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Erin
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The green Jetta in front of me this morning:

I brake for absolutely no fuckin' reason whatsoever.

[ 10. March 2003, 01:09: Message edited by: Erin ]

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Boot
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How about:

I'm busy, you're ugly
Have a nice day

b

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J Whitgift

Pro ecclesia dei!
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I like the ones on the back of Lorries in 15 Font, asking:

'How's my Driving, call --- --- ----'

Well, if you are driving close enough to read the sign, then the driving of the car must be bad.

On a lighter note, I saw one on the back of a motorcycle which read:

'Stuck in a Traffic Jam again?
Well, too bad
so sad
Bye Bye.'

and with that...

Bye Bye from Lux.

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tomb
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Living in a town with a college of mining engineering, two of my favorites, which make the Greens crazy, are:

Ban mining. Let the bastards freeze in the dark.

even better is:

EARTH FIRST! We'll mine other planets later.

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duchess

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Kiss my redneck a**, I got a mullet and my rear is jacked-up for you to pucker

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mousethief

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What's a mullet?

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duchess

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www.ratemymullet.com/

This is just one page...hopefully not full of trashy smut like lots of them are....

If you go to google and type in the word "mullet" you will get a whole plethora of mullet loving pages

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Miss_Molly

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Seen on an automobile in Baile Atha Cliath (Dublin to those of you who may be planning to attend Cliona's projected meet):

Ritheann an car seo ar poitin!
(This car runs on moonshine!)

Na pog mo thoin!
(Don't kiss my ass!)

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QLib

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2 versions of 'Baby on Board':
  • F**kwit on Board
  • Ben Elton's suggestion: My wife and I have not yet been blessed with offspring, but we'd still prefer not to die in a road traffic accident. Thank you so much.

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Sarkycow
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Actual bumper sticker, currently stuck to my car [Smile]

Want a taste of religion? Bite a minister.

Do I get bonus points for having parked outside:
a. The vicarage - Vicar + wife both laughed.
and
b. Church - before the main service, so everybody saw it.

Viki, who's considering taking it to HTB [Wink] Well, it's for the alternative Alpha...

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..a few my old youth group kids came up with to help advertise the church... can't claim copyright on all them though:

"Get saved now. Ask me how."
"Jesus loves me, but everybody else thinks I'm a wanker"
"Who's your Daddy?"

and this one hearkens from the Simpsons, but i still love it:

"He knows what you did last summer."

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jlg

What is this place?
Why am I here?
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*A-hem* [Roll Eyes]

Returning to the spirit of the Original Post, I dedicate this one to the yuppie lady who recently was tailgating me while talking on her cell phone and looking in the mirror while using her "free" hand to fuss with her hair:

LOOK MA! NO HANDS!
(Steering is for Wimps)

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Ultraspike

Incensemeister
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See in Texas (quelle surpris):

"Keep honking, I'm reloading."

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auntbeast
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I was once driving along and just about crashed laughing at a simple question adorning the bumper of the car in front of me

"would you drive any better with your cell phone stuffed up your as*?"

I also get great reactions to my home made bumper decor... I have a Darwin fish and a Jesus fish nose to nose with a big silver heart painted over their noses. Gets me in hot water in almost any parking lot.

Anyway the original post was ones they SHOULD display and to get back on topic my suggestion would be:

"I picked all my Jesus stickers off because my shitty driving is a bad witness"

.. I makes me absolutely crazy when people with the cheesy Jesus stickers all over their car drive like idiots... I guess they figure if they can scare me bad enough I might have a conversion experience looking at their bumper.

All good things,
Auntbeast

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babybear
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About 15 years ago, I knew a guy who used to create those cheesy Christian sticker.

He 'wrote' a series about what Christians do. He could not understand why hardly anyone anted to buy

"Christians do it on their knees".

When we explained to him how people would read that he looked aghast, and repremanded us for being so tained by the flesh.

bb

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Jonah the Whale

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BB, does your friend still make those stickers? Can I order one? Maybe he's got a lot left in stock so I can get one half price.

Cuttle.

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Inanna

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God loves me - but he's keeping the receipt just in case...

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7 pillars (of wisdom) please
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I've often thought of creating a bumper sticker at Christmas time saying

Jesus is for life not just for Christmas.

What does everyone think? Has it already been thought of? Is it cheesy?

