OT: Slogan of the group, (UNCLASSIFIED)
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Tue Feb 5 19:44:36 UTC 2013
On Feb 5, 2013, at 12:53 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC 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"?
>
> 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
>
>
Very nice. I'm surprised not to find one for vulture capitalists, "KEEP CALM AND CARRION"
LH
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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
> could
>>> get you into trouble?
>>>
>>> --
>>> -Wilson
>>
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