On The Vicious Trademark Battle Over 'Keep Calm and Carry On'
'Carry on' is also the stereotypical phrase used by officers in the British Army, when passing control of a job to a non-commissioned rank (as in the first of the titular films):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQlEnKoQv_8
For any ex-servicemen (plenty around from WW1), there'd have been a kind of subliminal kicker to the poster: 'get on with it (but also, I trust you to get on with it unsupervised and will now leave and stop bothering you)'.
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 6:14 am
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On Otter Not Thrilled By Rescue Attempt
It sounds like it might have been an escapee from a local fighting ring. They're pumped full of rat hormones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNmBAUyy7Go
Posted on April 20, 2011 at 8:23 am
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On Trinity
@C_Webb Yes. MB is like the actual pointy carving bit of the Awl.