This is what GUEY is accordong to the Urban Dictionary:

1. guey

Dude in Spanish. Correct spelling is actually "buey" but sounds like "guey" or "way" so it's just changed a bit. Literally means "ox", and is a negative term like "fool" or "ni**a" but it's used as a term of endearment more like "dude".

I don't think that bumper sticker of Bush and "guey" was meant as a compliment!!!

According, not accorDONG. Whoopsy!

The only bumper sticker I've ever put on my car said "Republicans for Voldemort." Sure, it's political, but it's sort of... timeless? Or at least it's timeless post-1998. Anyway. I did inherit a car with an Autobots sticker in the back window. All the way up until the newest Transformers movie came out I got compliments on it. I miss that sticker.

I must say, I'd be worried about driving behind someone whose license plate says essentially that they see everything twice. How safe is that?!?

I don't know, the title of your book might make an "interesting" bumper sticker. And you know, some of those CHP officers that might pull you over on account of the drunk part, can be pretty cute...

I saw a bumper sticker on a car one day that said "Jesus votes Republican" which I can honestly say, I did not know.

"Guey" means dumbass. Isn't that apparent?????

One of my favorites is "My kid can beat up your honor student". Makes me laugh every time.

Does California have the new trend of hanging anotomically correct "balls" under your Hummer or equally tough looking car? It makes me laugh in the pathetic way it actually may confirm the bigger the car the smaller the...

My dad's 2nd wife, Terry Cole-Whitaker, had a succuessful tv ministry based on the slogan "Prosperity Your Divine Right." You don't see those bumper stickers much anymore as she closed up shop about 25 years ago.

But, more to the point you brought up, she wrote a book called "What You Think of Me is None of My Business." Obviously she and Dr. Dyer have a lot in common.

isnt it illegal to have you windshield covered up like that? youll get your car towed for it here (if theyre feeling bitchy) if theyre feeling bitchy, theyll tow your car for a crack in the front window too lol wheres ponch and john when you need them??

you see a lot of the bull balls under cars here in oklahoma. i always wanted to jump out and cut them off!

Dear Nashvegas,
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my sarcasm. Please forgive. I have corrected the mistake just for you.
--Laurie Perry

p.s. Liz, on the other hand, I thank you for the dictionary piece! That way I didn't have to add it in myself.

You need to watch this video if you haven't - an Engineer's View of Cats. It's hilarious and made me think of you. :)

http://skepchick.org/blog/?p=1272

It's hard out here for a simp!

I was behind a little convertible car the other day, driving by a Chad in full "I'm a british roadster!" regalia (sunglasses, aviator scarf, driving gloves, etc), who had a bumper sticker that said "I'm comfortable with the size of my penis".

Um, dude? A Miata is NOT NOT NOT a penis-extender car. Think Mazerati. Think Hummer. Think something overly testosterone-y.

But NOT a ***MIATA***.

I laughed out loud when I saw it. So maybe the bumper sticker did what it was supposed to do, after all!

"Guey" is commonly used in the phrase "pinche guey." Bush would be the "pinche" in the sticker. Definitely not a complement. But definitely made me giggle.

Do you (and by "you" I mean collectively all the commenters!) ever treat drivers differently based on their stickers? I am much more likely to excuse a stupid driver with a Dave Matthews Band sticker on their car than someone with a "W" one. I justify my actions in strange ways....

I always let Jeep drivers merge in front of me...

Back in my days of yore I had all kinds of hippie-esque bumper stickers on my pickup. Of course, the thing was 20 years old and ugly as sin, so I didn't care too much to embellish it. You would have loved it! Lots of picture taking fodder there!

I have two bumper stickers. "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups" and a shiny silver Flying Spagetthi Monster emblem.
I think that about sums me up!

Stephanie in TN--I do that all the time! Someone gets in front of me with a W sticker and I automatically feel like flipping them off if I can pass them. Of course, with my 2 year old in the back seat I try to restrain myself. :P

I have always *always* decorated my vehicles. This serves multiple purposes.

