People were probably afraid of it!

I never locked the doors, it was never stolen and never broken into. :)

My favorite bumper stickers:

A “Hungry? Eat Your Import” sticker on the back bumper of…a Fiat.

A “Clean Air – Wouldn’t It be a Nice Idea?” sticker on the back of an Isuzu Stylus that left a trail of oily, blue smoke several yards behind the car.

He used to load up on political bumper stickers during election season, but he’d always take them off immediately after the election – usually the next Saturday. Until fairly recently, that’s the way everybody was. Now you can’t go anywhere without seeing a faded Gore or Kerry or W sticker on a car. I wish people were still like my dad.

“Who’s Monkey Ass Did You Have to Kiss To Get on My Firetruck?”

My wife (easily amused) laughed for about a month after seeing that one.

I once saw a prius plastered with bumper stickers. “Your SUV sucks, my hybrid sips” and other crap along those lines. I personally hate SUVs a whole lot more than prii, but I seriously had the urge to key the crap out of that car. I just know that motherf—er is in the left lane doing 50 all day.

this was a particularly liberal quarter of Massachusetts.

You are being overly literal about a bumper sticker, but currently the Pew Research Center projects that the US will grow from the current 303 million (probably a bit more) to 438 million by 2050; 82% of that growth will be due to mass immigration and children born here to immigrants. I suspect that if you are at all familiar with it, you will agree that Pew is at least neutral on this issue (this is the same umbrella organization as the Pew Hispanic Center). If you remember that “your child’s lifetime” could easily be the next 70-80 years, and that immigrant source countries including Mexico are still growing, this will probably make sense to you.

FYI in the ’90s, the US population grew by ~35 million; 3/4 of that due to mass immigration including US born children of immigrants. Worth noting: the fertility of Mexican women in Mexico is ~2.4; in the US it’s 3.1.

Just saw this from Cicero:

Nothing’s more touching than those “R.I.P.” or “In Memoriam” tributes to dead people that you sometimes see on a car’s back window. (I think they’re a factory option on Monte Carlos.)

We have one for our daughter that never made it to her 18th birthday. Think about that the next time you are able to hug your kids.

(Edit: Ok, really just wanted the GT3)

During the height of the Clinton scandal, I had bumper sticker on my truck which I made on my laser printer. It read “Honk if you’ve been subpoenaed by Ken Starr”.

Sadly, my sticker days are over. Anonymity is the name of the game these days.

Don’t know why…

Probably because it’s lame.

Although the thought of having a ‘my other car is a Ferrari’ sticker on a Ferrari kind of appeals to me.

That would really say ‘in your face’ to all that mediocrity loving communists over here. Better not park it in a public place though.

@David Holzman OT

Uh no…apart from pc-ness issues I will refrain from issuing, the US currently has about 300MM citizens. Mexico has about 110MM(?)…Even if the entire population decided hey let’s go to the US, US population wouldn’t nearly be doubled by immigration. Besides that, since Mexico would be completely deserted the US could use all that land for something, like generating energy one way or the other.

As for the rest of the world, in my experience most Europeans (well, those with higher education) see the US as a place they might like to live/work a couple of years to ’see the world’ and then usually go back again because they miss their own culture (I’ve learned US/European culture is the same, but it’s not… although I can’t judge for every single European country nor every US state of course) and or family.

As for Asians, do you really think they want to go to the US these days…Guess not.

And there are about 3 people living in Africa these days so let’s not get into that.

Anyway, if I might ask, in which state did this take place?

If you don’t like to put political messages on your car then you should take that lifetime NRA membership sticker off.

David Holzman:

Yikes. And this is why everybody loves the police.

There will be no political stickers on my car – in my opinion our national politics is beyond repair, so the only chance is the system collapses.

Though I mostly push the shirts on CafePress, I occasionally design a bumper sticker as well.

My personal favorite, thought it has only ever sold three or four copies, merely says

“Discuss Complex Issues Through Bumper Stickers”

to me, it just proves that sporting a bumper sticker is quite literally the least you can do to support a cause (good or bad).

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/magazine/07funny_humor.t.html?scp=1&sq=shalom+auslander+subaru&st=nyt

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/magazine/07funny_humor.t.html?scp=1&sq=shalom+auslander+subaru&st=nyt

To me, the fact that the LP gets so little press means advertising by any means possible is necessary. However, advertising either the Democrat or the Republican seems silly because *everybody* already knows who is running for them.

I also think it important to keep a Libertarian sticker on the back of my Suburban so people will not get the mistaken idea I’m a Republican.