# "I \[heart\] Haliburton" ....
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-haliburton/376293
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 13, 2006, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-haliburton/376293 "2006-10-13T12:33:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2006, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-haliburton/376293/1 "2006-10-13T12:33:47Z")
… was one bumper sticker on the car (a Camry or something equally unmemorable).
The other was “I’d Rather Be Driving.”
Anyone want to parse those for me?
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### Author:  [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-haliburton/376293/2 "2006-10-13T12:46:55Z")
[Haliburton?](http://www.haliburtoncounty.ca/)
As for the other one – was he driving a beater?
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2006, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-haliburton/376293/3 "2006-10-13T12:51:46Z")
Hm, you could be right about Haliburton.
Re: what he was driving – as I said, a Camry or something of that ilk, and utterly undistinctive car.
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### Author:  [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2006, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-haliburton/376293/4 "2006-10-13T17:09:00Z")
To me it’s an ironic commentary on those people whose cars sport bumper stickers saying they would rather be fishing or golfing or choking the toaster, but are instead wasting their lives driving around, just like the rest of us.
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### Author:  [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-haliburton/376293/5 "2006-10-13T17:14:53Z")
I’m going to guess that \*_Sal_ has a “I’d rather be starting Internet memes” bumpersticker on _his_ car… 😛
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### Author:  [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-haliburton/376293/6 "2006-10-13T17:18:20Z")
Current bumper sticker on mine is Cthulhu for President, '92. On an '04 car. I was a bit upset after last election. “Why choose the lesser evil”, indeed. Most people don’t see it as anything but a political sticker.
Before, on a real beater, ‘This Is Not An Abandoned Vehicle’. Useful, and yet amazingly funny.
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### Author:  [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-haliburton/376293/7 "2006-10-13T17:40:55Z")
I was thinking that maybe the “I’d rather be driving” sticker was more an ironic commentary – i.e. driving is fun compared to whatever it is he considers his car to be doing instead.
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### Author:  [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-haliburton/376293/8 "2006-10-14T00:28:19Z")
Maybe “I’d Rather Be Driving” means he’d rather do that than sit in traffic jams day after day.
Or maybe he likes to golf.
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### Author:  [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-haliburton/376293/9 "2006-10-14T04:16:34Z")
[QUOTE=E-Sabbath]
Before, on a real beater, ‘This Is Not An Abandoned Vehicle’. Useful, and yet amazingly funny.
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That’s what I needed for my '72 Plymouth!! Damned apartment complex management kept threatening to tow it … I had to make sure to park it in different spaces regularly so they’d know it still ran. (I’d have been scared to drive it to a junkyard–owners probably wouldn’t have let me leave with it without paying them …)
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### Author:  [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2006, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-haliburton/376293/10 "2006-10-14T12:34:33Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield]
[Haliburton?](http://www.haliburtoncounty.ca/)
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thanks for the link. I was a kid from Cleveland whose Scout troop camped for a week near Haliburton every summer. Nice place, so I do appreciate the sticker.
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### Author:  [@Black\_Train\_Song](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Train_Song)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-haliburton/376293/11 "2006-10-14T13:54:45Z")
I saw one today that said “Firefighter’s DAD”
I’m not sure what I’m supposed to take away from that. I understand that he may be proud but what am I supposed to do with that information?
I like this one by George Carlin: “We are the Proud Parents of a Child Whose Self-Esteem is Sufficient that He Doesn’t Need Us Advertising His Minor Scholastic Achievements on the Bumper of Our Car.”
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2006, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-haliburton/376293/12 "2006-10-15T01:39:07Z")
Was “I rather be driving” on the passenger’s side?
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2006, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-haliburton/376293/13 "2006-10-15T01:51:38Z")
Was the driver firing a shotgun at random old men? Maybe it was Dick Cheney driving. Still doesn’t explain “I’d Rather Be Driving” though.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-haliburton/376293/14 "2006-10-15T01:53:01Z")
[QUOTE=Black Train Song]
I saw one today that said “Firefighter’s DAD”
I’m not sure what I’m supposed to take away from that. I understand that he may be proud but what am I supposed to do with that information?
[/QUOTE]
Light the car on fire.
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### Author:  [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2006, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-haliburton/376293/15 "2006-10-15T02:05:13Z")
I’m going to guess that the “I’d rather be driving” sticker was a double entendre, both pimping his love for golfing and being ironic. If it had any green on it or anything else which might indicate it was a golf motif would certainly confirm that. I mean, if you had the choice of one that said “I’d rather be Golfing” or “I’d rather be putting” or “I’d rather be driving” which would you take? The latter is a two for the price of one.
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### Author:  [@Reepicheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reepicheep)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2006, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-haliburton/376293/16 "2006-10-15T08:15:09Z")
[QUOTE=twickster]
… was one bumper sticker on the car (a Camry or something equally unmemorable).
Anyone want to parse those for me?
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Could it have been [Halliburton](http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingstuff.11393861)? This Halliburton being Dick Cheney’s former corporation.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2006, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-haliburton/376293/17 "2006-10-15T12:29:57Z")
[QUOTE=Reepicheep]
Could it have been [Halliburton](http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingstuff.11393861)? This Halliburton being Dick Cheney’s former corporation.
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That was my thought – but for my money, that’s like saying “I [heart] the quintessential symbol of the evils of right-wing government under the control of soulless corporations.”
Odd thing to tout, from my POV, which I was asking for help in analyzing it.
The driving bumper sticker was on the driver’s side – yeah, the golf analysis makes sense. I didn’t notice any colors or art that would indicate that, but I was actually in the next lane over so couldn’t really study them – just had time to read them both as I was stopping for the red light.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-haliburton/376293/18 "2006-10-15T19:11:20Z")
I’m guessing both stickers were meant to be ironic.
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### Author:  [@Reepicheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reepicheep)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2006, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-haliburton/376293/19 "2006-10-15T21:30:44Z")
Since the site that is selling the Halliburton bumper sticker I linked to above bills itself “liberal baiting” I doubt that they see Halliburton in the terms you describe. The car owner may have meant both as ironic as **Miller** suggested.
I am more inclined to think that the driving refers to golf. Remember the “Member of a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy” stickers that were around when Clinton was in office? I tend to think of the Halliburton sticker in those terms.
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### Author:  [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2006, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-heart-haliburton/376293/20 "2006-10-16T01:32:29Z")
Perhaps the person has a [Halliburton](http://www.zerohalliburton.com/) fetish?
Cartooniverse