I finally bought a t-shirt of my favorite despair.com poster: (It says "CLUELESSNESS: There are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots.") Only problem is that I forgot that rectangles become de facto trapezoids when I wear them... and the words cannot be read unless I hold the hem of the shirt out to pull them out of the "darkness"... sigh... oh well... I still think it's funny, and I'm living for the day that someone tells me they have a stupid question and then asks what my shirt says... Oh, and the t-shirt is actually Made in America... by robots (spend some time on the web site and you'll see why this is funny)...

Seed Hoar definitely needs to be this year's garden t-shirt. Goes nicely with Garden Hoe and Compost Happens. A few years ago my friend made me a fantastic gardening/music bumper sticker. One of my favorite groups is a 60's band called The Seeds, the lead singer was way ahead of his time, he even had a song called "Mr. Farmer" and is attributed as the person who coined the phrase "Flower Power". My friend made me a bumper sticker of this band name logo.

Embarq but rosenut@rosenut.com is always good and my other correct e-mail address is correct at the top of the posting. Embarq is my telephone co. They took over all the Earthlink accounts bundled with their service and gave us new e-mail addresses. They claimed the reason for the change was too many complaints regarding the foreign hard to understand tech service. All tech service for Embarq so far has been good old USA responses.

I too have the "burn at the stake" one. I must have forty or so accumulated over time (and I'm talking about around 8 years) in an envelope in my glove compartment. People give me stickers fairly often - I keep the ones I like best and pass along others - and they're not exactly expensive investments. The ones from the Northern Sun catalog are the priciest ones I ever buy at $2. Allison, although there is a risk of theft, you can mount a regular sticker on the very thin magnetic sheets from any craft store. Barb, the dragons sticker is a spinoff of the line from one of the Lord of the Rings books - "do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger". I picked that one up in a science fiction bookstore. (One of my dream bumper stickers would read: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. -- JRR Tolkien No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style. -- Steven Brust) I'll grant that there are many bumper stickers out there that make me wish I had a rocket launcher mounted on the hood of my car - usually expressing some kind of hate-filled, couldn't-pry-that-closed-mind-open-with-the-Jaws-of-Life vileness - but I would never even consider defacing someone else's property no matter how much they p!$$ed me off. I saw one today that made me rather sad: "War does not define who is right. It only defines who is left." (As in left alive.) So true, and I wish it weren't. However, I don't care to put any kind of advertising stickers on my car, just like I don't wear clothes with brand or store names splashed across them. (I do like to wear kooky t-shirts, I'll admit it, because I think it's fun to make people do a double-take. My favorite is worn to tatters - reads "give me that old-time religion" with a drawing of people dancing around Stonehenge. LOL) I figure if a business wants me or my car to be a billboard they can dang well pay me for it.