# Do you have any bumper stickers on your car? If so, what do they say? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 9, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-bumper-stickers-on-your-car-if-so-what-do-they-say/765440 "2016-09-09T16:50:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-bumper-stickers-on-your-car-if-so-what-do-they-say/765440/41 "2016-09-10T04:24:37Z")
I have not owned a car since 1988. But in the early 1980s, I had a bumper sticker on that car that read, “Nixon/Manson in '84.” ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-bumper-stickers-on-your-car-if-so-what-do-they-say/765440/42 "2016-09-10T04:56:35Z")
“Alcohol and Calculus don’t mix - never drink and derive” ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-bumper-stickers-on-your-car-if-so-what-do-they-say/765440/43 "2016-09-10T06:08:18Z")
On my RX-7, I had a license plate frame that said “If you can’t stop, wave as you go under”. Ideal for this F-350-type neighborhood. ---
**Author:** ![davey77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@davey77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davey77)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-bumper-stickers-on-your-car-if-so-what-do-they-say/765440/44 "2016-09-10T10:33:30Z")
I have a “Wall Drug” sticker just waiting for a car to put it on. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-bumper-stickers-on-your-car-if-so-what-do-they-say/765440/45 "2016-09-10T10:36:00Z")
An old, faded [Human Rights Campaign](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Hrc_logo.svg/2000px-Hrc_logo.svg.png) sticker. I used to have a Darwin fish, but someone removed it. ---
**Author:** ![appleaday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@appleaday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleaday)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-bumper-stickers-on-your-car-if-so-what-do-they-say/765440/46 "2016-09-10T11:18:04Z")
I have a “Seahawks” bumper sticker. I once had one that said “My other vehicle is a TARDIS”, but that car is long gone. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-bumper-stickers-on-your-car-if-so-what-do-they-say/765440/47 "2016-09-10T11:33:50Z")
I have BDA (Bermuda), W (for Wellfleet, MA), MTK (Montauk, NY) place stickers. I also have a Bernie Sanders and a Hillary Clinton sticker. On my first car in grad school I had “Pro-choice is Pro-family” sticker which was routinely vandalized. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-bumper-stickers-on-your-car-if-so-what-do-they-say/765440/48 "2016-09-10T11:45:13Z")
^ **SXM** (St Martin) I used to have a “Stupid People Shouldn’t Breed” bumper sticker. The people who understood it laughed; those who were puzzled by it, well. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-bumper-stickers-on-your-car-if-so-what-do-they-say/765440/49 "2016-09-10T12:39:11Z")
“Driftless.” It’s a shout-out to my newly adopted home region’s geomorphology. I’m sure it leaves many (even around southwest Wisconsin) scratching their heads – maybe they think I’m leading some kind of lifestyle or practicing some philosophy: “Aimless drifter? No, maybe the opposite of that…” ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-bumper-stickers-on-your-car-if-so-what-do-they-say/765440/50 "2016-09-10T12:40:39Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > ^ **SXM** (St Martin) > > I used to have a “Stupid People Shouldn’t Breed” bumper sticker. The people who understood it laughed; those who were puzzled by it, well. How could this be puzzling? Honest question. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-bumper-stickers-on-your-car-if-so-what-do-they-say/765440/51 "2016-09-10T12:42:18Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I don’t have one, but the best bumper sticker I ever saw read: **OPINIONS!!** Love it! IMHO. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-bumper-stickers-on-your-car-if-so-what-do-they-say/765440/52 "2016-09-10T13:17:09Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > How could this be puzzling? Honest question. You got me. I’d see people looking at it as if they were trying to sound out the big words. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2016, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-bumper-stickers-on-your-car-if-so-what-do-they-say/765440/53 "2016-09-10T13:35:16Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > You got me. I’d see people looking at it as if they were trying to sound out the big words. 