“Everyone who hates speeding tickets, raise your right foot”

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Entry from January 28, 2020

“Everyone who hates speeding tickets, raise your right foot”

“Everyone who hates speeding tickets, raise your right foot”—that is, take your foot off the gas pedal—is a saying that has been printed on several images. “All in favor of avoiding speeding tickets raise your right foot!” was posted on the newsgroup ga.forsale on November 27, 1994. “All those against speeding tickets, raise your right foot!” was posted on the newsgroup alt.law-enforcement.traffic on February 4, 1999.

“All those who hate speeding tickets…raise your right foot!” was printed in the Quesnel (BC) Cariboo Observer on August 18, 1999. “Everyone who hates speeding tickets, raise your right foot” was posted on the newsgroup alt.humor.jewish on August 5, 2005.

Google Groups: ga.forsale
A SPEEDER’S GUIDE TO AVOIDING TICKETS
Robert H. Merriman
11/27/94
All in favor of avoiding speeding tickets raise your right foot!

Google Groups: alt.law-enforcement.traffic
Thank you local police
The Schewe Family
2/4/99
(...)
All those against speeding tickets, raise your right foot!

Newspapers.com
9 July 1999, The Morning Star (Vernon, BC), “Police target ‘jammer’ use” by Richard Rolke, pg. 3, col. 3:
“If you don’t want a speeding ticket, raise your right foot (off the gas pedal).”

Newspapers.com
18 August 1999, Quesnel (BC) Cariboo Observer, pg. 23, col. 4 ad:
ALL THOSE WHO HATE SPEEDING TICKETS…
RAISE YOUR RIGHT FOOT!
ICBC Road Sense

Google Groups: van.forsale
OT: Speeding ticket
NewMan
7/4/05
“All those that don’t like speeding ticketes, raise your right foot!”

Google Groups: alt.humor.jewish
<*>_<*>

Oneliners
Renee
8/5/05
(...)
Everyone who hates speeding tickets, raise your right foot.

Twitter
STRATEGY
@StrategyYeah
Everyone who hates speeding tickets, raise your right foot
9:10 AM · Jun 23, 2009·Twitter Web Client

Twitter
FunnyOneLiners
@Funnyoneliners
Everyone who hates speeding tickets, please raise your right foot.
6:35 AM · Jun 29, 2009·Twitter Web Client

Twitter
Bob Kostic
@causticbob
Everyone who hates speeding tickets, raise your right foot.
5:24 PM · Nov 19, 2014·Twitter Web Client

Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/Shore20 November 8, 2019
Everyone who hates speeding tickets
Raise your right foot

Twitter
Michelle Wisniewski
@MichelleThefixx
For all those that hate Speeding Tickets, raise your right foot.#policehavebetter things todo
10:52 AM · Jan 28, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

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