I agree - very funny.
I don’t remember the type of car, but it had one of those tinted banners across the top of the windshield. Usually you’ll see thing something like the word “Camaro” on a Camaro (fucking duh!).
The best one I saw simply had the word “windshield”.
I thought it was funny when I saw it, but the driver didn’t seem like a hipster doofus who was doing it to be whimsically ironic.
What’s beyond lame are stick figure family window stickers. I wonder what they’re trying to tell other drivers; “I’m more fertile than you!”? I’ve never seen such displays with less than three children.
You know those car stickers that some dog owners get, that’s a shilhouette of whatever breed of dog that owner favors? I saw one today that, when I got close to it, turned out to be a poorly-done rendition of some standard dog breed. Very lame. But from a distance, I thought for sure it was a silhouette of this picture of Daffy Duck. Which would have been the most awesome thing ever.
So the difference between “awesome” and “lame” turns out to be about ten feet or so, depending on visibility conditions.
I’ll address this one.
I don’t have stick-figures, I have turtles, but the concept is the same. I have four sea turtles, hawaiian style, and the word “Ohana” below them.
I got them for my son.
My soon-to-be-ex and I are divorcing and a couple weeks ago, my oldest boy, the empathetic one, said, “We’re not a family anymore.”
I was quietly crushed.
I said, “Yes, we are. We’re just a different kind now.”
I found and bought those turtles a couple weeks later, a daddy turtle and three kid turtles. It helps to emphasize to him, I hope, that we’re still a family. Thanks to Lilo and Stitch, they all know the word “Ohana” and the extended meaning given it by the show.
“Ohana means family… and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten”
So - not lame to me at all.
I just remembered a great one - a few years ago I worked for a nonprofit that was typical of nonprofits in that corners were cut left and right, but (maybe) atypical in that the pay structure was as completely unbalanced as in the corporate world and the president had a private driver delivering him to the office every day.
When Christmas came around, we received an e-mail informing us that since money was “so tight,” if we wanted to have an office Christmas party, the company would pay for half of a ham, and that we’d have to make up the other half.
That’s lame enough in itself, but the stinger was that when the party time came around, they had purchased a sealed, processed, “lunch meat” quality ham like the type that you’d see behind the deli counter. I burst into laughter when I saw it, then politely declined.
Maybe this serves a similar function to the “Baby on Board” stickers. In case there is a serious accident, the emergency workers know that they should look for children.
Sometimes I see these “Euro” stickers with a dog silhouette but then they have the name of the breed below it. I thought the idea was that the silhouette was identification enough?
Same here. Yo.
It turns out that if you try to type with rapper hands your coworkers will think that you have some kind of palsy.
It seems that elementary schools now have team names just like high schools, so they’re the Cougars or Lions or Pirates or whatever. This may strike some as mean-spirited, but I think that’s rather lame. Unless your school takes the field against rival schools in athletic competition, then I don’t think you should have team names.
OTOH, if nowadays it’s normal for grade schools to have interscholastic sports, then never mind and I feel rather–lame.
Well, at least those names are cool. The mascot for my elementary school was the Bullpups. Because the high school next door to us were the Bulldogs.
So we were lame to the second power!
Was it an Excalibur?
Please, move to the back of the small bus, 'cause MY elementary school (started kindergarten in 1980), was the Keller Krusaders!
Yes, that’s right. Helen Keller Elementary (got us in the front row at theater events, 'cause they thought we were all disabled) couldn’t come up with any mascot beginning with a K, so they misspelled Crusader, and it was a knight in shiny armor on a horse. Keller Krusaders. There is no lamer mascot than that.
I see from their website that it has since been changed to the Crusaders. Thank og for small favors. Yet one still wonders why a European religious war hero is an appropriate mascot for an American elementary school…
I know, I always say this is the last time I tell this anecdote, but really, this was so lame I have to repeat it. I’m waiting for a haircut, and “Band on the Run” comes on.
Hairdresser #1: “I hate the Beatles”.
Hairdresser #2: “Yeah, but they invented Rock ‘n’ Roll”.
So much stupid, so little time… :smack:
Heh. He looks like the guy a saw on Hardball the other night. Who was about as attactive as that guy. Except he was going on about how women shouldn’t have abortions…of course since he doesn’t look likely to inpregnant anyonone I guess he can say that. And he was wearing a red and blue bowtie. Not a good look If you’re not Fred Astiar, what is it is with the bowtie trend? You can’t pull it off. And no one could, or should pull off a RWB bowtie.
Now, when I think lame I look in the mirror. But since my marriage prospects fell into limbo, I came back home. And found the guy I used to know from the local record store is…still working at the same record store. Though it was cool when I was 15 but reallly…I’m pretty lame but at least I’ve left home.
Any name that adulterates a C word just for alliteration purposes is automatically lame.
Starting to wander off topic, but this is very similar to an experience I had recently. My son is in his community college’s jazz/rock combo band/class, and they were putting on their semester concert. Always a fun night, and they play lots of oldies that the parents can get into.
So this 19-year-old woman student steps up to the mike, and introduces her song: Aretha Franklin’s You’re All I Need to Get By…by saying “this one is by Aretha Franklin, who’s been making great pop music (huh?) for like 50 years (a bit of a stretch)…in fact, she’s known as the Pop Princess.”
I almost swallowed my tongue.
I like the disabled episode.
My parochial school basketball team was the Crusaders and they had a knight on a horse, and I think a shield background. I think it was a tie in to the Holy Crusades.
Allow me to join the pile-on of people with wings apparently borrrowed from small airplanes on the back.
At my campus there’s a Mitsubishi Eclipse with a literally HUGE fin. At least it’s not made of tin cans or 2x4’s, but that’s not what makes it lame.
It’s set at its steepest angle. The little adjustment arms look likde they’re going to herniate.
Anyone with a basic knowledge of aerodynamics would know that a 50 degree angle is NOT optimal for a fin, and a fin at all without a matching airdam for the front makes the car a little squirrley…
They’ll need to search, considering that I usually see stick figure stickers on Suburbans, Excursions, Denalis and other behemoth SUVs.
Hey, I like the Thing. It had split window van style reduction boxes on the rear, giving it exceptional ground clearance. The Kübelwagen was the German equivalent of the Jeep. Of course, the Schwimmwagen was cooler yet. There is actually one in town that I see driving around.
The activity of Car Drifting is lame. It encourages the Darwinian elimination of stupid teenaged boys and is just unimaginably stupid in itself. I was driving back from the Lost Coast in Mendocino County and all the narrow canyon roads with 500 foot drop offs had drift skid marks crossing both lanes going 500 feet or more.
Nevertheless, anything lame can be exponentially increased in lameness by creating a synchronized version of it.
I blame synchronized swimming for initiating the fall of Western civilization.
