DEPARTMENT OF ADVERTISING, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
Bumper Stuck
Bumper stickers frequently are used for advertising. The ones below aren't ads, but they do represent an exercise in creativity.
- If at first you don't succeed ... don't try skydiving.
- If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
- Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.
- You know it's a bad day when you put your bra on backwards and it fits better.
- Experiments should be reproducible - they should all fail in the same way.
- Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
- Reality is a figment of your imagination.
- Winning isn't everything, eating is.
- I'm objective; I object to everything.
- Everything I need to know I got from watching Gilligan's Island.
- It's bad luck to be superstitious.
- Conserve toilet paper, use both sides.
- Congressional Corruption: A Renewable Resource.
- The more hair I lose, the more head I get.
- Cynics are people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Sorry, I don't date outside my species.
- Today is the first day of the rest of the mess.
- I love my country - I fear my government.
- Schizophrenia beats being alone.
- The whole purpose of your life is to serve as a warning to others.
- Save the whales, collect the whole set.
- It's only a game until you lose.
- When all else fails, lower your standards.
- As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.
- If Clinton is the answer it must be a stupid question.
- Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.
- I'm as confused as a baby in a topless bar!
- Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
- Lead me not into temptation; I can find it myself.
- Procrastinators Unite!... Tomorrow
- Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
- My Wife's other car is a broom!
- Women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition.
- Kiss me twice. I'm schizophrenic.
- Your lucky number has been disconnected.
- I get enough exercise just pushing my luck!
- Proud parent of the inmate of the month at the Chino corectional facility.
- My daughter turned down your honor student.
- The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
- Oh sure. But what's the speed of dark?
- Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.
- People who think they know what they're doing are especially annoying to those of us who do.
- Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
- Don't worry about life; you're not going to survive it, anyway.
- Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
- Everytime I find the meaning of life, they change it.
- We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART?
- I love cats...they taste just like chicken.
- Don't drink and drive - you might hit a bump and spill it.
- How Can I Miss You if You Won't Go Away?
- Don't steal. The government hates competition.
- You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.
- Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.
- Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
- Computers help us to do stupid things faster.
- Nice guys finish last and bring you breakfast in bed.
- I need someone really bad. Are you really bad?
- You'll need to know my name. You'll be screaming it later.
- Plagiarism is copying from one source; research is copying from two or more.
- If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
- Learn from your parents mistakes - use birth control!
- A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.
- Just when you think you've won the rat race along come faster rats.
- If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat?
- Time is the best teacher; Unfortunately it kills all its students!
- HUG A LOGGER - you'll never go back to trees.
- I fart to make you smell better.
- Keep honking, I'm reloading.
- Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear.
- Give me ambiguity or give me something else.
- Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.
- Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.
- If you understand something today, it must be obsolete.
- My wife ran off with my best friend, and I sure do miss him.
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- We are Microsoft. Resistance Is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated.
- I like you, but I wouldn't want to see you working with subatomic
particles.
- Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off.
- ORGASM DONOR
Department of Advertising at
UT Austin. E-mail comments to: advertising@mail.utexas.edu.
Snail Mail: Advertising Department, CMA 7.142, The University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, TX 78712.
Telephone: 512/471-1101.
©1997 Jef I. Richards