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The late inventor of the lawn flamingo becomes a Twitter icon


Donald Featherstone, the inventor of the original plastic pink flamingo. (Picture: Jeff Hutchens/Getty Images)

The late Donald Featherstone not only invented the plastic lawn flamingo in 1957, but he kept 57 of those beauties in his backyard.

Twitter user @sarahmcgbeauty has breathed new life into the iconic inventor’s legacy, with a viral tweet showing Donald ecstatically tending to his flock of plastic birds and then cheekily emerging out of them.

The tweet has racked up nearly 12,000 retweets and more than 56,000 likes.

Donald’s invention inspired a wave of kitschy Americana, making the flamingo a design icon. But flamingos weren’t the only love of his life.

There was also his wife, Nancy, whom he dressed identically to. The trendy duo kept four wardrobes of matching couple outfits, sorted according to season and occasion.

This makes this the second time Donald has gone viral. In 2013, the duo were trending as ‘the couple who dressed the same for 30+ years.’ Talk about being cut from the same cloth.

While Donald passed away in 2015, his legacy lives on in a kitschy flash of pink.

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