# Do you live by an unusual advertising monstrosity? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 6, 2009, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-by-an-unusual-advertising-monstrosity/492190 "2009-04-06T23:56:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-by-an-unusual-advertising-monstrosity/492190/21 "2009-04-07T20:28:16Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The stretch of Route 1 through my town (which is also **CalMeacham** ’s) is world famous for them. Going through there at night makes me think of the Vegas Strip. It’s so ugly it’s almost beautiful. Almost. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-by-an-unusual-advertising-monstrosity/492190/22 "2009-04-07T20:30:18Z")
> [@Theodore\_Striker](#): > > I live in Monroe, but in the far western part of the limits, so I don’t have the big butter Jesus overseeing my every action. It always struck me that the giant Jesus and Larry Flynt’s Hustler Hollywood store were off of the same exit, within minutes of each other. Sin at night, get saved in the morning. Does Flynt still have a place in Ohio? I thought that he loaded up the truck and he moved to Beverly. Hills, that is. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-by-an-unusual-advertising-monstrosity/492190/23 "2009-04-07T20:36:57Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > Montreal has its share of large, variously beloved advertising: […] > [Farine Five Roses](http://accessprohibited.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/farine-five-roses/) Nice! _Farine Five Roses/ Phare urbain de mes amours tourmentés/ Farine Five Roses/ Logo des mon égo ébloui et blessé._ ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-by-an-unusual-advertising-monstrosity/492190/24 "2009-04-07T21:08:06Z")
No billboards in Vermont, so no real monstrosities either. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-by-an-unusual-advertising-monstrosity/492190/25 "2009-04-07T23:06:48Z")
Just saw this in today’s paper… At the normally very prim and proper [San Francisco Ritz-Carlton](http://www.ritzcarlton.com/en/Properties/SanFrancisco/Default.htm), they have a 20-foot tall inflatable [armadillo wearing a cowboy hat](http://www.shpl.net/images/texas.jpg) this week. It’s amazing what you can do when you buy out an entire hotel for a restaurant chain managers’ conference. (Sorry, I haven’t found any pix of the actual armadillo on the hotel.) ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-by-an-unusual-advertising-monstrosity/492190/26 "2009-04-08T00:06:45Z")
[This](http://www.agilitynut.com/06/6/cougar.jpg), a giant fiberglass cougar statue at Crossroads Lincoln Mercury. It used to sit on top of the dealership. In the 1980s, someone shot it with an arrow (which stuck out of the center of its neck) and the arrow stayed there for years. (Incidentally, the [site](http://www.agilitynut.com/critters/dogscats.html) which has that picture has a number of other animal-statue monstrosities). The local Ralph’s Muffler shop has a hybrid [Muffler Man](http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM22HW) looming over the parking lot, which is also featured in their print advertising. Not that Muffler Men are all that rare, I guess. Bedford Indiana also has a Muffler Man, this time painted up to look like an Indian and presented as a memorial/honor to once-local tribes. ---
**Author:** ![Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tool_of_the_Conspiracy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-by-an-unusual-advertising-monstrosity/492190/27 "2009-04-08T00:37:42Z")
We have the [Black Bird](http://picasaweb.google.com/mlockridge01/MikeSPictures#5207462483301839586) (not my gallery). The store that it’s a mascot for decorates it seasonally: [ul] [li]Santa hat, beard and candy cane[/li][li]Football helmet[/li][li]Fishing pole[/li][li]Running shorts[/li][li]etc.[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Theodore\_Striker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Theodore\_Striker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theodore_Striker)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-by-an-unusual-advertising-monstrosity/492190/28 "2009-04-08T01:23:33Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Does Flynt still have a place in Ohio? I thought that he loaded up the truck and he moved to Beverly. > > Hills, that is. I don’t think he has a personal residence still, but he is still seen occasionally in the casinos over in Southeast Indiana. The store seems to do quite well though. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-by-an-unusual-advertising-monstrosity/492190/29 "2009-04-08T02:18:09Z")
