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You might talk with a local sign shop...not the small franchise kind that 
make vinyl on plastic signs...but the shops that install large outdoor 
business signs. They are often adept at fabricating specialty shapes and 
materials then installing them. 

Diane Gutenkauf
Business Developer, Museum Division
Exhibit Works
Lisle, IL 
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On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 15:24:00 -0400, Jonah Cohen 
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>ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers
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>Now HERE'S a query you won't hear every day...
>
>
>
>Our museum's icon is a concrete/steel, life-sized model of Connecticut's
>state animal that sits outside the building: a (male) sperm 
whale. "Connie"
>measures ~60 feet long. This summer marks his 30th birthday, so to speak, 
so
>for an event we're planning a bd bash for the big guy. (Who, btw, won't
>admit to being over 29.)
>
>
>
>I thought "You know what would be unspeakably funny, plus guarantee all
>kinds of photos in the press? Have the whale wear a birthday hat!"
>
>
>
>So, any suggestions on how to get a colorful, pointy and very large 
birthday
>hat on something that big?
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>
>
>My name only adds to the irony,
>
>Jonah Cohen
>
>Outreach & Public Programs Manager
>
>Science Center of Connecticut
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>
>"Fire up the klezmer music and prepare to become a man, you're in for a
>truth-mitzvah!"
>
>        -Stephen Colbert
>
>
>

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