# Explain to me about the red plastic testicles on the back of this truck **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 4, 2007, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-about-the-red-plastic-testicles-on-the-back-of-this-truck/398760 "2007-04-04T20:15:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-about-the-red-plastic-testicles-on-the-back-of-this-truck/398760/101 "2008-01-17T15:08:11Z")
[QUOTE=mangeorge] In the 70’s I worked for Welex in Bakersfield doing down-hole logging (I think that’s what they called it), perforating, and the like. [/QUOTE] “Open hole” _or_ “Cased hole”, depending. lieu, who worked cased hole in Pampa for Gearhart Owen, the GO(nad) Co. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-about-the-red-plastic-testicles-on-the-back-of-this-truck/398760/102 "2008-01-17T17:15:33Z")
[QUOTE=Achren] This makes me think of the flash video [Gonads and Strife](http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/weeee). (Ok, it’s real name is “Weeeeeeee!” but the gonads and strife was the bit that got me laughing.) [/QUOTE] Okay. What did I just learn? Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-about-the-red-plastic-testicles-on-the-back-of-this-truck/398760/103 "2008-01-17T19:22:29Z")
I ride my chopper sometimes in a sorta pink cut off “T” , shorts & flip flops, just to see if anyone has the ‘nads’ to laugh in my face IRL. So far, no takers… \< veg \> ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-about-the-red-plastic-testicles-on-the-back-of-this-truck/398760/104 "2008-01-17T19:28:06Z")
I think I’ll put a set on my computer. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-about-the-red-plastic-testicles-on-the-back-of-this-truck/398760/105 "2008-01-17T20:04:51Z")
[QUOTE=GusNSpot] I ride my chopper … flip flops [/QUOTE] If you hit loose gravel and need to plant both boots flat on the road, you’re going to do what? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-about-the-red-plastic-testicles-on-the-back-of-this-truck/398760/106 "2008-01-17T20:33:47Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] (Having said that, I’m sure they’ll soon start turning up by the sackful around here.) [/QUOTE] I hate you. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-about-the-red-plastic-testicles-on-the-back-of-this-truck/398760/107 "2008-01-17T20:52:08Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] But what if they’re gen-u-ine [support the troops desert camo?](http://www.yournutz.com/store/support-the-troops-desert-camo-campaign-p-156.html) Are those going to be illegal, too? Why does Virginia hate America? [/QUOTE] Gah, it looks like said truck caught the clap. What next-truck penises? How about bumper boobs? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-about-the-red-plastic-testicles-on-the-back-of-this-truck/398760/108 "2008-01-17T21:03:48Z")
How about a tapeworm dangling from the tailpipe? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-about-the-red-plastic-testicles-on-the-back-of-this-truck/398760/109 "2008-01-17T21:10:41Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] How about a tapeworm dangling from the tailpipe? [/QUOTE] Hey, has that thing got a heme in it? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-about-the-red-plastic-testicles-on-the-back-of-this-truck/398760/110 "2008-01-17T21:22:54Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] How about a tapeworm dangling from the tailpipe? [/QUOTE] Where the hell’s my cookie? _BAM BAM_ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-about-the-red-plastic-testicles-on-the-back-of-this-truck/398760/111 "2008-01-17T21:34:24Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] What next-truck penises? How about bumper boobs? [/QUOTE] Well, they _do_ sell “car bras”. Just google that phrase and you’ll see tons of stuff. Oddly enough, though, googling “car jock strap” doesn’t come up with any products at all. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-about-the-red-plastic-testicles-on-the-back-of-this-truck/398760/112 "2008-01-17T22:13:46Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] Gah, it looks like said truck caught the clap. How about bumper boobs? [/QUOTE] Are you [kidding](http://www.55buick.com/), or what? Who’d do a silly thing like that? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-about-the-red-plastic-testicles-on-the-back-of-this-truck/398760/113 "2008-01-17T23:38:17Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] Gah, it looks like said truck caught the clap. What next-truck penises? How about bumper boobs? [/QUOTE] Been there, done that, at least for the latter: [http://100megsfree4.com/cadillac//cad1950/cad54s.htm](http://100megsfree4.com/cadillac//cad1950/cad54s.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-about-the-red-plastic-testicles-on-the-back-of-this-truck/398760/114 "2008-04-27T20:46:45Z")
[Florida looks to ban “truck nuts”.](http://floridacapitalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080418/CAPITOLNEWS/804180359) > [@](#): > > Sen. Jim King, R-Jacksonville, said he had a set on one of his vehicles, which he described as “all pimped out.” They are no more than “an expression of truckliness,” he said, although he’d acceded to his wife’s request to take them off. > > “I find it shocking we’d tell people with metallic testicles on their bumpers that this is a violation,” said Sen. Steve Geller, D-Hallandale. “There’s got to be better things for us to spend time debating.” > > Geller suggested this ban might be followed by prohibiting silhouettes of nude women on truck mud flaps. > > “We’re basically going to have the bumper police,” King said. > > “All their concerns are legitimate,” Baker said of the critics. “And I do have more important things to do this session. But I think this is important, too.” ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-about-the-red-plastic-testicles-on-the-back-of-this-truck/398760/115 "2008-04-27T22:45:25Z")
Aww, but nothing says “I am a patriot” like a [flag-covered scrotum.](http://www.bulls-balls.com/images/tnflags.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-about-the-red-plastic-testicles-on-the-back-of-this-truck/398760/116 "2008-04-27T22:53:23Z")
I wonder what the rabid anti-flag burner folks say about that. Probably “Cool”. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-about-the-red-plastic-testicles-on-the-back-of-this-truck/398760/117 "2008-04-27T23:03:23Z")
[QUOTE=Bayard] Aww, but nothing says “I am a patriot” like a [flag-covered scrotum.](http://www.bulls-balls.com/images/tnflags.jpg) [/QUOTE] You can’t really tell they’re nads from a far. Looks more like a bicycle seat. Hehe. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-about-the-red-plastic-testicles-on-the-back-of-this-truck/398760/118 "2008-04-28T00:56:36Z")
Those are the nads of the truck driver. When he’s not drunk he’ll realize what he gone an done. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-about-the-red-plastic-testicles-on-the-back-of-this-truck/398760/119 "2008-04-28T11:41:11Z")
I have finally seen a set of these on a Massachusetts truck. And I thought we had more taste than that, up here. What’s needed, I guess, is the feminine equivalent – a plastic udder to hang under milady’s truck. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-about-the-red-plastic-testicles-on-the-back-of-this-truck/398760/120 "2008-04-28T12:41:39Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] I have finally seen a set of these on a Massachusetts truck. And I thought we had more taste than that, up here. What’s needed, I guess, is the feminine equivalent – a plastic udder to hang under milady’s truck. [/QUOTE] Actually that would more like a set of plastic ovaries. But I’m not one to nit-pick. 😉 Anyway, most of us wouldn’t even know what we were looking at. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-about-the-red-plastic-testicles-on-the-back-of-this-truck/398760.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-about-the-red-plastic-testicles-on-the-back-of-this-truck/398760.md?page=7)