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Posted By: Bobyoungbalt Bumper sticker - 08/19/04 02:07 AM
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?

Posted By: of troy Re: Bumper sticker - 08/19/04 11:18 AM
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.

Posted By: Faldage Re: Bumper sticker - 08/19/04 11:26 AM
Again, not wanting to stir any political arguments, just from a semiotic viewpoint:


BUSH

LLIT

Posted By: of troy Re: Bumper sticker - 08/19/04 11:29 AM
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.


Posted By: clockworkchaos Re: Bumper sticker - 08/19/04 12:01 PM
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.

Posted By: Alex Williams Re: Bumper sticker - 08/19/04 01:41 PM
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.

Posted By: Faldage Re: Bumper sticker - 08/19/04 09:49 PM
B
L


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.

Posted By: amemeba Re: Bumper sticker - 08/19/04 11:17 PM
Here's a cute one...

JOHN KERRY

And oh yeah, I just love anagrams..

JOHN KERRY
HORNY JERK


Ain't this fun?

Posted By: Faldage Re: Bumper sticker - 08/19/04 11:39 PM
especially those that bash individuals or groups

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

Posted By: Alex Williams Re: Bumper sticker - 08/20/04 12:09 AM
SAVE THE CHOCOLATE MOUSSE

Posted By: Faldage Re: Bumper sticker - 08/20/04 10:45 AM
SAVE THE PECCADILLO FROM EXTINCTION

Posted By: AnnaStrophic Re: Bumper sticker - 08/20/04 10:53 AM
I BRAKE FOR ROADKILL

Posted By: Owlbow Bumper sticker - 08/20/04 12:27 PM
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.

Posted By: TheFallibleFiend Re: Bumper sticker - 08/20/04 01:37 PM

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."

k


Posted By: consuelo Re: Bumper sticker - 08/20/04 04:52 PM
I still like

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

Posted By: musick Re: Bumper sticker - 08/20/04 06:37 PM
Save The Plankton!

Posted By: TheFallibleFiend Re: Bumper sticker - 08/20/04 08:20 PM

"YOU! Out of the gene pool!"

k

Posted By: amemeba Re: Bumper sticker - 08/20/04 08:35 PM
Right string Consuelo, wrong yo-yo.
The turning yourself around is what its all about.


Posted By: AnnaStrophic Re: Bumper sticker - 08/20/04 10:24 PM
"YOU! Out of the gene pool!"

That's great!

Posted By: DetroitDave Re: Bumper sticker - 08/21/04 01:01 AM
I Heart My Doghead

Posted By: Faldage Re: Bumper sticker - 08/21/04 01:13 PM
I Spade My Cat

Posted By: TEd Remington Re: Bumper sticker - 08/21/04 04:26 PM
I club my wife

Posted By: Capfka Re: Bumper sticker - 08/21/04 05:17 PM
Vote for Anyone Else

Posted By: Faldage Re: Bumper sticker - 08/21/04 09:15 PM
WHY QUESTION AUTHORITY?

Posted By: amemeba Re: Bumper sticker - 08/21/04 11:22 PM
Ok, Faldage, I give up. Explain the irony in your post.


Posted By: Faldage Re: Irony - 08/21/04 11:51 PM
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

Posted By: Coffeebean Re: Irony - 08/22/04 12:08 AM
Funniest one I ever saw was:

Colostomy is my bag.

Posted By: Capfka Re: One for the geeks among us ... - 08/22/04 04:24 AM
I'm going to buy a T-shirt next month that says:

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

Oh, well ...

Posted By: gift horse Re: Bumper sticker - 08/22/04 11:25 PM
WILL BEG FOR SEX



Posted By: Alex Williams Re: Bumper sticker - 08/23/04 11:24 AM
then there's the one that I saw posted upside-down on the bumper: why be normal?

Posted By: TheFallibleFiend Re: One for the geeks among us ... - 08/23/04 02:10 PM

"select * ..."

hahahahahaha

I betcha get a few honks from that!

k

Posted By: of troy more T shirts - 08/23/04 09:52 PM
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.

Posted By: Alex Williams Re: more T shirts - 08/24/04 09:29 AM
reminds me of T shir I saw once on a college student:

KENYON IS NOT A COUNTRY IN AFRICA

Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu Re: more T shirts - 08/24/04 09:44 AM
my least favorite, seen recently on the t-shirt of a 13 year-old girl:

IDAHO? no, UDAHO

sheesh.

Posted By: Faldage Re: more T shirts - 08/24/04 10:31 AM
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

Posted By: WhitmanO'Neill Re: more T shirts - 08/25/04 02:09 AM
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)



Posted By: amnow Re: more T shirts - 08/26/04 12:32 AM
"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.

Posted By: Saranita Re: Bumper sticker - 08/26/04 06:20 PM
Seen on the rear bumper of a pickup truck in Colorado:
"Eat more lamb. 50,000 coyotes can't be wrong."


Posted By: WhitmanO'Neill Re: more T shirts - 08/27/04 07:02 PM
also seen worn on the Wildwood boardwalk:

"Vets aren't
Fonda Kerry"

Posted By: WhitmanO'Neill Re: more T shirts - 09/08/04 02:37 AM
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.

Posted By: consuelo Re: Bumper sticker - 09/10/04 02:18 PM
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"

Posted By: Bobyoungbalt Re: Bumper sticker - 09/15/04 02:53 AM
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?"

Posted By: Faldage Re: Your allowance - 09/15/04 10:27 AM
Yeow, BobY. That one took a moment to sink in. But when it did…

Posted By: belMarduk Re: Your allowance - 09/15/04 06:51 PM
I don't get it BYB. Can you explain it to me. You can send it via message if everybody else knows.

Posted By: musick Your parental allowance - 09/15/04 07:09 PM
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.

Posted By: belMarduk Re: Your parental allowance - 09/15/04 07:15 PM
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.

Posted By: gonoldothrond Re: Bumper sticker - 09/24/04 05:41 PM
MY KARMA JUST RAN OVER YOUR DOGMA

(it actually makes sense...sorta)

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