12th
Variations on a Theme
While we were on our way to work this morning, looking very St.Joan from Mad Men with our between-the-bosom pendant watch (sorry, we don’t own a gold pen… yet), we spotted a member of generation hoodie heading south to deepest SOMA dressed in the t-shirt version of this:
(which is available here. Only $20 with $5 going to charity! Get one now!)
This, of course, is a variation on the well-known British WWII poster “Keep Calm and Carry On”. Notice it’s brethren “Freedom is in peril. Defend it with all your might.” and “Your courage, your cheefulness, your resolution, will bring us victory.” don’t have quite the same appeal. Perhaps it’s the Eau de Orwell they’re wearing?
Well, since a box-load of these old posters were found a few years ago in an attic somewhere in England, variations on the theme abound (keep hitting reload, there’s another 5 every few minutes…). We’ve culled some of our favorites from around the Web.
Possibly even more British than the original: 
The Bushian response to 9/11: 
The meme-on-meme: 
The Gen-Xer (I presume…): 
The Contrarian:
The (tasty, tasty) Pavlovian:
But really, in the end, this about sums it up.
That is all. Over and out.
