I had meant to blog about this right after I got back from Pennsylvania, but forgot about it until I was cleaning out my glove compartment. While I had noticed the latest trend in vehicular adornment on just a few cars in New Jersey, when I was driving around western PA, I was hard-pressed to find a car without some variation of the little magnetic ribbons. In case you haven’t seen them (yeah, right), the ribbons are yellow or red, white, and blue (or a combination of the two), and sport catchy slogans like “Freedom isn’t free,” “Support our troops,” “God bless America,” and so on. My mother was kind enough to give me one of her extras (below), but I think that I will pass on placing it upon the posterior of my Neon.
It’s not that I am unpatriotic, or that I don’t support our troops (which I do, of course); however, I’m just so cynical about crass commercialism. When my mom gave me the ribbon, she had insisted that a portion of the profits from the sale of the ribbons was going to support our troops. Being such a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be (must be all that time around academics), I was forced to dispel her fantasy.
So, that’s it. Nothing profound. Just a rambling rant. Enough with the tacky magnets already.
So now what do I do with this silly little ribbon? Anybody want it?
You could always be like the person in your last post and get about 300 of the ribbons and completely blanket your car. It’s possible that it would be in such bad taste that it would swing all the way around to being something other than tacky!
Heh, heh. Although with that many magnets, I’d be afraid of warping space-time around my little Neon.
How about auctioning it off and donating the proceeds to a local military support group? Granted, it probably wouldn’t amount to a lot of money, but you just never know!