Large squirrel

These squirrels are at various locatons in Glendale Ohio. I go through this little suburb every day and finally decided to get a few snaps.

There was another one with glasses on that was an ad for an optometrist here but those images came out blurry.

[SIZE=1]always check the focus setting dummy[/SIZE]

I havent seen anything quite like them.

Apparently they are part of the Sesquicentennial Squirrelly Gig.

I did not make that up.

**GROAN** :)

I would have made up something far more clever.

Blame the Glendale City Council for a lack of imagination and overage of cutesiness.

First cows, then bears, then Mickey Mice, now squirrels.

There's going to be a shortage of large fiberglass mammals available to choose from if this keeps up.

Perhaps it's all part of a plot sponsored by MADD ...

"Damn. Look at the size of that fucking squirrel. It's the king squirrel. And it's mad at me. It's eye-ing up my nuts. No more whiskey for me."

DC has had donkeys, elephants, and pandas.

Bethlehem, PA has mules, and Baltimore had fish a couple years ago, and I think they're on crabs now ... we've had some recent threads on these.

Slang--check out Beavercreek, OHIO. They've got a bunch of GIANT BEAVER statues around the city for some anniversary or other (and they keep getting vandalized)....maybe I should just get a damn camera and take the pics....

Welcome to Ohio..:rolleyes: Thank God we at least don't have the Mothman Statue, WV took that honor, If you've ever seen this in person, you'll agree with me that it is the most rediculous/hilarious thing ever made out of 500 pounds of metal

I think its cool! I want one in my front yard!

I think I dated him.

Ohio just seems to have more of these kinds of things than the small, no where's ville that I used to live in.

The giant beaver thing sounds really funny. Vandalized? Who would have guessed?


Have to look at Elvis here. He's in Hartwell Ohio for those still looking for him.

Happy Monkey wrote:

DC has had donkeys, elephants, and pandas.

And perhaps.....smartasses? :lol:

Actually, I just saw a pig today. I don't know yet if it is alone, or if there will be more...

wolf wrote:

I think I dated him.

The one with wings or the one with the un–tucked t–shirt?

:love:

couldn't resist.

Seattle has Pigs. Pigs. I don't get it. Pigs?

footfootfoot wrote:

The one with wings or the one with the un–tucked t–shirt?

Wings.

Fellah in the untucked shirt is a little, uh, illegal.

I am clergy, but not catholic clergy.

I am clergy, but ...

funny:8.5/10

Excellent!

BigV wrote:

Seattle has Pigs. Pigs. I don't get it. Pigs?

Because of the Pike's Place Market Pig.

*Scratches head*

Aren't you from there?

Yesssss. It's the from here part of me that makes my head itch too, when I think of why I'd want to litter my city with pigs. I get the piggybank motif, but it's not like we've got stockyards or anything. It was a trip, they were everywhere. Maybe the jarring effect was intentional. They certainly got your attention. But each individual pig was just....out there. There wasn't a coherent Please give to the Market campaign. I don't know if that would have been better (prolly worse more commercialism).

There's a delightful history of guerrilla art here in Seattle. I wondered if this was more of it. There certainly were plenty of them. I just don't make the pigs=seattle equation without a little more background.

Herky On Parade

80 some versions of Herky, The University of Iowa's mascot. Enjoy...They were all over the place last summer. It was kind of neat.

Galactic Herky and Hayden Herky:

moorestown, new jersey has multi-colored, metal , dogs in the sitting position



link to the story behind "nipper"

Elspode wrote:

First cows, then bears, then Mickey Mice, now squirrels.

you can add whales and dogs to that
;)

Elspode wrote:

...Mickey Mice, now squirrels...

Mickey Mice? ... Mickey Mouses? ... Mickey Meeses? ... Mickey Mices? :eyebrow:

We have large penguins like that in Oklahoma, but we should have squirrels. Oklahoma is obviously much more suited to squirrels than to penguins!

The mythical Kansas Jayhawks on Parade
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2003/mar/23/motley_flock_of/

The Jayhawks are in a much better pose than our (copycat) Herkys. Everytime I saw one it looked like they were flipping someone the 'bird'. Always made me giggle inside.

Baltimore currently has a nasty case of the crabs.

Cutesy, cutesy.

Here's one that Cellarites might appreciate.

BeerSquirrel is cute, but I am totally digging the fact that FireSquirrel has boots on.

I wonder what the neighborhood association would say if I put one of those suckers in my parents' yard!

I can feel the soccer moms uniting against me for even having the thought.

Interestingly, when these are displayed as part of a community works project they are art. When they randomly appear on someone's lawn, they are really stupid crap.

Some town needs to do this with gardening assholes.

Has Hialeah, Florida done flamingoes yet?