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2 unusual facts about Bumper sticker


Bumper sticker

In Israel, one of the most popular songs of all time is "Shirat Hasticker" ("The Sticker Song") by Hadag Nachash, a song composed entirely of bumper sticker slogans.

The first widespread use of the advertising bumper sticker might have been the ubiquitous "See Rock City" signs, touting a tourist attraction atop Lookout Mountain, Tennessee.


Eddie Aikau

In the 1970s, bumper stickers and T-shirts with the phrase "Eddie Would Go" spread around the Hawaiian Islands and to the rest of the world.

WGGY

Froggy 101 has received national attention through NBC's hit series The Office because character Dwight Schrute has a Froggy 101 bumper sticker displayed on a file cabinet.


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Backporch Revolution

(1)This followed the extremely popular and visible "New Orleans: Proud To Swim Home" bumper sticker which was a conception of Dan Haugh, and seen in the Spike Lee documentary When the Levees Broke.

Bull in the Heather

Thurston and Kim originally found the name of the horse on a bumper sticker that Bob Nastanovich of Pavement had given them.

The Feederz

A fan's post to the Nirvana newsgroup, alt.music.nirvana, revealed that Cobain had taken a bumper sticker from the Feederz' Teachers in Space LP and proudly stuck it on his all-black Fender Stratocaster, made famous at the 1991 Reading Festival (see Reading and Leeds Festivals) in England, where Nirvana performed with Sonic Youth.

WAKG

On the last episode of the CBS show WKRP in Cincinnati, entitled, "Up and Down the Dial", which aired on April 21, 1982, a WAKG FM 103 bumper sticker is very visible in program director Andy Travis' office (actual bumper stickers were sent to the show and displayed on the office set).