1. Amusement: watching the expressions of the people behind you as they read your stickers is a wonderful way to pass the time while in traffic. I'm fairly certain my stickers have even started a few arguments. ;)

2. Vehicle identification: when faced with a sea of cars in the same make and model, all of which are the same color, being able to pick yours out because you've decorated it sure beats wandering around pushing your remote entry button and watching for the flashers to go off. It also beats trying to get into a car that isn't yours. Bumper stickers make your car unique.

3. Self expression: I have fun with it and choose to highlight various aspects of my personality and interests. Currently on my vehicle I have a "Play Rugby" sticker, "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people" and "Dog is Love" among others. :)

And as you pointed out, reading other people's stickers is fun.

So here's to bumper stickers!

One of my sons was kind enough to buy me a "No Farting" bumper sticker at the Cracker Barrel. It even has a stick figure with a cloud coming out his butt and a ban sign over it.

I sport it proudly next to my organ donation sticker (for it) and I heart warthogs sticker (though really I'm afraid of them).

Good, thoughtful post, Laurie. I keep the bumpers clear, but I do have a vanity plate that I'm thinking of giving up (I've had it for almost 20 years) because I get paranoid that it automatically tells people certain things about me (like where I went to college and...ah-hem...how OLD I am). Do I really want people to know that now??

Oh, and heehee, you said "rear-end." I'm five!

How about "Real Women have Furballs!"?

And just 'cus I feel I'm missing out on something, (being Canadian and all) what's the W symbol mean? Is it Georgie's middle initial?

Your reasoning for not having a bumper sticker on your car is the exact same reason why I do not have any tattoos. What could I possibly permanently put on my body that would define me?

On the other hand when I was 18 (back in '86) my '66 Mustang had bumper stickers that said:

"A fool and his money are soon partying."

and my favorite...

"Beer isn't just for breakfast anymore."

When you drive an elderly Saturn, Mercedes drivers tend to yield to you.

Favorite bumper stickers (some undoubtedly
offensive to someone somewhere):

Honk if you're not sure: Unitarian/Universalist Church

My other car is a broom

My other vehicle is a Klingon warbird/Vulcan science vessel

Honk if you obey commands from random strangers

Gowron/Worf '08: Honor for America

Cheney/Voldemort '08

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup

Jesus saves! ...And Gretzky scores on the rebound!

Oh, and Shana, you are so right, especially if you have a whole bunch of them.

When I had my car, I loved to take it on long road trips, during which I would inevitably pick up a LOT of tacky bumper stickers advertising the various states, national parks, and tourist traps I'd visited. I would put these bumper stickers on the car, but I never thought of them as expressing my personality. The belonged to Princess (the car) more than me, and they were her souvenirs for her travels. Also, they covered up all the scratches on her bumper.

Years ago when I decided nothing would do but to have a vanity plate my Dad warned me that putting your name, especially if you're a woman, on your license plate is just plain stupid and could give someone a chance to distract you by pretending they know you. So I went with something that is a statement about the car itself; still have the car and the statement is still valid so I don't mind paying a little extra at renewal time. Don't understand the need to paste a bumper sticker on a car but I do find them amusing!

The single best (IMO) place to buy bumper stickers is at unamerican.com

I used to have several of theirs on my laptop.
(go check it out, it's not what it sounds like)

Tai....yes, it's George W. Bush. There are stickers that are popular here that are simple black squares with a "W" that say "The President" underneath.

And, in opposition, there are ones with an "M" that say "The Moron" hee!

my fave so far?

667 neighbor of the beast.

Tai: Yup.

I used to have one of those "My (insert dog breed here) is smarter than your honor student" stickers. My dog at the time was a Catahoula, so not only smarter but easily just as hyper.

Best one I saw recently was "Vote for Lewinsky's ex-boyfriend's wife".

I live in an itty bitty burg by The Ocean, and, just once, I spotted this on a bumper: "If it's called 'Tourist Season', then why can't we shoot them?" - but I wouldn't be brave enough to put that on my car. Besides, I don't know where to get one!

I can't bring myself to put stickers on my car...I mean, my mom didn't even like us to put stickers on our skin as children! But my favorite bumper sticker I've ever seen was on Telegraph Avenue in Berekely: "Jabba the Hut Votes Republican."

My new favorite, yet to be printed, coined by yours truly is: "My cat is better than your human baby."

