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ret5hd

(20,502 posts) Sat Apr 28, 2012, 01:45 PM Apr 2012

Explain this bumper sticker to me.

I went to a small local retailer a few minutes ago, and a truck was outside the store that had a bumper sticker that said (black with white text):

YOU SUPPORT OBAMA?
I REMEMBER MY FIRST BEER.

I don't get it. I consider myself a moderately bright person, but I just don't get it.
Someone explain it to me.

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Explain this bumper sticker to me. (Original Post) ret5hd Apr 2012 OP

I think you need the Glenn Beck SOOPER SECRET decoder ring* to get the real meaning. tanyev Apr 2012 #1

RW FAIL - might be one explanation. pinto Apr 2012 #2

hmm, obxhead Apr 2012 #3

Urban dictionary might help. Seems to be a put down - calling someone immature. cbayer Apr 2012 #4

I think you've got it. n/t customerserviceguy Apr 2012 #9

If someone said that to me I would have to reply LiberalFighter Apr 2012 #15

I am not sure I get it either, but Curmudgeoness Apr 2012 #5

Ok ... I got this one ... This was a comeback that Steve Martin used YEARS AGO. JoePhilly Apr 2012 #6

thnx...sounds like the definitive answer. ret5hd Apr 2012 #7

Good explanation! But I like yours. Auntie Bush Apr 2012 #11

You beat me to it... 3waygeek Apr 2012 #17

If I were one for bumper sticker slogans, joe1991 Apr 2012 #8

x-l-ent! ret5hd Apr 2012 #10

Wow Joe that is a keeper. Thanks for the laugh. It really is true. southernyankeebelle Apr 2012 #14

Natural answer is: JHB Apr 2012 #12

Probably a reference to teen-age drinking, which is not uncommon amongst American youth. patrice Apr 2012 #13

It Aerows Apr 2012 #16

tanyev

(42,584 posts)

1. I think you need the Glenn Beck SOOPER SECRET decoder ring* to get the real meaning.

Reply to ret5hd (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 01:47 PM

Apr 2012

*Available for only 3 payments of $29.95.**

**No refunds.

pinto

(106,886 posts)

2. RW FAIL - might be one explanation.

Reply to ret5hd (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 01:48 PM

Apr 2012

obxhead

(8,434 posts)

3. hmm,

Reply to ret5hd (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 01:49 PM

Apr 2012

Maybe a poke at Bush being a guy you would want to have a beer with and him being a bad President?

cbayer

(146,218 posts)

4. Urban dictionary might help. Seems to be a put down - calling someone immature.

Reply to ret5hd (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 01:51 PM

Apr 2012

I remember when I had my first beer. 71 up, 22 down
A sentence said when one is acting very immature to the point of extreme annoyance, as in how a young person may act when they have their first alcoholic beverage. Can also be said to somebody who is acting irritatingly foolish when drinking, or to a lightweight at drinking. Taken from a line Will Ferrell says to John C. Reilly in the comedy "Step Brothers".
1. Guy 1: "Dude, that Coors Light is gettin' to me!"

Guy 2: "Yeeeeah, I remember when I had my first beer..."

2. Guy 1: "You're such a butthead."

Guy 2: "Wow. I remember when I had my first beer."

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)

9. I think you've got it. n/t

Reply to cbayer (Reply #4)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 02:15 PM

Apr 2012

LiberalFighter

(50,991 posts)

15. If someone said that to me I would have to reply

Reply to cbayer (Reply #4)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 02:27 PM

Apr 2012

that I had my first beer when I was about 6 or 7. I remember where too. In the living room of my grandparents home across the road from their country store. It was a family gathering of some sort. I think Thanksgiving. Back when there were only the 3 networks and most country roads were gravel.

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

5. I am not sure I get it either, but

Reply to ret5hd (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 01:54 PM

Apr 2012

I will take a stab at it. It may refer to the hangover after all the excitement at the time. The wingnuts are determined to paint Obama as someone who has great promises but delivers headaches instead. Not that their side has much to offer, but they don't want to deal with that part of it.

Or I could be out in left field. This isn't the clearest slogan I have ever seen.

JoePhilly

(27,787 posts)

6. Ok ... I got this one ... This was a comeback that Steve Martin used YEARS AGO.

Reply to ret5hd (Original post)

Sat Apr 28, 2012, 01:59 PM

Apr 2012

I believe it happens on one of Steve Martin's very first live comedy albums.

Martin is doing some bit ... and at a silent point, some one in the audience screams out something (I think they yelled out a request for some other well known bit).

So Steve Martin, chuckles, and then says "yea, I remember my first beer." And the audience roars.

The idea is that the person who screamed out is a light weight, who just got drunk on their first beer.

I want this one ...

OBL is Dead.
GM is Alive.
GOP is Insane.