flamingos and goalies

Today I learned that there was only one manufacturer of the classic lawn-ornament pink flamingo, and it has gone out of business. Now if you need pink flamingos for your yard, you have to get something that looks just a little bit wrong, but is probably close enough.

In completely different news, hockey goalie pads evolved in the beginning of the last century from cricket pads. Eventually goalies got tired of having their faces rearranged at irregular intervals and invented face masks, but they weren't worth much until 1959.