Saturday, December 17, 2022
Inflatables: IPLawGuy Edition
For nearly every season, IPLawGuy has a set of inflatable characters he sets up in front of his house. For Thanksgiving, it was an enormous turkey. For President's Day, a gigantic figure of his ancestor Rutherford B. Hayes. For St. Patrick's Day, it's our friend from college, Roger (not the actual guy, but an inflatable image of him complete with a beer).
Pictured above is part of his display for this year. Everyone will recognize the Grinch on the left, but the car with the tree is a more subtle reference. Emily Bronte fans will remember that in her less-remembered book "The Straightpins," Mr. Rackle and his family are involved in a traffic accident in the village where a tree end up attached to the roof of their car, where it remains until they are (several weeks later) rear-ended on the motorway by Father Wigglesby, Rector of St. Scones-on-the-Motorway.
Here is the rest of his Christmas display:
First, the character on the left appears to be a better-dressed (and actual-size) version of IPLawGuy's dog, Chester.
Second, is the dinosaur a character from some cartoon I don't know?
Third, what is beneath the burial mound in the middle of the photo?
