Culture War Mashup

Posted by Kieran Healy

Bumper sticker seen in traffic: “If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.”

posted on Thursday, April 20th, 2006 at 11:28 am
comments

  1. My mind is blown!

    Posted by TheDeadlyShoe · April 20th, 2006 at 11:42 am

  2. BTW, when are we going to see the CT bumperstickers, t-shirts etc?

    Posted by otto · April 20th, 2006 at 12:04 pm

  3. A Jello Biafra spoken-word album, it appears.

    Google yields where to buy the sticker. I’ll have to put it next to my “Who Would Jesus Torture?” sticker.

    Posted by Anderson · April 20th, 2006 at 12:32 pm

  4. Heh, I just did a stupid graphic:

    http://fzort.org/bi/pic/buxom.gif

    Posted by bi · April 20th, 2006 at 1:30 pm

  5. The google results for the search “are-outlawed only-outlaws” are pretty entertaining.

    Posted by saurabh · April 20th, 2006 at 2:36 pm

  6. “my “Who Would Jesus Torture?” sticker”

    Well, actually:

    “And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

    “And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

    “And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

    “And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

    “And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.”

    Posted by rea · April 20th, 2006 at 6:23 pm

  7. My favorite recent bumper sticker: “I Miss Clinton”

    Posted by Robin · April 20th, 2006 at 7:19 pm

  8. My favorite from the google search was, “When squeegees are outlawed, only outlaws will have squeegees”. I guess I could probably live with that, so long as some of those outlaws hang out at the gas station and clean the windows of cars.

    Posted by Matt · April 20th, 2006 at 9:41 pm

  9. The only good form of this joke is the sort that subverts it, like “When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws” &c.

    Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three lefts do. Two wrongs don’t make a right, but two Wrights made an airplane.

    Posted by bad Jim · April 21st, 2006 at 4:50 am

  10. That’s good.

    Posted by aaron · April 21st, 2006 at 4:52 am

  11. My favorite recent bumper sticker: “I Miss Clinton”

    I see: an illiterate statement by one of Bill’s illegitimate daughters: “I am Miss Clinton.”

    Posted by mordechai finegold · April 21st, 2006 at 5:17 am

  12. Wouldn’t it be “if evolution is outlawed, we all will be outlaws?”

    Posted by amateur · April 21st, 2006 at 6:26 am

  13. Ad 2 and 6: CT could also market a “seal of God” forehead sticker.

    Posted by James Wimberley · April 21st, 2006 at 9:02 am

  14. “And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man…

    You left out the part where it specifies “in the ass.”

    Posted by Barry Freed · April 21st, 2006 at 11:47 am

  15. Thinking that a THEORY is a fact should be outlawed.

    Posted by nati · April 22nd, 2006 at 9:58 pm

  16. nati: Ooh, perspicacious. But I thought Darwinism is a “philosophy”, not a “theory”? Never mind.

    Posted by bi · April 23rd, 2006 at 12:57 pm

  17. Darwinism is a theory that too many people have mistaken for a philosophy.

    Posted by nati · April 24th, 2006 at 6:14 pm

  18. Correction: It is a theory that too many people have mistaken for a true historical fact wether they use it as a philosophy or not.

    Posted by nati · April 24th, 2006 at 6:25 pm

  19. Please nati, learn what a scientific theory is (hint: The theory of evolution explains the fact of evolution).

    Posted by occidental_martyr · April 25th, 2006 at 3:56 am

  20. Rea reminds us why the canonicity of Revelation was disputed for so long—not long enough, IMHO.

    Posted by Anderson · April 25th, 2006 at 11:03 am