~Bumper Stickers...When 1 or 20 isn't enough~
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ZsuZsanna Raven
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07-27-2005 15:42
Ok , I don't know what it is around here lately...but people seem to be on some bumper sticker kick. I pass a car everyday on my way to work that has what has to be at least 200 stickers on their car. I mean all over the car, doors, hood...everywhere. It's a relatively newer car in great condition, so it's not like they need the sticker adhesive to hold the car together. It's pretty ridiculous because it obviously de-values the car quite a bit, or at least I would think it does. I have a small butterfly decal on my back window at the top but that is all. On a daily basis I see a lot of cars with 8 or more stickers. The oddest sticker I have seen was about a year ago and it said "I'd rather be fu**ing Goats" (without the asteriks of course). This was on a brand new Porsche.
I also find it amazing how Patriotic people have decided to become in the past few years. I feel like the only person in the world without a magnetic ribbon on my car. It's not that I am not Patriotic...I just don't feel the need to post it all over my car to impress others.
I also see a car regularly that has about 100 stuffed animals inside the back window of their car. It's not even possible to see out of the window. Why anyone needs to cart their stuffed animal collection around their car in the back window is beyond me.
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Lianne Marten
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07-27-2005 16:13
I've got two bumper stickers on my car... one for the radio station I listen to that I got for free a while ago at one of their promotional stands, and the other is a Kerry '04 sticker. I'm just too lazy to take them off really, and my car is a crappy '91 Ford Taurus so i'm not worried about devaluation.
I don't think they have anything to do with patriotism... the first people to put them on do so becuase they believe in whatever the sticker means... and then everyone else puts them on because it has become the cool thing to do, and without them you are seen as not supporting whatever it is they stand for. Just look at what those bracelet things have become. The Livestrong ones were the first, and few people wore them or any other kind... and now there are ones all over the place for every little thing under the sun.
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Teeny Leviathan
Never started World War 3
Join date: 20 May 2003
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07-27-2005 16:18
From: ZsuZsanna Raven I also see a car regularly that has about 100 stuffed animals inside the back window of their car. It's not even possible to see out of the window. Why anyone needs to cart their stuffed animal collection around their car in the back window is beyond me. I have a simple formula for those drivers. Start with 100. Count the number of stuffed animals, multiply by 3. Subtract that number from 100. The result is the driver's I.Q. 
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Foulcault Mechanique
Father Cheesemonkey
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07-27-2005 16:35
I got all the bumper stickers I need....and I don't even need a car. www.internetbumperstickers.com
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Arbel Vogel
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07-27-2005 17:10
All I have is a MAGNETIC yellow "Support Our Troops" ribbon on my car, and that's all I need. Now to get Willow's face on a magnetic piece...rawr!
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Foulcault Mechanique
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07-27-2005 17:15
From: Arbel Vogel Now to get Willow's face on a magnetic piece...rawr! ?????Just her face...I'd want more. 
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ZsuZsanna Raven
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Join date: 19 Dec 2004
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07-28-2005 10:46
From: Lianne Marten snip..
I don't think they have anything to do with patriotism... the first people to put them on do so becuase they believe in whatever the sticker means... and then everyone else puts them on because it has become the cool thing to do, and without them you are seen as not supporting whatever it is they stand for. Just look at what those bracelet things have become. The Livestrong ones were the first, and few people wore them or any other kind... and now there are ones all over the place for every little thing under the sun. Yes exactly. The rubber bracelets are the another new thing to be trivialized. The bumper stickers that annoy me the most are the "I'd Rather Be...fishing, golfing, swimming, scrapbooking, doing my neighbor, etc etc. I really don't care what you'd rather be doing but can you speed the hell up and at least go the damn speed limit! Although, I was thinking about getting a bumper sticker that says... "I'd rather be teleporting...but I have to drive since TP's arent reliable right now"
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Colette Meiji
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07-28-2005 11:30
I saw a car like that also - though it was not new - was in fairly good shape - with bumper stickers everywhere , mostly for Environmental type stuff
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Liona Clio
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07-28-2005 12:07
Only bumper sticker I ever put on my car was in retaliation to all other cars on the road....a quote from a wise man on being inna crowd: "Why must I always be surrounded by frickin' idiots???" 
