# Christmas lawn inflatables you'd like to see **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 16, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lawn-inflatables-youd-like-to-see/430258 "2007-12-16T22:43:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lawn-inflatables-youd-like-to-see/430258/1 "2007-12-16T22:43:59Z")
After I typed my contribution to the concurrent thread in this forum about Christmas lawn inflatables, I got to thinking. I ordinarily hate the things, but if someone came out with a Futurama Santabot inflatable, complete with machine gun, sleigh, and fire-breathing reindeerbots, then hell yeah, I’d get one. He’d look very impressive on our lawn, with the machine gun resting on his hip, menacing the passersby. What (not already available item at Wal-Mart) would you like to see in inflatable form for your lawn at Christmas? ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lawn-inflatables-youd-like-to-see/430258/2 "2007-12-16T23:37:28Z")
Not really an inflatable, but in the same spirit: About ten years ago, I used to have neighbors that put out a whole mess of those lighted wire reindeer. They put them right at the edge of my yard. I think they even moved, raising and lowering their heads. They weren’t all that bad really, but I got sick of seeing the same deer in the same place every Christmas. I really, really wanted to find a lighted wire hunter that I could set up in my bushes, drawing a bead on those damn deer. Never could figure out how to do it, though, and if I did I’m sure the HOA would have found some way to make me take it down. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lawn-inflatables-youd-like-to-see/430258/3 "2007-12-16T23:50:58Z")
My brother’s neighbor has some of those lighted wire reindeer, and my brother went out one year and stuck an arrow through the neck of one of the deer. IIRC his neighbor thought it was pretty funny when he finally noticed it. Of course, that may have something to do with the fact that my brother goes deer hunting every year, and when he gets a deer he usually shares some of the meat with his neighbor. If I ever did want to pollute my lawn with an inflatable Christmas decoration, I think I’d like one of Santa coming down a chimney into a burning fireplace. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lawn-inflatables-youd-like-to-see/430258/4 "2007-12-17T02:36:15Z")
A few nights ago, I walked my little dog at night. When she caught sight of a big plastic snowman, whirring and rocking slowly in the wind, she stopped in her tracks. I got her moving again, but she didn’t take her eyes off the apparition until we were well past it. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lawn-inflatables-youd-like-to-see/430258/5 "2007-12-17T03:42:57Z")
Inflatable humping reindeer. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lawn-inflatables-youd-like-to-see/430258/6 "2007-12-17T04:18:38Z")
Pinchas Zukerman. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lawn-inflatables-youd-like-to-see/430258/7 "2007-12-17T04:30:40Z")
Christmas Chuthlu? ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lawn-inflatables-youd-like-to-see/430258/8 "2007-12-17T04:37:52Z")
I read the thread title as “Christmas lawn **ineffables** ,” so Almighty Bob would be pretty spiffy. But I wouldn’t mind an inflatable Epiphany camel or three. The Wise Men don’t get enough love these days. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lawn-inflatables-youd-like-to-see/430258/9 "2007-12-17T04:52:01Z")
I’d like to see [Bun Bun vs. Santa Claus](http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=971224). Just once. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lawn-inflatables-youd-like-to-see/430258/10 "2007-12-17T05:03:02Z")
The Bumble (with teeth still intact). ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lawn-inflatables-youd-like-to-see/430258/11 "2007-12-17T13:01:56Z")
How about Roger Rabbit, still attached to the Suck-O-Lux? ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lawn-inflatables-youd-like-to-see/430258/12 "2007-12-17T15:39:35Z")
[QUOTE=Ruby] Christmas Chuthlu? [/QUOTE] Only if the tenticles were of those waving stickman variety so that they blow all over the place. That would be awesome. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lawn-inflatables-youd-like-to-see/430258/13 "2007-12-17T16:02:53Z")
I wonder if **name clever** ever got his [Santa Gnawing on the House](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=445734) inflatable working. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lawn-inflatables-youd-like-to-see/430258/14 "2007-12-17T16:27:17Z")
I think a Giant Head of Santa Claus on the front of the house would be cool, positioned so you had to enter the front door through Santa’s mouth. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lawn-inflatables-youd-like-to-see/430258/15 "2007-12-17T16:36:23Z")
[QUOTE=Hockey Monkey] Inflatable humping reindeer. [/QUOTE] Last year, while we were out, someone took my wire-frame reindeer buck and “mounted” him on my doe. :smack: I took a picture, but I’m not sure if I have it available here at work. I’d like to have a giant inflatable Grinch and Max. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lawn-inflatables-youd-like-to-see/430258/16 "2007-12-17T16:44:29Z")
A giant phallus would be kind of funny. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lawn-inflatables-youd-like-to-see/430258/17 "2007-12-17T16:53:18Z")
How about a giant sized Leg Lamp? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lawn-inflatables-youd-like-to-see/430258/18 "2007-12-17T16:56:49Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] I’d like to see [Bun Bun vs. Santa Claus](http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=971224). Just once. 😃 [/QUOTE] Doesn’t get any better than that. 🙂 Unless…Santa having an elf flogged, 18th century Royal Navy style. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lawn-inflatables-youd-like-to-see/430258/19 "2007-12-17T20:42:53Z")
The two I’d like to see: \*\*Kwanzabot Hanukkah Harry \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-lawn-inflatables-youd-like-to-see/430258/20 "2007-12-17T20:47:57Z")
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