I saw a bumper sticker that said:
WHEN JUDGEMENT DAY COMES,
YOU’LL BE GLAD YOU HAVE
JESUS STICKERS ON YOUR CAR.
I thought it was hilarious. Jesus wouldn’t give a shit what you have stuck on your car. All that matters is how you act and what kind of person you are (if you’re into that kinda thing).
But then I look up from the bumper to see FOUR Jesus fish stickers :smack:
A girlfriend of mine back in the 90’s had two stickers on her car. She’d taken one of the then-ubiquitous “Mean People Suck” stickers, clipped off the “Mean” and put the “People Suck” on her car. Cute, and fit her misanthropic nature.
She was also a nascent feminist, and put a sticker right next to that one that read “Women Are People Too.”
She kinda got pissed when I was amused at the combined message of the two. I believe she ended up peeling off the “People Suck.”
My take on this is different. Although the classic symbol is supposed to be a two-ar fish, the complete symbol has the Greek word IXTHYS in it. This stands for the Greek for “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior”. And it’s also the Greek word for “Fish”. And it ties in with the Disciples being fishermen, and lots of other things:
I’m agnostic, but I rather like that. It’s simple and elegant.
Of course, some people didn’t get the point, so they “translated” IXTHYS to “Jesus”, which isn’t really the same thing, and used THAT inside the fish symbol. And some added the cross as a sort of eye (which made it look like a Dead Fish).
So, they Weren’t Doing it Right, but I think the route’s slightly different.
The various parodies of the fish symbol got annoying pretty quickly.
And “Darwin” isn’t in opposition to Christianity, anyway – just to stubborn literalists. But I do have a favorite parody – it’s the Fish symbol with GHOTI written inside it, from the joke (attributed to G.B. Shaw, although it probably isn’t his: Ghoti - Wikipedia ) that this is an alternate spelling of “Fish”, it pokes fun at all the parodies.
See, I’ve been looking for one of those for ages! Know where I can get one for my car? 
I saw a car with a bumper sticker that said
HONK IF YOU LOVE HONKING
So I honked. The guy in the car looked confused.
Scarlett67 writes:
Googling “ghoti fish sticker” brings up lots of hits, like this one:
http://bumperstickers.cafepress.com/item/ghoti-fish-sticker/53537012
I have a GHOTI Fish button on my wall that I got from NancyButtons:
http://www.nancybuttons.com/catalog.cgi?o_custom=&o_selected=&action=browse&action_mod=show&cat=lan
Following along the OP…as the family was being washed down a Vermont mountain side in the pouring rain cutting short our tree hugging and granola eating (although we spell that smores) I saw a bumper sticker that makes me wonder about political marketing.
I was following a clearly liberal car due to several of its stickers when I see on the “far right” bumper a MCCAIN bumper sticker. :eek: So I speed up the VW microbus (disguised as a Honda Pilot) and realized that above the MCCAIN is written in font half the size “Bush’s Third Term” (at first I thought it was “Bush’s Third Cousin”)
So it was an anti-mccain sticker but I thought it was pro-mccain at first. While I appreciate the message I am concerned that it will fail to deliver the desired message. Most of us standing to the left will agree that those in the center and off to the right don’t read for content very well… 
Sometimes I think the attack ad stickers should not be subtle …
How about “Mean McCain Sucks” or “McCain isn’t people too”
No idea where you got (1) from, since the sticker said about you not liking him, and nothing the other way around… but I guess predisposition has to count for something, doesn’t it?
And that leads me to my favorite “you’re doing it wrong” bumper icon: apparently, the Darwin fish-with-feet so incensed religious types that they produced a new bumper medallion, a larger “Jesus” fish eating a smaller Darwin fish. Apparently, this is supposed to express the superiority of their viewpoint. Instead, every time I see one of those, I think, “Oh, look! An example of natural selection!”
The driver is a zombie?
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My personal bumper sticker snafu was the humanistic sentiment, “I believe in life before death.” My husband drove my car to work a few times and he said people asked him why he had an anti-abortion sticker on his car. :smack:
That’s probably like those “Fireman, save my pets!” window stickers that have spaces to mark each pet so firemen know who to evacuate. This way, Jesus knows to take all four occupants in the event of the Rapture.
Sailboat
The Jesus fish stickers now make me think of a sig I saw on another forum that I would love to put on my car. It has a Jesus fish and a Darwin fish kissing, and says:
DARWIN WAS A CHRISTIAN
JESUS WAS A LIBERAL
The sticker that still confuses me though the one I saw that read “Hungry and out of work? Eat an environmentalist.” I can make guesses, but I’m still not entirely sure what it’s supposed to mean.
This guy is doing the same thing. Or he really hates a certain Irish family.
Cool, thanks! I was hoping for one of those chrome things, but I’ll take what I can get. 
My English Lit teacher in the eleventh grade had two bumper stickers on her car:
“Teachers Do More than Teach” and “Ask Me About Mary Kay Cosmetics”
Since we’re talking signs on cars and failblog, this bit of situational fail may be one of the best I’ve seen.
My favorite… when the little “Darwin fish” with feet came out. It was pithy, it was cute, even if it overdid it by spelling out “DARWIN”.
The fundies couldn’t say “ok, we’ve got our little symbol, and you did your own little thing with it, now we both have little symbols of our own”. No, now there’s a bigger fish labeled “TRUTH” eating the little Darwin fish. If you’re going to go to the trouble of actually stamping out sheet metal, be clever, don’t just graphically say ‘Oh YEAH? Well “YOUR” wrong’.
Alcoholics Anonymous stickers…what part of the anonymous are they forgetting?
Really? It striikes me that it is clever. Having a bigger fish eating a smaller one as part of the “bumper sticker debate” works on a couple of levels. See Max Torque’s post above yours, for one.
Saying “We responded to what you say, but you can’t respond to what we say!” makes you guilty of the very thing you were complaining about.
RR
