Well it's official or at least it's official to me now. Those ribbon car magnet have now ceased to have any meaning for me. You know the one's I'm talking about. They started showing up down south about eighteen months ago. The first ones were yellow and said "Support Our Troops!". I thought these were great. Shortly after that, other causes started showing up on them like red ones for cancer survivors. Again, I am in full support of the ribbons. Then some lesser tier causes jumped on board such as "Masturbation for a Better Tomorrow". I think their ribbon was blue. While the importance of the causes has lessened a bit, I am still in support of the whole magnet thing.
Well today that all ended. As I am driving into work today, I pass a car with a yellow ribbon magnet that says, "Get Ir Done!". The moment that someone thinks that the brain damaged Larry the Cable Guy warrants any recognition on a ribbon means that these damn things have outlived their usefulness. I now put these in the same category as the "Baby on Board" placards that appeared in the late eighties and early nineties. I urge you to find some other way to support your important causes. Next thing you know there will be a ribbon that says, "Wife in Trunk!"
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Carrot,
Thank you for saying what I have for a while, the ribbons need to go! I saw a truck the other day with five ribbons on it. I thought to myself, take a stand for something pal...Are you that vehemently behind five major causes, I doubt it?
I would have never recognized that as a line from the Cable Guy. Ha!
I'm in the UK, and people don't have anything like that on their cars, but I thought it was a little too bandwagony for good taste when I was in the US.
It's a bad as those stupid bracelets. I'm all for supporting good causes but there are sooo many bracelets out there (white, green, light blue, dark blue, red, pink etc) that they should limit how many bandwagons a person can jump on in one year.
The ribbon magnet is the trucker cap of a couple years ago, or the window flag car attachments of 3 years ago. Patriotism is great, adorning every surface with the flag is remedial.
uhm... my ribbon says "support bitching". Is that bad?
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