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PHOTOS: Miami's King Mango Silver 25th Strut - “Still Crazy After All These Years”
by Peter Graves-Goodman Monday, Jan. 01, 2007 at 9:23 PM
indymediamiami@yahoo.com

The King Mango Strut began 25 years ago as a rejected group (the Merry Mango Marching Band) of the King Orange Bowl Parade. It bills itself as the “Weirdest Parade in the Universe” and is praised by the media as “the satirical parade that always captures the spirit of the community, where news and satire collide on the streets of Coconut Grove.”

PHOTOS: Miami's King...
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This year’s Strut theme, “Still Crazy After All These Years,” invited everyone to experience a real third world moment, the Mango Tabernacle Choir’s singing telegram to Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo that began this year’s parade.

* Hear the singing telegram to Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo at http://www.kingmangostrut.org/images/2006/Third_World_After_All.mp3

Like Time Magazine, they couldn’t decide which one of YOU to select as our Grand Marshal, so they decided to let YOU decide by hosting an equal opportunity auction on eBay (yeah, they really needed the money). Don Robertson of Miami Beach placed the highest bid of $5,600. Amazingly, he outbid everyone in the eBay universe without the help of a lobbyist. Don rode in a Bentley convertible and he got to be “The Donald” for a day. He will be granting second chances to aspiring but troubled beauty queens.

Here are some of the unforgettable stories from an unfathomable year gone wild on parade:

• Celebrate the hostile spirit of the Holidays with some festive Road Rage
• Rock and roll to “Hit Me with Your Best Shot”…by the Killer Sting Rays.
• Check out the catfights on the catwalk of Project Runway Miami
• Justin Timberlake’s “Sexy Back” gets a makeover in flabby flamboyance
• Get evicted by Miami Dade’s Housing Authority, where low income is of low priority
• Make a mountain out of a molehill with Miami McMansions and divine developments
• Wretch to roughage as healthy eating becomes hazardous to your health
• Disco in the Donut Hole of the HMO Hustle with the Century Village people
• Duck for cover as Dick Cheney goes hunting for demoquacks
• Incense your sensibilities at the Peoples Governor’s Inaugural Ball
• Kibbitz with the Korean Kamikaze…Kim Jong II

And if that wasn't enough to put you away, Congressional Pages, K-Fed-up with Brittany, Popeye's demise, Marching Marjorys, Voter Paper trails, TMX-rated Elmos and the Michael Richard's Apology Tour.

Then there were the usual Strut suspects: The Hare Krishnas, the Marching Freds, The Will Thomas Band, The 18 Wheelers, RoadKill Band, the Progressive New Orleans's Funeral Band, the Mocko Jumbi, the Little Miss Mangoes and the former Miss Mangoes (Miss Judged, Miss Demeanor, Miss Aligned, Miss Appropriate, etc...)


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Grand Marshal
by pggoodman Monday, Jan. 01, 2007 at 9:23 PM

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Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo calls Miami 3rd World
by pggoodman Monday, Jan. 01, 2007 at 9:23 PM

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The Marching Marjorys
by pggoodman Monday, Jan. 01, 2007 at 9:23 PM

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E-coli Outbreak
by pggoodman Monday, Jan. 01, 2007 at 9:23 PM

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Skate Miami
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Cheney
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Page for Rep. Mark Foley
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Gov Crist has two sides
by pggoodman Monday, Jan. 01, 2007 at 9:23 PM

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Erika
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Flabby Flamboyance (Justin Timberlake’s “Sexy Back” )
by pggoodman Monday, Jan. 01, 2007 at 9:23 PM

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Killer Sting Ray
by pggoodman Monday, Jan. 01, 2007 at 9:23 PM

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miami-Dade Housing Authority Scandals
by pggoodman Monday, Jan. 01, 2007 at 9:23 PM

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Century Village People
by pggoodman Monday, Jan. 01, 2007 at 9:23 PM

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Emerge Miami - CRITICAL MASS
by pggoodman Monday, Jan. 01, 2007 at 9:23 PM

Emerge Miami - CRITI...
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The Nightmare that is Christmas
by pggoodman Monday, Jan. 01, 2007 at 9:23 PM

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Zombie Consumers
by pggoodman Monday, Jan. 01, 2007 at 9:23 PM

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Flash
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Erika, Robert, Donna
by pggoodman Monday, Jan. 01, 2007 at 9:23 PM

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Saddam - color him gone
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