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jmowreader

(50,567 posts)
Tue Nov 23, 2021, 11:45 AM Nov 2021

Anyone know where I can get an inflatable Ebenezer Scrooge?

Folks, I’m totally failing in this year’s War on Christmas.

My original plan was to buy an inflatable sleigh and reindeer, and arrange them so it looks like Santa crashed into the side of my house. That one had to be changed because all the Santa sleighs in the stores are one-piece affairs, and to make this work I’ve got to be able to separate the reindeer and Santa from the sled so I can scatter them all over the yard. They also don’t sell inflatable polar bears, at least not ones that look menacing like…well, you know, real polar bears. I mean, I guess I could put a real polar bear in the front yard but feeding one will break the food budget for the next five years and then there’s the problem of giving it back after the season ends. (On the other hand, it would definitely solve the deer infestation we’re currently facing…)

So…my next thought was just to stick Scrooge in the front yard and print a bunch of signs like “are there no workhouses?” and “Bah Humbug!” on some of that scrap coroplast I’ve got sitting around, but to do that I need a Scrooge and you can’t get those either.

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Anyone know where I can get an inflatable Ebenezer Scrooge? (Original Post) jmowreader Nov 2021 OP
Stick an air hose up Trump's fat ass nt doc03 Nov 2021 #1
I hear that leftieNanner Nov 2021 #2
How about a deflatable 45? marble falls Nov 2021 #3
Why is this dude brought up in every OP? jimfields33 Nov 2021 #5
OP brought up a dumb idea. We can't let that stand. It must be out-stupided. JustABozoOnThisBus Nov 2021 #7
Fair enough! Happy turkey day! jimfields33 Nov 2021 #8
No way in hell I would put an inflatable Trump in the yard jmowreader Nov 2021 #6
First place I'd look would be the Archie McFee website. Scrivener7 Nov 2021 #4
Perhaps an inflatable McConnel?? dixiegrrrrl Nov 2021 #9
I did see a holiday display at one house five years ago with cute lit polar bears with red scarfs haele Nov 2021 #10

jimfields33

(16,022 posts)
5. Why is this dude brought up in every OP?
Tue Nov 23, 2021, 12:56 PM
Nov 2021

I mean it’s been almost a year! Can we please put him on the back burner? Seriously!

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,374 posts)
7. OP brought up a dumb idea. We can't let that stand. It must be out-stupided.
Tue Nov 23, 2021, 01:38 PM
Nov 2021

PinBoyThreeNiner and MiddleFingerMom started this shit. It's our obligation to keep it going.

Eat well, and, (sigh) Go Lions!

haele

(12,684 posts)
10. I did see a holiday display at one house five years ago with cute lit polar bears with red scarfs
Tue Nov 23, 2021, 07:46 PM
Nov 2021

Gathered around one of those lit rain deer on its side with red pulsing lights around it's neck and belly. And red icicles along the roofline. A bit disconcerting, but very artistic. The next year he made a Krampus nativity.

House belonged to the neighborhood crank. We were living on a cul de sac and there were no small kids around, so I guess he thought it would be okay to let his freak out for Xmas.

Haele

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