Madison's official bird? Well, the plastic pink flamingo, of course!

It's official! An american icon was honored in Madison, Wisconsin.

MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Some stories don't fly. This one doesn't even breathe.

The city council of Wisconsin's capital voted on Tuesday to designate the plastic pink flamingo its official bird, honoring a college prank committed 30 years ago.

In 1979, University of Wisconsin students planted roughly 1,000 of the pink plastic birds on a grassy incline outside the dean's office.

Alderman Marsha Rummel told the Wisconsin State Journal the council's 15-4 vote ensured the event was "captured in our imaginations forever."

Strangely, Pink Flamingos always remind me of Florida...and trailer parks with fat transvestites eating dog poo!