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Colette Meiji
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07-28-2005 13:29
From: Liona Clio Only bumper sticker I ever put on my car was in retaliation to all other cars on the road....a quote from a wise man on being inna crowd: "Why must I always be surrounded by frickin' idiots???"  heheh - My daughter has a shirt that reads "Im not with stupid anymore"
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ZsuZsanna Raven
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07-28-2005 13:31
From: Liona Clio Only bumper sticker I ever put on my car was in retaliation to all other cars on the road....a quote from a wise man on being inna crowd: "Why must I always be surrounded by frickin' idiots???"  Now that would be quite tempting to put on my car.
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ZsuZsanna Raven
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09-17-2005 13:03
I also find it ironic that people will put a RIP Dale Earnhart, etc sticker on their car but not anything that pertains to losing/missing a family member/friend. The only time I have ever seen anything like that was when my best friends little sister, and her 3 friends were killed in a car accident a few years ago. They had stickers made for their cars that had all the names on them.
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Julian Fate
80's Pop Star
Join date: 19 Oct 2003
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09-17-2005 14:23
I want some pedestrian silhouette stickers to put along my door like a fighter plane. And a crosshairs hood ornament of course.
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Madiera Westerburg
waiting for apocolypse :D
Join date: 6 Apr 2004
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09-17-2005 15:16
i have two stickers on my car..one that says "for such a small town there sure are a lot of idiots here" and a betty boop sticker....which works for me
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Paris Cellardoor
Jefa del Cartel
Join date: 28 Dec 2003
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09-19-2005 11:56
I have 2 stickers on my car.....F the President and a Bob Marley ONE LOVE sticker. I also have a FUCK BUSH sticker but I have children so I can't put it on my car. 
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Neehai Zapata
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09-19-2005 13:31
I've got one of these on my car. After moving to Jesusland I just couldn't help myself. 
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Ursula Madison
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09-19-2005 13:41
I only have a "Hang up and drive!" sticker.
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Lora Morgan
Puts the "eek" in "geek"
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09-20-2005 05:29
Bumper sticker mentioned in a Tom Robbins book, which I'd consider applying if I had one:
"If there was something I'd rather be doing, I'd damn well be doing it"
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Jessica Qin
Wo & Shade, Importers
Join date: 16 Feb 2005
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09-20-2005 06:44
I used to have a Cthulhu Fish. Then at the last election I replaced it with one that said "Why change horsemen in the middle of an apocalypse?" Which still works, somehow. From: ZsuZsanna Raven Although, I was thinking about getting a bumper sticker that says... "I'd rather be teleporting...but I have to drive since TP's arent reliable right now" I like it  I wonder what other messages could be put on a bumper sticker that only another SL resident would understand? Jess
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Rose Karuna
Lizard Doctor
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09-20-2005 09:00
From: Neehai Zapata I've got one of these on my car. After moving to Jesusland I just couldn't help myself.  Please, please tell me where you found this bumper sticker Neehai! I HAVE to have one.
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Jonquille Noir
Lemon Fresh
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09-20-2005 10:43
No bumper stickers on our current car. I used to have "Doing My Part To Piss Off The Religious Right," "I Hate Morality" and a Darwin fish on the back bumper, and a couple of Calvin & Hobbes transperant stickers on the back-door window wings of my old car.
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Julian Fate
80's Pop Star
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09-20-2005 14:09
Around here there are a lot of pickup trucks, and many of them sport stickers of a naughty Calvin peeing on everything you can imagine. It was old a decade ago. I think a guaranteed moneymaker would be a sticker of Calvin peeing on a sticker of Calvin peeing.  No doubt the pickup fans will retaliate with a sticker of Calvin peeing on a sticker of Calvin peeing on a sticker of Calvin peeing. 
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Nisa Stravinsky
Danger Mouse
Join date: 16 Sep 2004
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09-20-2005 14:14
I had a booboo on the front of my 83 superbeetle...someone gave me a big Band aid sticker that said OUCH and I put it over the booboo. Then another friend would ride around in the bonet with his arm and leg sticking out and it looked like I ran him over and knocked him in.
Those were the good ole days. Now I have Mr. Burns in a Diaper with A whip on the back glass of my socker mom suv
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