# What's the deal with this bumper sticker? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 14, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-this-bumper-sticker/485858 "2009-02-14T20:13:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-this-bumper-sticker/485858/1 "2009-02-14T20:13:04Z")
I keep seeing this bumper sticker that’s driving me nuts. There are no words on it, just a symbol. I don’t have a photo of it, but I’ll try to describe it. It looks like a capital A overlaid with a capital V. It is red, in a red circle. My very crude attempt to reproduce it in Paint is [here](http://picasaweb.google.com/kurtaubuchon/Misc?authkey=yu9feJ09oc4&feat=directlink). In my drawing, the legs of the A and V don’t go far enough. In the actual symbol, the legs extend as far as the points of the two letters. What the heck is that? ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-this-bumper-sticker/485858/2 "2009-02-14T20:22:50Z")
It sure looks Masonic to me. Maybe a stylized version of the square and calipers. [Link](http://www.geocities.com/jussaymoe/notebook/20542e.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-this-bumper-sticker/485858/3 "2009-02-15T21:09:16Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > It sure looks Masonic to me. Maybe a stylized version of the square and calipers. > > [Link](http://www.geocities.com/jussaymoe/notebook/20542e.jpg) I had the same thought, but are the Masons given to stylizing their symbol? My ignorance of the Masons is both deep and wide, but they don’t strike me as the kind of folks who would go messing around with their symbol. I think we have a couple of Masons on the board. Maybe one of them will chime in. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-this-bumper-sticker/485858/4 "2009-02-16T15:28:19Z")
Well, 635 people have looked at this thread and not answered, so I guess it’s a really obscure thing. I’m just going to let this one sink off the first page one more time. Tonight, on my way back from my Monday night date with my wife, I will probably see the car with the bumper sticker again. I guess it’s time to start stalking the owner. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-this-bumper-sticker/485858/5 "2009-02-16T15:35:02Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > Well, 635 people have looked at this thread and not answered, so I guess it’s a really obscure thing. I’m just going to let this one sink off the first page one more time. Tonight, on my way back from my Monday night date with my wife, I will probably see the car with the bumper sticker again. I guess it’s time to start stalking the owner. Get a photo. ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-this-bumper-sticker/485858/6 "2009-02-16T15:41:07Z")
Anarchey? Don’t know if it spelled right, but the symbol looks like what you described. I’ve been wrong before. Edit: Wrong again. Saw your “drawing” not the symbol I thought. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-this-bumper-sticker/485858/7 "2009-02-16T15:45:13Z")
The kids on the Audio-Visual comittee grew up and started their own symbol club. ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-this-bumper-sticker/485858/8 "2009-02-16T15:54:33Z")
It’s not an ‘anarchy’ symbol. Maybe Alcoholics Anonymous? They are given to stylizing their symbols, but the most common is a triangle in a circle. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-this-bumper-sticker/485858/9 "2009-02-16T16:13:41Z")
No, it’s not even close to an AA sticker. Before I saw your drawing, I was thinking maybe a Crass sticker, but again, not even close. Get us a phone pic or something! Or yeah, just stalk the driver and beat it out of him… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-this-bumper-sticker/485858/10 "2009-02-16T16:29:28Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Get a photo. > [@EJsGirl](#): > > Get us a phone pic or something! Or yeah, just stalk the driver and beat it out of him… 😉 I don’t have a camera phone, and I usually don’t have a camera with me when I see it. I’ve seen it on more than one vehicle, but there is a car that I pass by frequently on the way back from the pub. I’ll take a camera with me tonight and hope to see it. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-this-bumper-sticker/485858/11 "2009-02-16T19:31:14Z")
This is all I could find that’s even close: [Here’s a red campsite symbol.](http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/wayne/images/rec_symbols/camping.gif) [The anarchy symbol lacks the V to be the right symbol](http://www.mondotees.com/ProductImages/anarchyred.jpg) [Here’s an inverted red pentagram.](http://sabbathrock.com/images/inverted-red-pentagram-with-upside-down-cross.jpg) [Order of the Grail symbol](http://www.orderofthegrail.org/images/pentacleRED.gif) ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-this-bumper-sticker/485858/12 "2009-02-16T21:30:45Z")
I’m betting it is a Cincinnati thing. Either a neighborhood parking sticker, a college campus parking sticker, or a corporate parking lot of some sort. Either that, or it sends the message that they have already been replicated by the pod, and they hunters should move to the next victim.