# Tackier Lawn Patriotism **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 12, 2003, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tackier-lawn-patriotism/201140 "2003-09-12T04:51:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tackier-lawn-patriotism/201140/1 "2003-09-12T04:51:33Z")
When I read [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=210412), I was reminded of a couple of lawn displays in my hometown, from about 6 or 7 months ago. This was just before the start of the Iraq war, and during (and a little bit after). In my drive home from where I work, I usually travel on a certain street (High Rd. – irrelevant detail except for my fellow Tallahasseeans). Soon after I my turn onto this street, there was a house with a large, hand-painted sign in the front yard, reading: “ATTACK IRAQ”. A little later on, a sign popped up in another yard a bit further down the road – maybe a 1/4 mile. On this one was scrawled the phrase, “BOMB SADDAM”. There seemed to be a common theme, both topically and poetically. So I started wondering if I should add a contribution of my own to the series. All I could think of was: “PANTS FRANCE” (Not that my yard needed a giant tacky sign. If anything, it just needed mowing. ;)) ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tackier-lawn-patriotism/201140/2 "2003-09-14T07:28:36Z")
[listens to the whistling wind] [a tumbleweed blows by] Oh well… ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tackier-lawn-patriotism/201140/3 "2003-09-14T07:34:36Z")
I would write “Use a 1920’s style “Death Ray” on France” but that is just me. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tackier-lawn-patriotism/201140/4 "2003-09-14T07:53:06Z")
There was a church in Nashville, a couple of years ago, that had a model of a freakin’ missile in front of it, with the words > [@](#): > > God bless the USA written on it. ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tackier-lawn-patriotism/201140/5 "2003-09-14T13:41:32Z")
Taco Morocco ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tackier-lawn-patriotism/201140/6 "2003-09-14T16:09:55Z")
> [@](#): > > from _Tuckerfan_ > There was a church in Nashville, a couple of years ago, that had a model of a freakin’ missile in front of it, with the words I could understand a rocket (i.e. space exploration, etc). But a missile?! In front of a church?! [shaking head, hoping that it was really just a rocket…] ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tackier-lawn-patriotism/201140/7 "2003-09-14T16:39:14Z")
**Monstre** , it looked just like a missile and not a rocket at all. Scary, no? The preacher probably had a gunrack in his pick up. ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tackier-lawn-patriotism/201140/8 "2003-09-14T19:13:50Z")
At a recent Dopefest in KC a bunch of GWB protesters showed up in the same park. A woman was walking around with a t-shirt that read “[BUCK](http://www.cyburbia.org/sdmb/DSC01418.JPG) [FUSH](http://www.cyburbia.org/sdmb/DSC01419.JPG)”. Here’s some more that just came to me: Bake-a Jamaica Screw Peru Blame Canada (not original, it’s from South Park) Ban Japan Chill Brazil ---
**Author:** ![Mearl\_Dox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Mearl\_Dox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mearl_Dox)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tackier-lawn-patriotism/201140/9 "2003-09-14T19:42:00Z")
“Slay Paraguay” “Curb-ia Serbia” “Obliterate UA Emirates” ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tackier-lawn-patriotism/201140/10 "2003-09-14T20:06:02Z")
Cease Greece Snark Denmark Delete Crete Detain Ukraine Unman Japan ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tackier-lawn-patriotism/201140/11 "2003-09-14T20:59:04Z")
Ban-ada Canada Ban Iran Flambé Paraguay. Solder Qatar Shake-up Jamaica Crush-a Russia ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tackier-lawn-patriotism/201140/12 "2003-09-14T22:54:49Z")
> [@](#): > > from _Dread Cthulhu_ > I would write “Use a 1920’s style “Death Ray” on France” but that is just me. The tumbleweed’s response was better… > [@](#): > > from _Atreyu_ > Flambé Paraguay. Ooooh, I like this one! ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tackier-lawn-patriotism/201140/13 "2003-09-15T17:43:54Z")
Understand Uzbekistan! (must be the peacenik in me) Get What’s Mine in Lichtenstein! Slap the Hand of Switzerland! I Peed’n Sweden! FC the UK! (an anagram!) ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tackier-lawn-patriotism/201140/14 "2003-09-15T18:08:16Z")
From _Canadian Bacon_: Release Honey pronto, or we’ll level Toronto