Remember "Baby onboard" and bumper stickers?

fuzzybuddy

fuzzybuddy

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I don't know if bumper stickers were a passing fad, but I haven't noticed any recently.. Some have decals on their rear windows. The last time I had a bumper sticker was during Gore vs Bush-over 22 years ago. Thank God, the "baby on board" signs got lost somewhere. Now, I can deliberately crash into any car without the thought of disturbing a baby. I do have to say there were some really good bumper stickers. Do you have a bumper sticker, and why, or why not? Remember any gems?
 

I think there are no bumper stickers on newer cars because there are no more steel bumpers; the actual bumpers are behind plastic outer coverings that are easily damaged by the glue on bumper stickers. I used to enjoy reading them & I remember some good ones:
"Fish Tremble at the Sound of my Name"
"Driver carries only $5.00 Worth of Ammo"
"My Wife, Yes. My Dog, Maybe. My Gun, Never"
"Gas, Grass, or Ass. Nobody Rides Free" (popular during the 60's)
"Yes, As a Matter Of Fact, I Do Own The Whole Damn Road"
"Is There Life After Death?" Touch This Bike & Find Out"
"Yes, This is my Truck. No, I Won't Help You Move"
"Ex Wife In Trunk"
 
I find that bumper stickers while far less common still exist, although some have migrated or evolved to rear windows rather than remained on bumpers. In some cases they are decals rather than stickers, often promoting a favorite vacation destination in abbreviated shorthand. For example, one listing “OB” stands for Outer Banks. I’ve seen rear window decals memorializing deceased loved ones, and rear window decals of stick figures representing family member car occupants.

True bumper stickers still exist as professions of support for political candidates. I’ve seen some still mounted on bumpers years after the professed candidates were defeated in elections.

There are lastly still some sarcastic bumper stickers around offering commentary on other stickers, such as one saying that their student can beat up your honors student! 😩
 
Interesting that you noticed this fuzz; the lack of Baby On Board. You are right, I never see these anymore. Could parents not want to advertise the fact? Maybe some nut would deliberately rear end them?
 
win231 said:
I think there are no bumper stickers on newer cars because there are no more steel bumpers; the actual bumpers are behind plastic outer coverings that are easily damaged by the glue on bumper stickers. I used to enjoy reading them & I remember some good ones:
"Fish Tremble at the Sound of my Name"
"Driver carries only $5.00 Worth of Ammo"
"My Wife, Yes. My Dog, Maybe. My Gun, Never"
"Gas, Grass, or Ass. Nobody Rides Free" (popular during the 60's)
"Yes, As a Matter Of Fact, I Do Own The Whole Damn Road"
"Is There Life After Death?" Touch This Bike & Find Out"
"Yes, This is my Truck. No, I Won't Help You Move"
"Ex Wife In Trunk"
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It wasn't that long ago that we saw the matchstick family on the rear window of many a car.
It would depict the parents, the kids and often the family pets.
One though, was controversial, it depicted two bags of cash instead of children.
There was, I remember, a picture of a car in the newspaper that displayed that sticker.
The car's paintwork had been deliberately trashed.
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The stickers that boasted about running a marathon (26.2) were outdone very cleverly in my opinion. 0.0 and 0.Beer were a couple of examples. Lol. The latter I got for Aunt Mavis for her 76 Trans Am.
 
I've never had a vehicle with a bumper sticker......but, somewhere in the house there's a Don't Mess With Texas one that they used to hand out at welcome centres when you crossed the state line.
 
I love bumper stickers. Everyone should have a few. :)

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I don't see bumper stickers much anymore but sometimes I do see small decals on the rear window. One thing I have noticed more are people who cover their cars with advertising wraps. They get paid to have the wraps on their car from certain advertising companies.

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I used to have one that said, "I Brake for Gnomes" and watched the people walking past the car in the parking lot. Most people chuckled and some were perplexed. What's to be perplexed about? This was back in the popularity of Gnomes maybe 30ish years ago. There was a big gnome book (which I bought.)

The past few years Gnome products have been in the shops around here. Homegoods, Walmart, and others. I think gnomes might be called gonks in Britain. Don't know where gonks, the word, came from.

I bought a lovely gnome two years ago, a stuffed one dressed in green and today I brought him up from the Christmas tote and put him on his perch.

For years I have stuck bumper stickers on a chest/footlocker rather than the cars. On my travels, it's slim pickings for bumper stickers.

In the early 80s we were at a tourist attraction in Pennsylvania, some waterfalls a little afternoon excursion. When we got back to the car, the management had bumper stickers STUCK to each car. I was not pleased and scraped it off. The nerve.
 
I hated those "baby onboard" signs. Really what were you supposed to do? You're in a 2 ton, out of control car, hurtling to smash into another car; but you magically don't crash into it, because of some plastic sign in the window? Or you're driven on the interstate and deliberately crashing into as many cars as your little heart desires, but you see the "baby" sign, and spare that car? Stupid sign.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I hated those "baby onboard" signs. Really what were you supposed to do? You're in a 2 ton, out of control car, hurtling to smash into another car; but you magically don't crash into it, because of some plastic sign in the window? Or you're driven on the interstate and deliberately crashing into as many cars as your little heart desires, but you see the "baby" sign, and spare that car? Stupid sign.
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These days, with all the weird people out there, maybe advertising you have a baby in the car isn't such a good idea. Kind of like buying a new computer and putting the box it came in at the curb with your garbage. Hey, robbers, I have a new computer...come and get it!
 
I saw a "baby on board" sticker a few days ago.
The only political sticker I ever had was for Barry Goldwater.
There was one around that said "I love cats, they taste just like chicken".
I have a "Don't mess with Texas" sticker in a drawer someplace.
Our babies are 59 and 61 years old. They have their own bumpers to decorate.
On my bumper is a small sticker that asks: "have you hugged a mermaid today?"
 

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