# Three bumper stickers seen recently **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 6, 2004, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-bumper-stickers-seen-recently/258601 "2004-08-06T12:19:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-bumper-stickers-seen-recently/258601/41 "2004-08-08T01:58:31Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > He’s a Pole? …who goes to the polls. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-bumper-stickers-seen-recently/258601/42 "2004-08-08T03:25:49Z")
> [@Uvula Donor](#): > > **My child serves in Iraq, and all I got was this lousy bumper sticker.** **I served in Iraq, and all I got was this prosthetic limb.** ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-bumper-stickers-seen-recently/258601/43 "2004-08-08T18:16:11Z")
> [@Fear Itself](#): > > **I served in Iraq, and all I got was this prosthetic limb.** Heh. Morbidly funny. And for the record, I told my sister, who is both in the Air Force and college (Air Force Academy) about that sticker. She says: “Some people should shut the hell up.” ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-bumper-stickers-seen-recently/258601/44 "2004-08-08T18:33:08Z")
Favorite dumbass sticker: **In case of rapture, this car will be unmanned** So, if I were to crank Blondie, you’d disappear? What if it’s a woman driver? ---
**Author:** ![dry\_gear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@dry\_gear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dry_gear)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-bumper-stickers-seen-recently/258601/45 "2004-08-08T19:30:53Z")
**MissTake** , that one bugs me too. First of all, wouldn’t it read better if it said “in event of rapture…”, not “in case of…”? “In case of” just sounds wrong to me, but maybe I’m wrong. Also, you people with those bumper stickers: What the hell are you doing driving then? You’re putting your fellow earthlings at risk! Seriously, isn’t it dangerous to drive if you know it’s quite possible that the car may suddenly not have someone driving it anymore? Love thy neighbor indeed. :rolleyes: 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-bumper-stickers-seen-recently/258601/46 "2004-08-08T20:01:29Z")
> [@](#): > > Don’t let the car fool you, my real treasure is in heaven. I can’t quite parse the meaning of this one. Is it for people who’ve lost a loved one, who is now, presumedly, in heaven? That the person is poor because they give their money to the church? That they expect material rewards when they die and go to heaven, so having a crappy car now doesn’t matter? [quote] I support the flag, and I vote.\* This one I understand (the meaning, not the sentiment). There are people who, inexplicably, believe that the flag of the United States has rights that supercede those of its citizens. They fail to understand that the flag gains its importance solely as a symbol of the country and its freedoms, and to accord it special protection that diminishes those freedoms is to lessen it to the same degree that the freedoms it represents are lessened. The bumper stickers that grate on me are the Iron Cross stickers that seem to have cropped up everywhere the past couple of years, many, but not most, of them advertising some custom motorcycle shop. I see the same thing on t-shirts also. When exactly did wearing Nazi symbols become acceptable? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-bumper-stickers-seen-recently/258601/47 "2004-08-08T20:01:49Z")
[QUOTE=Danny the Drivin’ Dildo] **It’s not Mother Nature. It’s Father God.** **I thought it was Father Christmas.** > [@](#): > > **My child serves in Iraq, so yours can party in college.** **My child was sent into Iraq by a guy who did nothing but party in college.** > [@](#): > > **Don’t let the car fool you, my real treasure is in heaven.** **Don’t let my driving fool you, my head is in my ass.** ---
**Author:** ![laigle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@laigle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laigle)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-bumper-stickers-seen-recently/258601/48 "2004-08-08T20:18:06Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > I just had to be an engineering major. I wouldn’t consider anything else. > > What that meant was that I was stuck in the lab or the library working while the Art History losers were out partying. I didn’t even have time to sleep, dammit. > > I’m going to quit my job and go back to scholl in some kind of liberal arts major, just to make up for all the partying I missed. Jumping in late, but I saw this and had to concur. BSME, Georgia Tech, followed by MS, U Florida. Forget partying in college, by the time I was out I didn’t even remember what social interaction was. For three months while I was an RA in grad school, I didn’t see daylight