I'm so jealous...I have no car, and I DESPERATELY wish to have something to put a bumper sticker on.

Maybe I should just stick one on my butt on my way to work...

I have one that shows hands knitting and says "Make Gloves,Not War." Love it. My "Yarn Pirate" (from the YP herself) makes people quizzical. And I do have one for my hubby's band "Ukesperience"

Following up to myself, a sample from unamerican:

"Do not buy anything from any bake sale that the air force may hold to buy a bomber, because those bombs will kill people."

It's probably a good thing that you don't have a bumper sticker that says "I like wine." I once received a promotional Pabst Blue Ribbon bumper sticker, but I decided that it would just be an invitation for a DUI.

I don't have a bumper sticker other than my Berkeley parking permit, but I do have small race car type flame decals on the rear windows of my Volvo wagon. It makes me laugh and makes my 5 year old son happy.

I would prefer larger flame decals but don't know where to get them. Anyone?

The "guey" stickers are a play on "pinche guey." They are also a play on the OBEY design you may have seen plastered or painted around many cities.

I'm with you, Laurie. I can't see putting a sticker on something I've paid thousands of dollars for...though I frequently see stickers on other cars that I love.

One of my old favorites was: "Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?"

Currently, one of my faves is: "January 20, 2009: The End of An Error."

I'd like to coin my own.. 'Ya just can't push a rope!'

I like the last picture, Laurie. It is also a hidden self portrait!

GREAT post, Ms. Laurie! I'm so happy you've opened up the topic ... I'm having a great time reading the comments. I'm not a fan of having bumperstickers on my own car, but I love reading them, too. My favorite was one I used to see on an old beat-up pick-up truck on my way to work:

PsychoAmazon WarBitch From Hell.
With An Attitude.

(like they really needed to specify that second part!)

I *loved* that one, and it made me smile every time I saw it, so it was nice we were on the same commuting schedule .

I'm also pretty fond of this one:

Somewhere in Texas, a village is missing its idiot

(not sure I have that exactly right, but you get the idea)

And I'm with you on the giving out too much info about the kids. Here in "fly-over country" (American Midwest) it seems like every SUV and minivan has stickers of little boys and girls, their names, and their sports. That just scares me.

Laurie, I've got your back. I live in the South, where it's impossible to find any ANTI-Bush sentiments. So I'll take a couple pictures of Pro-Bush stickers and even you out. :o)

The best bumper sticker I ever saw said, 'Honk if you're illiterate.'

"Feminism is the radical notion that women are people"

I want this bumper sticker. I don't even know how to drive, but I would find a way of putting this somewhere!

I can't put it on my body. My tattoos are all expressions of my interest in Japanese culture.

I didn't know what "guey" meant!

How about "My bumper sticker is funnier than yours"

I love reading your blog, Laurie! I also love your book. :)

I just thought I'd add one of my favorite bumper stickers (on a former co-worker's car...this woman is one of the most hilarious people I've ever met):

"Give me ambiguity or give me something else."

I think you need one that says, "got zucchini?"

There was a girl at my high school who had so many bumper stickers on her car that you couldn't tell what color it was. She left her lights on once, and they made an announcement on the intercom... "The owner of the car with all the stickers, your lights are on!"

I had to go back and see what Sarah above was talking about. ;)

I currently don't have stickers but here's a classic in my state that sprouts up with each new wave of out-of-state transplants:

NATIVE TEXAN

The Elvis car made me think about a house I drive past on a regular basis.
On one house the owner put a sign that said "Jesus Lives!" on their roof so it was very visible from the regional highway, and it wasn't too long before their neighbours put up a sign on their roof that said "So does Elvis!" Remembering that always makes me laugh!

Whoops, that wasn't Sarah, it was Kat with a K! Sorry!

i don't have stickers on my car either although i did think about getting an "F" for France sticker. but then i was afraid someone would vandalize my car. you know that was during the "freedom fries" days.

some bumper stickers are fun but for some reason i really don't like those "my dog is smarter than your student" ones. i can't really say why. they just sound a little like sour grapes to me, maybe because i was an honors student once although my father would tattoo his ass before he put a bumper sticker on his car (and my dad is not the ass tattooing type).

Merrie, I NEED that sticker. Heehee!

