We’ve most all likely seen the Jesus fish emblem on vehicles. I kind of want the EVOLVE or Darwin fish satire emblem just to make a statement, but at the same time,I don’t want to do something that is inflammatory. Do you consider this type of satire a mere act of being inflammatory or have not issue with it?
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Um, that has the Registered Trademark symbol. On what? “Darwin” is clearly not trademarkable.
Um, that has the Registered Trademark symbol. On what? "Darwin" is clearly not trademarkable.I don't know. It's probably the entire emblem and stylized design that is trademarked, not the concept or word "Darwin."
We've most all likely seen the Jesus fish emblem on vehicles. I kind of want the EVOLVE or Darwin fish satire emblem just to make a statement, but at the same time,I don't want to do something that is inflammatory. Do you consider this type of satire a mere act of being inflammatory or have not issue with it? http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/charles-darwin-1.jpgI have a Darwin Fish glued to my glove compartment door. I don't want my car trashed by religious crazies who might do anything to a car with a symbol they don't like, most of them being such good christians and all. Lois
I have the “evolve” fish below my rear window evolution of man sticker placed where the soccer moms have their Johnny and Joanie stick figures. I will not however put the " Calvin pissing on the cross" sticker anywhere on my car if I value my life. Xtians can be soooo testy, but don’t mind a rebel flag on their bumpers.
Cap’t Jack
Put the evolve symbol on your car, if you want, but also put a Navy Seals bumper sticker near it, so as to confuse and discourage potential vandals.
Only put it on your car if you are a very good driver, and are willing to be extremely courteous, otherwise you run the risk of alienating some who may be on the fence. Example: A woman who lives a few blocks from me is obviously extremely liberal from the eight or ten bumper stickers she has on the back of her car. However, she’s a terrible driver. I’ve been on the road a few times when she would whiz by cutting in and out of lanes with no regard for the people she made hit their brakes. I’m sure many who didn’t know anything about Obama/ Global Warming/ Afganistan/ the environment, etc. got some negative feelings about them as she shoved her car into the small gap between them and the car ahead.
Occam
On the practical side there is such a thing as overkill. Putting too many bumper stickers on your car can be a major distraction to those who try to read them. Unless the car is completely stopped the myopic among us, me included as I like to read them, might be distracted to the point of an accident. My favorite BTW is the “Noexist” sticker spelled out in religious symbols as a parody of the “coexist” sticker.
Cap’t Jack
I have very rarely ever put bumper stickers or symbols on the cars I have owned. And I have not been involved in a collision of any sort for many many years, EXCEPT for "08. That year, I had an Obama bumper sticker and state issued license plates that had the numbers 666. (I didn’t request that. It’s just what they sent me.) That year I was involved in two collisions. The 1st, I was sitting at a red light and was hit from behind. The 2nd, I was going through a green light and a van came speeding through the corresponding crossroad red light in front of me. I have pretty good reflexes in driving, and was able to ALMOST avoid any contact. Almost. The van kept on going. I thought I had heard something, but hadn’t felt an impact. When I got out and looked, it eventually registered to me that my front 666 license plate had been ripped off, (I assume by catching in the right part of the rear bumper of the van as it sped on). I never saw that front license plate again.
We've most all likely seen the Jesus fish emblem on vehicles. I kind of want the EVOLVE or Darwin fish satire emblem just to make a statement, but at the same time,I don't want to do something that is inflammatory. Do you consider this type of satire a mere act of being inflammatory or have not issue with it? http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/charles-darwin-1.jpgI would not put one on my vehicle. I think some will find it offensive no matter how subtle it's shown on the vehicle, but it likely won't start much trouble - unless you live in an extremely religious area, perhaps.
I don’t put things like that on my car because there are too many nutjob Xtians out there who would think nothing of ripping it off, or damaging your car, without the slightest bit of guilt.
BUT if I did put bumper stickers on, mine would read “Jesus Even Loves Christians”. 
First time I saw the Darwin fish, I thought it was cool and it made me laugh.
A symbol of free expression.
But there is no way I would put on my vehicles for fear of damage from the Christians.
I think the Christians see it as a deicide icon.
Put the evolve symbol on your car, if you want, but also put a Navy Seals bumper sticker near it, so as to confuse and discourage potential vandals.In my case it is a 716th MP - Viet Nam sticker; works very well, also keeps the cops off my butt.
I just don’t put things on my car. Never have, probably never will.
I don't put things like that on my car because there are too many nutjob Xtians out there who would think nothing of ripping it off, or damaging your car, without the slightest bit of guilt. BUT if I did put bumper stickers on, mine would read "Jesus Even Loves Christians". ;)The one I might use for fun (and have seen) is: Lord, protect me from your followers. :lol: (Although that does imply a belief I don't have... So I probably wouldn't actually put it on my vehicle.) Take care, Derek
I just don't put things on my car. Never have, probably never will.I actually think vehicles are much more aesthetically appealing without adornment, but I do like the idea of making my statement for people to see. Problem is, it is in issue when trading the car in or selling because such emblems are pretty permanent.
</span> The only sign I ever put in my car was one that read: "<strong>No baby in car....go ahead and hit me</strong>" <span style="color:white">
(I’ve always hated those ‘baby on board’ signs ~ like, shouldn’t we be very careful driving all the time?)
