A very good friend of ours is going to be 40 this year.
Naturally, in the spirit of friendship, this means we must torture him.
One friend wants to do those cheezy lawn flamingoes carpeting his front lawn. He wants to do this anonmously so as to drive the recipient nuts for years to come.
I was wondering if anyone has another idea.
One of mine was to …ah…liberate gnomes from other places and plant them on their front lawn as if staging an attack.
If we are going for cheese, might as well go for the big cheese.
Well, my parents’ friends enhanced the flamingo idea. They got one of those huge plastic easter-egg eggs, in pink, and some startling amount of pink easter grass, and then posed the flamingos as if they’d begun to nest in their target’s lawn.
Honestly I can say lawn forking. No better way to say I love you then a few hundred froks in the lawn. I’ve done it a couple of times, I even did it to a guy’s cube one time. Best use of plastic forks I can think of. Oh and take a look at the pool pics in the link.
When I was in high school, we living roomed our friends yard. For weeks beforehand, whenever we saw furniture tossed out next to a curb, we would call our friend with a truck, and we stored the furniture in another buddies garage. Carpet, couches, end table, lamps, and a big console tv. His family was on vacation, so they got a real treat when they pulled up. It looked really funny. They were able to get rid of everything but the carpet. The chair was actually really nice.
Folks, we have to keep things fun but legal. I wouldn’t advise liberating lawn gnomes from other people’s yards–somebody did that in a nearby town a few years ago, and criminal charges ended up being filed.
Is there a Rent-a-Flamingo (or lawn gnome, or similar) in your area? There is in ours; we’ve seen various yards covered in bright pink flamingos for special occasions. They’re rented from an outfit that does nothing but rent them for parties and such.
Or you could do what I’ve seen only rarely, but always admire–get plenty (and I mean plenty) of handbills with a picture of the Birthday Boy and a headline-size caption reading, “Lordy, Lordy, Look Who’s Forty!” Then you plaster them on every lamppost, construction hoarding, and other public place people put posters in his neighbourhood. Assuming it is legal to put the posters on lampposts and hoardings and so on in his area, of course.
Cost is whatever a trip to Kinko’s or similar costs for about 500 copies, and an hour or so of your and your friends’ time in his neighbourhood late at night, on the night before his birthday. But this way, even people who don’t know him can share in the fun too.
I love the forking idea! I need to come up with a way to do that to someone!
hee hee hee!
For my mom’s 40th, my aunt and cousin cut out, coloured and glued to posts 40 little black-and-white cows and put them all over the lawn of the house where we were having the party. The cake was black-and-white, we all dressed and black-and-white, and as many cow-themed things as possible were given to my mom. It was silly, but fun. She actually kept many of the gift to use in her (then) grade one, now grade 2 class room, or to wear to “Wacky Wednesday” or halloween.
I work in real estate. One April Fool’s we got a call from a guy who had 13 “For Sale” signs on his lawn, including one of ours. This is illegal. But damn funny.
Take some fertilizer, like Scotts (but just buy a generic brand for less than ten bucks)
And pour a reasonable amount over the lawn as you spell something with it. Something cheesey like, “Gues who is 40?”
If you don’t go nuts and kill it, the written area will be dark dark green and tall and will really stand out plain as day and he won’t be able to ‘erase’ it for a long time, because even if he fertilizes the rest, that area still has more still stands out.
Friend of mine told me about doing this a few years back, except (1) he used black utensils and (2) he pushed them down so they only stuck up an inch or two. In other words, they were basically invisible, unless you accidentally stepped on one (ouch!) or (and this is what happened) you run the lawn mower over one: BRRDDDDAPPP! “What the hell was that?”
Long story short, someone had played a joke on us so. we covered their lawn (and gutters) with several hundred mini pumpkins while they were on vacation.
Go to a dollar store. Find the largest (or most ground-covering) item in the store that can be purchased for a dollar. Purchase 100 of that item. Cover friend’s lawn with them uder the cover of night.
We did this to a good friend of mine – the gorgeous green front yard of her classy Long Island home had “Happy Birthday Vonnie from All Of Us!” spelled out in big, bold letters for everyone in the community to see.
In panty liners.
The adhesive side kept them in place pretty well, too.
Forking idea is bad. (Except the pool part, that’s funny.)
Coming from someone who mows, this is not only bad for the mower ( replacement blades cost money and a pain to stop what you are doing, load up kids, go to ACE and go home, fix problem, kids are cranky,) you could end up hurting someone with any shrapnel that might fly out of it. I’d been forking pissed about it.
We’ve found out that the Lawn Flamingoes has already been ordered and put in place. Nuts.
But, I really liked the Living Room Idea by Nurse Carmen.
That’s funny, funny, funny. And made funnier with possibly blow up dolls in a recliner and on the couch.
But, hey, wouldn’t a great business be **Rent a Gnome **?
Absolutely! This is TONS of fun… especially if you’re around witness the response in the morning! Had a friend do a variation with little tiny “drink umbrellas” once - got them CHEAP at the discount card shop…
Saw the afformentioned website… this is a skimpy forking! The idea is to “replace grass with forks”… in otherwords, the “forkee” will wake up to gaze upon a white lawn. It’s a lot of work (so, recruit your kids - it’s harmless… and you may get a note thanking you for aerating the lawn, depending on the season). Forks should be spaced at approximately 3 inches apart in all directions… and “bricklayed”… this prevents said forkee from cruising through and cleaning up… they willl spend the entire day in the white lawn (and as the forker, you are kind of (ethically) responsible for volunteering to help.
Gotta say, there’s nothing like a newly forked yard to instill the Holiday feeling in a native AZ’n. Let it snow!
have fun and fork cryin’out loud, fork everyone that doesn’t believe in forking~ who the FORK are they?
Had a friend do a variation with little tiny “drink umbrellas” once - got them CHEAP at the discount card shop…