Best bumper sticker you ever saw???? (Looking for quilt theme)
09-18-2010, 12:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Minda
Originally Posted by redkimba
My dad told me one: Let 'em freeze in the dark.
once he explained it, the sticker was funny...
once he explained it, the sticker was funny...
09-18-2010, 03:41 PM
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Originally Posted by SherryLea
Either stand behind our troops or stand in front of them.
09-18-2010, 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted by DebraK
Originally Posted by Minda
Originally Posted by redkimba
My dad told me one: Let 'em freeze in the dark.
once he explained it, the sticker was funny...
once he explained it, the sticker was funny...
09-19-2010, 04:34 PM
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Let 'em freeze in the dark.
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could you please explain it to me?[/quote]
found the back story: http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/...eeze_a_yankee/
The bumper sticker “Let them freeze in the dark” appears to have started by a Wyoming company in February 1973. Energy prices were rising, but toughened environmental laws prevented finding more energy sources. The “them” were the environmentalists.
Texans had other reasons (besides environmental restrictions on energy) for “freezing Yankees” in 1973-74. Federal regulations had required supplying Northeast customers with oil and natural gas at regulated prices. Also, Northeast politicians had suggested that Texans should have conserved energy during this out-of-state energy giveaway.
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It was a rather crass way of saying that if the people in the northeastern portion of the United States continued to insist that natural gas and oil prices by controlled at all levels which made drilling unreasonable, then let them do without heat.
IF THEY demanded unreasonable tough environmental laws and refused to allow offshore drilling in their own areas, let them do without lights.
:?: :?: :?: :?: :?:[/quote]
could you please explain it to me?[/quote]
found the back story: http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/...eeze_a_yankee/
The bumper sticker “Let them freeze in the dark” appears to have started by a Wyoming company in February 1973. Energy prices were rising, but toughened environmental laws prevented finding more energy sources. The “them” were the environmentalists.
Texans had other reasons (besides environmental restrictions on energy) for “freezing Yankees” in 1973-74. Federal regulations had required supplying Northeast customers with oil and natural gas at regulated prices. Also, Northeast politicians had suggested that Texans should have conserved energy during this out-of-state energy giveaway.
...
It was a rather crass way of saying that if the people in the northeastern portion of the United States continued to insist that natural gas and oil prices by controlled at all levels which made drilling unreasonable, then let them do without heat.
IF THEY demanded unreasonable tough environmental laws and refused to allow offshore drilling in their own areas, let them do without lights.
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