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There are always a few of these cranks. "Every Turtle a Wanted Turtle."

When you go to places like Cape Cod or the Berkshires (as I do), you have to put up with this sort of stuff. I maintain my sense of humor, but these sorts of things bug Mrs. BD because she is intolerant of idiotic females who make her gender look retarded, and rightly assumes such vehicles belong to women.

If they really loved Gaia, would they be driving?

No. They would be walking to volunteer at the Turtle Abortion Clinic. "Every Turtle A Wanted Turtle." Sheesh. If you ask me, we cannot have too many turtles. Maggie's loves turtles of all varieties, races, species, and religions.

Truth is, I brake for turtles too:

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 16:10 | Comments (19) | Trackbacks (0)

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James Lileks has a bumper sticker rule- the more stickers, the higher the chance that the driver is a liberal. Here in Winston Salem, NC, that has proved true on many, many occasions.

#1 middleagedhousewife on 2010-07-08 16:11 (Reply)

Ha!! I have a somewhat similar Bumper Sticker Rule: The number of politically or socially-themed bumper stickers on a car is inversely proportional to the amount of sense the driver can say on any covered topic.

#2 T.K. Torch on 2010-07-08 16:19 (Reply)

Those don't trouble me that much. I figger the driver merely hasn't got enough common sense to hold their buggy together with duct tape like most people.

What boggles me is the late-model Lexus with the lone, well-place Obama sticker. Those are the people who really couldn't cobble together a logical equation under threat of death.

#3 Pajak on 2010-07-08 16:56 (Reply)

Too many stickers spoil the message and are usually "progressive".
That said, I share some of the sentiments. I do pray that every child will be a wanted child. I don't exactly love the Earth -- it never calls, it never writes -- but I do respect it. I try get animals and people across roads safely. And it's true we can't bomb the world to peace. We fight for freedom -- and freedom eventually leads to peace.
Most people, I think, share the same goals of peace and prosperity. It's how we define them and how we think we'll get there that cause the arguments.

#4 Geoff Brown on 2010-07-08 17:30 (Reply)

I'm with Mrs BD.
BD how do you know they are female drivers?
The plate from N.H has four digits. Hard to get unless you're a state rep, or a big muck a muck.
Do the tires have Birkenstocks on them?

#5 jappy on 2010-07-08 17:49 (Reply)

Snort - tires have Birkenstocks - snort. Now there's nose drippings on my keyboard.

#5.1 Geoff Brown on 2010-07-08 18:06 (Reply)

If a car is plastered with bumperstickers, I agree the odds are the bumperstickers are for liberal/Democratic Party causes.

A blue dog Democrat friend of mine has the rear of his van plastered with Democratic Party bumperstickers. One of the bumperstickers is for someone who had an unsuccessful campaign for judge. Sometime after the election, the wannabe judge was caught scamming people, and committed suicide while being investigated for the scam. I kid my friend that he has a "dead judge walking" bumpersticker.

BTW, he appears open to well informed arguments against Oilbama.

#6 Gringo on 2010-07-08 18:15 (Reply)

Best bumper sticker I've ever seen said "Bumper Sticker Logic is Not the Solution"

#7 Jim on 2010-07-08 18:29 (Reply)

Best one I ever saw said "Dont drink and drive. You might hit a bump and spill your drink."

#7.1 Bird Dog on 2010-07-08 18:39 (Reply)

One of my personal favorites: "Wear your seatbelt. It makes it harder for the aliens to suck you out of your car."

#7.2 Geoff Brown on 2010-07-08 18:49 (Reply)

How about "Ban Bumper Stickers"

#7.2.1 Dan D on 2010-07-08 19:47 (Reply)

"Don't vote, it only encourages them."

#7.2.1.1 B Moe on 2010-07-08 22:23 (Reply)

From about 25 years ago: "I'd kill Flipper for a Tuna Sandwich."

#7.3 Mike (Link) on 2010-07-08 21:10 (Reply)

"Every Child a Wanted Child!"

Ok. Do they mean that the Feds are after them all, or is it just State or County warrants?

Enquiring minds want to know these things, actually. Next time I see someone with one of those stickers, I'll pull up beside them and ask.

OTOH, out here in L.A. (That'd be Lower Arkansas, actually), I've never seen one of those. We mostly have standards yet, in these parts.

#8 jefferson101 on 2010-07-08 20:09 (Reply)

"I don't exactly love the Earth -- it never calls, it never writes -- but I do respect it."

Indeed. Or, as I like to say, "Nature doesn't care."

As German ecotourists discover when they inadvertently get between Ma Grizzly and the cubs while hiking in the Rockies.

Or those Birkenstockers when a tornado or hurricane capriciously takes out their "sustainable", "green-friendly" house in a matter of seconds.

#9 JJM on 2010-07-09 09:19 (Reply)

My daughter speaks college-level German and she's working in Medora this summer. We were trying to work out "This is not a petting zoo" in German and we sound up with:
"Hier ist keine Kindertiergarten."
Germans are one group of tourists famous for mistaking Yellowstone Park (and the rest of the West) for a zoo.

#9.1 Geoff Brown on 2010-07-09 09:38 (Reply)

A shiny new Volvo station wagon sporting a FREE TIBET sticker.

The absolute epitome of bogus concern for the world's woes.

#10 JJM on 2010-07-09 09:28 (Reply)

I actually saw a VW here in W. Oregon that had a Free Tibet sticker next to a No Iraq War sticker. I think a gerbil was driving it.

I have noticed the number of Obama stickers has been declining rapidly lately and a lot more pro-freedom ones appearing.

#10.1 Tralfaz on 2010-07-09 11:23 (Reply)

When I were a lad, it was fundamentalists and libertarian-paleoconservative types that had the multiple stickers. That's pretty much changed now, though I saw a few of those cars at a taxpayer rally in Hillsborough, NH today.

Polystickering usually implies not only liberalism, but environmentalism these days.

#11 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2010-07-11 01:49 (Reply)

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There are always a few of these cranks. "Every Turtle a Wanted Turtle."