March 22, 2005

Asparagus

I drove past this... thing... today in front of an H&R Block office. I can't describe what I saw, except to tell you that it looked like a giant green asparagus spear; so, I did what I do best ... I drew it!!
asparagus.jpg
It moved up (1) and down (2). There was a fan or something blowing from the bottom up through the thing.

If this thing was supposed to draw people into H & R Block, it wasn't working. The office was empty. There was no crowd gathered around the pumping asparagus; there was nobody, not even a vegan.

I might drive by tomorrow. See if there's a steak or a ham out there.

Posted by Bill at March 22, 2005 08:16 PM
Comments

Are you sure it wasn't a cactus? Because what you have drawn here, son, is a cactus.

Maybe it's a Veggie Tale.

Posted by: jen at March 22, 2005 08:32 PM

We have one of those at our H&R Block only its yellowish color!
-d

Posted by: -d at March 22, 2005 08:35 PM

Wow. I was just thinking to myself that it has been so long since Bill did one of his world famous drawings...

Posted by: Keri at March 22, 2005 10:07 PM

There is a similar alien, albeit red, at a local Firestone store on a busy highway corner. "It" has been flopping there so long that the carbon monoxide and soot from thousands of car exhausts stopped at the redlight have turned the upper half of the nylon red body to a mottled brownish color. Makes me wonder if that is what my lungs look like after years of city life. Yuck.

Posted by: Cowtown Pattie at March 22, 2005 11:38 PM

We used to have those but they don't work too well in the wind

Posted by: Anji at March 23, 2005 05:52 AM

The thought of a giant undulating asparagus actually made me a little queasy.

Posted by: elle at March 23, 2005 06:00 AM

Dude! Is that a levenger notecard with lines?!?!

Mine doesn't have lines on it!

hmmm....must investigate levenger website...

Posted by: KathyHowe at March 23, 2005 10:32 AM

Hope you did not have a nightmare about a giant asparagus chasing you.

Posted by: Michelle at March 23, 2005 01:57 PM

I will go take a picture of it and email it to you. We have one about a mile from here. Jessica loves it.

Posted by: christine at March 25, 2005 10:50 AM

There are some phone stores out here with similar things. It's easy for you to mistake its identity since in nature they aren't usually green, but maybe it was a st pat's special or something. Ours is hot pink, and resembles nothing more than a giant, inflatable, semi-inflated, dancing wang with arms.

another mystery solved.

Posted by: dan at March 25, 2005 07:17 PM

Oh! Oh! Oh! I passed an H&R Block store this afternoon and it had the same green thing (with H&R Block written on the 'head') in front of it and damn- it DOES look like an asparagus!

Posted by: lucy at March 28, 2005 08:15 PM