Yellow ribbons are symbols… typically they represent the hopes and wishes of a person (or community) for the safe return of a loved one that is serving overseas, normally in a time of war. Yellow ribbons look lke this:

(Note: if you’re colorblind or high on LSD, you’ll just have to trust me that this is yellow. If you’re blind, just touch your monitor).

The next logical capitalistic step was for the free market to design and market a yellow ribbon for the rest of us. Rather than be forced to deal with cumbersome fabrics that may pose a choking hazard for our pets, we can now go to our local grocery store and show that we support our troops via a handy Chinese sweatshop made slap-on magnet. Some people may consider this McPatriotism, but such talk is nonesense… we know that our soldiers depend on us to sacrifice valuable square inches on our cars… and at $3.99 a pop, it’s the most affordable way to join the war effort I can think of, other than calling your neighborhood liberal a “commie hippie faggot.”

The neat thing about ribbon magnets is that they symbolize real ribbons, which are symbols to begin with. Taking that to heart, we here at Grimco decided to take this a step further, designing a symbol that symbolizes the symbol that is in turn symbolizing the thing that ribbons symbolize:

Stickers, the next logical step. On the back, we’ve featured a full-window “Yellow Ribbon Magnet” adhesive available in green (pictured), camouflage, or hunter’s orange. For those of you with windows too small to accomodate the massive (and massively patriotic) wordy stickers, we also have an abbreviated version available in hot pink (pictured), argyle, or burnt lavender. Unlike those magents made in communist China, our stickers are created and quality-tested in the country of Darfur. Support your troops, give us your money.
Grimco Stickons Representing Magnets Representing Ribbons: Symbology Squared Because We’re at War!™