Favorite Bumper Sticker EVER:
Excuse my driving, I'm getting road head.

My personal favorite: "Horn broke. Watch for finger!"

I really can't get up the nerve to put bumper stickers on my car but during the last election I wanted one that said Lick Bush, Beat Dick.... with their pictures and everything. Alas, I lived in a mostly republican area and my car was reallly new then. But I still find the sentiment funny.

A few favorites:

If I wanted to hear the pitter patter of little feet, I'd but shoes on the cat.

Get a taste of religion- lick a witch!

Alcohol and calculus don't mix- don't drink and derive!

My most favorite bumper sticker ever:

"Nuke gay baby seals for Jesus"

It's the ultimate irony: an anti-bumper-sticker sticker for a bumper-sticker hater.

My absolute fave du jour is:

Come to the dark side - we have cookies.

My daughter, who clearly takes after me, even though I haven't yet made a knitter of her, got me a Happy Bunny steering wheel cover that says, "Driving like a Psycho is Fun!" I'm leaving it on the steering wheel, too. It's not a bumper sticker, but it's the thought that counts, right? (I may drive a big, old, starting-to-rust, SUV, mom-wagon, but I'm not going quietly!)

I always have to check out the driver of a car with personalized plates, to see if they match their plate.
I didn't know what "Guey" was. I'm just a naive Midwesterner.
But I think it's funny.

I mostly see political themed stickers here in Eugene, although we do get a lot of the other ones. Our old car had a "i did not vote for bush" sticker on it, because we knew it wasn't going to run long enough to see another president [and it didn't!] The current car, bought new, has one sticker on it, an oval that reads "PHP" the programming language that my husband spends his days immersed in. I want to get a K2TOG oval for the other side, just to brand the car as the ultimate nerd mobile.

Best one I ever saw:

"Practice random acts of funk
And senseless disco moves"

I really love it when folks take the time to make signs/kleenex box covers/do-dads out of cross-stitch plastic canvas. Especially when the theme is "Jesus lives foreve", cause you know that all you will see is part of it and that part will enivitably be the "Jesus" part. Thus the Jesus car lives and breathes in the Mid-west.

I'm waiting for the bumper sticker that reads "Going to hell and enjoying the ride". Maybe that is the response you should give for the folks that give you a rough time about drinking.

the funniest bumper sticker ive seen in a long time said "im only speeding cause i really have to poop." sadly, i was unable to get a picture....

Laura--I recently got an email from a reader who told me the reason my husband divorced me was because I'm an alcoholic and I needed to stop making jokes about it and check myself into rehab.

I thought that was very kind of her to be so clearly concerned about me, a total stranger, except EVERYONE knows he dumped me because of my online porn addiction, my gabling issues and because I eat small children.

But I only eat CUTE small children, if that counts for anything. Maybe that should be my bumper sticker...

I can't bring myself to put a bumper sticker my car either. I can't even come up with a catchy screen name and that's usally only about five to ten letters long.

On the other topic, I had a friend who had an Elvis room in her house. She is a very difficult person to buy a gift for because she has everything ever made with Elvis on it. One year I thought I had come up with the greatest gift ever for her: the Elvis Triva Pursuit game. After one time, her husband quit playing the game with her because she knew all the answers!

I have a coaster at home that has a good bumper sticker slogan except for the potential DUI part:
"I like to cook with wine. And sometimes I even put it in the food."

I love reading others' bumper stickers, especially the non-politcal ones. The only time I ever had one on my own car was when I drove a little blue 1978 Honda Civic and my grandparents drove a HUGE blue 1978 GM luxury car -- my sticker said "When I grow up I want to be a Cadillac." heehee

I had a sticker on my old car which read "Visualize Using Your Turn Signals" (one of my biggest pet peeves). My husband HATED driving my car because then he always had to remember to signal!

When I lived in SoCal I was always cautious around drivers with the Harvest Crusade stickers on their giant SUVs. They were more likely than anyone to cut you off or swerve across 3 lanes of traffic to make an abrupt exit off the freeway.

On my husband's bumper "seen Rock City" purchased in Chattanooga, of course. (you might have to have some southernness to get that one)
On my friend's bumper "every child is honored at Barfield Elementary"
And also NOT TRUE that you can't find anti-bushisms in the south, we see them more and more- gives me hope!

