Not sure if you’re being serious but this discussion isn’t just academic, the bumper sticker I saw seemed genuine - the Christian cross on it was deliberate. And there were no other stickers or other ‘light” humorous affectations on the car, no comic sans lettering on the sticker like you might expect on a tshirt. Sure, it could have be a ‘one off’ funny but in that context, if it was, the ‘funny’ was lost.
That’s sort of the exact point. The purpose isn’t necessarily to make you laugh - it’s to make the person who put the sticker on their car laugh at your confused response. That sort of neo-Dadaist absurdism is a big part of Gen-Z humor.
And really, this is just scratching the surface of what Gen Z does with Garfield. Check out r/imsorryjon sometime.
I’ll sign that petition.
Cat, dog, kids, one time possum lady who votes.
I once had a bumper sticker that read, STUPID PEOPLE SHOULDN’T BREED.
Some people would chuckle. But the real deal were the folks who looked at it and didn’t understand, looking all slack jawed as they pondered.
I love that song.
What’s not to get?
Yeah, right?
I had one bumper sticker, ever, on a car I owned.
It said “Imagine”.
I got more comments on that. And questions.
I could never understand the confusion.
I hated to see it go when we traded the vehicle.
But I was glad people quit asking me "What’s that mean?’
There are two kinds of people in the world.
Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
Wait, but that’s only…. Ohhhh…
I used to have a button on my hat that said “Doing my part to piss off the Religious Right”. Never once was anyone offended by it, because the people it would have offended, don’t read.
I always figured Nermal as male. The long eyelashes and ultra cuteness are because he’s a perpetual kitten, so will never reach adult malehood. I had an exceptionally cute, grey tabby who I named Nermal but she was a female.
It’s canon that Nermal is male. That said, the character was voiced by a woman in the first TV show, and I’m pretty sure that’s where I also for got the impression that Nermal was female, though it’s been so long I can’t remember if she was doing more of a young boy voice or a more feminine voice.
He always sounded very girly to me:
Nermal’s second appearance in 1979 has Garfield referring to Nermal as “he”. Seems to me that should settle that question.
Was she as thin as a pressed duck? SHE’S A WITCH!!!