# Suggest a most excellent bumper sticker **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 6, 2009, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-most-excellent-bumper-sticker/520224 "2009-12-06T20:38:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-most-excellent-bumper-sticker/520224/21 "2009-12-07T19:46:35Z")
> [@bup](#): > > (Dumb question - is the ‘if this sticker is blue’ a physics joke?) Yup, it refers to the “redshift” phenomenon. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-most-excellent-bumper-sticker/520224/22 "2009-12-07T19:52:31Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Literalists like having sex. > > (Dumb question - is the ‘if this sticker is blue’ a physics joke?) Yup. When two objects are moving towards one another at relativistic speeds - at asignificant fraction of lightspeed - the light from one object hitting the other object [will be more blue, because the wavelengths of light are closer together](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_shift). Redshift - the wavelengths are farther apart - happens when objects are moving further away. This phenomenon is an important piece of evidence that the universe is expanding. These effects are directly analogous to the doppler effect heard when an ambulance goes past with the siren going. The bumper sticker implies that the person overtaking is approaching our car at relativistic speeds, certainly too fast for city driving. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-most-excellent-bumper-sticker/520224/23 "2009-12-07T19:56:50Z")
These are from [NancyButtons.com](http://NancyButtons.com), but they’d make good bumper stickers. Don’t get even–get odd! The Two Rules: 1) Don’t tell people everything you know Buying a book is buying the illusion you will have time to read it Money can’t buy happiness. You have to turn it into books. I prefer to remain anomalous There is no prostitute for careful editing of your own work ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-most-excellent-bumper-sticker/520224/24 "2009-12-07T19:58:18Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Yup. When two objects are moving towards one another at relativistic speeds - at asignificant fraction of lightspeed - the light from one object hitting the other object [will be more blue, because the wavelengths of light are closer together](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_shift). Redshift - the wavelengths are farther apart - happens when objects are moving further away. This phenomenon is an important piece of evidence that the universe is expanding. _pointing at my previous post_ Er, yeah, it’s blue shift - opposite to redshift. 😃 I hear about redshift more so my brain went there right away. ---
**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:** [December 7, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-most-excellent-bumper-sticker/520224/25 "2009-12-07T20:02:43Z")
A car I used to have had **Stupid People Shouldn’t Breed** on its rear bumper. Man, I loved that sticker. People smart enough to “get it” would nod and laugh. People who didn’t get it, well… ---
**Author:** ![Vihaga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Vihaga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vihaga)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-most-excellent-bumper-sticker/520224/26 "2009-12-07T20:11:43Z")
I used to have a “Republicans for Voldemort” bumper sticker. Even my Republican parents thought it was amusing. ---
**Author:** ![McGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@McGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McGeek)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-most-excellent-bumper-sticker/520224/27 "2009-12-07T20:28:50Z")
A lot of good suggestions from y’all, my favorites so far being the ebonics one and the binary one (did a spittake on that). Favorite that I’ve ever seen on another car: Honk if You are Elvis Favorite I’ve ever had on my own car (from my deadhead days): Who are the Grateful Dead and why do they keep following me? Favorite that I’ve actually only seen on a T-shirt: Jesus Loves You (but I’m His favorite) ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_Doubt)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-most-excellent-bumper-sticker/520224/28 "2009-12-07T21:50:30Z")
I’ve always wanted one that says “Sheik Djibouti” Then there’s the great “My karma ran over your dogma”. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-most-excellent-bumper-sticker/520224/29 "2009-12-07T21:54:23Z")
“In the event of the Rapture, can I have your car?” (May need explanation: you see “In the event of the Rapture this car will have no driver” bumper stickers here sometimes) “If man wasn’t meant to eat animals then why did God make them out of meat?” One that I would never put on my car but damned near caused me to have a wreck from laughing so hard when I saw it: I BEAT CANCER!!! and by “cancer” I mean my wife ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-most-excellent-bumper-sticker/520224/30 "2009-12-07T22:42:08Z")
