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Boris
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I'm sure everyone has seen the bumper-sticker that has an American flag with the words, "These colors don't run" written over it. Now, everyone knows I'm a conservative, but I just started laughing my head off when I saw one of these bumper-stickers today (Mostly because I hate bumper-stickers, mostly because it was funny). Why? All of the colors had faded and all that was left was a light blue patch and the dark black words...So I thought, well, I guess those colors do at least FADE if you use an Ink-jet printer to create them.

[ January 12, 2005, 01:08 PM: Message edited by: Boris ]

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ludosti
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I've never really understood those "these colors don't run" bumper stickers.....

My favorite funny bumper sticker that I am so, so tempted to buy and stick on my truck is "Who would Jesus bomb?"

[ January 12, 2005, 01:11 PM: Message edited by: ludosti ]

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They don't run, but I guess they can fade.
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PSI Teleport
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Most of them I've seen are all faded out by now.
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<-- doesn't do bumper stickers
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"Save a cow, eat a vegetarian"

I would so get that as a bumper sticker or a shirt, but everyone at my school would mug me. :P

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A pastor I knew growing up loved to tell a story about a car he saw with a “God is my co-pilot” bumper sticker – turning the wrong way onto a one-way street.
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I've seen a couple of bumber stickers I liked, but I can't stand the thought of gucking up the back of my car with them. I hate, hate, hate those cars with thirty "clever" political bumper stickers all over the back of them and I don't want to have anything in common with that.

Dana, my mom was going on a long trip and told her own mother not to worry because "Jesus was her co-pilot and would keep her safe." My grandma told her, "Knowing the way you drive, you'll flip the car over and crush Him flat."

[ January 12, 2005, 01:18 PM: Message edited by: PSI Teleport ]

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Even worse is bumper stickers that you can't even read when you are behind them at a stoplight, either because of its fancy font or because it is too small.
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SausageMan
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My favorite political bumper sticker was before the 2000 pres. election:

"Bush/Gore 2000"

It had a picture of a donkey with an elephant's butt.

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PSI Teleport
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"Magick happens," MPH.
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Synesthesia
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What does "These colours don't run?" mean anyway?
It sounds... A little racists to me for some reason, but it could be because I am dumb like that.

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PSI Teleport
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I never though about it like that, Syn. I was all set to argue with you, but it does sound like it has some racial undertones.

I mean, THESE colors don't run? As opposed to which colors? I don't think it's deliberately racist, just not very well thought out.

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"Colors" refers to the flag - the saying means "The U.S. doesn't run away from a fight."
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PSI Teleport
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Are you just supposed to compare it to, say, blue dye in blue jeans? Like those colors run, but these don't?
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No. "Colors" literally refers to the flag in the military. As in "strike the colors."

They're not talking about red, white, and blue as shades of color. They're actually talking about the flag.

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I think so, PSI.

edit: I think that it is a double entendre that refers to both.

[ January 12, 2005, 01:37 PM: Message edited by: mr_porteiro_head ]

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PSI Teleport
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I understand the symbolism in the statement and I understand what it's referring to. It's just...it COULD be misunderstood.
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Oh. I am dumb.
It's still an irratating bumper sticker though.
I like rainbow flag ones and funny ones.

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Olivetta
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I always liked, "My other car is a broom"
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mr_porteiro_head
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I guess you really like it. [Wink]
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quote:
It's just...it COULD be misunderstood.
I should have put that bumper sticker on our AMC Concord that we threw away last summer.
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Olivetta
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It kept telling me it hadn't posted. I even checked once, and it hadn't shown up.

So BITE ME, @$$wipe.

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I like one that I saw a couple of weeks ago: "My son was inmate of the month at the county jail!" [Big Grin]
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My favorite funny bumper sticker that I am so, so tempted to buy and stick on my truck is "Who would Jesus bomb?"

That is sooo wrong!

It should be "whom." [Roll Eyes]

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Ryuko
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I have one that says "I brake for Amazons". My friend got it for me because I have something of an amazonian build.

