It has apparently become okay to put a 6 foot tall inflatable polar bear in your yard to celebrate Christmas, as our neighbors did even before Thanksgiving. It's one of those cases that in Missouri would blossom into full-blown lawn gnome disease: the lights are all out, and there's also a giant Santa Claus figure backing him up. Anyway the spread eagle inflatable polar bear rocking pelvically in the wind was too hard to resist; we spotted a six foot long blowup red chili pepper in a Mexican restaurant we go to on Thursdays. The owner was nice enough to dust it off and donate it, free of charge, to the cause. The pictures unfortunately didn't turn out or you'd laugh as hard as we did.
Posted by Alan at December 1, 2003 06:58 PM