OT: Slogan of the group, (UNCLASSIFIED)

Thu Feb 7 04:22:06 UTC 2013

On tonight's Daily Show, the poster used to illustrate the overwhelming vote in favor of same-sex marriage (white on red, with a crown on top) reads

KEEP
CALM
AND
MARRY
ON

LH

On Feb 5, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> They even rhyme.
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> JL
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> 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>
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>>>>> 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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