Well, my husband owns a 1969 Buick Skylark (yes, on purpose–I hate this car) that he bought from an elderly lady after her husband died (88,000 original miles, original engine–it was their “church” car).
Anyway, the car has a handicapped sticker on the bumper that will just not come off. Hubby decided he’d stick a bumper sticker over it but the only one he had was one that says “Mean People Suck”. He didn’t particularly like the message of the new sticker (someone gave it to him) so he put it over the handicapped sticker so the only part that shows is “People Suck”.
The only problem is the new sticker doesn’t completely cover the old one so now his car has what looks like a bumper sticker that says, “Handicapped People Suck”. I just know we’re going to come out of a store or restaurant one day and our tires are going to be slashed. Hubby thinks it’s funny in a way.
I’ve seen a few bumper stickers I liked - one said “Want to get laid? Crawl up a chicken’s ass and wait.”
My old crappy car is plastered with bumper stickers. Most of them Yosemite National Park stickers, but I have a few others:
“Guns don’t kill people, postal workers do”. (My dad was a postal worker, I just find this sticker funny. It even has a little picture of a postage stamp with a gun picture in it.)
“Madness takes it’s toll - please have exact change”. I just think this is funny! But some people don’t get it. Oh well.
I used to have a bumper sticker that said “I’m straight but not narrow.” I liked it both for the pro-gay rights meaning, but also because I am a curvy woman-definitely not straight or narrow.
Occasionally people (presumably gay) would point to it and thank me. That always made my day.
Mamapotomus said
“racinchikki - I got behind a car with “Earl’s in the trunk” sticker on the back. I almost drove off the road trying to figure it out. I feel better now.”
Yeah, I got that one right away. What racinchikki meant by being a Dixie Chicks fan, is that the girl band has a hit song out called “Goodbye Earl” in which wife-abuser Earl gets his final comeuppance from his wife’s best friend, who flies back home to take care of matters. It’s actually a rather humorous song, although I don’t know how you justify killin’ a man with poisoned food and then not having any conscience about it… I realize it’s “just” a song, but…
Kind of a Thelma & Louise feel. I can see seeing a sticker like that on a car.
One I’ve never quite understood: A Calvin pissing on a Ford emblem, ON A FORD TRUCK! I don’t get it. I’ve seen it on a few Fords in the last few years, the most creative was the one where they just put the Calvin next to the actual emblem.
Baglady, racinchikki, and all you other Dixie Chicks fans: My biggest peeve about this group is that they came out with the ‘goodbye earl’ song without so much as a whimper from the media. Eminem kills his girlfriend in a song, and he’s immediately hated. How can it be that it’s ok to kill an abusive spouse, but not ok anytime else? “Goodbye Earl” actually turns my stomach, because the way the whole town comes out and dances at the end. I think it was actually a top rated video on CMT or something. Eminem’s never made a video for either song he made about his girlfriend/wife/soone to be ex-wife, but he’s hated for it.
It’s been my view over the years that Country music is good, no matter what substance/spouse you abuse, or whatever you do in a country song. Do those same things in a rap/rock song, and you are chastized for it. I hate the media sometimes.
Sorry, for the rant, but that song really bugs me for the above mentioned reasons. Mostly because it was ‘acceptable’ but other songs aren’t… ugh…
Anyway, it’s the Ford pissing on Ford sticker that is a bit of a mixed message to me.
Actually there was a big deal made out of the Goodbye Earl song. A lot of radio stations wouldn’t play it because they didn’t think it was a good message to send out to victims of spousal abuse. But Garth Brooks has a song called Papa loved Mama and it is basically the same message. The truck driver comes home to discover his wife’s at a motel with someone and he plows his truck into the motel killing the wife. There wasn’t much said about it when the song first came out so I guess if your a man it’s ok to kill your cheating wife but if you’re a woman getting the shit beat out of you it’s not ok to kill your husband. What a double standard!
My favorites, in an ironic way, are rusted, worn-out, twenty-year-old pickup trucks with “Save American Jobs–Buy American!” bumper stickers. Yeah, those truck owners are doing a lot for the American economy.
Goodbye Earl – Yeah, there was quite a bit of controversy. The thing is, country music is less mainstream than rock/rap/etc, so the only people who heard the controversy were country fans. Whereas if there is controversy over a non-country song, it is heard about by all the non-country fans – and there’s a lot more non-country fans than country fans. Um, does anybody understand what I’m trying to say here?
Mixed messages– Well, just got back from a 10-hour round-trip drive at two this morning, and I saw some bumper stickers:[ul]
[li]“Fans Against Gordon” stickers, for NASCAR fans who hate Jeff Gordon. These make no sense. The club goes by its acronym, FAG, trying to say Jeff GOrdon is gay. I have an issue with the whole “oh let’s mock him by calling him a fag” thing, but even beyond that – if you are a fan against gordon, you are saying you are a FAG. You’re driving around with a FAG bumper sticker on your car. YOU’RE SAYING YOU ARE THE VERY THING YOU HATE. Goddamn redneck hypocritical morons. This is why I sometimes regret being a race fan – I have to associate with these people.[/li][li]A big Chevy bowtie sticker in the rear window of a mid-80’s Honda Accord.[/li][li]“I’m not tailgating, I’m drafting” and “I’m not speeding, I’m qualifying” on the bumper of one pickup truck, with a sticker in the rear window proclaiming that said pickup truck belonged to either a State Trooper or a supporter thereof. (I couldn’t read it clearly.)[/li][li]A tan Oldsmobile Eighty-Eight with maroon interior and a dark red flower tied to the antenna, and a sticker that said something about “Metal up yer a$$”[/ul][/li] Necros, I think I’ve seen your car somewhere… or else somebody else has the same one.
one of my stickers on my truck says “She’s only rock and roll, WSHE” and the other has a picture of people skydiving with surfboards under their arms. I had put it on while I was stationed at FT Bragg, something to annoy the airborne.
Over the weekend I saw what I can only describe as a non theological fish, a fish skeleton with no religious or Darwinian leanings.
I don’t put bumpter stickers on my vehicles but my favorite disturbing one is from a place in phoenix that’s a combined gun shop and mailing center, Guns 'R Us/Postal Plus. The sticker reads, “I can’t come to work today, the voices in my head told me to stay home and clean my guns.”
I have a sticker that just says “SINNER” , and another that says “When hell freezes over, I’ll ride there too” (ride as in ride a snowboard). The sinner sticker refers to a snowboard company i did some work for, called Original Sin.
Now what I think is funny is that not once has a stranger/fundie bothered to comment/prosyletize, though they probably think since I’m saying I’m a sinner and I obviously already know I’m going to hell, that they don’t bother.