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Dave P

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The Church of England had an advertising campaign last Christmas where it put up loads of posters saying, "The Church is for life not just for Christmas."

Close to your idea. I suppose you could argue your theology is better though! (or is Jesus for eternity and the church just for life?)

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Alan Cresswell

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quote:
Originally posted by auntbeast:
I have a Darwin fish and a Jesus fish nose to nose with a big silver heart painted over their noses.

Love it!

Alan
(still disappointed that the Darwin Fish is the wrong dimensions for an avatar [Frown] )

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Chorister

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'I don't have any fish on my bumper, only chips'

There used to be one years ago saying 'honk if you love Jesus' - fortunately for the noise abatement society, not many people did!

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splosh
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One that should be on a lot of drivers bumpers is:

Should I have stopped at the zebra crossing (especially as those school kids were trying to cross!)

Do not appreciate people attempting to knock me over as they are going too fast in a built up area [Flaming]

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Mad Geo

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Heres a few (some more arrogant than others):

Conspiracies aren’t.

Other people sometimes embrace their limitations. Let them.

Never mix up your areas of misunderstanding.

Government is the result of the worst properties of two parties.

My perception is your reality.

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mousethief

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I had a nice fish which actually says "N Chips" inside it, on my back bumper, but I broke it off in a car wash. Gotta get me a new one. Got lots of great feedback.

Reader Alexis

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Scarlet

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And I have a fish shaped carrot (in bright orange and green) on my bumper which says "Go Veg" inside.

And one I've seen that trumped all those horrid "My child is on the Honor Roll at Blah, Blah, Blah Elementary School" was:

"My child is in Detention at the Youth Camp"

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maleveque
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My latest favorite bumper sticker, spotted on Michigan Ave, just next to the Catholic University of America:

What would Scoobey-Doo?

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mousethief

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Maleveque, that's priceless.

Reader Alexis

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Ann

Curious
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I was following a white van with a 'WWJD' fish. Underneath it was a sticker saying "Keep your distance."

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aj

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So...has no-one else seen:

"My karma ran over my dogma" ?

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Gill H

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Simon Mayo used it in a late night BBC programme a few years back. Wish I could remember the name - it was trying to be a bit like SoF on the telly. His sign-off was 'Goodnight - and don't let your karma run over your dogma'.

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'Justus'
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quote:
Originally posted by Holy-Stone:
The Church of England had an advertising campaign last Christmas where it put up loads of posters saying, "The Church is for life not just for Christmas."

Close to your idea. I suppose you could argue your theology is better though! (or is Jesus for eternity and the church just for life?)

Actually the CofE poster last Christmas ran:
"The Church is for Life not just for Christians".
We thought about doing Christmas, but Christians seemed to make the point even better.

There were three others (which we took a lot of stick for):
"Asylum Seekers ? Jesus, Mary & Joseph. Happy Christmas".

"Life Goe to pot ? Made a Hash of things ? Things not too E-asy? Love is the Drug".

"Body Piercing ? Jesus had his done 2,000 years ago".

We managed to get hate mail from as far away as New Mexico for that last one, especially given that we only produced a couple of hundred of the posters and they never went up anyweher else other than Birmingham.

Needless to say the target audience were "unchurched" youth, but a large number of Christian people (almost all outside the age range of the target audience)were very offended.

Getting back to car stickers I think there should be one for the elderly couple who refused to do above 15 mph on a 40 mph road, but just so happened to be in front of me this morning:

"My other car's a Zimmer frame".

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Beethoven

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The driver we nearly 'encountered' last night should have had 'Just because I flash my lights at you doesn't mean I'm actually giving way'

[Flaming]

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toujours gai!

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Bonzo
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When I die, I want 'Just Dead' on the back of the hearse and a few tin cans of course!

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Astro
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When the RSPCA were running their "A dog is not just for Christmas" campaign I saw
"God is not just for Christmas"

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mousethief

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I always wanted a bumper sticker that showed a crucified plush bunny with a circle-and-slash and the legend, "The Easter Bunny Did Not Die For Your Sins." But I lacked the guts to make one.

Reader Alexis

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Schroedinger's cat

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Mousethief - did you see The Onion's Easter bunnies childrens cut outs ( I think from last year ). They featured a fluffly bunny nailed to a cross, and a duck ginig out eggs - with a cross over its other shoulder. Very good.

