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#131720 08/19/2004 2:07 AM
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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?


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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.


#131722 08/19/2004 11:26 AM
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Again, not wanting to stir any political arguments, just from a semiotic viewpoint:


BUSH

LLIT


#131723 08/19/2004 11:29 AM
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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.



#131724 08/19/2004 12:01 PM
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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.


#131725 08/19/2004 1:41 PM
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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.


#131726 08/19/2004 9:49 PM
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B
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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.


#131727 08/19/2004 11:17 PM
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Here's a cute one...

JOHN KERRY

And oh yeah, I just love anagrams..

JOHN KERRY
HORNY JERK


Ain't this fun?


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especially those that bash individuals or groups

It's just that it's so hard to find anything to be *for these days.


#131729 08/20/2004 12:09 AM
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SAVE THE CHOCOLATE MOUSSE


#131730 08/20/2004 10:45 AM
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SAVE THE PECCADILLO FROM EXTINCTION


#131731 08/20/2004 10:53 AM
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I BRAKE FOR ROADKILL


#131732 08/20/2004 12:27 PM
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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.


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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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#131734 08/20/2004 4:52 PM
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I still like

What if the Hokey-Pokey is what it's all about?


#131735 08/20/2004 6:37 PM
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Save The Plankton!


#131736 08/20/2004 8:20 PM
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"YOU! Out of the gene pool!"

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#131737 08/20/2004 8:35 PM
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Right string Consuelo, wrong yo-yo.
The turning yourself around is what its all about.



#131738 08/20/2004 10:24 PM
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"YOU! Out of the gene pool!"

That's great!


#131739 08/21/2004 1:01 AM
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I Heart My Doghead


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I Spade My Cat


#131741 08/21/2004 4:26 PM
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I club my wife



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#131742 08/21/2004 5:17 PM
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Vote for Anyone Else


#131743 08/21/2004 9:15 PM
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WHY QUESTION AUTHORITY?


#131744 08/21/2004 11:22 PM
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Ok, Faldage, I give up. Explain the irony in your post.



#131745 08/21/2004 11:51 PM
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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


#131746 08/22/2004 12:08 AM
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Funniest one I ever saw was:

Colostomy is my bag.


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I'm going to buy a T-shirt next month that says:

>select * from users where brainpower > 0;
0 rows returned

Oh, well ...


#131748 08/22/2004 11:25 PM
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WILL BEG FOR SEX




#131749 08/23/2004 11:24 AM
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then there's the one that I saw posted upside-down on the bumper: why be normal?


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"select * ..."

hahahahahaha

I betcha get a few honks from that!

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#131751 08/23/2004 9:52 PM
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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.


#131752 08/24/2004 9:29 AM
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reminds me of T shir I saw once on a college student:

KENYON IS NOT A COUNTRY IN AFRICA


#131753 08/24/2004 9:44 AM
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my least favorite, seen recently on the t-shirt of a 13 year-old girl:

IDAHO? no, UDAHO

sheesh.



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#131754 08/24/2004 10:31 AM
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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


#131755 08/25/2004 2:09 AM
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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)




#131756 08/26/2004 12:32 AM
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"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.


#131757 08/26/2004 6:20 PM
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Seen on the rear bumper of a pickup truck in Colorado:
"Eat more lamb. 50,000 coyotes can't be wrong."



#131758 08/27/2004 7:02 PM
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also seen worn on the Wildwood boardwalk:

"Vets aren't
Fonda Kerry"


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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.


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