Is this really a thing? Do people actually buy outfits for concrete lawn ornaments? How do you know which teams they like? Is this just for geese, or can I get a merkin for my gnome?
Yep, they sure do! When I was little, one of our neighbors always dressed their goose depending on the weather, and season. I think they’re a little outdated now, but I still see them occasionally.
There’s a house down the street that has a pair of concrete geese and they dress them up in costumes for the season/holiday- male and female. When I walk my dog past their house, she growls at the geese.
I have a concrete alien (my avatar is his face), but he doesn’t sit outside because I don’t want those damn whippersnappers to steal him. He’s in my dining room, sitting near the window.
This is a big thing in the Mid-West…I remember when my Sister got married my Mother had a “wedding” outfit made for her goose to match my Sisters wedding dress….complete with veil and bouquet! They even had the Photographer take a picture of her by the goose….
#10, that’s terrible! Makes me a little embarrassed to be a Midwesterner. My neighbor’s geese’s clothes were stolen once and she drove around town, looking to see whose geese were wearing the clothes. She didn’t believe my brother and me when we told her they were stolen as a prank.
BWAHAHAHAHA! As a Northwestern Wildcat alum I just have to say I heartily disapprove of dressing up your concrete lawn geese, but for God’s sake if you insist on dressing your faux fowl, please leave my beloved alma mater out of it!
oh yes, this brings back memories. my mother has a goose, which she calls Fiona. mom doesn’t dress up Fiona anymore, but she had a variety of outfits for the statue when i was young — including a U of Michigan “M Go Blue” outfit for game days.
Yes, they exist. I got one when my roommate’s mother was cleaning out her house, and I took it because my roommate got a look of sheer horror on his face at his mom’s suggestion that I take it home with us. It came with several outfits.
I’ve never seen a dressed up lawn ornament. I’m from the West, where people put normal things on their lawns like dozens of giant bad sculptures, hundreds of religious icons, or badly out-of-style faux antique wild west/Southwest style half-rotted wooden crap.
I grew up in the midwest and in the rural little town in iowa that I’m from, though the older neighbors would have thought it “cute” to dress up the lawn ornaments, dressing it up in silly little outfits is begging the local high schoolers to steal it. Decorating lawn ornaments does not replace grandchildren you do not have.
It’s a rural midwestern thing. Multiple people in my subdivision have them, some dress them up.
Most hilarious is the fact that people will steal other’s lawn geese. On more than 1 occasion in the local paper there would be a report of “Lawn goose stolen in the #### block of any street. Goose was wearing a rain slicker.”
Popular in Southern Ontario too. I walk by a house with a plastic dressed goose every day. We rented a house on Cape Cod in Massachusetts once and not only was there a dressed goose in the house, there was an entire drawer of outfits in case the current renters felt like they needed a change.
I grew up on Army bases and eventually married an Army guy. I’ve lived from Alaska to Savannah, Georgia (and places in between) and I never saw anyone dress up lawn ornaments till I lived here (Wisconsin). But so far, I’ve only seen the one that is just down the street from my house.
There is an “outfit on the month” club for your lawn goose. I saw an ad for it in one of my sister’s mother in law’s magazines. Couldn’t find a link online but google too me here: http://www.lawngoosedesigns.com/store.php
Our crazy neighbor has a yard full of crap, the most interesting of which are two duck statues. One is bending down, while the other is raised up behind it. Far too closely behind it. My husband refers to them as “the f—–ing ducks.”
Again..I feel completely stupified.
Who has a fake goose?
Who would dress a fake goose, if they DO have one?
And why???
Is she selling the dummy goose too with
the hideous outfit?
Holy fucking shit, to me – this is probably the craziest shit I’ve seen so far.
And THIS time I really think the
seller is certifiable.
archdiva: What department (unless you don’t want to say for privacy reasons, of course)? I worked there for almost 15 years (Computer Science & SESP). I knew some people who would have owned several of these embarrassing geese.
I have lots of stuff in my yard, but no geese with clothing. I have seen them, though. One of our neighbors has one, and she has named it Gertie. Gertie has lots of clothes. StudioRose, I was out walking once and had the unfortunate luck to stumble upon a pair of ducks in flagrante delicto. Surprisingly, it was the bizarre sounds they made that haunt me to this day.
I’ll add my experience to the chorus: growing up in Michigan, I delivered newspapers, and I distinctly remember one house whose lawn goose was always dressed in a different outfit each time I stopped by to leave a paper. I think they may have been same the folks who went completely overboard with Christmas decorations in winter.
Vile & Evil Debbie Downer
January 23, 2010 at 7:24 pm
I’ve never heard of dressing up lawn geese, or of even lawn geese. I admit to dressing my pink flamingos in little ghost costumes for Halloween, though.
This must be an obscure symptom of fluoridated water that’s gone largely unnoticed.
I’ve never heard of this before but this totally some shit I would do. I wonder if I could have goth/emo outfits made. Or steampunk outfits…with goggles. I don’t have a yard though. I’d dress my little goose up as an octopus on halloween and Jesus wearing a yamaka for Christmas.
And I also wonder what kind of people
bought these geese with outfits…?
She sold a few, and apparently someone in Italy
dresses up geese too…soooo crazy to me.
wow, i never heard of any of this before, either…
i have seen lawn ornaments, yes. my mom is even a repeat offender. but dressing up said lawn ornaments? nah, all her ceramic/plastic animals are nekked.
Oh, the caption I put there on that photoshop is for my Tweeps. I don’t normally post those on Twitpic and I didn’t want anyone getting the wrong idea.
I grew up in upstate New York. It was too damned cold most of the time to dress up a goose. They did , however, manage to put up those horrible plywood cutouts of women bending down showing their bloomers. God, I hate those things.
lawn geese? y’all, here in the deep south, a la tammirae-ville, the lawn is for storing your car that WOULD run if you had the cash for that one belt it needs and the old refrigerator (doors off of course, we’re country, not dangerous). and maybe a plastic kiddie pool, if you’re lucky.
but that’s ok. b/c we don’t dress up our lawn junk. y’all yankees crack me up.
My neighbor puts out an array of carousel horses all around her garden come springtime (here in Rhode Island). On special occasions, she seats Cabbage Patch Kid dolls on the horses. Fucking creepy? Yes. Cannot wait till Spring so I can take a pic!
#42 It’s yarmulke not yamaka. Yamaka is part of the scriptures of Buddhism. Or maybe you want part of those scriptures on Jesus’ head and not a kippah.
Recovering Crack Baby
January 23, 2010 at 10:29 pm
I think it would be fun to see this lady’s lawn.