If you want the files ( .gif's ) then drop me a line.

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Moo

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quote:
Originally posted by Mousethief:
I always wanted a bumper sticker that showed a crucified plush bunny with a circle-and-slash and the legend, "The Easter Bunny Did Not Die For Your Sins." But I lacked the guts to make one.

Reader Alexis

This is heresy!

The Easter bunny is not made of plush. If he were, how could he hop around delivering all those eggs?

Moo

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mousethief

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Moo, I figured crucifying a REAL bunny would be a little traumatic, either on me, the bunny, or both (for one thing their arms just don't move that way).

Reader Alexis

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Chapelhead*

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True story

On Good Friday a few years ago I looked out of the kitchen window to see one of the farm cats come into the garden with a rabbit between its teeth. We all spent an anxious couple of days waiting to find out if it had been the bunny. [Eek!]

But back to bumber stickers. Is there any bumber sticker more utterly pointless than the one which say "Caution, show dogs in transit". Like, I'm not going to drive in to the back of you because I might upset your pampered pooch, whereas the idea that I might kill myself wouldn't stop me doing it. [Roll Eyes]

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mousethief

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I think, Chapelhead, the point of the "caution show dogs in transit" sticker might be to let you know that, should the car roll over and the doors pop open, you should keep your distance.

Alexis

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Nightlamp
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Ok ok the one I the one I hate second most of all

Baby on board

The one I really hate

Small person on board

what am I meant to do? drive close so I can see it!
Or is the whole reason to put a big sticker so you can't see out the back so you can cause an accident.
Stupid people

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Dave the Bass
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I once saw a dragster, looking like a formula 1 racing car but stretched to at least 20 feet long, with huge rear wheels, an enormous spoiler on the back, and a massive engine inside. As well as various sponsor's logos, it bore a sticker saying "my other car is a Skoda". The Skoda was parked nearby to confrim this fact.
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babybear
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quote:
Originally posted by Moo:
This is heresy!

I love it. The Original "Orthodox Guy" is accused of heresy. [Yipee]

happybear

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Not

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Nightlamp, you might like the one I saw recently, done up to look just like those evil yellow diamond shaped 'Baby on Board' ones

Bored with F****** Babies

[Big Grin]

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John Donne

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I had a friend who when we happened upon a car displaying the 'Baby on Board' diamond, would turn to me, and I to her (almost simultaneously). Then we would nod, and say: 'Ram it'.
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Beenster
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Did anyone see Louis Theroux and his tour of religious folk and how he hooked up to a group who did "bumper sticker evangelism". The bumper sticker included a freefone number where the letters were something like the numbers for JESUS SAVES or other meaningful stuff. Anyway - there were about 37 people driving around evangelising in this way - and so the leader decided to have a rally of all these good evangelising folk.

I think about 2 cars were present

scary stuff.

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Ham'n'Eggs

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quote:
Originally posted by Nightlamp:
Ok ok the one I the one I hate second most of all

Baby on board

The one I really hate

Small person on board

what am I meant to do? drive close so I can see it!
Or is the whole reason to put a big sticker so you can't see out the back so you can cause an accident.
Stupid people

[Roll Eyes]

Most people seem to be unaware of the actual purpose of these signs (but then most UK drivers appear to be stupid full stop).

In the case of an emergency crew approaching a mangled heap of wreckage, they will normally be on the lookout for adult casualties. The presence of these signs alerts them to the fact that there is probably a small body (possibly alive) to account for, so they need to take extra precautions with cutting gear etc.

(Actually, this has just highlighted incipient egocentrism on the part of all shipmates who think that these signs are addressed to them! [Snigger] )

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Ham'n'Eggs

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(Damn - too subtle again! For those who may have missed it, the last sentence of the previous post was self directed irony.)

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In Theory

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Seen in a bumper-sticker sale in the US:

The Christian Right is neither.

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quote:
Originally posted by Ham'n'Eggs:
The presence of these signs alerts ,the emergency serices> to the fact that there is probably a small body (possibly alive) to account for, so they need to take extra precautions with cutting gear etc.

And in the case of the 'show dogs' signs, to take very special care to avoid mussing up the delicate bouffant hair-dos of the pampered pooches - these are show dogs, after all. [Roll Eyes]

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