🙂 Perhaps some folks see the division between “humans” and “(other) animals” as so strong, that they have trouble parsing how the verb “breed” could apply to humans? ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-bumper-stickers-on-your-car-if-so-what-do-they-say/765440/54 "2016-09-11T00:32:31Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Cars still have bumpers? Next thing you’ll say is they’re still chrome. That was my thought immediately upon reading the thread title. Been some years since I’ve seen cars with conventional bumpers. It did make me think of when I had a bumper sticker on my '65 ford Galaxie 2dr. Hard top. Dual Chrome pipes out the back. Was crossing the border from saskatchewan into Montana in 1973 at the height of Watergate. The US border guards wouldn’t let me cross until I scraped the sticker off. It said “Dick Nixon before Nixon dicks you”. They were less than impressed. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-bumper-stickers-on-your-car-if-so-what-do-they-say/765440/55 "2016-09-11T02:39:54Z")
> [@Mallard](#): > > That was my thought immediately upon reading the thread title. Been some years since I’ve seen cars with conventional bumpers. It did make me think of when I had a bumper sticker on my '65 ford Galaxie 2dr. Hard top. Dual Chrome pipes out the back. Was crossing the border from saskatchewan into Montana in 1973 at the height of Watergate. The US border guards wouldn’t let me cross until I scraped the sticker off. It said “Dick Nixon before Nixon dicks you”. They were less than impressed. 😃 That kind of seems like an overreach of authority on their part. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-bumper-stickers-on-your-car-if-so-what-do-they-say/765440/56 "2016-09-11T03:06:54Z")
> [@Mallard](#): > > That was my thought immediately upon reading the thread title. Been some years since I’ve seen cars with conventional bumpers. It did make me think of when I had a bumper sticker on my '65 ford Galaxie 2dr. Hard top. Dual Chrome pipes out the back. Was crossing the border from saskatchewan into Montana in 1973 at the height of Watergate. The US border guards wouldn’t let me cross until I scraped the sticker off. It said “Dick Nixon before Nixon dicks you”. They were less than impressed. 😃 My wife had a '92 Ford Escort she finally junked three years ago. One day, I stepped on the “bumper” to fish something out of a dumpster. I left a foot-sized hole in the plastic. :eek: Back in the late '60s/early '70s, **Rock City** (A tourist attraction on Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga, TN) employees used to slap their bumper sticker on your car while you were enjoying the trails. They must have caught some guff for it; a few years later we went again and when we came out, there was a heavy cardboard “bumper sticker” held on with metal straps tied onto the bumper. It hung in the club basement for many years. ---
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-bumper-stickers-on-your-car-if-so-what-do-they-say/765440/57 "2016-09-11T04:16:16Z")
I have a Dan’s Comp, Pull BMX, JR Bicycle, Ohio Mountain Biker, GT, and Haro Bikes. I also have a Chelsea Football sticker. It’s pretty much a rolling billboard for bikes and soccer… ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-bumper-stickers-on-your-car-if-so-what-do-they-say/765440/58 "2016-09-11T04:51:21Z")
Oh, man, I’m looking at decals to replace the old ones on my car, and there are too many choices. I can’t decide between ‘‘Slug Life’’ (with slugs), Futurama brain slugs, nudibranchs, [Cthulhu Nom](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0941/8552/products/Cthulhu_-_Nom_large.jpg?v=1470789847), or ‘‘I love snails.’’ There are also a variety of jellyfish and other tentacled creatures. It’s just too much to handle. ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-bumper-stickers-on-your-car-if-so-what-do-they-say/765440/59 "2016-09-11T06:49:28Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > That kind of seems like an overreach of authority on their part. :dubious: Didn’t help that I was wearing an embroidered jean jacket and near shoulder length hair. I think they thought I was a potential drug peddler (which I wasn’t of course). ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-bumper-stickers-on-your-car-if-so-what-do-they-say/765440/60 "2016-09-11T11:08:46Z")
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