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CrispyQ

(38,445 posts)
Sun Dec 8, 2024, 05:50 PM Sunday

I spiffed up my garage with resistance messages!



These were my yard signs from election season. We're on a busy corner & every day I put two different signs out by my pine tree. I put all of them out on election day & a few of my faves got stolen. But the bastards won't get me down!!

Know your parasites is kind of hard to read. It's deer tic, dog tic, & luna tic.
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kimbutgar

(23,460 posts)
2. That reminds me of my Father
Sun Dec 8, 2024, 07:13 PM
Sunday

He never put political signs in the windows but he hung them in our garage!

ShazzieB

(18,850 posts)
3. I can't begin tell you how much I love this!!!
Sun Dec 8, 2024, 07:58 PM
Sunday

Just looking at it is bringing joy to my heart. 😄😁😊

CrispyQ

(38,445 posts)
10. Last week I told my husband, I really miss putting the signs out every morning.
Mon Dec 9, 2024, 09:43 AM
Monday

He said, "I miss the joy & hope they symbolized."

The response was amazing, though! I had people come to my door & tell me how much they liked the signs. A lot of people wanted to know where I got them & they asked the most about the NOPE sign. People left notes on my door, notes of appreciation. Someone left a bottle of wine on my porch & another left $20 with a note.

I miss the joy & hope, too. I've been in such a funk & piled all the signs together to throw away & thought, I just can't do it.

orleans

(35,132 posts)
8. i did something similar to that years ago
Sun Dec 8, 2024, 08:57 PM
Sunday

in the bush era there was a website where you could put text on a stupid yellow ribbon and print the picture. (remember everyone had those yellow ribbons on their cars?)

so i had made probably near 100 of these fuckers (out of my anger and hatred for bush, his wars, the lies of that chimp/cheney/rumsfuck, etc)

i had them plastered on the back of my office door (in my home) -- i left them there for YEARS AND YEARS

(remember this video? "stick magnetic ribbons on your suv " )



CrispyQ

(38,445 posts)
9. I had never seen that! That was absolutely fantastic!!
Mon Dec 9, 2024, 09:33 AM
Monday

Awesome group name, too!!

Don't know how I missed that! Now I'll have that song in my head the rest of the day! Thanks for posting!

orleans

(35,132 posts)
12. you're welcome. i loved that song/video.
Mon Dec 9, 2024, 10:17 AM
Monday

my mom, who always liked "tie a yellow ribbon," also loved this song/version.

i'd turn it up LOUD on my computer speakers -- one of the speakers went around the corner of my office and sat on a buffet in the dining room -- and she could hear it loud and clear in the living room.

i had that speaker in the dining room so she could listen to randi rhodes when i was at work and we'd listen to mike malloy together in the evenings.

good times with my mom.

CrispyQ

(38,445 posts)
13. Nice that your mom was a dem!
Mon Dec 9, 2024, 11:27 AM
Monday

Mine was a right winger but she loved Tony Orlando & Dawn. They were on some variety show & she danced around the kitchen while they performed "Knock Three Times."

orleans

(35,132 posts)
15. it was wonderful that my mom and i were on the same page w/politics
Mon Dec 9, 2024, 12:01 PM
Monday

i'd come home from work and she'd say:
"you have to listen to randi's show today"
(i could download it and play it after it aired)

and she'd say "you have to watch keith tonight"
--she'd watch countdown w/olbermann that aired at 7pm (i think) and then it reaired at 11pm
she'd fill me in a bit as to what i missed.

and she absolutely HATED chimp bush.
he'd show up on the tv and if she had the clicker she'd either turn the channel or turn off the tv -- she couldn't stand the sight of him or the sound of his voice

my mom liked tony orlando & dawn too. yes, they had their own variety show -- i remember my parents watched it. so i could either watch it or go hang out in my room
adults were easily amused back then with entertainment/tv. a little song & dance and they were good with it. (sonny & cher, carol burnett, laugh in, smothers brothers -- every week in our house)

that's a cute memory of your mom dancing around in the kitchen. my mom used to do that too (kitchen and living room)

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