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` The only sign I ever put in my car was one that read: "No baby in car....go ahead and hit me" ` (I've always hated those 'baby on board' signs ~ like, shouldn't we be very careful driving all the time?) `Here in my state, Maryland, on certain stretches of highway there are signs that state, "DUI Enforcement Area." This makes no sense, shouldn't everywhere be a DUI enforcement area!
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One of the best bumper stickers I ever saw was the one that said “A village in Texas is missing its idiot” during the Bush administration. But I wouldn’t put it on my car. I never had a bumper sticker on any car I’ve owned but for one some years ago. It said, simply, “I Love Freethought.” you might be surprised at how many people asked me, “What is Freethought?”
Incidentally, that car lasted 15 years and more than 150,000 miles with no expensive repairs necessary. It finally died like Oliver Wendell Holmes’ “Wonderful One-Hoss Shay”.
Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay,
That was built in such a logical way
It ran a hundred years to a day,
And then of a sudden it — ah, but stay,
I’ll tell you what happened without delay,
Scaring the parson into fits,
Frightening people out of their wits, –
Have you ever heard of that, I say?
Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
Georgius Secundus was then alive, –
Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
That was the year when Lisbon-town
Saw the earth open and gulp her down,
And Braddock’s army was done so brown,
Left without a scalp to its crown.
It was on that terrible Earthquake-day
That the Deacon finished the one-hoss shay.
Now in building of shaises, I tell you what,
There is always a weakest spot, –
In hub, tire, felloe, in spring or thill,
In pannel or crossbar, or floor, or sill,
In screw, bolt, throughbrace, — lurking still,
Find it somewhere you must and will, –
Above or below, or within or without, –
And that’s the reason, beyond a doubt,
That a chaise breaks down, but doesn’t wear out.
But the Deacon swore (as deacons do,
With an “I dew vum,” or an “I tell yeou”)
He would build one shay to beat the taown
‘n’ the keounty ‘n’ all the kentry raoun’;
It should be so built that it couldn’ break daown:
“Fer,” said the Deacon, “’t’s mighty plain
Thut the weakes’ place mus’ stan’ the strain;
‘n’ the way t’ fix it, uz I maintain, is only jest
‘T’ make that place uz strong uz the rest.”
So the Deacon inquired of the village folk
Where he could find the strongest oak,
That couldn’t be split nor bent nor broke, –
That was for spokes and floor and sills;
He sent for lancewood to make the thills;
The crossbars were ash, from the the straightest trees
The pannels of whitewood, that cuts like cheese,
But lasts like iron for things like these;
The hubs of logs from the “Settler’s ellum,” –
Last of its timber, — they couldn’t sell ‘em,
Never no axe had seen their chips,
And the wedges flew from between their lips,
Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips;
Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw,
Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too,
Steel of the finest, bright and blue;
Throughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide;
Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide
Found in the pit when the tanner died.
That was the way he “put her through,”
“There!” said the Deacon, “naow she’ll dew!”
Do! I tell you, I rather guess
She was a wonder, and nothing less!
Colts grew horses, beards turned gray,
Deacon and deaconess dropped away,
Children and grandchildren — where were they?
But there stood the stout old one-hoss shay
As fresh as on Lisbon-earthquake-day!
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED; — it came and found
The Deacon’s masterpiece strong and sound.
Eighteen hindred increased by ten; –
“Hahnsum kerridge” they called it then.
Eighteen hundred and twenty came; –
Running as usual; much the same.
Thirty and forty at last arive,
And then come fifty and FIFTY-FIVE.
Little of of all we value here
Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year
Without both feeling and looking queer.
In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
(This is a moral that runs at large;
Take it. — You’re welcome. — No extra charge.)
FIRST OF NOVEMBER, — the Earthquake-day, –
There are traces of age in the one-hoss shay,
A general flavor of mild decay,
But nothing local, as one may say.
There couldn’t be, — for the Deacon’s art
Had made it so like in every part
That there wasn’t a chance for one to start.
For the wheels were just as strong as the thills
And the floor was just as strong as the sills,
And the panels just as strong as the floor,
And the whippletree neither less or more,
And the back-crossbar as strong as the fore,
And the spring and axle and hub encore.
And yet, as a whole, it is past a doubt
In another hour it will be worn out!
First of November, fifty-five!
This morning the parson takes a drive.
Now, small boys get out of the way!
Here comes the wonderful one-hoss shay,
Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay.
“Huddup!” said the parson. — Off went they.
The parson was working his Sunday’s text, –
Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed
At what the — Moses — was coming next.
All at once the horse stood still,
Close by the meet’n’-house on the hill.
First a shiver, and then a thrill,
Then something decidedly like a spill, –
And the parson was sitting upon a rock,
At half past nine by the meet’n’-house clock, –
Just the hour of the earthquake shock!
What do you think the parson found,
When he got up and stared around?
The poor old chaise in a heap or mound,
As if it had been to the mill and ground!
You see, of course, if you’re not a dunce,
How it went to pieces all at once, –
All at once, and nothing first, –
Just as bubbles do when they burst.
End of the wonderful one-hoss shay.
Logic is logic. That’s all I say.
Lois