OT: Slogan of the group, (UNCLASSIFIED)

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Tue Feb 5 18:04:02 UTC 2013


They even rhyme.

JL

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:

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> > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> > > <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > And why include "Keep Calm"?
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> No doubt a reference to the British WWII propaganda poster, "Keep Calm
> and Carry On":
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Calm_and_Carry_On
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> I've seen the phrase re-worked into other topics.  It has turned into a
> meme:
> http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/keep-calm-and-carry-on
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> > > WAG: An allusion to the fact that the only Spanish language approved
> > > by the government is Castilian and making too much of a point of
> > using
> > > Catalan or any other "regional language" or "patu=E9s" publicly
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> > > get you into trouble?
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> > > --
> > > -Wilson
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