I think bumper stickers are sort of like refrigerator stuff, except hopefully refrigerator stuff is only seen by people one allows in their kitchen. I've never been able to sticker my car - can't think of 'one thing' I'd want on something (as you so well stated) SO expensive...and so OUT there.

My favorite bumper sticker "Get a taste of religion, lick a witch!"

Oh, I LIKE that "which is worse?" bumper sticker; that's one I hadn't seen yet. Similar to "When Bush lied, no one died." Amen.

I love the "Going to hell and enjoying the ride" idea. Sign me up. It's that or "I hate People" but it may sound too negative.

My mother's used car came to us with one of those Peace Frog stickers on it. Which is nice, except for the fact that at some point, one of the fingers flashing the peace sign got torn off, so that it looks like Froggie is FED UP WITH PEACE LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING and is now just flipping people off.

(Also: I am invariably mortified when I've had to explain when I was being funny in a funny-website-type way on various blogs I've kept. I just keep asking myself, "At what point did I fail to convey my withering sarcasm and end up just looking like a dumbass?" Which is not to say that *you* look like a dumbass or anything.)

Jasmine, it's totally OK... I am sure to some I looked like a giant dumbass. *sigh*

I cracked myself up with what (I thought) was funny, but apparently it was only funny to me.

This happens more than I care to admit.

I put one bumper sticker on my car. It said: Send Jane Fonda to Chernobyl.

My fave ever was: Nice People Swallow.
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For a very long time, we never had a bumper sticker on our car. Then finally we put one on....and shortly thereafter got rear-ended. Fixed car, eventually put on another sticker. Shortly thereafter was hit by a car so hard in knocked us into a ditch and flipped the car over and totalled it. Got another car, this one will not have bumper stickers, as people obviously regard them as targets in my case. (altho my husband did put a Cubs hitch cover on my current vehicle....so far so good on that)

Arcata, CA, is a university town, with a lot of environmentalists (and former hippies) living there. There are quite a few vehicles that look like your last photo, with bumper stickers all over the back (and sometimes painted on the sides). Our shorthand for that is to call it an "Arcata car." :-)

Psychology students are told over and over, there is no such thing as "normal." I dislike the idea of being boxed into a description, so I got a license plate holder made that says, "Why be normative?" :-)

I have one that says, "I piss stupid people off."

It's brilliant.

Years ago, Portland's busses had a bumper sticker that I have always desperately wanted for my own car. It said, "200 cars are at home today because I'm on the road."
It was a little big, but otherwise, perfect!

Years ago, Portland's busses had a bumper sticker that I have always desperately wanted for my own car. It said, "200 cars are at home today because I'm on the road."
It was a little big, but otherwise, perfect!

I saw one I liked today:

YOUR HONOR STUDENT IS JUST A PAWN IN MY DACHSUND'S DIABOLICAL WORLD DOMINATION PLOT

I have some Cat and Girl stickers on my car: "I'm wasting my life" and "Technically you would only need one time traveler convention." Which I think tells people in the know that I like poetry (the first is a reference to a poem we had to read in high school) and that I'm a geek...

My favorite bumper stickers of all time:

1) Where Am I Going and What Am I Doing In This Handbasket

2) Women Who Seek To Be Equal To Men Lack Ambition

3) The Only Bush I Trust Is My Own

I love stickers that make me think and when I get it they make me laugh out loud. I Have read a few in the comments. I especially loved this one "January 20, 2009: The End of An Error". Took me a minute, but loved it.

I like to put stickers on my car that are unusual, not common. I usually don't put a sticker on until i have a dent or scratch to cover though. THey are great for that!! Right now I only have two, one is on the window, and doesnt cover a scratch actually, but it made my car easier to find in parking lots, cause seems like everyone in my town has a navy blue Highlander.
I have "NSK Notorious Sock Knitter Blue Moon Fiber Arts" on my car, cover the scratch from where I (shamefaced) hit the garage door.

Laurie, you realize that by next week people will probably have mailed you a couple hundred bumper stickers now.

betty crocker? I just laughed out loud. I would buy a sticker that said that!

