  Detroitsuperfly Member Username: Detroitsuperfly Post Number: 51 Registered: 07-2005 |
Does anyone remember the City of Detroit Police cars in the late 70s and 80s with the "Dildo Days" bumper stickers? They featured DILDO in big red letters with a creepy looking clown. Does anyone know what that was about? Man, I'd love to get one of those stickers! (Message edited by detroitsuperfly on October 01, 2007) | ||
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin Post Number: 5076 Registered: 10-2003 |
They may have them on eBay Supa fly... | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 10580 Registered: 12-2003 |
They may have destroyed them all, after prosecuting that evil double-entendre stiff-assed clown. | ||
Raptor56 Member Username: Raptor56 Post Number: 122 Registered: 05-2007 |
somebody in the DPS marketing department not realise what a terrible clown name that was? | ||
None Member Username: None Post Number: 73 Registered: 07-2007 |
Omg dude just sat down to 2:00 break with a fresh coffee at the bosses desk after ganga therapy read your post and proceeded to blow coffee all over the bosses brand new personal 30" inch hd flat screen monitor. However it was well worth it Thanks so much for the Smile, Superfly | ||
Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav Post Number: 136 Registered: 09-2007 |
BILBO the Clown | ||
Detroitsuperfly Member Username: Detroitsuperfly Post Number: 54 Registered: 07-2005 |
They later changed it to BILBO. But I remember vividly seeing the DILDO stickers until about 85 or 86. | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 1803 Registered: 12-2005 |
It was a Detroit Police field day bumper sticker someone altered by taking a few copies and cutting out the necessary letters and sticking them over the word "field" in "field day" that photo appeared on the "photo phunnies" page of Nation Lampoon in the late 70s early 80s. | ||
Skamour14 Member Username: Skamour14 Post Number: 103 Registered: 03-2005 |
does any one have a copy of the picture at least???? Oh , man I would not only shit my pants and post it on here..... but I would drive to Royal Oak.... yell in someones face..... and Then walk down the streets.... drunk and holding Bilbo the dildo | ||
None Member Username: None Post Number: 74 Registered: 07-2007 |
I'll photo shop the bitch and buy the booze, when ya wanna go | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 4188 Registered: 10-2003 |
Never heard of this, but since memories are foggy on this thread, I could see where it really was BILBO which, with a couple of quick strokes of white paint, heh, could be defaced into DILDO. Pulling that over on the cops would be quite a score, especially if the clown was a er... I would be very surprised if in that post-Deep Throat filmic era, that anyone could be so naive enough to allow a clown to be named Dildo, especially cops who see and know it all. | ||
Flyingj Member Username: Flyingj Post Number: 29 Registered: 08-2006 |
I dunno, National Lampoon ran a few photos of the DYKELAND sign | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 6628 Registered: 02-2004 |
I though a dildo is a male P$%#%^! Oops we have young kids in the forum! | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 10642 Registered: 12-2003 |
No Danny, that would be a FAKE one. You know where the real one is...as do all of the young boys on this forum. | ||
Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav Post Number: 145 Registered: 09-2007 |
Right you are Lowell; so-sad to spoil the sophomoric fun....BILBO the Clown's affiliation with DPD started well before my time. I do remember posters and placards dating back to the middle 1960s. | ||
None Member Username: None Post Number: 79 Registered: 07-2007 |
I have the afore mentioned photo shopped bumper sticker however my HTML skills seem to work elsewhere rather well, here not so much edit>Nancy Regan had a point apparently, Photobucket with a link I think. Just say NO (Message edited by none on October 02, 2007) | ||
Detroitsuperfly Member Username: Detroitsuperfly Post Number: 59 Registered: 07-2005 |
I'd agree that it was a prank, or that it was a one off, but I saw it for years on more than one police car. | ||
Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav Post Number: 146 Registered: 09-2007 |
Detroitsuperfly.....So glad to see that you mentioned the phrase "one off". I often ask my kids: "why say "one off" instead of "one of"...if indeed the reference is to "one of a kind"? One more interesting thing....and it is a Detroit thing: Years ago, growing up in Detroit - attending Mackenzie High School; if you screwed-up, you would say "sorry man, my-bag". Back then, one's "bag" was their "thing"...their "trip" - as it were. Somehow, over the years...."my-bag" morphed into "my-bad". Ain't that weird? | ||
Detroitsuperfly Member Username: Detroitsuperfly Post Number: 60 Registered: 07-2005 |
One off the press is the reference. Its a common term. | ||
Zephyrprocess Member Username: Zephyrprocess Post Number: 482 Registered: 08-2006 |
quote:There are other etymologies, e.g., http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl /languagelog/archives/002693.h tml | ||
None Member Username: None Post Number: 86 Registered: 07-2007 |
My bag has always been my bag except my old lady is around then it was our bag, however my bag has always been my bag unless you wanted to buy that bag, so what years did you attend Mackenzie high school, Wyoming St 48204 cause that phrase is lost to me, It's been almost twenty years, however it was my neighborhood school | ||
Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav Post Number: 150 Registered: 09-2007 |
None...humorous turn of words regarding baggage - keep 'em thin to win. I was at Mackenzie from '73 until '76; before there was Pepper (Johnson)...there was (Salt) Greene - aka The White Stag. So as to avoid another threadjack on my part; BILBO The Clown Lives! | ||
Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav Post Number: 151 Registered: 09-2007 |
Z-Process....Thanks for the link. More threadjacking from chuckjav: Wow, those college folks need to hear from me. True-enough, "My Bag/My Bad" is an apologetic term uttered on basketball courts/athletic fields - but way, way before the 1980s. I recall hearing friends and foes alike shouting the phrase in the 1960s. | ||
Dougw Member Username: Dougw Post Number: 1926 Registered: 11-2003 |
This thread hasn't turned out as well as I'd hoped, but ya gotta love seeing "Detroit Police Dildo Days" bumped to the top of the list of threads. It's almost an HOF thread based on the title alone. | ||
Jrvass Member Username: Jrvass Post Number: 237 Registered: 01-2007 |
Don't forget Dildo, Newfoundland and their "Dildo Days". Their mascot is Captain Dildo. Rumors are that he only has one eye! http://tinyurl.com/24wo2y | ||
None Member Username: None Post Number: 88 Registered: 07-2007 |
Chuckjav 73 thru 76 was K thru 3rd grade for me, so ya we sorta missed each other by a few years | ||
Skamour14 Member Username: Skamour14 Post Number: 104 Registered: 03-2005 |
panting............. whew I am soooo drunk, just got back from royal oak..... and in case u all didnt hear, I shit my pants. Hhahahhaha dildos..... hahahhahhahahahhahhahhaha. Pants please! | ||
Waz Member Username: Waz Post Number: 207 Registered: 11-2006 |
Thanks for the geography lesson, jrvass. I see that Dildo is also on the road to Heart's Delight, Heart's Desire and Heart's Content. | ||
Sstashmoo Member Username: Sstashmoo Post Number: 452 Registered: 02-2007 |
Wasn't "My Bag" slang for occupation or activity? | ||
Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav Post Number: 160 Registered: 09-2007 |
Sstashmoo...yes, as in "my trip", "my thing". "My bag" as a forerunner to "my bad" made sense back in the 60s - however, it seems goofy in this day & age. I do recall hearing folks say "my bag" as a college student in Kalamazoo during the early 80s. I didn't hear the term "my bad" until the 1990s, while working as a teacher in SW Ohio. | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 3415 Registered: 12-2005 |
I always associated "my bag" with Maynard G. Krebs, the stereotypical beatnik played by Bob Denver on the Dobie Gillis show. |
