Average artist and writer. He/him. Bi. BLM, ACAB, trans rights, anti-crypto, and all that jazz.


cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude
jaywallace1
@jaywallace1 asked:

I know this is dumb, but I don't want to go to Twitter to find your original post on the subject. Can you please introduce CoHost to the concept of truck lettering?

every single town in the united states contains at least one pickup truck with adhesive letters on the side that spell out something almost exactly like:

JOHN P ANGUS ATTORNEY AT LAW FUCKED ME OVER

you've probably seen one of these, and we can all imagine what Type Of Guy does this. something went poorly for him; it was probably his fault, or nobody's fault in particular, but either way someone needs to be blamed so that he doesn't have to face the intolerable situation of possibly appearing to be the cause of his own misery.

he has no friends who will sit and listen to him exculpate himself however - probably because he has been doing nothing except that for five years and everyone's done with his shit - so he buys $85 of stick-on letters at home depot and makes this little mobile billboard. this solves the problem: now "everyone in town knows" (he believes this is a valid concept even if he lives in a city of five million people) and there is no way anyone will ever blame him; instead, this lawyer's life will be "ruined" because now "everyone knows." the problem is definitely solved now, and the guy will not continue to be even angrier every day than he was the previous day, forever.

anyway, i call these "truckletter guys", and you can use it as a verb. i recommend it. if you are typing out some insufferable screed and you know the entire time that you're full of shit and just making things up to make yourself look blameless, congratulations: you are trucklettering.


Sutekh94
@Sutekh94

where I live, the people who do trucklettering generally don't whine or complain about random attorneys or other people who supposedly screwed 'em over once.

nah, they're too busy spraypainting messages like "WHO IS JOHN GALT?" all over their truck's tailgate. honestly, that alone says enough about the kinds of people who live here. (rural tennessee, btw)


Sutekh94
@Sutekh94

bringing this back because i saw another Galt Truck today. this time there was a bunch of "WHO IS JOHN GALT?" posters and other messages glued to their tailgate. at least they didn't use spraypaint???


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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

subtype: I've also seen this kinda thing on billboards outside someone's house. yeah just stick that in the middle of your yard like that, I'm sure that's working out for you just fine

There’s a guy near me who does stuff like this in his yard, only it’s like professionally printed signs with acrostic poetry using names of political leaders and parties he dislikes in particular. Points for unusual choice of format and effort applied, all points rescinded for utter dogshit subject matter.