My all-time favorite bumper sticker is "Eschew obfuscation".

Laurie, have you ever seen the comedian Demetri Martin? One of his jokes is, "Bumper stickers say a lot of things...like, 'Hey, let's never hang out.'" Love it.

Apparently on that last one, the folks behind were so busy reading that they crashed into his bumper.

I live in Canada but my favourite bumper sticker is universally applicable:

Just be grateful you don't get all the government you pay for!

I finally got up the nerve for bumper stickers and put them on the read window. (in case I change my mind)

"Mass media is mass deception"
and
"The most violent element in society is ignorance."
Emma Goldman

I was going to suggest "Drunk, Divorced and Covered in Cat Hair", but realized that's probably not prudent if you want to avoid getting pulled over. It's great if you want to meet cops though.

I used to have a bumper sticker that said "Real Women Don't Drink Light Beer" from a local microbrewery. My new car doesn't have any. I figure the cloud of dog hair blowing out the (slobbered on) windows whenever I roll them down says it all.

I was behind a car today with a vanity plate that read "Poe Lady." I, being from redneck country, thought it meant she was poor, until she slammed on her brakes and I almost rear-ended her and I saw the plate holder read "Quoth the raven 'Nevermore'."
I said to myself, "her car is going to be nevermore if she doesn't learn to drive." Ah, I love the 101. Don't you?

How about a bumper sticker that says "Im a Vegetable"

It is getting old yet?

Jill in Florida

I have one that says "Cute outside, angry inside" but I'm too chicken to put it on my car.

I've always had this irrational notion that as soon as I put a bumper sticker on my car, something major - like the transmission - will keel. So I've resisted the urge to stick them on the car, but occasionally I buy one and pin it on my bulletin board at work until it seems too dated or familiar to be funny anymore.

I love the ones that make me laugh, and I laughed about a hundred times reading this post and the comments. But really..."Native Texan"? That would be either a Mexican or an Indian, right? (And I'm saying "Indian" because the Native Americans I know refer to themselves as "Indians.") I remember years ago seeing the same kind of thing in Colorado, and thinking, "Who are you kidding?" Just sayin'...

I saw two funny ones in the past month while driving:

1. "Bush is a punk-assed chump"
2. "I'm so gay that I poo rainbows".

Both times I laughed so hard I almost crashed my car.

Best. License. Plate. EVAH!

(on a Dodge Shadow)

5 oclock

Think about it............

I wanted to stalk him. 'Cause you know, I have such a high threshold for stalker-dom........

I'm not a fan of putting bumper stickers on my car, but my friend has one on her van and it's my all time favorite: I'm out of estrogen, and I have a gun!! Pretty much says it all!

my favorite is "someone give Bush a BJ so we can impeach him"

Recently seen and I love it:
"Wag More/Bark Less"

and will you post some "rear ends"...?!
A girl could have alot of fun "documenting" mens butts to post on your website. Someone did make a ton of money shooting videos of "show me your ti_s" so who's to say you can't be the guru of "show us your butts, penis's etc.!!
I'd sure watch!

For those who don't want to permanently affix a sticker, but wish they could slap something on there for a while, try one of these, in order of stickitude to wimpy:

1) get a really really REALLY fuzzy towel. Apply sticker to towel a few times and get it really fuzzy. Then stick on car. When you want to remove sticker, heat sticker up with hair dryer and it should peel off easily.

2) Go buy magnetic vinyl (at any sign shop or car graphics place), stick your sticker on that, then cut out around your sticker. Wash and dry the area of the car where you want the sticker to go (and um, make sure it's metallic, not plastic!). Slap it on and you're ready to go!

3) Apply sticker to vinyl cling material (again, any sign shop should have it, or car graphics place) and cut out around sticker. Wash area of car, leave a little moist (with clean rinse water), slap vinyl cling on, squeegee out air bubbles.

One of my favorites is "Visualize Whirled Peas"

Well, how about a Crazy Aunt Purl Dot Com bumper sticker. I'd buy it!

Brilliant, Kel! I'd use that one too!