I’m 1.7 miles from a **[Muffler Man](http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/2535)**. Which means I’m not too far from the Sausage Dancing Pig Sign (if it’s still standing). ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-by-an-unusual-advertising-monstrosity/492190/30 "2009-04-08T07:54:06Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > I don’t live by [Glenn Stone](http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/az/AZTUCmuf_mcmillan.jpg) now, but I used to several years ago, at the intersection of Glenn and Stone. > Also, when I was a kid my grandparents had the town water tower in their backyard, which was cool because we could see it for miles and when we drove across country to visit (in our peagreen and wood-paneled station wagon with the backseats down and a mattress on the floor… good times), we could see it for miles and we knew we were almost there. I came to post Paul Bunyan, too. I don’t live near it, but frequently pass it. Around Christmas time, the business owners dress it in a giant red suit and white beard like Santa Claus! ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-by-an-unusual-advertising-monstrosity/492190/31 "2009-04-08T08:07:58Z")
We have a giant farmer next to an (as far as I can tell) identical man-sized farmer. [this](http://www.insiderpages.com/photos/0022/9135/76582.jpg) is the best picture I could find of them. They’re hideous. The really creepy (to me) thing is the size- at first it looks like a giant man next to a giant child, but they’re juuuuust the wrong size and proportion. then there’s the Syberg’s shark: [here](http://www.flickr.com/photos/darrensnow/2730969994/), which I wouldn’t call a monstrosity… I think it’s really cool. But a curiosity, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-by-an-unusual-advertising-monstrosity/492190/32 "2009-04-08T11:46:10Z")
None that I’m aware of here in North Florida; but I used to live in Charleston, SC where a local dairy had a _huge_ cow (roughly 2-3 times larger than life) on their sign. Several times a year some drunken college kid would be arrested for climbing the sign, riding the cow, and then not being able to get back down. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2009, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-by-an-unusual-advertising-monstrosity/492190/33 "2009-04-08T13:32:42Z")
Some of these are extraordinarily ugly. I feel sorry for the people that have to view them.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-by-an-unusual-advertising-monstrosity/492190/34 "2009-04-09T00:16:50Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I came to post Paul Bunyan, too. I don’t live near it, but frequently pass it. Around Christmas time, the business owners dress it in a giant red suit and white beard like Santa Claus! His name is Glenn Stone. Isn’t it? There’s also the [dinosaur](http://www.grandparents.com/gp/events/tucson/44551.html) at the Dinorsaur McDonald’s. I love it when, at Halloween, they throw a sheet over him with two eyeholes cut out, and he holds a sign that says, “Boo!” That cracks me up everytime. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-by-an-unusual-advertising-monstrosity/492190/35 "2009-04-09T00:38:47Z")
I live about three blocks away from [this](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/HonestEdsTorontoBathurstandBloor.jpg). I’m about three subway stops away from [this](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2257/2144266465_08277478e2.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-by-an-unusual-advertising-monstrosity/492190/36 "2009-04-09T00:41:29Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > Some of these are extraordinarily ugly. I feel sorry for the people that have to view them.🙂 When my wife was in Poland, the tour guide pointed out some spectacular piece of Soviet-era architorture. After disparaging the building for five minutes, the guide said that the fellow who lived there was the luckiest man in town, because he was the only one who didn’t have to look at it. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-by-an-unusual-advertising-monstrosity/492190/37 "2009-04-09T01:04:18Z")
> [@Jettboy](#): > > None that I’m aware of here in North Florida Is the [Green Knight](http://normacalhoun.com/images/green%20knight.jpg) still in Destin? ---
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-by-an-unusual-advertising-monstrosity/492190/38 "2009-04-10T04:25:02Z")
Everybody loves the [Giant Uniroyal Tire](http://www.uniroyal.com/about/gianttire.html)! ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-by-an-unusual-advertising-monstrosity/492190/39 "2009-04-10T05:05:28Z")
> **[The Headington Shark, Oxford](http://www.headington.org.uk/shark/)** > > Headington, Headington Oxford, Headington News, Oxford, Headington Shark, History of Headington, Shops of Headington, Where to stay in Headington, Headington Market, Headington Market, Pubs in Headington, Restaurants in Headington Me mate Bill’s shark on his house! Not really advertising. He also owned a couple of cinemas - one had huge can can legs sticking out the front of it, but they moved to Brighton (the legs did). ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-by-an-unusual-advertising-monstrosity/492190/40 "2009-04-10T13:42:38Z")
I live near the [York Barbell Man.](http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/10389) 8 feet of muscle-bound, flat-topped, iron-pumping, rotating Macho. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-by-an-unusual-advertising-monstrosity/492190.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-by-an-unusual-advertising-monstrosity/492190.md?page=3)