Top 10 Portland Bumper Stickers
April 24, 2008
Some days I see a bumper sticker like “Texas is Bigger than France” and I laugh out loud while another day it might annoy me so much I want to scream. That’s the beauty of bumper stickers–one deftly turned phrase will tap directly into our emotions and get a reaction out of just about anyone. So love ‘em or hate ‘em, this is Portland Octopus’ top ten favorite Portland bumpers stickers–today at least.
10: It just makes us feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
9: Best feminist bumper sticker ever–pithy, scathing, hilarious and totally valid.
8: What better phrase exemplifies the Portland biker spirit?
7: Poor GW just makes it so easy for us.
6: It’s funny ‘cause it’s true.
5: Reasonable words in a sometimes unreasonable city.
4: I know, we’re kind of sick of it too, but you can’t argue with sheer numbers. And don’t think that turning it upside down makes you any cooler.
3: Scatological innuendo is so much fun, especially when directed at the rich and powerful.
2: Sums it all up quite nicely, doesn’t it?
1: Is there any city in the world Dick Cheney is less welcome in than Portland? Maybe Sadr City.
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You guys, these are AWESOME! Keep it up = )
it actually took us a full day to find them all and take pics. Good times. <3 Portland
Your time and energy in gathering these pics are appreciated. Well done.
HOORAY! This is awesome. I’m getting a tattoo of #10… man, I love this city (and state)!
couldn’t agree with you more wiskey! - ps; love the name!
Texas is Bigger than France - I’m not entirely sure what message this sticker is trying to portray. Since when does land mass equate to anything other than…er…acreage?
France gave us Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie , Claude Monet , Claude-Achille Debussy , Émile Zola, Voltaire …and that’s with out having to even try!
Despite its land mass Texas gave the world ZZ Top and Janis Joplin. Now much as I love and admire Janis, its not quite the same thing is it?
Scream? No, it mealy makes me weep in despair.
But it’s that American ignorance that makes the “Texas is Bigger than France” sticker so funny. At some point you just have to throw your hands up and laugh at those kind of simian sentiments from our fellow countrymen. You are right though, its pretty sad too…
While not necessariky in the same class as some of the other scientists, Texas has a few too! Found with a quick search of wikipedia!
Paul C. W. Chu (born 1941), physicist
Denton Cooley (born 1920), pioneering heart surgeon
Michael E. DeBakey (born 1908), pioneering heart surgeon
Robert Dennard (born 1932), computer scientist and inventor
Bryce DeWitt (1923–2004), physicist, co-developed Wheeler-DeWitt equation (”wave function of the Universe”)
Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874–1954), mathematician
G.B. Halsted (1853–1922), mathematician
M. King Hubbert (1903–1989), geophysicist
Jack Kilby (1923–2005), electrical engineer; invented integrated circuit, handheld calculator, thermal printer; Nobel Prize Laureate
Oscar Monnig (1902–1999), astronomer and meteoricist
Hermann Joseph Muller (1890–1967), geneticist, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Ilya Prigogine (1917–2003), physicist and chemist, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
John Tate (born 1925), mathematician, Wolf Prize in Mathematics
Beatrice Tinsley (1941–1981), astronomer
Karen Uhlenbeck (born 1942), mathematician, National Medal of Science
Harry Vandiver (1882–1973), mathematician
Steven Weinberg (born 1933), Nobel Laureate in Physics
Spencer Wells (born 1969), geneticist and anthropologist
John A. Wheeler (born 1911), physicist, Wolf Prize in Physics, coined the term ‘black hole’
9 times out of 10 when you see a bumper sticker it’s a “tolerant” liberal at it again… forcing their opinions on everyone else.
These bumper stickers remind me of my 3 year old nephew who throws tantrums, screaming and crying in a fit, because, well, that’s what babies and liberals do best.
hahahaha, i love you deuce. i was just thinking the same thing: these are all pretty lame. the only one i like is number 10. & i don’t even live in OR. [sorry] but neither does that car in the very first picture… massachusettes plates.
well now I know how Austin ripped off Portland .. for the keep “your city here” weird
it does get old..
Texas is only as huge as it is because most of it was once Mexico. . .and yes sadly we forget that.. I guess that Bush lying about his ancestry has given all Texans bad names..
too bad we’re not remembered for Robert Rauschenberg
I HAVE to get myself some of those!!!