BOB...and I don't mean Battery-Operated-Boyfriend
Remember way-back-when, when those yellow, diamond-shaped, BABY ON BOARD shields came into vogue? Then followed by such admonitions as BABY AT WHEEL, and then PRINCESS ON BOARD, BITCH ON BOARD, BINGO-FREAK ON BOARD, BORED ON BOARD, GARFIELD ON BOARD, and so on and so on and so on...?
I was about 14 or 15 at the time, and despised those things.
Scarey thought: Those people are now in their 50's... and vote... and their kids are in college... and their cars proudly display...
those...
damned...
RIBBONS!
Now, I have no problem with the yellow-ribbons for the troops - that's been around forever. Then came red for AIDS and then pink for breast cancer (or maybe the other way around, I dunno). Little lapel pins, brooches, etc. Fine.
Now they are on cars. Everywhere. Yellow for Pray for Our Troops, God Bless America, Support our Troops, etc. Red, white and blue for God Bless America, We Support The President and our Troops. Occasional pink Breast Cancer Survivor(wow, you've been through Hell, but do you HAVE to put it on the car?). And now, well, has come for gold for Childhood Cancer, mauve for Fight Muscular Dystrophy, camouflage in blue (WTF?) or brown (hunters?), and on and on and on.
Is it me, or has the world gone mad? The next thing you know, an empty 2 litre bottle of TAB will fall onto the Whitehouse Lawn and it will be a sign from God, that she's pissed.
Remember way-back-when, when those yellow, diamond-shaped, BABY ON BOARD shields came into vogue? Then followed by such admonitions as BABY AT WHEEL, and then PRINCESS ON BOARD, BITCH ON BOARD, BINGO-FREAK ON BOARD, BORED ON BOARD, GARFIELD ON BOARD, and so on and so on and so on...?
I was about 14 or 15 at the time, and despised those things.
Scarey thought: Those people are now in their 50's... and vote... and their kids are in college... and their cars proudly display...
those...
damned...
RIBBONS!
Now, I have no problem with the yellow-ribbons for the troops - that's been around forever. Then came red for AIDS and then pink for breast cancer (or maybe the other way around, I dunno). Little lapel pins, brooches, etc. Fine.
Now they are on cars. Everywhere. Yellow for Pray for Our Troops, God Bless America, Support our Troops, etc. Red, white and blue for God Bless America, We Support The President and our Troops. Occasional pink Breast Cancer Survivor(wow, you've been through Hell, but do you HAVE to put it on the car?). And now, well, has come for gold for Childhood Cancer, mauve for Fight Muscular Dystrophy, camouflage in blue (WTF?) or brown (hunters?), and on and on and on.
Is it me, or has the world gone mad? The next thing you know, an empty 2 litre bottle of TAB will fall onto the Whitehouse Lawn and it will be a sign from God, that she's pissed.
