You know those brightly colored inflatable tube men that often populate used car lots and mattress emporiums? According to The Daily Astorian, the Port of Astoria on Thursday morning put the ...

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Today, flapping wildly in the breeze and grinning maniacally with outstretched arms, the giant balloon men known as “tall boys” grace shopping malls, banks, and Family Guy cutaway gags, but these ...

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The wacky, waving inflatable arm man is the universal symbol for car lots and sidewalk sales of all sorts, and he has an origin of which you’re probably not aware. The inflatables debuted at the 1996 ...