We have a neighbor 2 sections over who is one of those hoard your lawn full of all the shit they make- a new show “Lawn Hoarders”(I’d Watch) anyhoo- they put a fucking wood wagon in the ditch and attached their mailbox to it- not only is it hideous but I feel sorry for the booze cruiser who swerves a little & instead of just going into the ditch, dies when they hit a mailbox the size of a car and built like a brick shithouse.
This makes me happy. Happy that I now have a reason to dress up my concrete lawn donkey. Now, I have to find clothes for him/her or make it myself.
Which is more sad and creepy: Buying the clothes, or making the clothes?
@ #80 You know, I’m actually even more fascinated now. I mean, it’s one thing to put a paper clip on a string to get on Regretsy. It’s quite another to build up a huge body of work and develop a persona across several web sites, and even do videos. In a way this is one of the most serious artists we’ve seen here. Not to mention the way she’s totally captivated everyone for days, and we’re STILL talking about her.
Oh, don’t get me wrong–I’m totally fascinated by HER…but her art work as Tammi Rae is not as compelling to me as it was before. Like, I would have totally bought a piece before as an ironic piece (yes, I’m a hipster douchebag) to hang on the wall (or just a hilarious piece to laugh at with people), but now I’m not as interested in buying anything.
Which makes her project that much more interesting. She’s one smart cookie.
My great-aunt Thelma had a goose on her porch that she dressed all the time. I think a few of my aunts had them, and our next-door-neighbor, and maybe my mother, but they were everywhere in Dearborn!
ahh, concrete geese. I’ve stolen the clothes off a few of those in my time. About 8 years ago they hit rural michigan HARD. Everyone had one of those effers. Every craft show had two people selling outfits for them. They were awful. And apparently there’s still a market for them. Wow.
Dressing the lawn goose was a popular activity in rural PA too. There was a family in town and we knew they were having “problems” when they left their lawn goose dressed in its Halloween outfit and jammed a Christmas wreath around its neck on Christmas Eve.
#87 sofacitysweethearts it is possible with a tame one. Even a tame one would be a little pissy but as they say you have not lived until you have had a goose expand it’s 3 foot wings and chase you down and bite your ass- hands whatever it can find. Highly amusing to watch happen to someone else but much better if it was all dressed up probably as Satan as they are his animals. I speak from experience we had a flock of them fuckers.
This is upsetting for 3 reasons, the first being the intense insanity of the lame piece of crap. The second is that my name is Julie and the third is that I am an alumni of Northwestern. Arrrgghhhh!
What these people are unconsciously jonesing for is a pantheon of minor deities, so they can dress up the statues and hang wreaths and lights on them, and have a festival or two every week.
In my Texas neighborhood no concrete geese, but we do have plywood yard butts, generally a male and female pair. I think do-it-yourselfers make them as projects.
I remember being very struck by these things when I visited friends in Missouri, especially the fact that the outfits rotated. I have seen them in New England, but rarely. The biggest mind-fuck was seeing a goose dressed up as the Easter Bunny. !!!???!!!
And to think, my husband is against us getting a small dog because he knows I’ll try to dress it up. I’m going to show him this so he can see just how much worse it could be than putting a sweater on a Boston terrier!
I used to live in rural lower Michigan in a “manufactured home community” and we had it all – dressed geese, bending-over ladies, gnomes, flamingos, plastic flowers planted in the ground, old toilets or truck tires used as planters, etc. etc. And my personal favorite, the plywood “Pooping Dogs.” (http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/6048217/2/istockphoto_6048217-no-doggie-doo.jpg.) So very classy…
#94 stantoro
I too have seen the geese dressed as the Easter bunny. I’ve also seen Pilgrims for Thanksgiving, witches for Halloween, stars and stripes for the 4th of July, etc. Church bazaars seemed to have at least one goose clothes crafter in my area. I actually knew families(2) that made those crappy plywood cut outs for supplemental income in PA and they had tables at EVERY craft fair, covered bridge festival, whatever hawking their wares.
****#95 TooManyCookbooks :
Our Chihuahuas HATE wearing sweaters. The girl will flail till she wiggles out, the boy will disappear and reappear without it, their offspring falls over as if we drugged him. And I think the German Shepherd would tear off my arm if I put one on her.
I’d HAVE to put clothes on my concrete alien to get my dress-up-something-cute fix. Especially since my kids started choosing their own outfits.
#68 herzeleid : #42 It’s yarmulke not yamaka. Yamaka is part of the scriptures of Buddhism. Or maybe you want part of those scriptures on Jesus’ head and not a kippah.
If I wasn’t convinced before, I damn well am now – you Americans are crazy! Lawn geese? Dressed for the holidays? What the fuck? I’m glad I’m here in England, with my tea, obsessive queueing and inherent sense of moral outrage coupled with eternal disappointment!
#91 fenrislorsrai :
This is still less creepy than the guy nearby that had his dog freeze dried after it died. He puts it out on the lawn on nice days.
Holy crap. People love their dogs here in West Hollywood, but I’ve never seen THAT.
My mom used to have 2 painted geese, and she dressed them up for holidays and stuff. One time a car ran through the yard and hit the house, and I heard the policeman say “Too bad it missed the geese…”
I had never heard of this either, but now that I’m looking at this site full of colorful clothes for these things…http://www.lawngoosedesigns.com/store.php
I’m thinking it could bring some color to this bleak desert I’m in. Would anyone here make me a few Regretsy outfits?
See what you’ve done?! I’m actually thinking about doing this now! *lol*
I thought at first this was for a real goose and I quickly imagined a person dressing up their pet goose. I thought that was really sad because my cat hates when I put this miniature sombrero I have on her.
#108 SoapyHo http://www.stuffedgoose.com/default2.asp
This site sells goose clothes, patterns, and cement or plastic geese. So you don’t have to hunt for a goose for your desert home. Of course if you live in a desert you may want to find a cement coyote and dress it up. http://www.comforthouse.com/coyotedecoy.html
Oh yeah! Little did I know coyote decoys are used to scare away geese! I’m getting one of these!
#98, if I had a concrete alien I’d probably be tempted to put it in all kinds of weird costumes! In college, I had a life-size concrete bust of Elvis that always managed to end up with a hat/lei/scarf/similar during parties. I still miss my dress-me-up King of Rock & Roll.
Cookbooks…I just saw an Elvis costume for one of those geese.
