GISHWHES 55 Chickens can fly!

[tripperfunster]

A man in a chicken suit in the pilot seat of a commercial jet.





This one (and the Olympic one) are my favs! Partly because I begged, borrowed and stole to find a contact for both. And if GISHWHES taught me anything (aside from "People will agree to anything") it's try, try, try and try again!

After having a couple of leads fall through (I really thought I needed a pilot for this) I asked a friend who's husband works in the airline food service for West Jet. He agreed! I worried about him getting in trouble, but he laughed and explained that he'd asked his boss, and his boss was cool with it!

West Jet is officially the coolest airline ever!

So, a way too expensive chicken costume later, and I got pics!*

*I didn't feel bad for buying the costume because I really paid little to nothing for everything else. A $20 sock monkey hat (which I'll wear lots), a couple of dollars worth of kale, some cheap tempura paints (that my kids will use) and a couple of file folders for my chicken filing system. Considering other people went skydiving, I got off pretty cheap.

Comments

[foxestacado.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. I continue to be amazed by this.

By the way, where do I see the other entries? I can't imagine other entries being better than your team's. And how many points did your team rack up and how does your score fare compared to others? I swear, if you didn't rank really high up there, I would be very disappointed.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

A lot of teams are posting their stuff on tumblr, but there's no official place that they're posted.

As for points, I have no idea!! AND IT'S DRIVING ME CRAZY! They are really taking their sweet time in announcing any winners.

I've seen many of the ones we got, but not as MANY as we have, but that is only tumblr. Teams might be posting elsewhere, or not posting at all. *shrug*

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

If you want to see all the things MY team did, they are here: http://vaticancams.tumblr.com/

I don't think they're all up yet, but they're set to continually post until done.

Keep in mind there's a few that won't be posted, due to having young kids, or people who want to remain private, but this site will have most of our stuff.

[theficklepickle.livejournal.com]

Just spent a lovely half-hour looking at all those pics on Tumblr; you people are all quite wonderfully insane!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The entire thing was way too much fun, and doing with a team of other crazy people made it even better.

If only I was in the same province/country/continent as some of them!!

[oliversnape.livejournal.com]

I get creative in the fall, and get the urge to make things. This looks like the best way to burn off fall restlessness. Plus, it's amusing as hell. I so hope your team wins!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I went into this pretty much assuming we wouldn't win, but the more prompts we finished, and the more things that got done, and now I'm kind of excited, as it's an acutal possibility. Not a LIKELYHOOD, but a possibility!!

You'll have to join in next year!

[whatthefuckbenj.livejournal.com]

This is so cool!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

INORITE? So damn funny!

[joanwilder.livejournal.com]

Oh Tripp, this is the best, that one of you saluting out the window. I think you should pack the suit away and save it for a way to embarrass your kids a special occasion.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

It's not me hon! It's my friend. I don't think I would have gotten through security. Plus, they did this at like ... 4 in the morning. NO THANK YOU. :D

[demicus.livejournal.com]

ROFL! Now that's impressive. Glad it didn't have to be a dude in a Canada goose suit cause dat woulda been wrong. ;¬)


Just looked at all ten pages of Vatican Cameos entries. Love your pose in the team photo!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Oh God, a chicken suit was surprisingly hard to find, I can't even FATHOM what a Canada Goose suit would have been like to find!

[ansku]

Brilliant :)

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

They really had the most hilarious prompts.