because I worked from pre-dawn till post-dusk seven days a week. I still can’t form a coherent sentence around a cute girl. And yet all the high school washouts I run into seem to think I spent four years banging co-eds while they were nobly and heroically manning the gas station cash register (which was a choice, not the result of their combined score of -3 on the SATs). And of course, they all know a lot more than me too, which is why I have to make up words like “differential equation” and “failure mechanism” and “Holy shit watch out you idiot, that’s flammable!” ---
**Author:** ![Khadro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Khadro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadro)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-bumper-stickers-seen-recently/258601/49 "2004-08-09T00:03:23Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > My downstairs neighbor had this one: “I support the flag – and I vote!” What the fuck does that mean? I apologize for the hijack, but this really bugs me, and I do not really think it’s worthy of a pitting of its own… I see these bumper stickers here in Australia all the time. I Fish and I Vote, I Hunt and I Vote, I Eat Human Livers and I Vote… Of course you fucking vote. It’s compulsory to vote in this country, you dumb fucks! Thankyou, back to your on-topic ranting. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-bumper-stickers-seen-recently/258601/50 "2004-08-09T02:48:13Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > **My child serves in Iraq, so yours can party in college.** Damn! Makes me wish I hadn’t accidentally set a lizard on fire 5 weeks into my freshman year of college, thus earning me an invitation to leave and never return. As far as stupid bumper stickers, here’s one that’s always bugged me: **Abortion stops a beating heart**. Uh…isn’t that the point? Along the same lines, I saw another that said something along the line of: **Your mother was pro-life**. Actually, if you were to ask her, she’ll tell you that she was pro-choice, and CHOSE to have me. Whether she’s regretted that decision since then is immaterial (though I’m sure she’ll tell you she probably has). ---
**Author:** ![stockton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@stockton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stockton)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-bumper-stickers-seen-recently/258601/51 "2004-08-09T04:04:06Z")
Here in Atlanta, Georgia, there are a zillion of the following ones: 1. POWER OF PRIDE (with a flag background) 2. UNITED THEY STOOD - UNITED WE STAND (with a flag background) 1: What the fuck is the ‘Power of Pride’ one? Isn’t pride a bad thing? As I’ve posted before, can’t you just stick a big ME TOO! bumpersticker on your car? RE: 2: I assume this is about the towers. Apparently (no disrespect to ANYONE in NYC that day or anyone that saw the horrors of that day unfold, as I did): They did NOT stand united in any way. One fell, the other fell. What’s the point? ME TOO! If anyone knows where to find a “Don’t Tread On Me” bumpersticker, I’d like to have that. The empty flag-isms are as ‘effective’ as a Garfield stuck to the window. Meaningless, but comforting to the driver (probably too busy talking on the cell phone to use the turn signals). I bet the REAL terror folks are shitting their pants every time they see “POWER OF PRIDE” on the bumper of the car in front of them. Don’t get me started on “Baby on Board” signs. My “Jimmy Hoffa in Trunk” sign caused much less debate. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-bumper-stickers-seen-recently/258601/52 "2004-08-09T05:19:06Z")
> [@stockton](#): > > If anyone knows where to find a “Don’t Tread On Me” bumpersticker, I’d like to have that. The empty flag-isms are as ‘effective’ as a Garfield stuck to the window. Meaningless, but comforting to the driver (probably too busy talking on the cell phone to use the turn signals). I bet the REAL terror folks are shitting their pants every time they see “POWER OF PRIDE” on the bumper of the car in front of them. You know, you hit on something I’ve thought about myself. What I call “Faux Patriotism.” Maybe not - technically, anyway - the right term, but the first to come to mind. What I mean by it is that type of patriotism that comes ONLY after something catastrophic, like the events of 9/11. I don’t mind patriotism, but mindless patriotism that only seems to occur BECAUSE of a tragedy just rubs me the wrong way. If that makes sense. It’s like some people couldn’t be bothered to be considered patriotic until they were told by the media that it was the right thing to do. > [@](#): > > Don’t get me started on “Baby on Board” signs. My “Jimmy Hoffa in Trunk” sign caused much less debate. I gotta go with George Carlin on this one: “‘Baby on Board, Child in Car;’ who gives a fuck? I’m supposed to alter my driving habits because some woman forgot to put her diaphragm in.” ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-bumper-stickers-seen-recently/258601/53 "2004-08-09T13:36:41Z")