Hey Rowan! OMG! I have to have a coyote one! They are everywhere out where I live. I wonder what this might do to one of my dogs…he’s part wolf. *lol*
Confession…*lol* I am on many acres of sand. Boring brown sand. I somehow acquired this old row boat, with a hole in it. It is now brightly painted by 2 adorable kids and the boat is sitting in the middle of our so called roundabout driveway. And…I also have..well…
#110 janncri I have some pics of merkins on gnomes but I am too dumb to know how to attach them here. Anyone able to help me? This is my first post. I feel I know you all and I feel so dirty at the same time. Is that bad?
#121 clevercat: you can load your pictures to a photo hosting site, such as photobucket or flick, then post the link here. You have to show us your merkin gnome!!!
there is one of the gnomes and one of the goose with her bird out. Please let me know what you think! And not that I have a thing against gnomes and have too much time on my hands I know that.
I’ve seen the post, read all the comments, and visited the goosey websites, and I STILL can’t believe people want to dress up their lawn geese. It’s like a glance into an alternate and _deranged_ world.
As for plywood cutouts of bloomers and dogs pooping, seems like a pretty obvious way to disrespect everybody while maintaining deniability. “Just kidding, don’t you have a sense of humor?” More mature people don’t have the desire to flaunt their butts, real or symbolic.
At the State Fair in New Mexico, you see this kind of stuff all over the place. Though we seem to have more bandanas for coyotes than outfits for geese. Also seems to run rampant in Texas (where my hubbie is from). We have a storage place with a big plaster dinosaur next to it and they used to put on a different hat for each season/holiday. At least until the stolen ones became too expensive to replace!
i lived in waco, texas for a couple years and there was an 8ft tall gorilla in the front yard of a home in a very affluent neighborhood. every holiday, they not only dressed it, but they painted it. easter: it was white with giant bunny ears. xmas: red with a santa hat. st. paddy’s day: brown with shamrock boxer shorts.
Vile & Evil Debbie Downer, FTW! That is Fan-freakin’-tastic! Angie, you think they may have had three or four of ‘em, that they just switched out?!? I wish I had a lawn now. . .
I know Simplicity had a commercial sewing pattern for lawn geese clothes because I owned it. Ised to own it. A lonnng time ago. I never used it–I swear! I never used it! I never even bought the goose!!!
I think it was the eighties…
#140 mickey- Really it’s OK if you owned a lawn goose or made clothes for it. In the greater scheme of things no one was harmed and you kept yourself busy. TammiRae would say:”Idle hands are the hellcats happy ground.”
#138 Snarkygirl-I totally think it looks like the coyote is hacking a lawn goose up too. But look at this sexy b*tch and imagine the dress up potential! http://www.comforthouse.com/lonehowler.html
the geese seem to have become passe here in Iowa, but out in the country you still see the “fat farm wife” bent over wooden cut out……..found a whole book of this kind of schlock on eBay if anyone wants to try their hand at making some
#139 snarkeygirl – no way. this thing was concrete and must have weighed a ton! i even saw them painting the red stripes on it for 4th of July one year!
One of those actually moved to Germany in 1995 – brought along by friends of ours, on a plane… and the goose is heavy. It is now named Gertie, owns numerous outfits (incl a firefighter one), and is one of the reasons our neighbors think my mom is crazy.
I noticed not as many people have seen my goose efforts as the gnomes http://www.flickr.com/photos/15639141@N02/4301748369/
please look closely at the bottom of frame. I don’t want to leave it up for ever in case others that know me start to think I am creepy or fixated. Pretty soon I will be making merkin rings or hats!
There’s a part of me that really hopes this person makes money off of this. If (s)he does, I’m going to dress up a beer bottle in a pair of Michigan State boxer shorts and wait for the hamiltons to roll in.
I am old enough to remember what life was like before the horrible goose-dressing epidemic struck. As I recall the geese came first. Actually concrete animals in general became all the rage, and geese were a common them in country-style decor, so I’m thinking it probably extended to concrete animals. Anyway the epidemic swept Ohio in the late 80s, early 90s. I had to move away to avoid getting caught up in it.
i grew up around this kind of kitchy crap my gramndma had a hand painted Snow White and Seven dwarves that my MOM ACUTALLY GAVE ME when my Grandma had to give up living alone- why I’ll never know!
As for the Geese thing, I hate ‘em I live in the pacific NW and they shit all over EVERYTHING and NEVER migrate anyhere the’re stupid, gross and shitty so why the hell would I want to dress one up??? Where is a shot gun when you need one?????
OMG. I posted this on facebook and within five minutes I had gotten this response from my former mil: “Yes it is real, I’ll try and find one for you. They come usually with seasonal outfit.”
My mom has one names Gerdie. She has a closet full of outfits, pretty much all hand made by these people. My dad even hand made her a little porch of her own that matched our house so she could sit in it. I’m sure the HOA loved that.
i suffered through three summers of goose-nonsense in the early ’90s when my mom got on board with the fad (which is surprising because we lived in cincinnati, where fads always hit 20-30 years later than they do anywhere else).
she actually made me lug the whole family (!) of concrete geese around the yard whenever she wanted to move them to new, embarrasingly-conspicuous garden homes (concrete geese and their concrete goslings are just as opposed to living in one place long-term as they are to static fashion choices).
thank goodness (for my back) mom eventually moved on to stupid handmade garage-wall flags, and year-round wicker not-Christmas trees. i hope she leaves me her Rolling Stones / Who LP collection, but chances are i’ll end up with a shedful of yard-fuckery.
There’s an old lady in my grandma’s old people gated community who dresses her concrete goose. Every time I visit my grandmother, I pass the goose to see what ridiculous outfit it is wearing.
January 23, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Yep, they sure do! When I was little, one of our neighbors always dressed their goose depending on the weather, and season. I think they’re a little outdated now, but I still see them occasionally.
January 23, 2010 at 5:38 pm
But will it fit my garden gnome?
I really need to see this in a room.
January 23, 2010 at 5:38 pm
Yup, our next door neighbor when I was a kid had a whole array of costumes for her geese, mostly centered around holidays or sporting events.
January 23, 2010 at 5:40 pm
I also love how the braids aren’t even remotely centered/the same length. Awesome!
January 23, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Merkin on gnome – now that’s yard art!
January 23, 2010 at 5:42 pm
Why let only humans have all the fun of being victims of fashion crime? Lawn ornament animals have rights too!
January 23, 2010 at 5:42 pm
There’s a house down the street that has a pair of concrete geese and they dress them up in costumes for the season/holiday- male and female. When I walk my dog past their house, she growls at the geese.
I have a concrete alien (my avatar is his face), but he doesn’t sit outside because I don’t want those damn whippersnappers to steal him. He’s in my dining room, sitting near the window.