Hilarious post and comments. I'm spending some time commuting in a small Eastern European country where no one has bumper stickers, but the license plates pretty much make up for it. Here, they follow a 111-AAA format, raising some unconsciously fantastic combinations:

700-MEN = Go Girl!
697-ARR = One very ticked-off pirate, or a pirate convention?
598-ASS = I'm ashamed to admit I'm just juvenile enough that it still makes me giggle.

My all-time favorite:
222-ASH = on the back of a municipal fire-truck. I could not believe my eyes!

Just saw one last night that still has me laughing:
I found Jesus! He was behind the couch the whole time.

My bumper stickers helped get my pickup back to me after it had been stolen years ago. I was a Deadhead, and had lots of stickers... I can't remember most of them. One was "peace begins with me", and there were dancing terrapins and a steal your face, and skeleton with roses (all Grateful Dead symbols). My truck got stolen, and I was heartbroken. I loved my truck. Well, a cop who was also a Deadhead saw it in a predominantly black neighborhood, and thought those Dead stickers were awfully out of place, so he ran the tag, caught the guy, and got my truck.

Another favorite is wtfwjd?

I have one that sums me up that I haven't put on my car yet...(going to your point about putting a sticker on a costly purchase). It says: "Wag more, bark less."

Love it!

laughed at one that said "Jesus is coming-look busy", and always wanted one that said "CAUTION: I go from 0 to BITCH in 2.6 seconds".

I recently saw one that really made me laugh. It read:

"Look Ma, no hands!"

And indeed when I got next to the cab of the pick-up truck I saw that the driver had two prosthetic hooks/pinchers!!!

I agree with the poster who said a sticker on her car was like her dad tattooing his ass. My dad is the same way. All I have on my car is a decal in the front windshield.

But might I suggest what might be the best sticker ever?? I 'heart' Carrie Dupree. I loved that post!

I read here alot, but never comment. I just have to direct you to one of my latest posts and what I saw on a car last week at the beach. It is UNREAL.

http://copaseticbeth.blogspot.com/2008/04/god-hates-sinners.html

Love to read your posts! If you actually go to mine you should also check out my 80's hair photo - I'm giving your orange driver's license a run for it's money.

http://www.bumperart.com/

For those of you wanting to read more stickers!! You can buy them there or make your own here,

http://www.makestickers.com/home.asp

I have a few on my "white jeep", which is really a 1990 suburban. "A Closed Mind is a Wonderful Thing to Lose", "Unschoolers Are: Enthusiastic Autodidacts Exploring the Universe"(I made that one), "Teach Peace", and "Another Family for Peace". I want some more opinionated ones someday.

Our car has a bumper sticker thanks to some... somebody who put one on every car in the hotel parking lot we were at one weekend. It's a neat design for some band we've never heard of but it helps us pick out our otherwise hard to find Civic out in the parking lot.
And my favorite sticker: "I came to get down."

I, too, am hesitant to put stickers on my car. I do love reading them, though. I did have a "Recycle Life- donate your organs" one on my last car.

A woman at work has a license plate holder that says "A Classy Car for a Classy Lady." The car is a Chevy Malibu. The woman has a bad dye job and poorly manicured acrylic nails.

I keep trying to find an
"Earth First. We'll strip-mine the other planets later" sticker. I love that one.

How about 'My personality is too big too fit on a sticker?'

Although I guess that kind of defeats the purpose... :)

How about "My blog readers are smarter* than your honor student" or "The Sobakowa is plotting your demise"?
*or have more fun

One of your best blog posts, evah!

Loved the one that said "Every child is honored at Something Elementary School" We don't have those honor roll bumper stickers in Canada and they always bother me when we're in the states because it's so sad that children are ranked that way when they're still just little kids.

And Laurie, does a woman with a blog name of Crazy Aunt Purl really need a bumper sticker? Stay anonymous on the freeway, you've got lots of self-expression on the internets!

My favorite bumpersticker?

Mean People Suck

And:

Member of the Immoral Minority

I have a few bumper stickers, mostly from my time at UC Santa Cruz (Mystery Spot! UCSC! Aquarium!).

However, my favorite is my sticker that says "Reading is sexy" on it. I was on some LA freeway in traffic once, and a car full of boys was to my left. One of them made it obvious he was going to say something out the window, and I thought "Oh no, time to get harassed." He yelled "I can read!!!!" out the window. One of my greatest moments in traffic, ever.

