Question for my readers
Can somebody tell me why a 30 feet tall, inflatable, purple gorilla is the universal symbol for announcing a big sale at car lots?
And precisely where does one purchase a 30 feet tall, inflatable, purple gorilla?
Update: Alert reader Bill informs me that Boulder Blimps is the company for all your 30 feet tall, inflatable, purple gorilla needs. Apparently, they will make anything large and inflatable.
Update #2: Tom has found more inflatable gorillas
March 19th, 2004 at 10:44 am
I think it’s because of that cartoon, Grape Ape. It was about this huge purple gorilla that rode around on the top of a van. The rest is history.
March 19th, 2004 at 11:19 am
I don’t know about the Gorilla but I have a friend who is dating a fat girl with a shitty personality. She evidently didn’t get the memo.
We call her “The Van”, “Hungry Hungry Girlfriend”(must be sang like the jingle from the children’s game), “Shitheap”, and sometimes simply “fattie”.
That leviathan would be about the same size as the gorilla, but she would most assuredly crush the roof of any dealership dumb enough to winch her big ass up there.
March 19th, 2004 at 11:44 am
Boulder Blimps used to make inflatable things for merchants, including gorillas, in the Denver area. They’ll probably make you a thirty-foot-tall pre-ban sport ute gun if you ask.
March 19th, 2004 at 11:46 am
And precisely where does one purchase a 30 feet tall, inflatable, purple gorilla?
Um, whereever it wants to be purchased??
March 19th, 2004 at 12:00 pm
Ask, and ye shall receive.
March 19th, 2004 at 12:47 pm
And I drove right by one on Alcoa Highway on my way to lunch an hour ago. Any relation to the one you’re talking about, SU?
March 19th, 2004 at 12:50 pm
Yes, it is exactly why i bring this up.
March 19th, 2004 at 1:40 pm
Don’t forget the giant inflatable sumo wrestler. He’s usually at Performance Motors across the street from the fortune teller.
I live off of Alcoa Hwy, and I’ve been taking pics off some of these things. (I know. It’s sick.) My favorite is the four pickup trucks with their hoods raised and the letters S A L E propped under the hoods.
March 19th, 2004 at 9:23 pm
Come to think of it, that place is called Auto Locators.
Also, I wonder if there’s a club or something. One week one place will have the gorilla, then they trade it for the giant lizard, then the sumo hot air balloon, etc.