However, I don’t dress him up.
But now I know where I can get a custom outfit!
January 23, 2010 at 5:43 pm
God, really? I must live a sheltered life. The only thing on my lawn is dog shit.
January 23, 2010 at 5:44 pm
Can I get some anime’ cosplay for my grandmother’s Saint Francis garden statue?
January 23, 2010 at 5:45 pm
This is a big thing in the Mid-West…I remember when my Sister got married my Mother had a “wedding” outfit made for her goose to match my Sisters wedding dress….complete with veil and bouquet! They even had the Photographer take a picture of her by the goose….
January 23, 2010 at 5:47 pm
Yes. Sigh. Yes, people dress lawn geese.
January 23, 2010 at 5:48 pm
helen convo the artist and dress those dog logs up! superbowl is coming ya know!
January 23, 2010 at 5:50 pm
#5, you inspired me to change my avvie
January 23, 2010 at 5:54 pm
#10, that’s terrible! Makes me a little embarrassed to be a Midwesterner. My neighbor’s geese’s clothes were stolen once and she drove around town, looking to see whose geese were wearing the clothes. She didn’t believe my brother and me when we told her they were stolen as a prank.
January 23, 2010 at 5:55 pm
BWAHAHAHAHA! As a Northwestern Wildcat alum I just have to say I heartily disapprove of dressing up your concrete lawn geese, but for God’s sake if you insist on dressing your faux fowl, please leave my beloved alma mater out of it!
January 23, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Geese? Passe. Where do I get a grass skirt for my pink flamingos?
January 23, 2010 at 5:57 pm
Yeah, I realized it was time to shape up my wardrobe when I noticed a lawn goose (actually living on a step to a porch) had better clothes than I did.
January 23, 2010 at 5:58 pm
oh yes, this brings back memories. my mother has a goose, which she calls Fiona. mom doesn’t dress up Fiona anymore, but she had a variety of outfits for the statue when i was young — including a U of Michigan “M Go Blue” outfit for game days.
January 23, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Yes, they exist. I got one when my roommate’s mother was cleaning out her house, and I took it because my roommate got a look of sheer horror on his face at his mom’s suggestion that I take it home with us. It came with several outfits.
January 23, 2010 at 6:07 pm
I’ve never seen a dressed up lawn ornament. I’m from the West, where people put normal things on their lawns like dozens of giant bad sculptures, hundreds of religious icons, or badly out-of-style faux antique wild west/Southwest style half-rotted wooden crap.
January 23, 2010 at 6:09 pm
I grew up in the midwest and in the rural little town in iowa that I’m from, though the older neighbors would have thought it “cute” to dress up the lawn ornaments, dressing it up in silly little outfits is begging the local high schoolers to steal it. Decorating lawn ornaments does not replace grandchildren you do not have.
January 23, 2010 at 6:09 pm
It’s a rural midwestern thing. Multiple people in my subdivision have them, some dress them up.
Most hilarious is the fact that people will steal other’s lawn geese. On more than 1 occasion in the local paper there would be a report of “Lawn goose stolen in the #### block of any street. Goose was wearing a rain slicker.”
January 23, 2010 at 6:13 pm
Once we had a whole series of goose theft/sightings. “Goose stolen from ____, found on roof of elementary school,” things like that.
January 23, 2010 at 6:18 pm
Popular in Southern Ontario too. I walk by a house with a plastic dressed goose every day. We rented a house on Cape Cod in Massachusetts once and not only was there a dressed goose in the house, there was an entire drawer of outfits in case the current renters felt like they needed a change.
January 23, 2010 at 6:22 pm
Lawn geese? Just wait until the real Canadas move in and leave dog-sized craps everywhere. You’re asking for it.
January 23, 2010 at 6:22 pm
I grew up on Army bases and eventually married an Army guy. I’ve lived from Alaska to Savannah, Georgia (and places in between) and I never saw anyone dress up lawn ornaments till I lived here (Wisconsin). But so far, I’ve only seen the one that is just down the street from my house.
January 23, 2010 at 6:32 pm
Ok, I had just seen this on another site, so i totally read this and the comments as living ducks that are on people’s lawns. I was so perplexed. Anyway she may want to expand her client base to people with real birds to dress up:
http://ihasahotdog.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/funny-dog-pictures-not-hotdogz.jpg
January 23, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Where’s the photoshop people? I’m not sure this will work, but here goes. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the billgoose.
January 23, 2010 at 6:37 pm
There is an “outfit on the month” club for your lawn goose. I saw an ad for it in one of my sister’s mother in law’s magazines. Couldn’t find a link online but google too me here:
http://www.lawngoosedesigns.com/store.php
January 23, 2010 at 6:37 pm
Really?!! Wow, I suddenly feel less sorry for people who dress up their dogs.
January 23, 2010 at 6:38 pm
Our crazy neighbor has a yard full of crap, the most interesting of which are two duck statues. One is bending down, while the other is raised up behind it. Far too closely behind it. My husband refers to them as “the f—–ing ducks.”
Unfortunately, they do not have clothes on.
January 23, 2010 at 6:45 pm
I’m so glad her shop is smoke free – my lawn goose is allergic to cigarette smoke.
January 23, 2010 at 6:52 pm
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January 23, 2010 at 6:54 pm
Egads. I work at Northwestern. I’m just really embarrassed about it now.
January 23, 2010 at 7:01 pm
archdiva: What department (unless you don’t want to say for privacy reasons, of course)? I worked there for almost 15 years (Computer Science & SESP). I knew some people who would have owned several of these embarrassing geese.
January 23, 2010 at 7:02 pm
Uh, hi, my name is Helena.
Hi, Helena!
Um, I’m from the Midwest, and, er, I’ve seen the dressed concrete geese, too.
Thanks for sharing Helena. Admitting to the problem is the first step toward recovery!
January 23, 2010 at 7:05 pm
@pantsmonkey…I’m in Health Services.
And having grown up in the midwest, I’ve seen plenty of these things, too. lol
January 23, 2010 at 7:23 pm
I have lots of stuff in my yard, but no geese with clothing. I have seen them, though. One of our neighbors has one, and she has named it Gertie. Gertie has lots of clothes. StudioRose, I was out walking once and had the unfortunate luck to stumble upon a pair of ducks in flagrante delicto. Surprisingly, it was the bizarre sounds they made that haunt me to this day.
January 23, 2010 at 7:23 pm
I’ll add my experience to the chorus: growing up in Michigan, I delivered newspapers, and I distinctly remember one house whose lawn goose was always dressed in a different outfit each time I stopped by to leave a paper. I think they may have been same the folks who went completely overboard with Christmas decorations in winter.
