[Doug]

Inspired by an exchange with Neike, I recently changed my signature to a saying I saw on a bumper sticker.

What I would like to hear from people is what is your favorite bumper sticker saying, or what would you put on a bumper sticker if you could print them up?

I have 2 favorites:

One takes its inspiration from those popular bumper stickers you see on really old, beat-up cars that say "My other car is a ________" (Rolls Royce, Mercedes, Porsche, Ferrari, Jaguar, some other really desirable car):

"My other car is a piece of shit, too."


The other was suggested by a US automotive industry writer (Brock Yates) and takes its inspiration from the 80s fad of hanging a sign in the window (almost always in a Volvo station wagon) or having a bumper sticker that says "Baby on Board", as if one would take extra care not to collide with another car on the basis of the character of its occupants:

"No baby on board, so take your best shot."

(I had a bumper sticker for a while that said "Brat in Trunk")


To UKers/Australians: I know that in the UK, car parts have different names: hood=bonnet; trunk=boot, etc. Do you have another name for "bumper" (the US word for the horizontal structural strip on the front and back that theoretically prevents you from causing thousands of dollars worth of damage when you back into a telephone pole at 3 miles an hour)?