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Re: The Moto Guzzi bumper sticker
« Reply #60 on: January 26, 2016, 10:59:17 AM »
Must be me, but I don't get it.  I know lawn = grass field.  I suppose there is a double meaning? I'm Belgian, see   ..... We're not very bright I suppose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_kids_get_off_my_lawn!

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Re: The Moto Guzzi bumper sticker
« Reply #61 on: January 26, 2016, 11:56:38 AM »
Do it  :thumb: Borrowed it anyway  :laugh:

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Re: The Moto Guzzi bumper sticker
« Reply #62 on: January 26, 2016, 12:01:39 PM »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_kids_get_off_my_lawn!


Great stuff...thanks

The idiom was popularized by American baby-boomer television host David Letterman as one of his comedic taglines, beginning in the 1980s.[citation needed] Since then, it has gained general currency.

Stephanie Miller occasionally ascribes the phrase "Hey! You kids get off my lawn!" to Senator John McCain in her satirical portraits of McCain. (McCain, in a 2008 appearance on David Letterman's Late Show gamely uttered the idiom himself in a comedy turn.) [10] The Capitol Steps album I'm So Indicted included "Hey, You, Get Off Of My Lawn" (a parody of "Get Off Of My Cloud"), and comic social commentator Jon Stewart described United States Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as "a cantankerous old man who takes a hey-you-kids-get-off-my-lawn approach to foreign policy".[11]

Rocker John Doe used the idiom to describe the kind of person that he and other aging hipsters wished to avoid becoming,[12] and the Fensler Films short film Skier featured Snow Job berating the protagonists with an obscene version ("Hey, what the f*** are you kids doing on my f***ing lawn?"). Bryan Cox's Public Radio Exchange radio program is titled Hey, Get Off My Lawn[13] In 2011, The Wall Street Journal summarized John Paulson's response to Occupy Wall Street with the title "Billionaire Tells Occupy Wall Street to Get Off His Lawn".[14]

In an early scene of Gran Torino, a rifle-toting Walt Kowalski (played by Clint Eastwood) growls "Get off my lawn" several times to neighborhood punks,[15] leading film critic Kenneth Turan to note "Even at 78, Eastwood can make 'Get off my lawn' sound as menacing as 'Make my day'".[16]

The office softball team for senior citizen advocacy organization, the AARP in Washington, DC's Congressional Softball League is named, "Get Off Our Lawn". [17]

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Re: The Moto Guzzi bumper sticker
« Reply #64 on: January 26, 2016, 12:34:04 PM »
I made up a nice sticker.



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Re: The Moto Guzzi bumper sticker
« Reply #65 on: January 26, 2016, 12:37:03 PM »
"I brake For Brian Wilson" :thumb:
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Re: The Moto Guzzi bumper sticker
« Reply #66 on: January 26, 2016, 01:58:22 PM »
I made up a nice sticker.



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Permission to use this on coffee mugs please.   :bow:
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Re: The Moto Guzzi bumper sticker
« Reply #67 on: January 26, 2016, 03:58:42 PM »
Yes! Please do!  :grin:

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Re: The Moto Guzzi bumper sticker
« Reply #68 on: January 26, 2016, 04:15:37 PM »
I'll buy a mug or three :)
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Re: The Moto Guzzi bumper sticker
« Reply #69 on: January 26, 2016, 04:23:56 PM »



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Re: The Moto Guzzi bumper sticker
« Reply #70 on: January 26, 2016, 04:29:08 PM »
Yes! Please do!  :grin:

If  it's okay, tomorrow a bazillion people headed east on I80 will see that on the back of my helmet.

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Re: The Moto Guzzi bumper sticker
« Reply #71 on: January 26, 2016, 04:34:12 PM »
Ride MOTO GUZZI

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Re: The Moto Guzzi bumper sticker
« Reply #72 on: January 26, 2016, 05:12:38 PM »
I'd much rather ask for forgiveness than ask for permission.

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Re: The Moto Guzzi bumper sticker
« Reply #73 on: January 26, 2016, 08:13:25 PM »
I made up a nice sticker.



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I like it!

But you might want to put the white stripe between the red and the green to better reflect the Italian flag colors . . . just sayin'   :grin:
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Re: The Moto Guzzi bumper sticker
« Reply #74 on: January 26, 2016, 08:17:03 PM »

How about

Guzzi andiammo

Andiamo is the correct spelling.  I thought about having this on a vanity plate.  Might still do it.

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Re: The Moto Guzzi bumper sticker
« Reply #75 on: January 26, 2016, 08:23:14 PM »
Guzzi V-Twin -> Perky!
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Re: The Moto Guzzi bumper sticker
« Reply #76 on: January 27, 2016, 05:23:29 AM »
Must be me, but I don't get it.  I know lawn = grass field.  I suppose there is a double meaning? I'm Belgian, see   ..... We're not very bright I suppose.
It is mearly a joke on ourselves as we are mostly grumpy old men. Perhaps "Get off my ice flow" makes more sense to ya!😀😈

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Re: The Moto Guzzi bumper sticker
« Reply #77 on: January 27, 2016, 09:22:31 AM »
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Re: The Moto Guzzi bumper sticker
« Reply #78 on: January 27, 2016, 12:19:26 PM »
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Re: The Moto Guzzi bumper sticker
« Reply #79 on: January 27, 2016, 12:37:04 PM »
Ok how about,


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Re: The Moto Guzzi bumper sticker
« Reply #80 on: January 27, 2016, 06:58:25 PM »
What's a bine?
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Re: The Moto Guzzi bumper sticker
« Reply #81 on: January 27, 2016, 07:02:44 PM »
Nice!! Darn fat fingers on phone


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