January 23, 2010 at 7:24 pm
I’ve never heard of dressing up lawn geese, or of even lawn geese. I admit to dressing my pink flamingos in little ghost costumes for Halloween, though.
This must be an obscure symptom of fluoridated water that’s gone largely unnoticed.
January 23, 2010 at 7:26 pm
And if everyone is clothing their lawn geese, why is Donald Duck STILL PANTSLESS?!
January 23, 2010 at 7:27 pm
I’ve never heard of this before but this totally some shit I would do. I wonder if I could have goth/emo outfits made. Or steampunk outfits…with goggles. I don’t have a yard though. I’d dress my little goose up as an octopus on halloween and Jesus wearing a yamaka for Christmas.
January 23, 2010 at 7:28 pm
And I also wonder what kind of people
bought these geese with outfits…?
She sold a few, and apparently someone in Italy
dresses up geese too…soooo crazy to me.
January 23, 2010 at 7:38 pm
wow, i never heard of any of this before, either…
i have seen lawn ornaments, yes. my mom is even a repeat offender. but dressing up said lawn ornaments? nah, all her ceramic/plastic animals are nekked.
January 23, 2010 at 7:46 pm
how many people are likely to have a 26″ concrete goose anyway…
January 23, 2010 at 7:49 pm
The concrete goose craze hit about 15 years ago. I admittedly had a mini goose who wore a blue/white checkered sunflower and crow dress. With hat.
Fake arms (wings?!), however, is a new one to me.
January 23, 2010 at 7:52 pm
I see this shit all the time. I live around old people.
January 23, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Oh…. I must have missed that craze…
January 23, 2010 at 8:13 pm
It’s like an American version of Manikin Piss in Brussels.
http://images.travelpod.com/users/april.abate/2.1180238400.11-manikin-pis.jpg
January 23, 2010 at 8:22 pm
How’s this? http://twitpic.com/zhjx0
January 23, 2010 at 8:26 pm
I have a little golden Buddha in my bird bath. I wanna go out now and dress him up in a goose costume.
January 23, 2010 at 8:27 pm
Email her with my questions??
Oh I definately have some questions
January 23, 2010 at 8:40 pm
@lyontamer, geez!
I have a garden inhabitant, but he never dresses up
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1211/606523691_f2660ab0c5_b.jpg
January 23, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Hmm….no butt-goosing jokes yet…
January 23, 2010 at 8:46 pm
#51 He looks like Gollum.
January 23, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Oh, the caption I put there on that photoshop is for my Tweeps. I don’t normally post those on Twitpic and I didn’t want anyone getting the wrong idea.
January 23, 2010 at 8:50 pm
I grew up in upstate New York. It was too damned cold most of the time to dress up a goose. They did , however, manage to put up those horrible plywood cutouts of women bending down showing their bloomers. God, I hate those things.
January 23, 2010 at 8:53 pm
I would only buy this if it came in a manatee size, as I find the Florida manatee mailboxes quite exquisite.
January 23, 2010 at 8:53 pm
lawn geese? y’all, here in the deep south, a la tammirae-ville, the lawn is for storing your car that WOULD run if you had the cash for that one belt it needs and the old refrigerator (doors off of course, we’re country, not dangerous). and maybe a plastic kiddie pool, if you’re lucky.
but that’s ok. b/c we don’t dress up our lawn junk. y’all yankees crack me up.
January 23, 2010 at 8:55 pm
http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/images/blogimages/2009/04/02/1238717770-1lg3fancyladybum.jpg
This is what I am talking about.
January 23, 2010 at 9:00 pm
My neighbor puts out an array of carousel horses all around her garden come springtime (here in Rhode Island). On special occasions, she seats Cabbage Patch Kid dolls on the horses. Fucking creepy? Yes. Cannot wait till Spring so I can take a pic!
January 23, 2010 at 9:32 pm
#57 OMG! A neighbor of mine has those!
January 23, 2010 at 9:40 pm
#62 lyontamer :
#57 OMG! A neighbor of mine has those!
Yeah, so did my great-aunt. I hated kids saying she had a “butt” in her yard.
January 23, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Talk about a small target market.
I didn’t think there was any way to make lawn ornaments more tacky.
January 23, 2010 at 10:06 pm
#64- oh hun- we have only scratched the surface from the midwest
January 23, 2010 at 10:08 pm
Those wooden butts evolved to children in bibs with their arms crossed looking like they were in time-out and forever banished to the yard
January 23, 2010 at 10:11 pm
helen, i can make you a gnome merkin.
January 23, 2010 at 10:21 pm
#42 It’s yarmulke not yamaka. Yamaka is part of the scriptures of Buddhism. Or maybe you want part of those scriptures on Jesus’ head and not a kippah.
January 23, 2010 at 10:29 pm
I think it would be fun to see this lady’s lawn.
We have a neighbor 2 sections over who is one of those hoard your lawn full of all the shit they make- a new show “Lawn Hoarders”(I’d Watch) anyhoo- they put a fucking wood wagon in the ditch and attached their mailbox to it- not only is it hideous but I feel sorry for the booze cruiser who swerves a little & instead of just going into the ditch, dies when they hit a mailbox the size of a car and built like a brick shithouse.
January 23, 2010 at 10:41 pm
it has no face. why put clothes on it?
January 23, 2010 at 10:46 pm
#57 blondeweezie : Crudely painted no-so funny plywood cut out folk art!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9EOjizFxFA
January 23, 2010 at 10:46 pm
I used to have a neighbor that dressed up her goose that sat on her porch. she was a crazy.
January 23, 2010 at 10:57 pm
Hey, if we’re showing off lawn art…
This is my dad’s concrete cow. My mom got it for his birthday in ’07. It weighs about 600 pounds.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b80/psexypsychic/In%20America/DadsCow.jpg
He painted it because it was plain grey when he got it.
A month later, they gave me this (already painted) alien. His name is Edgar.
As I said, he’s indoors.
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b80/psexypsychic/In%20America/ALIEN
January 23, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Well damn. I screwed up my alien’s link. I’m still getting used to this netbook and the mouse touch-pad thingy I guess.
Here’s Edgar-
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b80/psexypsychic/In%20America/ALIEN2.jpg
January 23, 2010 at 11:01 pm
Put a saddle on that cow- let the kids have fun with it. No set of fake deer- another favorite up here.
