Reasons you will hate me

Surely Mr T and the Cosby Show pre date Magic Happens bumper stickers by a good 15 years.

Hey they're pretty good! Maybe I'll get out of my chair and head down to the Tote tonight.

But yeah, re sticker: ignorance.

okay, so it's not me being over the hill then? I CRAVE REASSURANCE.

I hate Magic Happens stickers. I also hate I [insert activity here ie shoot, fish, crochet] And I Vote stickers. Voting is compulsory here so what's your point?

Your sincerely etc
An Old(er) Person.

This reminds me of those times I watch The Family Guy with an 18 year old named Clint, he never gets any of the references contained within and I find myself having to explain something every two seconds "yes that was a Kirk Cameron reference. Kirk Cameron." It takes all the fun out of it. Why cant you people inherently understand the 80s dammit!!!!!!

i hope you paired the happy pants with a slap band.

I go to uni with someone who has the "My other car is a broomstick" bumper sticker on her car. I thought she was cool until I got stuck behind her at a set of traffic lights in Caulfield and noticed the damn thing. Now I secretly hate the woman. Am I wrong for feeling this way?

Also, as well as the slap band, don't forget the scrunchy. Pair it up with a side pone that's been crimped and you'll look a million.

Just sayin'

Emma

I am surprised that somewehere in the book of magic spells there is not a magic happens spell that magically writes the phrase on the back of your car without the need to buy a sticker.

Are "the goddess is dancing" bumper stickers in the same generational boat as "magic happens"? I hate them equally. The best (in relative terms) bumper stickers I ever saw were rearrangements of a "my dog is registered because I care" sticker (I agree that registering dogs is generally good, but I'm not sure I feel so passionately about it that I'd demean myself with a bumper sticker). They were on different cars. One was truncated so it simply said "My dog is reg". The other was a cut and paste job that said "my dog is registered as a bear".

It's no 3XY HOT SHIT, but it's nice nonetheless.

First of all, fondue is back in!
And ‘magic happens’ stickers are so ubiquitous how could anyone profess ignorance? (Or, perhaps I just see a lot because fairies are sending me secret messages…)
“Child on Board” – just so useful. ‘Oh, oops. Sorry! Was going to crash into you but obviously not a good idea. No worries, I’ll hit this old guy over here. Tootle!’

I think the "Magic Happens" sticker has been superseded by the frangipani decal...

My friend Pat has a sticker that says EAT AUSTRALIAN DRIED FRUIT on the back of his panel van. It makes me fall a bit in love with him every time I see it.

But you still see them round Brunswick now.
Perhaps you should have pronounced it 'majyck'?

Even worse, my hippy neighbours have a sign in their front garden, of the same purple and silver as the Magic Happens sticker, that says 'Fairies Come Here (at night)'.

Gives a bad name to fairies everywhere.

I can see those Friday screeds really take it out of you.

Give yourself a real fright and catch "The Six Million Dollar Man" on FOX. When you recall that you've seen an episode when it FIRST AIRED you will be afraid.

What are worse? Degrading bumper stickers or personalised licence plates? There's a guy who drives a very expensive Mercedes around near where my parents live in Adelaide. His plate is "IONO1". His wife has similar car with plate no. "IONO12". I certainly think they're a great people and I wish I was more like them.

best bumper sticker i ever saw was "don't be late for betty blue"

it was funny at the time, alright?

I have a bumper sticker that proclaims thus:
'Keep Gibraltar British.'

I also have one I don't display that says 'Rack off lefty scum'.

Me dentist informs me that people no longer make Marathon Man "Is it safe?" jokes when they visit her.

Apparently they now reference some fellow called "Mr Bean".

What's the bet that the young whipper-snappers wouldn't remember what 'bank books' were either? Or a world without ATMs. Or scratch and sniff t-shirts. Or flash cubes for cameras...

*gets nostalgic and all grumpy-old-mannish and retreats to his cave*

there's also a whole generation that won't know what it was like to arrange dates without texts or emails..

or how to write uni assignments without the internet!

still does my head in...

Donkey said

My favourite sticker was 'Microsoft must die'

says it all really

When Small Potatoes was born (6 months ago today, actually), my dad went out and bought a "baby on board" thingy for my car. To not wear it would hurt his feelings - so I have to. But I just want to take this moment and say that I KNOW it's unhelpful and uncool.

It is so funny that turning 30 makes quite a lot of people suddenly obsessed with being or appearing to be old. It's really kinda cute and I plan to carry on like this at each turning of the decade in my own life. I suppose one day you just say "fuck it, that's it I AM OLD" - I hope so, anyway!

I know some 20 year olds who have never seen an episode of Degrassi, think that Patrick Dempsey is just starting out his career, and believe that they're not missing out on anything by never hearing Janis Joplin sing.

They also think Evanessence it the height of too muchery.

Luck me...

Emma

The first I ever noticed the "magic happens" bumper stickers was about 4 years ago. Does that count as a generation gap? I always took them to be a twee Christian/pollyanna response to the buddhist/existentialist slogan "Shit Happens".

How about "I can read and I vote"? Sounds just as threatening.

Woodwind players: "I reed & I vote".

I love my staff but sometimes they blow me away.
Example 1. We call one young guy Grasshopper, but he didn't get it until we explained it to him however I still don't think he does.
Example 2. Most of them didn't know any orignial Cold Chisel songs or who they were but did know of Jimmy Barnes, & then they just thought he was some old solo artist.

Truely!!

