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| It's all about the "O" | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 8 2008, 06:38 AM (413 Views) | |
| George K | Aug 8 2008, 06:38 AM Post #1 |
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![]() George Bush had his three-fingered W salute that supporters flashed when greeting him at presidential campaign events in 2000. And now, if a Los Angeles creative agency gets its way, Sen. Barack Obama will see fans meet him with his own salute like the one above. "Our goal is to see a crowd of 75,000 people at Obama's nomination speech holding their hands above their heads, fingers laced together in support of a new direction for this country, a renewed hope, and acceptance of responsibility for our future," says Rick Husong, owner of The Loyalty Inc. Husong tells me that he got the idea after seeing the famous Obama-Progress poster by artist Shepherd Fairey. "We wanted to get involved some way," he says. So, the agency came up with their own a symbol of hope and progress that also plays off Obama's name. "We thought, 'Let's try and start a movement where even while walking down the street, people would hold up the O and you would know that they were for Obama,' " says Husong. Much thought went into the relatively simple idea. "You interlace your hands in a circle, the interlacing being a symbol of different types of people coming together and the circle a symbol of unity," he says. Their design, unlike Fairey's, is free, and Husong is urging people to download it and print it on posters and T-shirts. "We want to see it everywhere, but more importantly we want this sign to take the world by storm." |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| LadyElton | Aug 8 2008, 06:40 AM Post #2 |
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Fulla-Carp
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I can think of a more "exciting" 'O'.
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| Hilary aka LadyElton | |
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| George K | Aug 8 2008, 06:41 AM Post #3 |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Aug 8 2008, 06:42 AM Post #4 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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The Big O > Obama's O. |
| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| M&M's | Aug 8 2008, 06:43 AM Post #5 |
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Fulla-Carp
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That's what I was thinking too! |
| My child shows GOOD CHARACTERIZATION in an ongoing game of D&D | |
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| Red Rice | Aug 8 2008, 07:03 AM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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A large group of people all making that hand sign together at the same time would look pretty silly. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| Frank_W | Aug 8 2008, 07:03 AM Post #7 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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The "O" -- Totally empty inside. |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Dewey | Aug 8 2008, 07:07 AM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I think they should think long & hard before they adopt that gesture. |
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| Mikhailoh | Aug 8 2008, 07:18 AM Post #9 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Especially if they start moving it back and forth.. back and forth... But I guess it takes two hands to handle an O-boner. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| George K | Aug 8 2008, 07:21 AM Post #10 |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Axtremus | Aug 8 2008, 07:22 AM Post #11 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I agree. :lol: |
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| Mikhailoh | Aug 8 2008, 07:28 AM Post #12 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Obama is popular among American youth.
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Frank_W | Aug 8 2008, 07:30 AM Post #13 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Free Rider | Aug 8 2008, 07:40 AM Post #14 |
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Fulla-Carp
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That's funny! |
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| George K | Aug 8 2008, 08:19 AM Post #15 |
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Fixed....
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Mark | Aug 8 2008, 08:24 AM Post #16 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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WTF George? |
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___.___ (_]===* o 0 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells | |
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| Optimistic | Aug 8 2008, 08:26 AM Post #17 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Hey, look! Family Circus finally discovered humor! |
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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| George K | Aug 8 2008, 08:45 AM Post #18 |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Mark | Aug 8 2008, 08:53 AM Post #19 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Thanks for telling me I look silly. Silly for wanting smaller constitutional government. Silly for wanting to eliminate the income tax. Silly for being conservative when conservatives these days are actually socialists. |
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| Mikhailoh | Aug 8 2008, 11:22 AM Post #20 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Spock 'reaches'. Maybe that could be THE slogan.. 'Do you REACH Obama?' |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Kincaid | Aug 8 2008, 11:28 AM Post #21 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Okay Mik, you are almost responsible for my death. Almost choked on my carrot. |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| Kincaid | Aug 8 2008, 11:29 AM Post #22 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Sorry, the image that this "salute" brings to my mind is a nation bending over and taking it in the Obama. |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| Mikhailoh | Aug 8 2008, 11:30 AM Post #23 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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An unfortunate choice of words, in this context. But I wish I were so limber. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| LadyElton | Aug 8 2008, 11:32 AM Post #24 |
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Fulla-Carp
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| Hilary aka LadyElton | |
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| Frank_W | Aug 8 2008, 11:32 AM Post #25 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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![]() Yer asshole is going to be THIS big around, after Obama's term is up! |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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