Bumpersticker Idiocy

[RedShoesBlueState]

I saw a bumpersticker on a pickup truck today that made me just shake my head in disbelief. Now, let me say, this is not a gun control thread, and I don't want it to turn into that. (PLEASE!) I'm really just remarking on how completely dense some people are. The bumpersticker (which was right next to a faded Bush-Cheney sticker, so I know there was no irony intended) said:

"Happiness is a Warm Gun"

Sigh. Is it possible that in only one generation, the spirit and message of John Lennon has already been lost?

If it were in a parking lot, I would have been tempted to add an attribution:

Happiness is a warm gun. (Mark David Chapman)

But...the guy in the pickup truck wouldn't get that, either.

[SteppingRazor]

1. Actually, if it's next to a Bush/Cheney bumper sticker, that means that irony IS intended...

or at least it would seem to be. Irony's not always a good thing.

[Ian David]

2. "Happiness Is a Warm Gun"

Happiness Is a Warm Gun
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Happiness Is a Warm Gun" is a song by The Beatles featured on the double-disc album The Beatles (also known as The White Album). It is primarily a John Lennon composition, credited to Lennon/McCartney. The original, working title of the song was "Happiness Is a Warm Gun in Your Hand," which was inspired by a magazine cover containing the phrase. In 1962, Charles Schulz wrote a small, square Peanuts book titled "Happiness is a Warm Puppy," which inspired the American Rifle Association to adopt this phrase for their cause. John Lennon then saw this controversial phrase in an ad in a magazine and ran with it. Some people think that the song title refers to a needle for injecting heroin. Lennon denied this.<1>

<snip>

Overview

Lennon once claimed the song was "sort of a history of rock and roll," as it features five different sections but is less than three minutes long. The song begins with a brief lilting section ("She's not a girl who misses much..."). Drums, bass and distorted guitar are introduced as this portion of the song proceeds. The surreal imagery from this section is allegedly taken from an acid trip that Lennon experienced. After this, the song transitions into a Lennon song fragment called "I Need a Fix," built around an ominous-sounding guitar riff. Lennon's plea "I need a fix/cause I'm going down" in this section forms the basis for speculation that the song is about heroin addiction (indeed, sources have claimed that Lennon was addicted to heroin at this time; Lennon's heroin addiction was referenced famously in "Cold Turkey"). The final section is a doo-wop send up, with the back-up of vocals of "bang, bang, shoot shoot." The song's multiple sections would inspire Radiohead's three part Paranoid Android on OK Computer.<2>

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According to Lennon, the title came from the cover of a gun magazine that producer George Martin showed him: "I think he showed me a cover of a magazine that said 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' It was a gun magazine. I just thought it was a fantastic, insane thing to say. A warm gun means you just shot something."<3>

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness_Is_a_Warm_Gun

[Ian David]

3. I saw an idiotic bumper sticker today I'd never seen before.

It had a picture of a clown labeled, "U.N. Weapons Inspector," and a picture of a soldier, labeled, "U.S. Weapons Inspector."

Some brainless fuckwad still thinks Saddam had WMDs.

And no, the guy driving the car was NOT Sean Hannity.

I gave offered him a milkshake in American Sign Language.

[RedShoesBlueState]

4. So tempting sometimes

It's so tempting sometimes to flip off drivers who have particularly obnoxious stickers.
I see this one guy all the time on my commute, who has one of those stickers that equates calling for peace, with cowardice. The thing is, he looks like the the kind of guy who would pull over, get out of his truck, and do me violence. (And by the way, I've nothing against people who drive trucks. I drive one myself.)

[ThatsMyBarack]

11. Welcome to DU, RSBS!

:hi:

[RedShoesBlueState]

12. My first official welcome

Thank you!

[poverlay]

5. Sorry. My brain is still quivering from the woman who told me that Obama has connections to

"muslims" and that her real problem is that he was endorsed by Ted Kennedy. Then she brought up Chappaquidick and I realized her real problem goes a hell of a lot deeper than that. I wish I had some sort of a dumb-ass moran detector. I feel as though I am inundated by them some days.

[RedShoesBlueState]

6. Ignorance can sometimes be treated; stupidity is incurable

That's what people like that make me think of. And I'm a Hillary supporter, by the way. Nonetheless, that woman is an idiot.

[poverlay]

8. Me too, but I almost voted Obama just to bring a little cosmic justice.....nt

[canoeist52]

7. Republicans for Voldemort

I had this bumper sticker for 2 yrs. Got flipped off for the first time the other day. Almost forgot about my sticker. Thought he was complainin' 'bout my drivin'.

[RedShoesBlueState]

9. Oh, I LOVE that! (nm)

[RedCappedBandit]

10. Hahaha

Thanks for the laugh