Just when you think rednecks can't get dumber.

[theweaselking]

We’ve Respectfully placed the Yellow Ribbon designating Support the Troops on our Exclusive 8” Customized Desert Scheme Camo Nutz.

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[jerril]

I'm speechless.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

I really truly checked the date to make sure we hadn't skipped February and March.

[mhoye.livejournal.com]

Truck Nuts: Never Forget.

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

Why does that brown ghost have a yellow ribbon on it?

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

Er, and why does it have three eyes? That's weird.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

It's Cthulhu hiding under a blanket. See the tentacles?

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming it's a spoof of some sort.

[ladyariadne.livejournal.com]

um. no.

in fact virgina out to ban trucks nuts.

but no. Truck nuts real. just like artificial dog nuts.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Oh, sure, it's the yellow ribbon thing that I suspect makes it a spoof.

And if you know different.. well, you can tell me, but rest assured I shall be plugging my ears shouting "lalala" to retain a little faith in humanity.

[netcrimes.livejournal.com]

Oh

My

Gawd

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

...it burns us.

[takhisis.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHAHAAA! THIS is their counterattack against the proposed ban? "If you ban us now, you're AGAINST THE TROOPS!" I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

[itlandm.livejournal.com]

"Camo nutz" are for people who don't have nuts but want to blend in with those who have, right? wouldn't these be worn under the clothes and thus never get to display the yellow ribbon?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

These are Nutz(tm). They hang off the back of the trailer hitch of your pickup truck/SUV.

Yes. Testicles for your vehicle.

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

For those who apparently have none of their own...

[ladyariadne.livejournal.com]

well most guys and their cars are making up for things they are missing... ;-)

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

(OT- Icon SQUEEEE!!! But just because one sister has an Alpaca ranch, and a couple of Llamas to stand guard...)

AND- yes- true- OMG how true... Realized how very secure one gentleman was last night- when I found out he drives a VW- ... Beetle. :)

[ladyariadne.livejournal.com]

you can steal it if you like. the icon! ;-)

[torrain.livejournal.com]

...you know, it actually hadn't dawned on me before *right this minute* how weird it is to have the "Support Our Troops" ribbon be yellow.

I'm not going to be able to look at the ribbons again for at least a week without wondering where the matching white goose feather is.

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

It's funny- I went looking for some info to back up what my musty trivia history said about the Yellow Ribbon thing, and found this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_ribbon
which states all these things about the use of the yellow ribbon in older history and the song from '73, and the repeated use of it in stories to signify "A woman of destiny is under some sort of test or trial as she waits for her beloved to return. Will she be true to him?" etc, etc.. and then I found THIS over on Snopes...

http://www.snopes.com/weddings/customs/dress.asp

"Yellow is widely disliked because it signifies 'Forsworn'"
and part of the rhyme regarding the color of the wedding dress
"Married in Yellow,
Ashamed of your fellow"

So- yeah- all sorts of information to pick and choose from, I guess.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

The folksong "Round Her Neck She Wore A Yellow Ribbon" apparently wended down into its current state over the last few centuries, although there's nothing in the last act of Othello that mentions the colour (the article from the research centre associated with the Library of Congress here indicates that her lines include an ancestor of the lyrics), so I don't know when the colour came in. My reading of the article has it by at least '1938; I can't tell if the 1838 is just supposed to be an ancestor or a close enough relative to also mention yellow.

Beyond that, the earliest thing the article writer can find that describes wearing or displaying yellow ribbons outside of the song is a variation of the situation described in "Tie a yellow ribbon 'round the old oak tree", and the first found written version of that (from 1959) doesn't even use yellow ribbons, but white ones.

Mind you, that last one is "I don't care that you went to jail, I want you back" rather than "I don't care you went away to war, I'll wait." Subtle difference.

(Dammit, I should e-mail Snopes. That thing about wedding dresses not being black is current now. But it's worth noting that in the 30s (in North America, at least), it was perfectly acceptable to be married in black. That custom vanished in the 40s, though.

(Why, you'd almost think that people had gone from a situation where the "make it last, wear it out, use it up, or do without" ethic that made it acceptable to get married in a black dress because you could use a black dress for anything and you couldn't necessarily afford more than one in the 30s had been, by the 40s, overridden by some huge, world-encompassing event. Something that brought funerals much more into the public consciousness, and made it a horribly real possibility that the black dress you got married in might be the one your wore to your husband's funeral in a year or two--and thus made the bride wearing black dresses at weddings verboten, damn the cost.

(I love watching how fashion twitches in response to social pressure.)

Uhm, yeah. A/y.

The oldest example of yellow ribbons as the desire to be reunited, support people in a foreign country, yattata ya, seems to be the Iran hostage crisis in very late '79.

I'm guessing nobody picked it for the colour's associations.
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[1] Wikipedia's a great place to start looking, but I cannot bring myself to trust them ever since I had to start correcting their Arkham Asylum info. Saith the Lovecraft geek. :)

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

Oooh, Thank you! :)
A Subtle difference between "want you back" and "I'll wait", but an important one, I think.

"how fashion twitches in response to social pressure"
Heee! I may have to steal that line for the next Ren Faire! >:P

(Yeah- I'm learning to be wary of Wiki's articles, unless they have at least three outside references that I can go look at myself.)

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

You know- I see these things all over town, usually dangling from some poor over-sized 4X4 truck that isn't actually USED on a ranch or other circumstances where such size is needed...
And I can only think, "D@mn, a little insecure, are we?"

I mean- I could almost understand it when they had a purpose... (Carrying two different sized trailer hitch balls,) but now? Oh please....

[ambug666.livejournal.com]

Please, people, please. Spay or neuter your pickup truck before it's too late.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

I saw this au naturale version in downtown Chicago back in November. The ribboned camo version is clearly the natural evolution of these.

[atlasimpure.livejournal.com]

I kind of want to hang these off of my Hyundai Accent.

[luna-the-cat.livejournal.com]

"Respectfully"...? Wait, what?

...And these are probably the same people who probably want to put shorts on naked Greek statues, for "decency".

Assuming they've ever been within a mile of that much culture, that is.

I have now officially given up all hope for the US.