I’m not the kind of guy who wears his politics on his car bumper, not even during election season. That makes me relatively unique down here in Sandy Eggo, because a lot of folks seem to think that it’s very important that their inanimate objects should manifest just as much bottled rage, passive/aggressiveness and shrieking impotence as they themselves feel.
But there’s a market for everything, right? And since the coffee mugs didn’t sell all that well I thought maybe I might go into the bumper sticker line. All the other idiots are doing it.
I kind of like this one too, but maybe it’s too in your face, like?
But you know, if I was making one to go on my own car, it’d probably look something like this:
Future in it?
I’d buy the last one.
A curious phenomenon I’ve noticed here in New England:
the cars with the largest number of, and usually most strident, bumper stickers on them often also have the most body damage [dented fenders, broken windows, body rust, etc]. Or show obvious lack of maintenance or cleaning.
Hmmmm….
I like the last one as well.
However, I also like one that I had on a previous auto:
“Stupid people shouldn’t breed!”
Just seems to work well with so many of today’s situations.
The last one… yep.
I like them all.
But I think you (or someone) should put both the first and second one on the same vehicle. Now that I really like!
Or should I say… That I could really get behind!
I have a category of posts: “bumperstickerisms.”
I have a collection of posts on what I’ve seen. It does, in the interest of full disclosure, sometimes include scribblings noted on clothing.
I like the last one you posted, and fear the “I’m (a) One Square User!” ones coming in the future!
I’m the guy who peeled the “Impeach Bush” sticker off the Lexus in the Shasta County Admin building parking lot last week. I left the Obama sticker in place, in the spirit of “getting along”, lol.
I have an NRA logo sticker, a Marine Corps logo sticker, and a Boy Scout logo sticker on my truck.
Last election season a friend asked me why I wasn’t sporting any political statements on my bumper. I pointed at the three stickers in the window and asked him “What more is there to say?”
Michelle,
“Or should I say?
Michelle,
“Or should I say… That I could really get behind!”?
No Sheryl Crow jokes, please.
Pinch
I kind of went sticker crazy….3 Boy Scout related stickers, a Boston Red Sox sticker, a New England Patriots sticker with a helmet magnet on the back, a WVU Mountaineers sticker, and since I am a Union Civil War nut living in Virginia, a 33 star US flag to counteract a lot of the Confederate flags I see on cars.
My wife wonders how I see out the back…I tell her “Side mirrors”
Shipmates,
Well, a couple of mt favorite ones are:
Chappquidick 1
Three Mile Island 0
“MUKE PLANTS, not MARIJUANA PLANTS”
and my all time favorite:
KNOW NUKES!
Capt J. is right on, as usual. Up heah in Maine, the bumpah strips ah used more in the line of fancy duct tape ta hold stuff tagethah until it eetha falls off, or you can get it fixed. yessah… ayuh.
respects,
Mebbe I’ll buy a cup.
A close personal feind of mine used to have a “Nuke the Gay Baby Whales” or sumsuchthing, a cuppla waybacks.
-SJBill
Heh. I don’t have a single extra sticker on my car, but I just might put up that last one.
I took the “Bush – Cheney” sticker off the rear window about six months after the election. I still have the “President George W. Bush” sticker on the wind blocker, however. It’s hard to see with the top up, but quite visible with the top down…which is most of the time here in NM.
The last time I was in Santa Fe …about a year ago… I couldn’t help but notice all the Kerry stickers still on the cars two years after the election. And there are a lot of those stickers! One such individual flipped me off on the freeway, too. I laughed and just waved at him…which I think made the doofus just a lil bit madder. Which was my intention.
Dunno if I’d buy a political sticker outside of election season. But if’n I did, your third (last) one might be it…
I always feel somewhat embarrassed for those poor souls who put on – and still have on – those Kerry stickers. They backed a loser to the point of ruining their paint, so they are now stuck with advertising it for all to see.
And yup, in New England it’s all about the strident message over the body rust.
I have a tastefully sized American flag in my rear window, as does the hubby in his – says alot without being showy.
We went for the vanity plate thing a few years ago. When the hubby bought his Jeep, I REALLY wanted to put this on the “Environmental” plate – GUZZLE – it was available but the hubby wouldn’t go for it. I thought it would be hilarious.
Don’t put bumper stickers on my cars – got the American Flag in the window but I spent too too many hours getting them off my dad’s cars and cleaning chrome (remember when they were made of chrome) and too too much money on the cars I have to bugger them up – Ilike the last one if I was inclined or maybe one that said ” America isn’t about sound bites”… Irish
best one I’ve seen recently:
SAVE a TREE!
Wipe your a@@ with an OWL!!
Doorkeeper,
Sure am glad I’d just put down my drink…
I would pay money for the third one. Might or might not put it on the truck.
REGISTER the copyright for the third one, right now! That gives you more rights than the instantaneous copyright we all get whenever we publish anything. I do think the thing is *that* good that it’s worth paying the money.
The last bumper sticker I used (1984) said;
“I’d rather be killing communists in Central America”.
This was in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I got lots of thumbs up on the road, when I made my weekly trek to Redding.
I’m usually a non-bumpersticker person but after discovering my new car had no fewer than *two* exact clones at my little park-n-ride, I’ve gone the magnetic bumpersticker route in pure defense. Magnets meaning I can swap out if I’m feeling in the mood for more snark. My current options: “I support the troops AND their mission” and “Stop Global Whining!”
How about something like “If I was in an F-16 I’d be home by now”?
There is a great non partisan bumper sticker out there but, you have to buy two. Put one on the back bumper and one on the front. It says “Run Hillary, Run!”.
Doorkeeper- I am still laughing! Saw this one one recently:
“I love Vermont
but I fear Montpelier.”
Only one we’ve ever had:
“Surjun Genrul Warnig: Televizion vewing causes illiteraci.”
Every year I send for a new bumper sticker that reads, GO NAVY – BEAT ARMY.Since the war began I make a small modification right after the game…I scratch off the BEAT ARMY part.
That third one is a winner.