the years I've gotten many compliments from neighbors and kids..people who look forward to the annual display.

spppssst..they didn't cost all that much. I waited until they were markdowned after Christmas and even bought some from garage sales..took me years to accumulate them.
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mikeytherat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 11:38 AM
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23. The snowglobe. The inflatable f***ing snowglobe, complete with faux snow.
Now, normally, I do not advocate reckless use of pellet and/or bb guns in developed, suburban areas.

Normally...

mikey_the_rat
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