> [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](#): > > (On a red bumper sticker): If this sticker is blue, you’re driving too fast. I may have to put this above\* my other geeky favorite: _Reunite Gondwanaland!_ I have no idea why I find this so funny. I’m not really into geology. But for some reason it cracks me up every time. \*When I get a car, that is. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-most-excellent-bumper-sticker/520224/31 "2009-12-07T22:44:41Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Mean People Suck > I had it on my Jeep for years. I’d kinda forgotton about it until just yesterday when my S-I-L mentioned it as being her favorite ever. It is true, ya know? They really, really, really, really do. True… and yet, nobody ever thinks of himself or herself as “mean.” And I’ve known several true pricks who have that very bumper sticker on their car. See, that’s what happens when people assume “mean people” is synonymous with “Christians” or “Conservatives”. “Mean” is a state of mind that’s quite compatible with ANY belief (or nonbelief) system. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-most-excellent-bumper-sticker/520224/32 "2009-12-07T23:28:55Z")
Conserve Energy – Commute with a Hamiltonian (Hilarious quantum physics joke/pun) (PS, I didn’t think it up, it won an American Physics Society contest. I wish someone would print some.) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-most-excellent-bumper-sticker/520224/33 "2009-12-07T23:37:48Z")
Honk if you love honking. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2009, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-most-excellent-bumper-sticker/520224/34 "2009-12-07T23:57:15Z")
To Long?: Become a Ringwraith First 9 applicants receive a free ring. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-most-excellent-bumper-sticker/520224/35 "2009-12-08T00:00:52Z")
“中文系: We Learn Chinese So You Don’t Have To” I got that one from the Defense Language Institute (where I flunked out because I couldn’t learn Chinese. Ironic, yes? I have it stuck on my computer case). What makes this sticker really funny is that, for some reason nobody could figure out, the last character (系) is done wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-most-excellent-bumper-sticker/520224/36 "2009-12-08T00:17:34Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > To Long?: > Become a Ringwraith > First 9 applicants receive a free ring. Ok, but won’t this attract the attention of Sauron? ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-most-excellent-bumper-sticker/520224/37 "2009-12-08T00:19:19Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > “中文系: We Learn Chinese So You Don’t Have To” > I got that one from the Defense Language Institute (where I flunked out because I couldn’t learn Chinese. Ironic, yes? I have it stuck on my computer case). > > What makes this sticker really funny is that, for some reason nobody could figure out, the last character (系) is done wrong. My computer had “America: Love it or Leave it”, which, as an American immigrant to Canada, has always cracked me up. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-most-excellent-bumper-sticker/520224/38 "2009-12-08T00:23:15Z")
> [@Vihaga](#): > > I used to have a “Republicans for Voldemort” bumper sticker. Even my Republican parents thought it was amusing. That that on my old laptop, along with one that said “Intelligent Design” deliberately misspelled in Comic Sans. My current one has a bunch of Obama stickers on it. What can I say? I don’t drive! ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-most-excellent-bumper-sticker/520224/39 "2009-12-08T00:23:27Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > My computer had “America: Love it or Leave it”, which, as an American immigrant to Canada, has always cracked me up. Part of me wants to get that bumper sticker, deploy overseas, and slap it on a Humvee on the other side of the world. Of course, I’ve got a friend who makes vinyl decals, including one designed to go on tailgates that reads “Zombie Outbreak Response Vehicle” which I was sorely tempted to slap on the back of one of the Security Forces jeeps on base here. I’m sure they’d appreciate it, but it still strikes me as poorly considered XD ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-most-excellent-bumper-sticker/520224/40 "2009-12-08T00:41:25Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > “Zombie Outbreak Response Vehicle” This is excellent. I may have to actually do this one. In particular because it would be perfect on our black econobox. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-most-excellent-bumper-sticker/520224.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-most-excellent-bumper-sticker/520224.md?page=3)