(But I fixed that as on Fridays we take turns at playing our own music other than the radio, so I played Cold Chisel, all day, because I could!)

i thought the heading was a reference to the terrible pre-pubescent conor oberst/commander venus song: my other car is a spaceship.

yes i was sadly born in the 90s.

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Re the Baby On Board signs: just think of them as being incredibly useful in the case of serious accidents where rescue workers might appreciate the information.

that is all.

Catbrain: NO. NO compromise here. I'm usually a wet, acquiescent marshmallow of a human, but "baby on board" is a line over which I will not cross.* If you want to take the pro side of the debate I want nothing less than figures on how many babies' lives have been saved because of said stickers. And even then I may not be moved. Or I might meekly concede. WHO KNOWS?

sigh... as today is my 35th trip around the sun day I feel old anyways however this was rammed home today in one of my lectures where the lovely lecturer made the following statement.

"Most of you will only remember John Howard as being Prime Minister."

I felt very old when I thought to myself... Hmm I remember Hawke ousting Fraser... Thankfully I can only just remember this.

I don't know whether to be sadder at this fact or that all these younglings only know John Howard as PM.

i HATE young people, even if they are pretty and make pretty music. i'm not generalising; i hated the 21 yr old me, too.

you may like the 80s nostalgically (ie. if you lived them), you may NOT like them aesthetically - we were kids, we had no power and knew no better. they were fucked, but we have no choice but to love them, because they were our reality.

czechs under communist russian occupation nostalgically talk about life in the fucking panelaks as well.

sorry. drunk on cheap wine. ranting.

I well remember Mr T and the Cosby Show, but then I can't guarantee I'm not old too.

I remember the Cosbys UNTIL LISA BONET LEFT AFTER WHICH I REFUSED TO WATCH. Theo being diagnosed dyslexic and becoming a school teacher? Bitch, please.

I'm fuzzy on some other tv shows of cultural and historical importance like The Graham Kennedy Show. That's because I was only 5 and probably tucked up in bed when Graham sounded the show's death knell with a crow call. I'd imagine the Little Red kids weren't even born when George Peppard's plans were coming together and Mr T was repeatedly being beaten unconscious in order to board an aircraft.

But they should have seen those bumper stickers around. I'm sure you can still buy them. Pick you up one for the Krankivan for your birthday shall I?

Three fucking boring conversation posts in a row? I am referring to the main page of course fuckheads.

Fucking grow up Marieke.

Seriously when I first discovered you I was smitten with your looks, and your veneer of literati cred.

After examining your actual work, and this blog for over a year, my final judgement is this...

You're a giddy, windbag, womanchild, with either fuck all natural talent or an alcohol soaked lack of will to apply yourself I haven't decided, and if you don't smarten the fuck up you'll be a 'cat woman' and don't even think about misconstruing that last part. You are so fucking predictable.

You hearken back to idiotic pop culture with your inane referential crap constantly. And, to be honest, the kind of crap that obviously sticks in your head every day is just fucking strange. And I mean in a Japanese kind of way.

NB: To the 'followers' of Marieke, you are the same, but without your own heavily trafficked blogs.

You are a collection of scared, sideline types, who really are so fucking predictable.

I mean, HOW many posts, every post is the fucking same. You're fucktards and if we were in primary school, i'd 'bash you up' for darn sure.

And seriously, how the fuck do you know when the next election is? What are you fucking an insider?

You don't really understand the concept of a "blog", do you Anonymous?

To be honest, I think it's quite an achievement to be the sort of person who is considered a fucktard by the sort of person who liked to bash people up at school.

I do sympathise with you, though, since your computer clearly has a virus that makes it impossible for you to navigate away from this blog. That must be terribly frustrating for you.

Hello Newspaper Mama, Ms Fits,

Will you be dancing to Mr. Peter Combe this weekend?

Love Miss. John Elton

There is a large white ugly car of a particular make near my work with a huge sticker across the rear window - MISS-A-BITCHI.

I want to vomit on this car each time i see it. And giggle. Vomit and giggle.

Anon at 12:12a...

If you don't like it, don't read. Given the intellectual nature of your discourse, I'm guessing that you were up past your bedtime anyway.

Back on topic - Fits, I channel-surfed through 'Where are they now' this week and saw 5 minutes of an interview with MC Hammer...
Apparently (according to him, anyway) Hammer pants are the cutting edge in European fasion right now... thoughts anyone?

y you should mention that, thalesian.

I saw a yoof-ful hipster type on the station the other morning wearing what lookes suspiciously like 3/4 length happy pants. They were even a bit shiny.

There is a bumper sticker that I'm afraid pips any references to 'faeries, broomsticks and I vote' ones:

SUBVERT THE DOMINANT PARADIGM

I still get cross when I think about it. Seen around the early 90s amongst Monash, Melb uni types.

Wowies Wowies, Little Red are the best band, they told me they would play at my wedding and Dom said in all sincerity that he would sing us 4 non blondes whats up and MMM MMM MMM MMM by Crash Test Dummies.


I also told my lovely Year 9 students about them (they are in a band) but the JJJ unearthed page wasn't working at school and I was scared to offer Little Red's myspace page in fear they would find mine.

I am having an ongoing feud with acquaintances/friends who insist I had a magic happens sticker on my car years ago, and have been (quite rightly) giving me shit about it. Trouble is - they misread my dodgy anti-war sticker and got over-excited. I don't claim exemplary sticker behaviour but I have some standards. Magic does not fucking happen alright?