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World's Second or Third Largest Egg Replica

Submitted by stevenl on Wed, 04/05/2006 - 4:43am.

If you visit the town of Winlock, a bit south of Centralia, you'll see a little patch of land surrounded by a cyclone fence. In the middle of this square is a pedestal and on it sits an enormous fiberglass egg. It used to have the stars and stripes painted on it, but the weather has stripped most of that design clean off. There is a little sign under this display that proclaims, "World's Largest Egg."

OK, first, it isn't an egg, it is an egg replica. Second, even if the sign was changed to read "World's Largest Egg Replica," it would still be misleading. The world's largest egg replica is in Vegreville, Alberta. It would appear Metone, Indiana has an egg replica that rivals the one in Winlock, but then we get into height vs width vs weight arguments. I'll leave that one to egg replica scholars.

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Upon closer examination, it

Submitted by stevenl on Fri, 05/12/2006 - 10:55pm.

Upon closer examination, it would appear that the stars and stripes didn't exactly wear off. The "World's Largest Egg" (or, if Winlockians were to really post the truth on the pedestal, "The World's Second Or Third Largest Egg Replica") was painted all white over the stars and stripes at some point in the past. So the splotchy red and blue we see today is actually the result of the white paint wearing off, revealing the original design. Is this an allegory for something? Why did a community in right-wing, nationalistic, flag-waving, Wobbly-lynching, Hamilton-Turkey-nutball-Uncle-Sam-freeway-sign, the-only-western-WA-county to vote Republican in 1992-1996 Lewis County feel the need to cover up the national colors? It doesn't fit. Something is fishy here. The covering up of our sacred national flag on the World's Second or Third Largest Egg Replica is worth an investigation by the Homeland Security Secret Police.

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