# Yellow "Support our Troops" Magnets **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 22, 2004, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-support-our-troops-magnets/276190 "2004-11-22T23:12:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-support-our-troops-magnets/276190/41 "2004-12-12T17:42:02Z")
I have a football-shaped magnet that says “FUCK THE BCS” on my car. ---
**Author:** ![infamousmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d6d6ee/32.png) [@infamousmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infamousmom)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-support-our-troops-magnets/276190/42 "2004-12-12T19:13:12Z")
Not to mention that the whole “tie a yellow ribbon” deal came from a song about a guy getting out of JAIL. Does this mean that our troops are in prison? Tony Orlando really wants to know! ---
**Author:** ![infamousmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d6d6ee/32.png) [@infamousmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infamousmom)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-support-our-troops-magnets/276190/43 "2004-12-12T19:23:39Z")
> [@Bob55](#): > > Nothing pisses me off more than seeing 18 year old **men and women** fighting in Falluja while 18 year old **boys and girls** are back home only worrying about what they’re going to wear to the club that night, what chick they’re going to bang, and how to piss off people on the internet through their intellectual superority. And you’ve done your best to fix this by demanding that the crew of draft dodgers in the White House either send their own kids over there to fight or bring everyone else’s kids home, no doubt? Don’t you think Jenna Bush Jr. should be worrying about something more important than getting carded at an inconvenient time? Best way to “support our troops” is to get them the hell out of Bush-wah’s war. If he wants to go duke it out in Falujah, tell him to put on his little Prez fatigues and have at it. What a photo-op that’d be. ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_Norder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Dan\_Norder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Norder)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-support-our-troops-magnets/276190/44 "2004-12-13T11:28:38Z")
> [@Fear Itself](#): > > Do like I do. [Get a blue ribbon.](http://www.troopsribbon.com/purchase.html) OK, I have to ask… Are these things for real? The reason I ask is the photos section of the site looks more like someone just did a poor job of Photoshopping their graphic on random car photos. Did you actually get one of these (and currently have it, not waiting for it to show up in the mail)? ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-support-our-troops-magnets/276190/45 "2004-12-13T18:58:48Z")
Perhaps the people that help the troops the most are those that pay the most taxes. The rich. You’re welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_Norder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Dan\_Norder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Norder)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-support-our-troops-magnets/276190/46 "2004-12-13T19:17:13Z")
> [@Philster](#): > > Perhaps the people that help the troops the most are those that pay the most taxes. Let’s think about that… Nope. Definitely not. ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-support-our-troops-magnets/276190/47 "2004-12-13T19:48:37Z")
That’s not the worst part. Around here I see those ribbons all over the place, and people _are putting them on sideways_. Apparently they think that since there is writing on the leg of the ribbon, it is supposed to be displayed so that the writing is horizontal. This is resulting in ribbons leaning every which way all over people’s pickups, and it just looks crappy. Or sometimes people can’t decide, so they put it on slanted so it is neither horizontal nor vertical, but veering off like a blind 2 year old attached it, usually with 2 or 3 others. It drives me to irrational amounts of irritation. People, put the ribbons on if you must, but display them properly. See the ribbon? It is supposed to look like your car is wearing it, see? See how people wear ribbons with the loop up and the end pieces hanging down? _Do it like that_. I promise people will still be able to read what it says. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-support-our-troops-magnets/276190/48 "2004-12-13T20:24:03Z")
> [@Dan Norder](#): > > Let’s think about that… Nope. Definitely not. Oh, well…I’m sure that settles that. Guess there is disdain for the folks that contribute the most? ---
**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:** [December 13, 2004, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-support-our-troops-magnets/276190/49 "2004-12-13T21:13:48Z")
> [@Philster](#): > > Guess there is disdain for the folks that contribute the most? Contributing what? Funding for an unjustified war? If you are not in favor of bringing the troops home **NOW** , you are not supporting the troops. Abusing their patriotism by ordering them to fight an unnecessary war is not support, it is desecration. ---
**Author:** ![Debaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-support-our-troops-magnets/276190/50 "2004-12-13T21:44:50Z")
Why was in nessesary to bump this useless thread? > [@Velma](#): > > It drives me to irrational amounts of irritation. This says it all. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-support-our-troops-magnets/276190/51 "2004-12-13T21:57:13Z")
> [@Philster](#): > > Guess there is disdain for the folks that contribute the most? Well gee, I guess folks might just consider that those who are sending over their sons and daughters are contributing a mite more. Are they the rich ones you’re talking about? ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-support-our-troops-magnets/276190/52 "2004-12-13T22:05:42Z")
Let’s just get American and co-opt the damn ribbon thing, that’ll get rid of it faster than middle aged suburban moms can kill an urban fashion craze. **White Ribbon:** Charmin is all that touches _my_ trunk! **Blue Ribbon:** Pabst! **Black Ribbon:** Black Flag kills VW bugs on contact! **Red Ribbon:** Tampax, because nobody wants a red bumper. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-support-our-troops-magnets/276190/53 "2004-12-14T15:54:43Z")
> [@Velma](#): > > That’s not the worst part. Around here I see those ribbons all over the place, and people _are putting them on sideways_. Apparently they think that since there is writing on the leg of the ribbon, it is supposed to be displayed so that the writing is horizontal. I think that’s so they match the Jesus Fish. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-support-our-troops-magnets/276190/54 "2004-12-14T17:21:47Z")
3 Things I learned about these magnets[ol][li]Pit threads always get more replies than ones [in IMHO](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=281753)[/li][li]There’s a doper [c\_carol](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5387046&postcount=2), who makes them in a [factory](http://www.magnetamerica.com/) down in NC.[/li]The charitable / profit question is unanswerable[/ol] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-support-our-troops-magnets/276190.md?page=2)