Bumper Stickers I Saw in Berkeley (Part Seven)

And behold, I saw a gold Nissan Altima bearing the Seventh Sticker.

And it was not your conventional sticker, but rather more of a do-it-yourself kinda deal. For with a laser printer and some packing tape, the driver had affixed a message to his rear bumper.

And I gazed longer upon the makeshift sticker, for its message was only in about 72-point Arial and thus was quite small and difficult to read.

And behold, the sticker spaketh:

“B U L L S H I T !”

And I was sore disappointed.

Clearly, this was the effort of a man who was Mad as Hell but just couldn’t spend the $3.39 to get an actual bumper sticker.

Seriously, sir, if you are going to go through all that effort, couldn’t you give us something a little more original? For example, there’s a guy down the street from me who drives around with a handwritten placard on his bumper that says:

“Another Compassionate Conservative for Torture”

See what I mean? It has a certain ironic flair to it. Better yet, I haven’t seen it a dozen times already.

So that one’s taken, but I bet you could come up with something creative on your own. As they say, blind partisan rage is the mother of, well, something better than your first effort.

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zalm says:

September 26, 2005 at 8:09 pm

Ooh… A halfassed handmade sticker as a commentary on stickers themselves?

I hadn’t considered that.  Hmmmm…

Nope.  Even as a metasticker, I say it still shoulda been clevererer.

Jim says:

September 26, 2005 at 8:09 pm

Give the guy a break, dude. Maybe that was just his way of making a statement about our oppressive, pervasive consumer culture that commercializes everything, even dissent.

Or, even more sadly, maybe he accidentally crumpled the 3.99 storebought bumper sticker when he tried to peel the backing off and stick the thing on his car. That stuff’s a pain in the butt! And that adhesive crap just won’t come off your hands either.

Where’s your compassion?

Jim says:

September 27, 2005 at 5:09 am

There’s an idea. We could make a mint. Let’s put out a bumpersticker that says, simply, “METASTICKER.”

zalm says:

September 27, 2005 at 12:09 pm

Weren’t we already working on Protestant trading cards?  Maybe we should focus on one thing at a time.  Eye on the prize and all that.

Jim says:

September 27, 2005 at 8:09 pm

Protestant Trading Cards? How in the heck did you remember that? That was so a couple months ago.

zalm says:

September 28, 2005 at 2:09 am

I’m some kind of From the Salmon savant.

Either that or WordPress has a good search function as part of the admin tools.

One or the other.

Jim says:

September 28, 2005 at 6:09 am

I’ll go with the savant thing.

ninjanun says:

September 28, 2005 at 6:09 pm

You guys crack me up. smile

Would these Protestant trading cards have everyone famous in Protestant-ism from Luther on down to Dobson?

zalm says:

September 28, 2005 at 7:09 pm

We hadn’t actually worked out the criteria yet.  It seems to me that if you’ve got a denomination named after you, you’ve more or less made the all-star team.

As for Dobson… oh boy.  As hard as it is to let that softball sail on by, I think I’m probably in enough trouble today for doing my little happydance about DeLay.

Jim says:

September 28, 2005 at 8:09 pm

I’ll do the honors if you won’t.

I think Dobson would be the, um, joker.
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