Just because I’m nosy.
I’ve never actually affixed a sticker to my bumper. I’ve put those static decals in my window, proclaiming that I contribute to PBS or whatever, but nothing goes on my bumper. So I’m curious about those who do:
What was your sticker? Why were you so moved to affix it? And did it draw any attention (welcome or unwelcome)?
During a strong atheist phase I had a decade ago, I had a few like ‘if you want a country run by religion move to Iran’, one that said ‘god is just pretend’ and one that said ‘atheism cures religious terrorism’.
The ‘god is just pretend’ one got ripped off my car on several occasions, but the others were left alone. I had my motivations for going through that phase and really, really valid reasons for rejection of religion. I’m more agnostic now since I’m more secure in my beliefs, but there you go.
I can’t say I blame them. When I see a sticker that says ‘if you can’t stand behind our troops, feel free to stand in front of them’ (which is a propaganda way of saying if you disagree with government policy you should be executed. Ah fascism.) I feel the same urge to rip it off. I don’t though. Self control is awesome.
It’s on my Mini, and it says “Faster Than a Tall Building.”
I made it from a kit someone gave me.
We could make a whole sub-topic in this thread (or should it be a separate thread?) – Narrow-minded bumper stickers you’ve seen that make you want to punch out the owner for being such a small-minded bigot. We can lead with the old standard: “God said it. I believe it. That settles it.”
I used to have stickers from my kids’ colleges in the rear window, but I’ve never had a bumper sticker.
You have to be a Steve Brust fan to appreciate the one I saw in a Boston suburb last summer, but it really broke me up:
“People generalize from one example. At least I do.” -Issola, p. 221.
I checked and it was there.
Not on my bumper, but I had one on the relight in my office. It said “Republicans for Voldemort”.
One day a co-worker stopped by and said “I didn’t know that about you. There are so few Republicans in this company.”…
Deleted. (It was sorta mean to the soccer-mom crowd, and I don’t want to get in trouble here).
I just have 2 representing my dog breeds- the usual ‘My Gordon Setter is smarter than your honor student’, showing a Gordon Setter in a graduation cap, and my personal favorite, ‘Little bad ass Papillon’
I have car magnets not bumper stickers. I have two yellow ribbon magnets to support our troops and one house shaped one that has the phone number to the Aging Commission of the Mid-South
I do have a window sticker for my Alma Mater, The University of Memphis, but I haven’t put any stickers on my actual bumper on this car.
My old car from high school had a few AFI (A Fire Inside) related bumper stickers, but that was it.
I am always upset by the anti-abortion bumper stickers. Not the message necessarily (Though I am staunchly pro-choice), but they only ever depict healthy, chubby, white babies. It is like a subtle hint that the only fetuses worthy of consideration are gerber-baby-like spawn.
No bumper stickers, just decals in the windows. In college I had a Jerry Garcia as well as a Janis Joplin sticker. Both head shots, but they were all trippy looking. I was never that in to Janis, but I really liked the picture (really liked the Dead though), either way, it was more of a way of saying “Hey man, I’m cooool”.
Car after that had a TiVo decal.
Next one had a “Watch for Motorcycles” bumper sticker tucked in the back window and that’s it.
I’d put a motorcycles sticker in my current car, but I’m too lazy to tape it in and there’s no place to sort of ‘tuck’ it into a window where it won’t just fall out. Besides, the sun wrinkles them in a few months.
I like the motorcycle ones for two reasons. There’s a little part of me that hopes that it’ll remind other people to watch for motorcycles instead of aim for them and I like to think that when a motorcycle is behind me he’ll say “Oh, this guy is a biker too so he understands the plight of our kind and is most likely (then other cars) aware of my presence and adjusting his driving habits so we can avoid each other”. And, I honestly do adjust my driving habits when I see a bike. But when you’re driving a little hybrid Honda, I doubt they see me as a fellow biker rather then just another person going out of their to mow them down.
Two stickers in my back window; one says Powered by Orange and the other says Beavers under a fighting beaver head.
I had a college sticker on the rear window when I was in college. It just kinda looked good, and fit in. And a Darwin fish on the bumper to complement the lettering. But now, I have a ‘Kentucky Bigfoot Research Organization’ and an ‘I Smoke and I Vote’ sticker on the bumper of the truck. Bigfoot for shits and giggles, and the cigarette one because I am a proud Kentuckian that smokes and votes. I also have a www.findagrave.com on the other corner of the bumper. My mom always tells me how she hates it, because she feels like it is telling her to ‘find a grave.’ She is too literal.
George:* “I gave you the prize years ago, Martha. There isn’t an abomination award going that you haven’t won.”*
I have one magnetic sticker: a paw print shape that says, “Animal Rescue Transport Vehicle” on it.
Now that I have a new car, I need to get around to replacing my GOD BLESS THE FREAKS sticker.
The 26.2 sticker and the tomato (in-joke between me and Mr. S) are already in place.
I have one that says: “Got wood for sheep?”
It’s a Settlers of Catan reference. On one memorable occasion, we were passed on the highway by a car full of guys who then slowed to match our speed, honked to get our attention, and then held up their own copy of the game, which they happened to have in the car with them. We honked back. It was the friendliest thing I’ve ever seen happen on the interstate.
I haven’t had a bumper sticker on my cars in years. My last one, about 15 years ago, was on my pickup truck. It was a a long single rainbow strip that went on the back. I was working as an accountant at a blue collar company and ended up selling the truck to a co-worker. I totally forgot about the sticker and a couple weeks later he came into my office asking me about it. He was cool but he explained that he was getting hit on by a guy at the gas station and wondered what THAT was all about. That was also the day I came out at work.
Several years ago I had a Marine Corps decal on the back window of my truck. I sold the truck and didn’t replace the sticker. Then years went by with no stickers, until this spring when I applied one that identified me as a ‘Trail Nerd’, and provides the URL of a running group. As soon as I can make it to the running store, that sticker will be joined by a ‘25K’.
I also had an alumbi decal, but it lost its sticky and is just laying in a curled up ball in the back window.
Darwin fish is always tempting for me, but I’ve never gotten around to it. Part of the problem is that I can’t decide between the clever variations.
I can only remember having one and it was back in college.
MEAN PEOPLE SUCK.
After the primaries I put the “i voted” sticker on my VW emblem.
On the back bumper I have “In Support of Conscious Evolution”… I should put a Donna the Buffalo sticker next to it. 