I believe we've had threads before about bumper stickers, but not lately. I saw a good one today dealing with abortion. While I favor the pro-choice side of this issue, I had to admire the cleverness and friendly tenor of this sticker.
It showed on the left side a sketch of a newborn baby. The rest was taken up with two lines:
CHOOSE LIFE!
YOUR MOM DID.
Anybody else got a good bumper sticker to report?
did she? my mom had no choice..
and she didn't have too many choices for effective birth control either..
enough.. choice vs No choice is very volitale subject.
Again, not wanting to stir any political arguments, just from a semiotic viewpoint:
BUSH
LLIT
better i think if:
BUSH
LLIT
only cause it would 'scan quicker' --
maybe i'll make a t-shirt like that to wear in midtown next week.
How nice for you, of troy!
I tend to hate bumper stickers, especially those that bash individuals or groups instead of promoting an idea/cause/indiv/group. They usually just make people look stupid, in my opinion.
I did think it was funny that a co-worker of mine had a Dean bumpersticker on his car for approximately one week.
Once during the previous Bush's administration I saw a woman carrying a sign that said "BUSH -- stay out of mine."
Probably the funniest bumper sticker I ever saw, one that made me laugh out loud, was a variation on the "my other car is a porsche" bumper stickers that one oftens sees on junker cars. It read "my other car is a piece of shit too." It caught me off guard, and I think that's what made it so funny.
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The delayed reaction in understanding is what I liked most about the bumpersticker. In the original it was black letters on a white background for the BUSH and white letters on black background for the LLIT.
Here's a cute one...
JOHN KERRYAnd oh yeah, I just love anagrams..
JOHN KERRY
HORNY JERK Ain't this fun?
especially those that bash individuals or groups
It's just that it's so hard to find anything to be *for these days.
SAVE THE CHOCOLATE MOUSSE
SAVE THE PECCADILLO FROM EXTINCTION
I’ve seen, “My hockey player beat up your honor student”. Since both my sons are honor students, excellent athletes, well able to defend themselves and most importantly; kind and peaceful yet strong in mind body and spirit, I took offence to this. (Almost as much as I disliked the one that says, “If you can’t speak English, get the *&%# out!”, but the *&%# was spelt out, and my kids were in grammar school at the time. [We live in New England, USA]) Being the vindictive hothead that I am, I wanted to create an answer sticker. My version is too long and doesn’t scan well: “Your beer swillin’, doper, big bully of an F student will be working for and probably being overpaid by my honor student someday soon”, not that I have anything against beer – quite the contrary. Perhaps y’all can help. Perhaps I’m beyond help. At any rate, I marvel and rejoice at the general wit and intellect of AWADers. ‘Glad I found this place (via, I think, the Smithsonian mag. some years ago). My days are elevated by youse guys.
Regarding the nasty comments against honor students, I was in a group discussion about this very subject some years some years ago on rec.org.mensa, and a fellow remarked that his father had one that went "My honor student kicked the shit out of your linebacker."
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I still like
What if the Hokey-Pokey is what it's all about?
"YOU! Out of the gene pool!"
k
Right string Consuelo, wrong yo-yo.
The
turning yourself around is what its all about.
"YOU! Out of the gene pool!"That's great!
Ok, Faldage, I give up. Explain the irony in your post.
You've not seen the bumper sticker which directs us to
QUESTION AUTHORITY
?
Personally, I find it more ironic than mine.
Come to think of it, it might better go
QUESTION AUTHORITY
OR ELSE
Funniest one I ever saw was:
Colostomy is my bag.
I'm going to buy a T-shirt next month that says:
>select * from users where brainpower > 0;
0 rows returned
Oh, well ...
WILL BEG FOR SEX
then there's the one that I saw posted upside-down on the bumper: why be normal?
"select * ..."
hahahahahaha
I betcha get a few honks from that!
k
from today's freebee newpaper..
an outline of country Kenya, inside the text,
Kenya dig it?
and
With ME, its just Aweso.
(for those with little ego's no doubt.)
i thought they were clever.
reminds me of T shir I saw once on a college student:
KENYON IS NOT A COUNTRY IN AFRICA
my least favorite, seen recently on the t-shirt of a 13 year-old girl:
IDAHO? no, UDAHO
sheesh.
Long's we're discussing T shirts:
Front:
RULE#2 WHEN THE UMPIRE IS WRONG SEE RULE#1
Back:
RULE#1 THE UMPIRE IS ALWAYS RIGHT
Here's some new BS and T-S slogans that have appeared on the Wildwood, NJ, boardwalk T-shirt shops :
Bumper sticker:
If we quit voting
Will they ALL go away?
T-shirts:
I'm not
going bald,
I'm getting
more head
Who are all these kids,
And why are they calling me Daddy?
Dumb and Dumber
(with a pic of Bush, Sr and Dubya, respectively)
I'm Irish
Is there any Irish in you?
Do you want some?
(or Italian, Polish, Puerto Rican, Dominican, etc)
(it's supposed to be a "family" walk, but)
"The Rules of the House" are posted on my refrigerator, and my children, grown though they are, have been thoroughly trained!
Rule #1: Mother is always right. (same as posted above)
Rue #2: When Mother is wrong, see Rule #1.
Seen on the rear bumper of a pickup truck in Colorado:
"Eat more lamb. 50,000 coyotes can't be wrong."
also seen worn on the Wildwood boardwalk:
"Vets aren't
Fonda Kerry"
some more new ones:
BSticker:
Tell your girlfriend
I said thanks!
T's:
If I gave a shit,
You'd be the first person I'd give it to.
I say no to drugs,
But they just won't listen!
Political T's:
John Kerry
for
President of
France
A village
in Texas
lost its
idiot (pic of Bush)
President Bush,
You're fired!
(pic of Donald Trump)
Friends don't let friends
vote Republican.
Friends don't let friends
vote Democrat.
I saw a car recently that had about six bumper stickers spread out all over the back that all urged people to become organ donors. The funny part came when I noticed the sticker nestled in the midst of them all that read "I brake for cemetaries"
Another semi-serious note, this time a billboard erected by the City of Baltimore on a very grungy street in a terrible neighborhood. On the left side, picture of a baby. The text, "A baby costs $785 a month. What's your allowance?"
Yeow, BobY. That one took a moment to sink in. But when it did…
I don't get it BYB. Can you explain it to me. You can send it via message if everybody else knows.
An 'allowance' for me, when I was a kid in the 60's, was a dime. Then it became a quarter somewhere around 6th grade... and a dollar when I entered high school. It didn't take long for me to go find a high school job.
Ohhhhhhh! That type of allowance.
I was thinking along the lines of "family allowance." That's money that is sent to low-income families here.
MY KARMA JUST RAN OVER YOUR DOGMA
(it actually makes sense...sorta)