Michelin Man's my carrot (Hundred's flock to see carrot that looks like Michelin mand)

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[Rodney King]

Michelin Man's my carrot

By MARTYN SHARPE

HUNDREDS of people have been flocking to gawp at a carrot — shaped just like the Michelin Man.

Retired steelworker George Woodhall, 68, dug up the wacky eight-inch veg in his back garden.

It boasts a roly-poly body and even chubby little arms and legs.

Amazed George, of Barnsley, South Yorks, said yesterday: “It’s an exact replica of the famous Michelin Man made out of tyres.

“Complete strangers have been coming from miles around to look.”

Wife Annie, 59, said: “We always eat all the veg George grows — but the Man is too precious.”

[Rodney King]

Here is the real thing:

[EggsAckley]

“We always eat all the veg George grows — but the Man is too precious.”

Would eating the Man be cannabalism?

[EggsAckley]

Okay, I can't stand it. Must be a slow news day. Here's a real picture I took in my Mom's front yard.

[woofie]

Nice picture of Al Gore....

[Rodney King]

Ohh. What kind of tree is that?

[Diddle E. Squat]

Hey, wasn't that the talking tree on this stupid show?

[woofie]

A bite or two of that carrot and you could get a cubist Michellin Man

[Diddle E. Squat]

BTW, H.R.Pufnstuf was a libertarian who got arrested for ordering extra biscuits at the Kentucky Fried Chicken.

[Arthur McGowan]

"Are you saying my apples aren't what they ought to be?"

[Arthur McGowan]

His name, btw, is "Bibendum."

[Arthur McGowan]

According to legend, the character was conceived in 1894 when one of the Michelin brothers looked at a pile of their tires and observed, "If it had arms, it would look like a man." The comparison went nowhere, and the company stuck with its slogan, "The tire that swallows obstacles," until an advertising man, named O Galop, happened to show the brothers a sketch of a portly Bavarian holding up a beer mug and proclaiming "Nunc est bibendum!" (Now is the time to drink!). That linked the idea of a tire capable of "drinking" nails and other sharp objects.

The character got its name during the first international Paris-Amsterdam
-Paris auto race in 1898, when Andre Michelin's Panhard overtook another race car and the driver was overheard shouting, "There goes bibendum!"

Bibendum, better known in the U.S. as the Michelin Man, became a familiar figure in the 1920s as the sale of motorcars soared. Appearing on all kinds of promotional materials and mounted in three-dimensional form on delivery trucks, the Michelin Man personified the inflatable product in a witty way. He enabled the company to give a recognizable face and friendly personality to an otherwise very utilitarian product. Unlike many trademark personalities such as Betty Crocker who gets a "facelift" every few decades to remain current, the Michelin Man still looks surprisingly  contemporary, and few would guess from appearances that he is 100 years old.

[Arthur McGowan]

http://www.cdf.org/cdf/atissue/vol3_1/michelin/michelin.html

[EggsAckley]

It's a pine tree at Lake Tahoe. Funny thing is, NOBODY in the neighborhood had EVER seen that face until about three weeks before my Mom's death. I even showed a pic of it to Mom and SHE'D never seen it. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm..........