"keep calm and carry on" poster/print

[madzone]

that bloody thing is still polluting my space I asked if I could throw it away, he said to give it away on urban! no-one's gonna want that... are they?

Normally I'd take it off your hands for you but I have a proper one

 

[ringo]

Is this the East Dulwich version of a sign saying "You don't have to be mad to work here but it helps"?

 

[Hi-ASL]

No, it's much cooler than that.

Everyone hasn't got one yet.

 

[Boczkowski]

hmmm

first time I saw one of these was in the Guardian.
In the Writer's Rooms feature. Sarah Waters has (had) one over her desk.

from

I did think at the time I'd like one
but this thread has reminded me that I don't

 

[Yossarian]

Stick pictures of Barbara Windsor and Sid James on there and change the wording to 'Carry On Keeping Calm' and I might think about it.

 

[madzone]

Is this the East Dulwich version of a sign saying "You don't have to be mad to work here but it helps"?

I hope so, I've just ordered one

 

[dodgepot]

i wouldn't say they were an east dulwich thing, but they are quite east dulwich, IYGWIM.


?

 

[Dhimmi]

No, Yes, No. Thanks for pointing it out.

 

[Roadkill]

I prefer this one:

 

[madzone]

I don't like that one. Doesn't have the same implied stiff upper lip quality

 

[_pH_]

thats roadie!

*prints out a copy for the office wall*

 

[Dhimmi]

I don't like that one. Doesn't have the same implied stiff upper lip quality

Ahhh officer material eh?

 

[zenie]

I prefer this one:

Oh I love that

Tea sorts everything out

 

[madzone]

Ahhh officer material eh?

More Laura Jesson than officer material I'd say

 

[beeboo]

Anyone know anything about the history of these posters? I know they're a Ministry of Information poster from WWII, but someone told me recently that they were a designed for the event of a German occupation, and were therefore never used in public?

 

[Roadkill]

I'm not sure about all of them, but posters were used throughout the war for various reasons.

... and so on.

 

[beeboo]

Propaganda was so much cooler back then

 

[Roadkill]

 

[madzone]

I want that one!!!!

 

[Roadkill]

I've seen it as a poster.

 

[madzone]

I've seen it as a poster.

Where to?

 

[Roadkill]

Meanwhile:

 

[foamy]

we used to have the keep calm and carry on in our toilet a few years ago.

 

[zenie]

I'm gonna get this

 

[madzone]

Yay - they've got them all here

 

[dodgepot]

what a fantastic thread

 

[madzone]

what a fantastic thread

We rescued it for you

 

[_pH_]

Yay - they've got them all here

and here

 

[dodgepot]

We rescued it for you

i could go right off you, you know.

 

[Hi-ASL]

and here

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