Flamingos

I think birds might be the most humorous class of animal life on the planet. Parrots talk (which is always good for a punchline), ducks waddle, geese honk, and penguins star in movies. But a flamingo just stands still and looks so strange and unearthly that you can’t help but smile, if not give out a bellylaugh. Look! His beak is upside down and his feathers are pink! That can’t be right! Can it? 

Here’s the straight dope on why flamingos are pink. Stanford University has a report on why the flamingo’s bill is upside-down. But who can explain why the Pink Plastic Flamingo (phoeniclpteris ruber plasticus) has multiplied so fruitfully over the southern half of the US? Our friends at Useless Information, of course!

Flamingo Flamenco (via Ursi’s Blog)

Gallery of Pink Plastic Flamingos in their natural habitat.

Watch the documentary Pink Plastic Flamingos: Ambassador of the American Lawn online at your convenience!

The Pink Plastic Lawn Flamingo is an endangered species, since some mysterious illness has affected them, as you can see on the right. No, really, the company that manufactures them, Union Products, is going out of business.

A Flabongo is a product shaped like a flamingo . At first I thought it was a horn, but decided it must be something to drink out of. The website doesn’t tell what it is. Is that a marketing mistake? (via Everlasting Blort)

Beers All Around

A man walks into a bar with a flamingo under one arm and a cat under the other.  He goes up to the bar and orders a beer then he asks the flamingo what it wants, the flamingo says "a beer."

Then he asks the cat what it wants and the cat says "a beer, but I'm not paying for it". 

They all go off and drink their drinks, 10 minutes later they are all back at the bar, the same happens again. The man orders a beer, the flamingo orders a beer and the cat orders a beer but again says "I'm not paying for it".

Anyway this happens a few more times the same way. By now the bartender's getting curious so he asks the man what's going on.  The man replies "Well I found this old lamp so I gave it a rub and a genie appeared, it granted one wish so I asked for a tall bird with a tight pussy.”

Flamingo Gallery

 

 

Thought for today: Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk. -Jack Handy

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Comments

[Skunkfeathers]

Applying the peculiar logic for which I am routinely derided, if pink elephants are the visual result of your average drunk's binge, are pink flamingos the visual result of an Xmas party at the Audubon Society?

[Walker]

LOL I had a good laugh thanks.
I used to have one pink flamingo in the garden and it had to be in there for 20 years and was orange by the time we buried it.

[Karen]

I had no idea why flamingos were pink, boy, I learn something new every day. (especially when I visit you!)

The cartoons were a hoot. Thanks for the giggles!

[Mamacita]

I am down to my last plastic pink flamingo but a few years ago, I yoked a bunch of them onto Santa's sleigh for a Christmas lawn display. They performed admirably. I love the Parrot sketch from "Monty Python," one of my favorites of theirs of all time. Thanks!

[Anita]

Miss C., loved the flamingo joke. That's why I never rub lamps when I find them on the beach.

[Senor]

Tall bird with a tight pussy, pretty funny.