White trash trucks slowly approached the piles of tree branches that had been cordoned off by yellow plastic ribbon.
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Sometime last year, people began sharing tongue-in-cheek online reviews of the banana-shaped piece of yellow plastic with their Facebook friends.
The bedcovers were folded beneath her arms, one wrist was encircled by a yellow plastic bracelet, and a constant bleeping hammered the silence.
Mr. MOTHERSBAUGH: Well, you know, it's like, we looked like cheeseburgers anyhow with our yellow plastic suits, and now a couple of us just look like double cheeseburgers.
"This is for the secretary, " she told the clerk, Celeste Payot, as she handed over the box, which was neatly wrapped in a yellow plastic bag and tied with a steel wire.
Amazon's online superstore has become the unlikely stage for 21st-century amateur comedy, where thousands of customers have submitted reviews for products ranging from the self-explanatory explanatory book "How to Avoid Huge Ships" to the Hutzler 571 banana slicer, a yellow plastic banana-shaped device that cuts bananas into even slices.
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But the nadir, Armstrong says, was his departure from his cancer awareness charity Livestrong, which distributed the iconic plastic yellow bracelets.
New Yorkers think nothing of turning up at a critical meeting in an ankle-length Driza-Bone coat, bright-yellow sou'wester and a plastic head scarf.
At our first truck stop, I stole a pair of driving glasses that had yellow-tinted lenses and large black plastic frames.
Each disc is covered in a transparent plastic coating (either blue, green, yellow or red) which lets daylight filter through.
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Never store your clothes over long periods in plastic dry-cleaning bags which emit gases that can stain or yellow fabrics as well as break down the elasticity in stretch garments.
Boisset is also the producer of Yellow Jersey, the first wine that will be available in a 750-milliliter plastic bottle when it is launched in the U.S. later this summer.
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