BTW- TAMMI HAS FILLED HER SHOP FULL OF HER PAINTINGS
January 23, 2010 at 11:02 pm
This makes me happy. Happy that I now have a reason to dress up my concrete lawn donkey. Now, I have to find clothes for him/her or make it myself.
Which is more sad and creepy: Buying the clothes, or making the clothes?
January 23, 2010 at 11:04 pm
I know it’s a concrete goose with no feelings…but I swear I detect a look of humiliation on that poor goose’s face.
January 23, 2010 at 11:08 pm
#75 RCB: My daughters- who are now 16 and 20 (they were 14 and 18 in this photo).
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b80/psexypsychic/In%20America/girlsCOW.jpg
There’s tons of fake concrete deer around here. Usually the buck, doe, and fawn and once in a while, the poses get mixed up a bit.
January 23, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Regretsy, how I love you.
Unearthing creepy-ass subcultures I had no clue existed.
January 23, 2010 at 11:09 pm
Go Tammi/Vanessa! I was wonderin’ when she was gonna take notice of her sudden popularity…Suddenly, though, her art isn’t as fascinating.
January 23, 2010 at 11:11 pm
#78 Patty has been abuducted by an alien- OMGosh…….. Bah ahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
January 23, 2010 at 11:24 pm
@ #80 You know, I’m actually even more fascinated now. I mean, it’s one thing to put a paper clip on a string to get on Regretsy. It’s quite another to build up a huge body of work and develop a persona across several web sites, and even do videos. In a way this is one of the most serious artists we’ve seen here. Not to mention the way she’s totally captivated everyone for days, and we’re STILL talking about her.
January 23, 2010 at 11:31 pm
Oh, don’t get me wrong–I’m totally fascinated by HER…but her art work as Tammi Rae is not as compelling to me as it was before. Like, I would have totally bought a piece before as an ironic piece (yes, I’m a hipster douchebag) to hang on the wall (or just a hilarious piece to laugh at with people), but now I’m not as interested in buying anything.
Which makes her project that much more interesting. She’s one smart cookie.
January 23, 2010 at 11:33 pm
#71 leftfoot :
#57 blondeweezie : Crudely painted no-so funny plywood cut out folk art!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9EOjizFxFA
I LOVE Family Guy. Unfortunately, I have seen far too many of those lawn ornaments.
And the “memaw garden butt” has never been funny.
January 24, 2010 at 1:00 am
Here are some failed lawn goose outfits.
http://twitpic.com/zisiq
January 24, 2010 at 1:09 am
My great-aunt Thelma had a goose on her porch that she dressed all the time. I think a few of my aunts had them, and our next-door-neighbor, and maybe my mother, but they were everywhere in Dearborn!
January 24, 2010 at 2:07 am
I just want to see a real goose dressed in one of the get-ups. Is that a possibility?
January 24, 2010 at 2:24 am
ahh, concrete geese. I’ve stolen the clothes off a few of those in my time. About 8 years ago they hit rural michigan HARD. Everyone had one of those effers. Every craft show had two people selling outfits for them. They were awful. And apparently there’s still a market for them. Wow.
January 24, 2010 at 2:29 am
I want to see it with Regretsy fabric!
January 24, 2010 at 5:35 am
Dressing the lawn goose was a popular activity in rural PA too. There was a family in town and we knew they were having “problems” when they left their lawn goose dressed in its Halloween outfit and jammed a Christmas wreath around its neck on Christmas Eve.
January 24, 2010 at 7:18 am
This is still less creepy than the guy nearby that had his dog freeze dried after it died. He puts it out on the lawn on nice days.
January 24, 2010 at 7:22 am
#87 sofacitysweethearts it is possible with a tame one. Even a tame one would be a little pissy but as they say you have not lived until you have had a goose expand it’s 3 foot wings and chase you down and bite your ass- hands whatever it can find. Highly amusing to watch happen to someone else but much better if it was all dressed up probably as Satan as they are his animals. I speak from experience we had a flock of them fuckers.
January 24, 2010 at 7:38 am
This is upsetting for 3 reasons, the first being the intense insanity of the lame piece of crap. The second is that my name is Julie and the third is that I am an alumni of Northwestern. Arrrgghhhh!
January 24, 2010 at 8:03 am
What these people are unconsciously jonesing for is a pantheon of minor deities, so they can dress up the statues and hang wreaths and lights on them, and have a festival or two every week.
In my Texas neighborhood no concrete geese, but we do have plywood yard butts, generally a male and female pair. I think do-it-yourselfers make them as projects.
January 24, 2010 at 8:39 am
I remember being very struck by these things when I visited friends in Missouri, especially the fact that the outfits rotated. I have seen them in New England, but rarely. The biggest mind-fuck was seeing a goose dressed up as the Easter Bunny. !!!???!!!
January 24, 2010 at 8:47 am
And to think, my husband is against us getting a small dog because he knows I’ll try to dress it up. I’m going to show him this so he can see just how much worse it could be than putting a sweater on a Boston terrier!
January 24, 2010 at 8:49 am
I used to live in rural lower Michigan in a “manufactured home community” and we had it all – dressed geese, bending-over ladies, gnomes, flamingos, plastic flowers planted in the ground, old toilets or truck tires used as planters, etc. etc. And my personal favorite, the plywood “Pooping Dogs.” (http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/6048217/2/istockphoto_6048217-no-doggie-doo.jpg.) So very classy…
January 24, 2010 at 8:56 am
#94 stantoro
I too have seen the geese dressed as the Easter bunny. I’ve also seen Pilgrims for Thanksgiving, witches for Halloween, stars and stripes for the 4th of July, etc. Church bazaars seemed to have at least one goose clothes crafter in my area. I actually knew families(2) that made those crappy plywood cut outs for supplemental income in PA and they had tables at EVERY craft fair, covered bridge festival, whatever hawking their wares.
January 24, 2010 at 9:00 am
I can see that I’m missing out on so much by living in Los Angeles.
January 24, 2010 at 9:08 am
****#95 TooManyCookbooks :
Our Chihuahuas HATE wearing sweaters. The girl will flail till she wiggles out, the boy will disappear and reappear without it, their offspring falls over as if we drugged him. And I think the German Shepherd would tear off my arm if I put one on her.
I’d HAVE to put clothes on my concrete alien to get my dress-up-something-cute fix. Especially since my kids started choosing their own outfits.
January 24, 2010 at 9:37 am
Tacky but creative I guess…
January 24, 2010 at 10:08 am
#68 herzeleid : #42 It’s yarmulke not yamaka. Yamaka is part of the scriptures of Buddhism. Or maybe you want part of those scriptures on Jesus’ head and not a kippah.