I had one made online:

1-21-09
IF I ONLY HAD A TARDIS

(You have to know that the TARDIS is Doctor Who's time machine to get it. I have to explain pretty often, but I like it so much I don't care.)

hey, I didn't know what that meant- people in oakland don't really say that. It looked like it had to do with the andre the giant obey stickers. And, not that it belongs on your car, but what about 'live out loud'?

Two of my faves:

Brainy is Beautiful

and

Like My Old Life Only Better!

Hilarious! as usual! When you figure out what your bumper sticker will say, I'm sure you'll have quite the little stash o'cashola when we all buy them! Love your blog!

The faves I've seen are still:

"Like a Rock- Only Dumber" w/ a picture of GW Bush and

"Marching to the beat of a different kettle of fish" although the one for the Marines was pretty clever, if somewhat disturbing:
"When it absolutely, positively has to be destroyed overnight"

My two favorites-"Dog is my Co-Pilot" and "Born O.K. the first time".

There's one license plate frame that I see all the time that annoys the crap out of me - it's the one that says "Always late...but worth the wait!" I can handle people who are occasionally late, things happen to everyone, that's fine. However, I know a couple of folks who are flippin'. never. on. time. and it drives me nuts. Rude. :P

Opened my Kansas City Star this morning and found this article about the origins of the bumper sticker and thought of you! http://www.kansascity.com/238/story/581859.html

Thought you might like to hear about the beginnings of vehicular philosophy

Loved reading the bumper stickers

Regarding the "Texas Native" sticker, the last time I was in Colorado I really wanted to get one of the "Colorado Native" stickers and put it on my car with the California plates. It's the truth and I figured it would really confuse some of the folks.

My favorites are all local:

"St. Augustine- A Quaint Drinking Village With A Fishing Problem",
"In St. Augustine a day late is three weeks early",
"Welcome to St. Augustine - the World's Largest Outdoor Sanatarium",
"Don't Ask Me- I Read the {St. Augustine} Record"

All of which are quite apt.

HOORAY! What fun! Love all of these and then some. THe husband's not a fan of bumper stickers at all; says he doesn't want the cars to "stand out". Then he put a large sticker on the rear passenger window of BOTH cars: it's the Coat of Arms of King Louis XV. Uh-huhn. We also have clear rainbow Grateful Dead dancing bears, actually. One of my favorites (I have it, but not on the cars): "I support the right to arm bears." This is a keeper, Laurie - to you and ALL my fellow commenters: 10Q!

"No outfit is complete without cat hair."

OK, you are not the only crazy person taking pictures of rearends. I'm over here in Baltimore doing the same thing!
I did NOT know what a guey was, so...I learned something new today.
I also love trying to figure out what some of the vanity license plates mean.

Our maths teacher had 'God is good, God is fair. To some He gives brains. To others hair' on his car. Not really appropriate for you, of course, but there you go.

Um for you. How about 'Knitty, Witty & Pretty'?

My favorite I saw - it was one of those awareness ribbon magnets for your car. It was a color I didn't recognize - not like pink for Breast Cancer or Purple for Colon Cancer - it was an odd shade of green. I got up to it & it said,

"Support Ribbon Awareness Magnets"

LOVED THAT!

Loved these bumper stickers and talked about them all weekend. I think my wyfe understands but wishes I'd shut up. :-) This post inspired me to transform a recent column from a friend into a bumper sticker, "Stop the Brutal Whining!" Heeheehee. I can't imagine who wouldn't need one of those on the back of their car. Check out my blog for more info if you want.

Um, what's an alkie? (You've inspired me to take up a new hobby. Photographing bumper stickers.)

I'm behind, but I wanted so suggest this for your bumper sticker:
"You don't have to believe everything you think."
My SO has this on his car.

Some I've never seen, but would like to:
A matched pair;
Politicians - Don't tell me how to Worship.
Clergy - Don't tell me how to Vote.

I Reject Your Reality, and Substitute My Own (thanks, Mythbusters)

Personally, I abhor stickers on my own vehicle. But I do have a favorite bumper sticker -
Grace Happens.

...So much nicer sounding than that other thing which 'happens' and is more frequently mentioned.