Posted: 9/4/2009 6:40:21 PM EDT
| My weird next door neighbor has several bumper stickers of a large cherry on the back of her Chevy HHR. What's this all about? Anyway, the only thing I can think of is that it's some sort of reference to a hymen- but I'm just really not sure. She looks like she's in her 30s. She also has some weird voodoo looking skull hanging from her mirror. I'm a little younger, I feel this is some sort of cultural reference I'm missing out on. Stupid question I know, I'm just bored and curious. |
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As a tattoo symbol, the cherry has come to represent feminine chastity and purity as the fruit ripens on the tree. Once plucked, however, a cherry represents the loss of innocence and virtue. A cherry tasted, its flesh pierced by appetite, is a virgin no more. A cherry surrounded in flames speaks of unquenchable desire, passion and lust.
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Post-modernist hipster, that's all. It means what you think it means but she lost hers to a guy with a soul patch and an ironic tattoo. Yep. It's just one of those artistic conventions that is more about the style of the painting, than about the fruit itself. During the 1940s and 50s, ripe cherries were popular in "risque" artwork, because they were symbolic of lost virginity. But with the passage of time, they have become unbearably retro-'hip' because they are about capturing the image of 40s and 50s 'glamour' artwork. They can also be reminiscent of the cherries pictures that spin around on slot machines, kind of symbolising that one lives a 'risque' gambling lifestyle. Cliff Notes version: She's a tease. |
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Isn't cherry like a slang term for something in good condition, I've heard it used to describe really well restored muscle cars, mostly. It means "virgin" or "unmolested". That has been extended to "original" and corrupted to "very nice" or "clean". For hot-rodders, it means original parts. |
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Post-modernist hipster, that's all. It means what you think it means but she lost hers to a guy with a soul patch and an ironic tattoo. Yep. She's probably into rockabilly music, lucky strikes, pabst blue ribbon, Von dutch and those ugly shirts with skulls and flames too. The "retro" car design, skull and cherry sticker would be advertising/lodgepins to her culture. |