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Lemon
Talking of Bush and shoes here is a link to a shoe throwing game as featured on boingboing
http://www.zappingmcsaatchi.com/xmas/emailing/
whitcwa
I went on a college tour for parents of prospective students. There was a tree with many dozens of shoes in it. The student leading the tour explained that each pair commemorates a “first time sexual encounter”.
atomicsecrets
Around here shoes on a power line = normal.
Philly tradition.
vero4902
I’d go with “flung” shoes rather then “flinged”… it just sounds better!
Dan Smith
flung yo
in the sneaker community shoes on power lines are beaters that can’t be resold…sometimes cool shoes will get tossed a little early and people will talk about that awesome pair of whatever at the intersection of this and that.
linda
there is a shoe tree near Amboy, Ca on route 66. been the for years. there are now 2 of them and a bra tree as well.
Rocky Rook
Why not “flang”? I ring the doorbell … I rang the doorbell. I fling the shoe … I flang the shoe.
ardyjay
When I first heard of the Iraqi journalist who tried to SHOO Bush away, I had the fantasy of a world wide ePEDemic of throwing shoes on wires, trees, etc, as a response / acknowledgment of his bravery and a statement about war. Maybe Christmas trees will be decorated with shoe ornaments as a STEP toward world peace!
liphttam1
Even just by reading the title I was thinking of the bush incident.
ILuvNUFC
Here is a few photos of the Newcastle Shoe Tree in England – Armstrong Park. croll down a bit.
Chris Johnston
I always wondered what the deal was with shoes hanging from a powerline.
mkultra
There is a shoe tree just outside of Beaverton, ON as well. It has gotten so full that people have started a new one a few trees down. You can also see quite a fe pairs of shoes in the bushes along the side of the road where people have thrown shoes at the tree but missed.
What is the story behind shoe trees? Surely there is some kind of folklore to inspire people around the world to do this? Neatorama, what say you?
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