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SAY what you will about traffic jams, they provide ample time to ponder the stickers on all those bumpers as they creep by, according to the New York Times.

Well, not necessarily just the bumpers. Stickers have been turning up on rear windows and side ones, on hatchbacks and trunk lids, and on the front and back doors. Nor are they necessarily stickers: many people are putting messages on their cars with magnets. Those messages, though, can be a head-scratching hodgepodge of colors, symbols and phrases. This may be especially true for anybody raised thinking the range was limited to “Princeton University,” “Gore 2000,” or the skulls of the Grateful Dead.

Indeed, an informal survey of metro-area parking lots and streets, in traffic jams and at highway rest areas, turned up the following: paw prints, small and large, and one from a bear; baseballs and tennis balls embedded in shattered glass, or the appearance of it; yin-yangs and stars; and symbols warning of radiation and biohazards.

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