Driving home the other night, I ended up behind a late 70’s El Camino with a custom paint job. On the tailgate was: at the left, a painted rendition of a checkered flag with a number"3" in the center, and the date 2-18-01; on the right an American flag with the date 9-11-01. At the bottom: In memoriam.
Yes, folks (and no offence intended to NASCAR fans), according to this yo-yo, Dale Earnhardt’s Daytona crash holds equal status with the WTC attacks.
Just because he is memoralizing both events does not mean he views them to be of equal importance.
In my neck of the woods, some guy glued strips of carpet on the side of his old, shitty chevy van to make the world’s ugliest oversized novelty American flag. Do these folks think everyone else appreciates these horrific rolling memorials? What the hell goes on in some peoples heads?
Scratch that-- I don’t want to know!
She told me she loved me like a brother. She’s from Arkansas, hence the Joy!
well if you add up the numbers you get 21 on both sides, so I guess he’s sort of right (in a wrong way)
GOOD LORD. 21 on both sides? CONSPIRACY!!!
FNORD!
He probably had the Earnhardt sticker already, then added the 9/11 sticker. Should he have taken off the Earnhardt sticker so that the 9/11 sticker could stand alone? What if he had “Visualize Whirled Peas” on the left side: would you assume they were correlated, and think he was trivalizing the attacks?
I just don’t believe in bumper stickers at all. Anyone can slap something on their bumper; doesn’t mean they really adhere to a principle, or, if it’s a humorous sticker, that they’re clever and original.
[anecdotes]My parents and I once went to Lost River Caverns in Hellertown, PA. Unbeknownst to us, the staff applied a sticker while we were in the cave, and we couldn’t get it off. We derived some amusement from people asking, “Where the hell is Hellertown?”, but jeez, if we wanted to advertise a Pennsyvania tourist attraction, it would have been Roadside America.
Mom of a girl for whom I used to babysit had a sticker: “If you can read this, thank a teacher.” She was, of course a teacher. But I learned to read at home, thank you, and so, in fact, did her daughter, presumably taught by mom in the capacity of mom, not teacher.
My sister used to have “My kid beat up your honor student” on her car, and thought it was hilarious. Until her son was arrested for B&E. The sticker disappeared shortly after that.
Mr. Rilch swears off all stickers, claiming they hurt the resale/tradein value, even after removal.[/anecdotes]
When it comes to bumper stickers, I figured I’d just adhere them to a thin magnet before placing them on my car. It stays on, comes off much easier, and leaves no evidence. At least in my experience.
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The OP says both were painted onto the car, not bumper stickers. That does make it sound like he had them both done at the same time and was (in a way) equating them.
One freakshow-on-wheels I saw in (of all places) a Wal-Mart parking lot had “GOD IS ON OUR SIDE” painted in gigantic letters across the entire side of the van.
People sure do paint some stupid shit on their cars. One pickup I see around town occaisionally has the words “Dat’s a Truck” professionally painted on the tailgate. How stupid can you get? The same truck also has a window decal of a counterfeit Calvin kneeling in front of a cross instead of the usual “pissing on a Ford logo” thing.
Yeah, that’s great. Equate your savior with blatant copyright infringment. Real pious there, buddy.
Here, here! I grew up in PA and can’t count how many times I went there. Such an amazing little place…
Just today, I saw a sticker on the back of a Ford truck that said “God does have a last name, and it’s Ford!”
Huh?
Actually, I believe at least three Al-Qaeda operatives hiding in the US saw that and decided “oh, shit, we thought he was on our side, but if it’s written on the side of a van, it must be true.” The Attorney General will release details to the public at an undisclosed point in the future, most likely when Bush’s approval ratings need a boost.
D’oh. Cheerfully withdrawn, then.
And I can’t believe I left the L out of Pennsylvania.
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As I may not have been clear, yes, the flag motifs were painted on, they appeared to have been painted at the same time, they were large enough combined to cover the entire tailgate, and were of equal size. Sez to me the owner considered the two tragedies to be equal in importance.
Interestingly, it had been partially oversprayed with black paint so that it wasn’t immediately apparent, unless you pulled right up behind the car at a traffic light.
I wasn’t unforgivably offended, mind, just thought it said something interesting about worship of celebrity.
Don’t worry, a lot of people want to get the L out of Pennsylvania.
Unemployed coal miners, mostly.