America's Weirdest Holiday Lights Displays

[TwinLori]

Saw this on my MSN homepage and cracked up when got to photo #7 and saw the flying spaghetti monster!! Don't remember which Rudie I've seen in this costume (actually, had never heard of the flying spaghetti monster before), but just had to post this for her!

Here's the caption for the photo:

From Chris Creel of Austin, Texas: "My friend Alex and I decided to construct a giant flying spaghetti monster to hang on our street."

http://www.slate.com/id/2207356/slideshow/2207379/fs/0//entry/2207385/

Sorry, tried to upload the photo but got error message saying it was too big. Maybe someone who is more computer savvy can fix this.





http://www.slate.com/id/2207356/slideshow/2207379/entry/2207386/fs/0//

[coffeegyrl]

I wouldn't call them "weirdest," I'd call them very creative.

[hoops]

^5 lori, that is way cool
peace
hoops

[DaveM]

"farthest outside the box"?

[paularoid]

Saw this on my MSN homepage and cracked up when got to photo #7 and saw the flying spaghetti monster!! Don't remember which Rudie I've seen in this costume (actually, had never heard of the flying spaghetti monster before), but just had to post this for her!

Here's the caption for the photo:

From Chris Creel of Austin, Texas: "My friend Alex and I decided to construct a giant flying spaghetti monster to hang on our street."

http://www.slate.com/id/2207356/slideshow/2207379/fs/0//entry/2207385/

Sorry, tried to upload the photo but got error message saying it was too big. Maybe someone who is more computer savvy can fix this.





http://www.slate.com/id/2207356/slideshow/2207379/entry/2207386/fs/0//
Here they are:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v25/paularoid/JIMB/06.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v25/paularoid/JIMB/07.jpg

[DaveM]

That last one needs a webcam on the electric meter....

[Eva]

I wouldn't call them "weirdest," I'd call them very creative.
I'd call them 'overdone'.
But that's me...

Eva

[hoops]

a few years back, some naighbors of ours (my family home) stopped their well overdone lights display for some reason. I know their caretakers homw was moved across the road and tho there are many lights, it's nothing like days of Yore. the family happens to be big time mob boss related...think gambino...anyway...when they were still on the same side of the road the light show took up about 4 acres of land with santa and the nativity in close proximetry to each other and candy canes and snow people gingerbread people and all. theey never got into the air filled characters or other strange ( homer simpson) holiday characters. it took weeks to set it all up and it was on a dangerous S turn on a country road so when people slowed down to look, it put the rest if us, who didn;t care to see, in danger. I don;t know why it stopped and i suppose i'm glad it did, still something feels a bit off when i rip down that road around the holidays
peace
hoops

[TwinLori]

Though I don't put up any Christmas lights at my house, I still enjoy driving around and seeing neighborhoods where everyone gets into the holiday spirit. There is one semi-local neighborhood where it seems like it's a contest between the neighbors about outdoing everyone! The traffic in that development (it's about 4 or 5 streets going around in various cul-de-sacs) is terrible around the holidays since it's so popular, but one nice thing is that they have asked people who drive through to donate food to the local food bank and donations are collected by the people living in the decorated houses. Don't know what some of them must spend on electricity bills during the winter, but fortunately due to hydroelectric power in the Northwest it's cheaper than in other parts of the country. Seems like this year there weren't as many people in my neighborhood putting up lights as in the past, but maybe it's because a lot of them are elderly.

[lucille]

I'll see your American Lights and raise them

http://www.abc.net.au/abccontentsales/programsalesworldwide/download/christmaslights.pdf

There was a half hour doco done on these. We, in Melbourne aren't as "in your face" but there are some families who do this year after year. There is one family here in Geelong who decorates their house every Xmas, and in a part of town that isn't real prosperous - I can't image how they pay their electric bill for December.

[Bat]

Maybe they're mob-related.