A bag by any other name

What do you call those wayward plastic grocery bags stuck in the urban trees and fences? The Recycling in Kansas newsletter passes along some common popular names: witches’ britches, urban tumbleweeds, shoppers’ kites, retailed hawks, foulage. There are regional variations: In the South, they’re called "white trash"; in Colorado, such a bag is the "state bird of Wyoming." Virginia calls it the "West Virginia state flag."
Are there Kansas variations or ideas? How about "Oklahoma lawn ornaments"?
Posted by Randy Scholfield

4 Comments

  1. Lori
    Posted July 5, 2005 at 11:52 am | Permalink

    How about people picking up their trash instead of trying to name it? I just don’t understand why people feel the need to litter. Do people not own trash cans anymore? Or have we really become that lazy?

  2. Lori
    Posted July 5, 2005 at 11:54 am | Permalink

    How about people picking up their trash instead of trying to name it? I just don’t understand why people feel the need to litter. Do people not own trash cans anymore? Or have we really become that lazy?

  3. Steve Otto
    Posted July 5, 2005 at 1:03 pm | Permalink

    How about telling those cashiers in all the food stores we want paper instead of plastic and when they say plastic is cheaper, asked them if they care to drive around town picking that junk (which will never rot away like paper) off the trees, fences and homes.

  4. B Pearson
    Posted July 5, 2005 at 10:42 pm | Permalink

    Wow, guys. Don’t crap a cow. I think this was supposed to be amusing?I haven’t thought of those bags as having a name, but “Oklahoma Lawn Ornaments” sounds pretty good!