As a Brit, I can’t help assuming that the critical and self-effacing reference to our national psyche is largely missed by non-Brits reading the ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ posters/bags/hats/everything-else.
This one is just another example of the point-missed: it just doesn’t make any sense.
No more variants of this please, I beg of you. No more!
The black looks ‘snappy’, but yeah, like most of the parodies of this WWII poster, this one loses the whole propaganda message, which is why it has become so popular recently in the first place.
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I prefer this one over the Keep Calm and Carry On one!
Mar 31st, 2010 / 12:07 pm
I’m glad another one showed up, I couldn’t stand seeing the original any more.
Mar 31st, 2010 / 12:22 pm
As a Brit, I can’t help assuming that the critical and self-effacing reference to our national psyche is largely missed by non-Brits reading the ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ posters/bags/hats/everything-else.
This one is just another example of the point-missed: it just doesn’t make any sense.
No more variants of this please, I beg of you. No more!
Mar 31st, 2010 / 1:09 pm
I can’t believe this poster or any version of it is still making the rounds.
Mar 31st, 2010 / 1:30 pm
love the pink. thanks for sharing. haven’t seen this version yet.
Mar 31st, 2010 / 1:50 pm
The black looks ‘snappy’, but yeah, like most of the parodies of this WWII poster, this one loses the whole propaganda message, which is why it has become so popular recently in the first place.
Mar 31st, 2010 / 4:03 pm
Since it is with a lamp,
it should say:
Keep calm
and
Clap on.
Clap on, clap off. The clapper.
Oh, that’s a bad one.
Apr 3rd, 2010 / 1:29 am