Things on sticks!, Is it me, or are there less now? Options

[paulo999]

Not so long back, I remember getting alot of silly pleasure from spotting "things on sticks". From pigeons to Nicholas Parsons, pretty much anything put on a tall stick and carried around made me laugh alot. A favourite was duck *with* nest. A proper nest made of stuff that a duck would actually nest in.

Brilliant weirdness.

"What are you making mate?"
"A Duck, with a nest, on a stick"
"Erm..."
"Yeah, gonna carry it around for a weekend"
"Ermm, but..."
"Yeah, knew you thought it would be cool. You could do Judith Chalmers. Not been done before."
"Ermm..."

Now I can't remember seeing any last year? Admittedly all the ones I did spot years back where when I was plonked in one spot for an afternoon.

Were things-on-sticks just a phase? And if so, what's "the new things-on-sticks" thing?