Keep calm and fuckoff
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- stewdio0
I'm actually in favor of that guy. I'm not into his merchandise, but he played by the rules, created a business, and he's defending his territory. I absolutely believe him when he says these other cats (who by the way are trying to cash in the EXACT way he did) would never have given the phrase or its visual expression any mind until he came along and promoted the hell out of it. He's absolutely in the right.
- Jimbo820
I'm gonna trademark 'Mind the gap'.
I'm gonna make a fortune bitches.
Can we just get one thing straight, was he the FIRST person to print those posters (post war days obviously) because he said he started his business 4 years ago, I'm sure I saw those posters longer than 4 years ago.
- no the bookshop that found the original copy started doing it back in 2000 I thinkhans_glib
- identity0
LolCube™
- mikotondria30
Mark Coop™
Pay me, you snivelling bitch.
- Jimbo820
From:
http://www.keepcalmhome.com/
Accessed from:
http://www.barterbooks.co.uk/"A short history of the ‘Keep Calm and Carry On' poster! After being forgotten for more than half a century, a rare original of the now famous WWII poster was rediscovered in a box of old books bought at auction in one of the largest and most popular secondhand bookshops in Britain - Barter Books.
When the bookshop owners had the poster framed and put up in the shop, customer interest was so great that in 2001 the couple started producing facsimile copies for sale - copies which were soon copied and recopied to make of the Keep Calm poster one of the first truly iconic images of the 21st century."
Mark Coop, you're a turd.
- mikotondria30
More importantly than all of this - what IS it if it's not a weight of Gill Sans ?
- The Cs are different to Gill and Johnston. Better, annoyingly.detritus
- aGREED. aNYONE ?mikotondria3
- dunno - it's a bit of a mish mash of various fonts. I wonder if it wasn't some generic wartime rip...
hans_glib - holy shit, i thought i was gill sans, but the C totally isnt gill sans. interesting...Hombre_Lobo
- what am i on, the C totally IS gill sans! its all gill sans!Hombre_Lobo
- Projectile0
Guess what- the fucker RANG me last night!!
I replied to his email, but stupidly left the signature in. An hour later I'm at the pub with mates, and I get an irate phone call from him
"Firstly, let me tell you about this silver spoon idea of yours" which is when I packed up laughing with uncontrollable mirth. I couldn't hear him very well at all so just said thanks for the entertainment and hung up. He then left a voicemail which is unfortunately breaking up so bad you can't really hear anything other than irate snippets of voice.
Can upload if someone tells me a very easy way to get from inbox to iphone to pc but it's really just mumbo jumbo
- dobre0
if the original designer is named (& got heirs) would this nullified Coop's right?
- beautiful0
Priceless.
- capn_ron0
Fuck you Candy™
If i catch any of you people saying or typing this without paying me!!!!!!
- mydo0
where is the QBN quality thread gif when you need it.
- Jimbo820
^ Oh man that's awesome, have you seen his twitter...
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something in your life. Winston Churchill"
- Projectile0
^
When you've got nothing to loose, you've got nothing to loose.
Bob DylanApparently Bob wasn't a great speller.
Here's another rant from him.. this has all clearly touched a nerve.
He's going on about how over 6 years no one else trademarked it, never thinking maybe there was a reason why no one ever trademarked it before.
- bumdrizzle0
http://www.keepcalmandcarryon.co…
lol. his mastery of the english language is quite something to behold.
- EmbarrassingJimbo82
- I dunno, sounds kinda reasonable to me, actually. My allegiance is drifting..mikotondria3
- Jaline0
Every store has a modified version of this poster. And all the slogans are idiotic.
- bumdrizzle0
http://www.yayhooray.com/thread/…
has a fairly big list of all the variants.
- Do you know what the font is, skbumdrizz?detritus
- i thought it was gill sans.bumdrizzle
- *sigh*
Come on, people, this is important.mikotondria3
- jtb260
It's cool - this trendy poster will become so 2011 in like a hot minute, and this dumb cunt won't be able to do shit since he clearly can't develop an original idea.