re: **In case of rapture, car will be unmanned** > [@dry gear](#): > > What the hell are you doing driving then? You’re putting your fellow earthlings at risk! “Yeah, but only the damned ones, so whatever.” ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-bumper-stickers-seen-recently/258601/54 "2004-08-09T14:46:41Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Nothing like a smarmy and judgemental bumper sticker. > > My downstairs neighbor had this one: “I support the flag – and I vote!” What the fuck does that mean? Your downstairs neighbor wouldn’t happen to be of Middle Eastern descent would he? I have seen this sticker on _several_ occassions here in Dallas, and almost always the driver looks to be Middle Eastern. My SWAG would be that a lot of people from the Middle East may put these stickers (or something similar) on thier vehicle in order to hopefully curb the potential violence from the local bigots. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-bumper-stickers-seen-recently/258601/55 "2004-08-09T15:06:51Z")
> [@laigle](#): > > …yet all the high school washouts I run into seem to think I spent four years banging co-eds while they were nobly and heroically manning the gas station cash register (which was a choice, not the result of their combined score of -3 on the SATs). And of course, they all know a lot more than me too, which is why I have to make up words like “differential equation” and “failure mechanism” and “Holy shit watch out you idiot, that’s flammable!” Doesn’t that just make you tired? Dealing with hopelessly ignorant people who nonetheless want to lecture me drives my blood pressure through the roof. And **bouv** , the long, complicated, painful odessy that culminated in BS and MS degrees was a bit more complicated than “I went to RPI,” but I suspect that’s true for a lot of people. We’re supposed to call it “Rensselaer” now, by the way. It says so in the alumni newsletter. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-bumper-stickers-seen-recently/258601/56 "2004-08-09T18:06:24Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > We’re supposed to call it “Rensselaer” now, by the way. It says so in the alumni newsletter. Isn’t that kind of like reading the instructions? I’m afraid you may be asked to turn in your “Engineer” badge as no self-respecting engineer I know reads the instructions until after attempting assembly/use at least once. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-bumper-stickers-seen-recently/258601/57 "2004-08-09T18:12:04Z")
It’s actually more akin to consulting the documentation, which is perfectly acceptable. Who says jargon doesn’t have its uses? ---
**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-bumper-stickers-seen-recently/258601/58 "2004-08-09T18:35:14Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > **Don’t let the car fool you, my real treasure is in heaven.** > > Well, it was actually kind of funny because it was on a real piece of shit car, but if I ever see this one on some $50,000 ride. . . Yep - I saw that sticker on a nasty mini-van that I first noticed because I thought it was on fire. I don’t think they quite understand the message it is meant to convey. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-bumper-stickers-seen-recently/258601/59 "2004-08-09T19:05:54Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > It’s actually more akin to consulting the documentation, which is perfectly acceptable. > > Who says jargon doesn’t have its uses? Hmmm…I don’t know, only if you found it while looking for something else. I always tell Lady Z that it’s okay to use the manual as a reference if you have a specific problem to solve, but it’s not okay to just read the thing cover to cover. As a result, she knows way more about my new camera than I do. The sacrifices I make for my principles… ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-bumper-stickers-seen-recently/258601/60 "2004-08-09T20:26:21Z")
> [@Number Six](#): > > The bumper stickers that grate on me are the Iron Cross stickers that seem to have cropped up everywhere the past couple of years, many, but not most, of them advertising some custom motorcycle shop. I see the same thing on t-shirts also. When exactly did wearing Nazi symbols become acceptable? I’ve never thought of the Iron Cross as being a Nazi Symbol, but rather a German military symbol that the nazis used in place of the swaztica at times. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-bumper-stickers-seen-recently/258601.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-bumper-stickers-seen-recently/258601.md?page=4)