Naughty dog (on a back window)

There are a couple of memories to be offered as background to this post.

First up, in 1981 we lived in Denver, Colorado where the car number plates showed a green silhouette of the Front Range.
About the time we arrived some entrepreneur established that only about 10,000 of the States population of about 2 million had actually been born and bred there.  And they were pretty antsy about the newcomers (especially those from Texas -of which more below) mucking up their State.  So he made bumper stickers referencing the number plate design with the word 'Native' on them, as below.
He must have got some good marketing advice  to the effect that you make more money selling to 1,990,000   folk because other stickers started appearing for "Non-Native"; "Semi-Native" - not sure about that one; and "Restless Native" for members of the 10k who wanted to move to somewhere with less Texans.  The Australian group we were with included an artist who promptly designed a similar image for IMPORT, and got it printed on tee shirts which we wore with pride.

The second memory is of an ABC TV program "The Big Gig".  In a very early episode - possibly the first a stand up comedian Glynn Nicholas introduced a character a character called Pate Biscuit who told a yarn, in the style of Patsie Biscoe on kiddies TV, about a naughty fish.  Said fish was a White Pointer and it duly ate a few folk.

That is enough background for a while.

The business about bumper stickers was to establish a background to the phenomenon in Australia of people putting stick figures in the back window of their car to reflect their family composition.  This is a typical example: I suspect from other things on this car the guy was a fireman so the pumping weight bit is probably a fair call. As far as I know the dog depicted here is not naughty!
There have started to be spin offs as evidenced by this Star Wars set.  I presume the mini -Darth Vader represents a 13 year old (of either sex).
This car obviously belongs to some folk who have just started up in the parent business
 However the next is the one that started me off on this post.  For anyone outside Australia who doesn't understand it, I suggest you either


Now that's a naughty dog!

Here is a Good Dog checking, as requested by me, for rodents in one of our sheds.
I promised you a little more about Coloradan's views on Texans.  Note that this was well before Dubya came to power.  As well as many colourful comments I liked the commercially marketed :
  • Bumper Sticker "Texans are living proof that the Apache screwed buffalo"; and 
  • a Tee shirt for sale in Aspen "If God had meant Texans to ski he'd have coloured bullshit white".
Seeing as we have descended to rudeness I saw this ute at traffic lights:
It was tough to get an image in focus but it reads "Honestly nobody gives a flying F@#k about your family".  Which seems to sum up the situation rather well.

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