But when I was going to go put it on my car, my dad said, "You can't put that on your car! People will think you're... YOU KNOW..." :eyeroll: Whatever. I just think it's funny.

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dread pirate romany
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We don't stick bubmper stickers to our cars, we stick them to magnets so we can take them on and off.

I seriously want to find one that says "Visualise stopping distance", but B. says that will just inspire little punks to ride my bumper.

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quote:
"Save a cow, eat a vegetarian"
Save two cows, eat a carnivore.
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John Van Pelt
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Neither of my bumper stickers is funny or unique in any way, but the combination gets quite a bit of comment:

on the left:
I'd Rather Be Playing Scrabble

on the right:
Motorcycles Are Everywhere

it did occur to me that I might consolidate, and just have one sticker saying:

I'd Rather Be CCGLIMNOORTY

[Cool]

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The funniest bumper sticker I ever saw (and the wittiest) was on this really old and ugly car. It said "Don't let the car fool you : my treasure is in heaven."
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I saw a great bumper sticker/car combination in Madison about 10 years ago. WI did not have mandatory car inspection at the time, which was a good thing for this car's owner, because the car never would have passed.

It was a crappy little late 70s/early 80s type of car. It was painted teal in some parts and rust-colored in others. One of the taillights was wrapped in yellow translucent tape.

It had the windows on one side broken out and replaced with plastic sheet wrap and duct tape.

And the back bumper had evidently been replaced with -- I SWEAR I am not making this up -- a two-by-four held on with bunjee cords.

The sticker on the back read: QUESTION TECHNOLOGY.
[Eek!]

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Yozhik
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And speaking of bumper stickers in Madison, the one that most irritated me was the ubiquitous hippy-dippy "Commit Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty."

I often thought of making my own sticker that read "Commit Constant Kindness and Meaningful Acts of Beauty." But I never got around to it.

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I am not a big fan of putting bumper stickers on my cars either, but I do have one that I bought years ago that I put prominently in my front windshield that says "Normal people worry my!" [Razz]
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I kinda like bumper stickers. I'm liberal and make no secret of it, so I have a Kerry/Edwards bumper sticker on my car (still, probably not gonna take it off till next election) as well as on either side of it one that says: "A village in Texas is missing its idiot." and another: "One Nation... Under Survellance."

Its just another way of expressing myself, and how I feel about our current government and the way the country is going.

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Seen on a local military base: "Happiness is a belt-fed weapon."

Randomly seen on the interstate: "Things just haven't been the same since that house fell on my sister."

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Boris
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I love it when people put multiples of the same bumper sticker on their car. I saw a guy in North Carolina with 5 Confederate flags on the back of his car. As if one wasn't enough to tell people that someone in his family line liked his sister a little too much [Smile]
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A coworker was lamenting the fact that her mom has a "W" bumper sticker. I suggested she take a red permanent marker and make the circle/slash over it like this .

She giggled. [Wink]

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Well, I'm not going to put a bumper sticker on my car, but my favorite two bumper stickers from the past few months were both political in nature:

"Re-Defeat Bush in 2004"

and

"More Trees, less Bush"

[Big Grin]

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Seen on a junked out Olds...
"Stop laughing, its paid for."

And currently on my truck *dons asbestos suit* I have this sticker...
"Ladies Anarchist Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society"

It was applied before 9/11. I don't think I'd have done so afterwards, but I'm too lazy to remove it.

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I saw a guy in North Carolina with 5 Confederate flags on the back of his car. As if one wasn't enough to tell people that someone in his family line liked his sister a little too much
Yeah, because rural southerners are all inbred, aren't they? Ha ha.

[Roll Eyes]

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No. I'm one of em. [Razz] There are only a very select few southerners that still display confederate all over the place. The fact that one person had 5 confederate flags on one car shows that he either suffers from chronic redundancy, or is an extreme redneck. I can understand one flag. But five?
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