so on sunday, there was a neighborhood yard sale here at my parents' house... and afterward my brother (mike) and i somehow got stuck with the job of carrying everything that didn't sell back up the driveway. so as we're moving this one dresser, we get halfway and decide to just put it down in the middle of the driveway. same thing with the next dresser, only we randomly decided to stack it on top of the first one. then a third. then the recycling bins. then we hung up 2 shoes for eyes and a skirt for a mouth. then came some branches with gloves fixed on the ends. we named our monster "clark", after a dr. seuss character...
our dad got home a few hours later, couldn't get up the driveway, and called the house on his cell phone. mike answered and dad responded "what the fuck am i looking at?" he later agreed to let us keep clark up until our sister (sarah) got home on monday... but when we woke up in the morning, he had already taken it down. so we began plotting our revenge...
sarah had to be picked up at the airport in NYC, about a 2.5-hour drive one-way. so we had a good 5 hour window. the parents left around 5pm and we immediately started constructing an 80-foot long fire-breathing sea serpent across their yard.
the picture only shows the first body section, which was actually the crappiest looking one (it was very wall-like, whereas the rest of the body was much smoother and rounded), and only comprises about 1/4 of the total size of the beast, but it should give an idea about the sheer girth of the monster.
for those interested in the details, it ended up taking only about 2-3 hours to build, and was made using 4 cars, several dressers, a riding lawn mower, a 12-foot wooden fork for the tail, various sheets, tarps, and ponchos, a ladder, a roll of duct tape, 2 halogen lights, 6 flood lights, 2 tiki torches for nostrils, some cardboard, spray paint, and a large stuffed flamingo (a common prank centerpiece in the neighborhood). also, even though it spanned the driveway, a tarp could be lifted allowing the van to pass underneath when they got home. needless to say, they were all very impressed, and mike and i were very proud.
we had it all cleaned up by noon the next day.
-roger_murdock
our dad got home a few hours later, couldn't get up the driveway, and called the house on his cell phone. mike answered and dad responded "what the fuck am i looking at?" he later agreed to let us keep clark up until our sister (sarah) got home on monday... but when we woke up in the morning, he had already taken it down. so we began plotting our revenge...
sarah had to be picked up at the airport in NYC, about a 2.5-hour drive one-way. so we had a good 5 hour window. the parents left around 5pm and we immediately started constructing an 80-foot long fire-breathing sea serpent across their yard.
the picture only shows the first body section, which was actually the crappiest looking one (it was very wall-like, whereas the rest of the body was much smoother and rounded), and only comprises about 1/4 of the total size of the beast, but it should give an idea about the sheer girth of the monster.
for those interested in the details, it ended up taking only about 2-3 hours to build, and was made using 4 cars, several dressers, a riding lawn mower, a 12-foot wooden fork for the tail, various sheets, tarps, and ponchos, a ladder, a roll of duct tape, 2 halogen lights, 6 flood lights, 2 tiki torches for nostrils, some cardboard, spray paint, and a large stuffed flamingo (a common prank centerpiece in the neighborhood). also, even though it spanned the driveway, a tarp could be lifted allowing the van to pass underneath when they got home. needless to say, they were all very impressed, and mike and i were very proud.
we had it all cleaned up by noon the next day.
-roger_murdock
quietlythere:
nice
opaque:
that quote you left is wonderful, and very true. thanks 