Okay…google lead me astray http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=yamaka&aql=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
I wasn’t really committed enough to my comment enough to look beyond that.
January 24, 2010 at 10:18 am
If I wasn’t convinced before, I damn well am now – you Americans are crazy! Lawn geese? Dressed for the holidays? What the fuck? I’m glad I’m here in England, with my tea, obsessive queueing and inherent sense of moral outrage coupled with eternal disappointment!
January 24, 2010 at 10:19 am
@DebbieDowner–your “target goose” omfg
“…the guy nearby that had his dog freeze dried after it died. He puts it out on the lawn on nice days.”
That sounds like something from a David Lynch film.
Yeah…that little guy looks like Gollum, but he’s a gargoyle off Notre Dame.
January 24, 2010 at 10:26 am
(Off-Topic) The Spoonflower “What’s Hot” selection (under the “Shop” menu) is now all covered in Regretsy. Totally. Effin. Hilarious.
January 24, 2010 at 10:30 am
#91 fenrislorsrai :
This is still less creepy than the guy nearby that had his dog freeze dried after it died. He puts it out on the lawn on nice days.
Holy crap. People love their dogs here in West Hollywood, but I’ve never seen THAT.
January 24, 2010 at 10:35 am
My mom used to have 2 painted geese, and she dressed them up for holidays and stuff. One time a car ran through the yard and hit the house, and I heard the policeman say “Too bad it missed the geese…”
January 24, 2010 at 10:44 am
If your gonna do lawn ornaments do them right. If the geese aren’t at least 8 feet tall and weight a ton in a half, don’t bother.
January 24, 2010 at 10:45 am
Someone for the love of God PLEASE photoshop this onto a Skeksis (from the Dark Crystal movie).
January 24, 2010 at 11:14 am
#102 IscreamUscream:
“Yeah…that little guy looks like Gollum, but he’s a gargoyle off Notre Dame.”
The university or the cathedral? Did you steal it?
Freeze dried dog sounds like something you’d be expected to eat, like beef jerky. blech.
January 24, 2010 at 11:47 am
I had never heard of this either, but now that I’m looking at this site full of colorful clothes for these things…http://www.lawngoosedesigns.com/store.php
I’m thinking it could bring some color to this bleak desert I’m in. Would anyone here make me a few Regretsy outfits?
See what you’ve done?! I’m actually thinking about doing this now! *lol*
January 24, 2010 at 11:48 am
@Sudabaki–”Did you steal it?”
The French have my Interpol picture posted at every port-of-entry.
January 24, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Sorry, but I still can’t get past the merkin on garden gnome. Does anyone have a site that sells such? Or maybe I’ll just get some fucking ducks….
January 24, 2010 at 2:36 pm
I thought at first this was for a real goose and I quickly imagined a person dressing up their pet goose. I thought that was really sad because my cat hates when I put this miniature sombrero I have on her.
January 24, 2010 at 2:43 pm
#108 SoapyHo
http://www.stuffedgoose.com/default2.asp
This site sells goose clothes, patterns, and cement or plastic geese. So you don’t have to hunt for a goose for your desert home. Of course if you live in a desert you may want to find a cement coyote and dress it up.
http://www.comforthouse.com/coyotedecoy.html
Oh yeah! Little did I know coyote decoys are used to scare away geese! I’m getting one of these!
January 24, 2010 at 2:44 pm
#98, if I had a concrete alien I’d probably be tempted to put it in all kinds of weird costumes! In college, I had a life-size concrete bust of Elvis that always managed to end up with a hat/lei/scarf/similar during parties. I still miss my dress-me-up King of Rock & Roll.
January 24, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Cookbooks…I just saw an Elvis costume for one of those geese.
Hey Rowan! OMG! I have to have a coyote one! They are everywhere out where I live. I wonder what this might do to one of my dogs…he’s part wolf. *lol*
Confession…*lol* I am on many acres of sand. Boring brown sand. I somehow acquired this old row boat, with a hole in it. It is now brightly painted by 2 adorable kids and the boat is sitting in the middle of our so called roundabout driveway. And…I also have..well…
January 24, 2010 at 2:56 pm
nevermind. *L*
January 24, 2010 at 3:58 pm
you can’t leave us hanging, soapyho
January 24, 2010 at 3:59 pm
#110 janncri I have some pics of merkins on gnomes but I am too dumb to know how to attach them here. Anyone able to help me? This is my first post. I feel I know you all and I feel so dirty at the same time. Is that bad?
January 24, 2010 at 4:03 pm
okay not as dirty as when I saw that dred-thingy but close
January 24, 2010 at 4:13 pm
Damn! Look at the time! I’m off to work!
*whew*
It’s too embarrassing! *lol* You guys will think I’m wayyy off the deep end. Like more than you already do! *lmao*
January 24, 2010 at 5:11 pm
When lawn geese eat from the Tree of Knowledge …
January 24, 2010 at 5:31 pm
#121 clevercat: you can load your pictures to a photo hosting site, such as photobucket or flick, then post the link here. You have to show us your merkin gnome!!!
January 24, 2010 at 5:36 pm
ATTENTION- Level 1 photoshopping abounds!
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=38654021&ref=storque
Has anyone seen this gem?
January 24, 2010 at 5:44 pm
OMG I think i did it – try looking here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15639141@N02/4301748263/
there is one of the gnomes and one of the goose with her bird out. Please let me know what you think! And not that I have a thing against gnomes and have too much time on my hands I know that.
January 24, 2010 at 5:48 pm
I’ve seen the post, read all the comments, and visited the goosey websites, and I STILL can’t believe people want to dress up their lawn geese. It’s like a glance into an alternate and _deranged_ world.
As for plywood cutouts of bloomers and dogs pooping, seems like a pretty obvious way to disrespect everybody while maintaining deniability. “Just kidding, don’t you have a sense of humor?” More mature people don’t have the desire to flaunt their butts, real or symbolic.
THX, Saraf!
January 24, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Fleece for your geese!
January 24, 2010 at 7:20 pm
#109 drummingcraig, by your command:
http://twitpic.com/znd8x
Introducing the new craze – Lawn Skeksis.
January 24, 2010 at 7:29 pm
@#129
funniest. thing. ever.
January 24, 2010 at 7:52 pm
At the State Fair in New Mexico, you see this kind of stuff all over the place. Though we seem to have more bandanas for coyotes than outfits for geese. Also seems to run rampant in Texas (where my hubbie is from). We have a storage place with a big plaster dinosaur next to it and they used to put on a different hat for each season/holiday. At least until the stolen ones became too expensive to replace!
January 24, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Thanks Clevercat – I think you have found a home on Regretsy! This site never fails to make me laugh.
January 24, 2010 at 8:05 pm
i lived in waco, texas for a couple years and there was an 8ft tall gorilla in the front yard of a home in a very affluent neighborhood. every holiday, they not only dressed it, but they painted it. easter: it was white with giant bunny ears. xmas: red with a santa hat. st. paddy’s day: brown with shamrock boxer shorts.
no lie.
January 24, 2010 at 9:32 pm
@#129
….I want one. So, so badly!
January 24, 2010 at 10:19 pm
Dressed geese…”bend-over” ladies…silhouette cut-outs…fake children in the time-out corner…fake legs hanging out of the trunk of the car…
These are the things of which nightmares are made…
January 24, 2010 at 10:41 pm
I didnt realise so many people have geese in their front yard.
January 24, 2010 at 10:46 pm
well referring to my earlier comment at #52
Ok I’ve waited and its Monday and I have my email questions ready, as I’m pretty sure like “other’ serious artisans she doesnt do weekends.
January 24, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Hey #115 Rowan, That coyote looks like he’s hacking up something, doesn’t he?!? http://www.comforthouse.com/coyotedecoy.html
Maybe it’s a plastic goose (I can’t imagine it would be easy to digest)!
January 24, 2010 at 11:22 pm
Vile & Evil Debbie Downer, FTW! That is Fan-freakin’-tastic! Angie, you think they may have had three or four of ‘em, that they just switched out?!? I wish I had a lawn now. . .
January 25, 2010 at 3:45 am
I know Simplicity had a commercial sewing pattern for lawn geese clothes because I owned it. Ised to own it. A lonnng time ago. I never used it–I swear! I never used it! I never even bought the goose!!!
I think it was the eighties…
January 25, 2010 at 5:26 am
#140 mickey- Really it’s OK if you owned a lawn goose or made clothes for it. In the greater scheme of things no one was harmed and you kept yourself busy. TammiRae would say:”Idle hands are the hellcats happy ground.”
#138 Snarkygirl-I totally think it looks like the coyote is hacking a lawn goose up too. But look at this sexy b*tch and imagine the dress up potential!
http://www.comforthouse.com/lonehowler.html
January 25, 2010 at 7:38 am
the geese seem to have become passe here in Iowa, but out in the country you still see the “fat farm wife” bent over wooden cut out……..found a whole book of this kind of schlock on eBay if anyone wants to try their hand at making some
http://cgi.ebay.com/Making-Lawn-Ornaments-in-Wood-:-Paul-Meisel-(Paperback,-1999)_W0QQitemZ341374648974QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20100122?IMSfp=TL100122228006r20130
January 25, 2010 at 8:28 am
#139 snarkeygirl – no way. this thing was concrete and must have weighed a ton! i even saw them painting the red stripes on it for 4th of July one year!
January 25, 2010 at 9:44 am
One of those actually moved to Germany in 1995 – brought along by friends of ours, on a plane… and the goose is heavy. It is now named Gertie, owns numerous outfits (incl a firefighter one), and is one of the reasons our neighbors think my mom is crazy.
January 25, 2010 at 11:14 am
I noticed not as many people have seen my goose efforts as the gnomes http://www.flickr.com/photos/15639141@N02/4301748369/
please look closely at the bottom of frame. I don’t want to leave it up for ever in case others that know me start to think I am creepy or fixated. Pretty soon I will be making merkin rings or hats!
January 25, 2010 at 12:09 pm
#129 Vile & Evil Debbie Downer
You exceeded my vision! Amazing!
January 25, 2010 at 2:13 pm
I am just not done with this
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49247306119
Check out this facebook group. Here is their credo – Each Gnome Needs a Merkin-Coat
January 25, 2010 at 2:39 pm
There’s a part of me that really hopes this person makes money off of this. If (s)he does, I’m going to dress up a beer bottle in a pair of Michigan State boxer shorts and wait for the hamiltons to roll in.
January 25, 2010 at 3:19 pm
I am old enough to remember what life was like before the horrible goose-dressing epidemic struck. As I recall the geese came first. Actually concrete animals in general became all the rage, and geese were a common them in country-style decor, so I’m thinking it probably extended to concrete animals. Anyway the epidemic swept Ohio in the late 80s, early 90s. I had to move away to avoid getting caught up in it.
January 25, 2010 at 6:36 pm
Well here in Billericay,England we take your lawn geese to church every Sunday
January 25, 2010 at 6:37 pm
can i get a link for 500
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v350/talulah88/3966361561_f0e6576ecc_b.jpg
January 26, 2010 at 9:19 am
Please don’t feed thalidomide to the geese.
January 27, 2010 at 9:56 am
i grew up around this kind of kitchy crap my gramndma had a hand painted Snow White and Seven dwarves that my MOM ACUTALLY GAVE ME when my Grandma had to give up living alone- why I’ll never know!
As for the Geese thing, I hate ‘em I live in the pacific NW and they shit all over EVERYTHING and NEVER migrate anyhere the’re stupid, gross and shitty so why the hell would I want to dress one up??? Where is a shot gun when you need one?????
February 3, 2010 at 11:26 pm
OMG. I posted this on facebook and within five minutes I had gotten this response from my former mil: “Yes it is real, I’ll try and find one for you. They come usually with seasonal outfit.”
/blink
February 15, 2010 at 11:25 am
My mom has one names Gerdie. She has a closet full of outfits, pretty much all hand made by these people. My dad even hand made her a little porch of her own that matched our house so she could sit in it. I’m sure the HOA loved that.
October 16, 2010 at 12:35 pm
oh yes. it is unfortunately true.
i suffered through three summers of goose-nonsense in the early ’90s when my mom got on board with the fad (which is surprising because we lived in cincinnati, where fads always hit 20-30 years later than they do anywhere else).
she actually made me lug the whole family (!) of concrete geese around the yard whenever she wanted to move them to new, embarrasingly-conspicuous garden homes (concrete geese and their concrete goslings are just as opposed to living in one place long-term as they are to static fashion choices).
thank goodness (for my back) mom eventually moved on to stupid handmade garage-wall flags, and year-round wicker not-Christmas trees. i hope she leaves me her Rolling Stones / Who LP collection, but chances are i’ll end up with a shedful of yard-fuckery.
*sigh*
July 28, 2011 at 9:33 pm
There’s an old lady in my grandma’s old people gated community who dresses her concrete goose. Every time I visit my grandmother, I pass the goose to see what ridiculous outfit it is wearing.