Thursday, December 11, 2014

Keep Calm and Read This Post

Parody Poster

Keep Calm and Carry On is a widely known and popular phrase that people put on shirts, posters, and their computer and phone wallpapers.  It has a long and interesting history, spanning from 1938 to today's culture.  It started at the beginning of WWII for giving the British motivation to fight the "invaders".  All the posters were thought to have been burned in 1945.  But much like the "We Can Do It!" poster,  (which was America's motivational poster)an original "Keep Calm" was rediscovered in a book store.  The man who had found it.  It grew popular and was made into a meme and sold in stores and parodied.  It has become one of the most popular phrases in today's pop culture.  Although popularity has fallen in the past years, I still love Keep Calm merchandise.  It means to not care about what terrible things might be happening, and to just do as your normally would. 

3 comments:

  1. I didn't know the background to this phrase. I think you should have said who the person was that founded it again. I love how your blogs are so organised. You should start your pole again. Keep up the good work!

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  2. I didn't know the background to this phrase. I think you should have said who the person was that founded it again. I love how your blogs are so organised. You should start your pole again. Keep up the good work!

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  3. You are very well organized and your blogs are somewhat funny. I agree with Lexi, I didn't know what the background was either. Besides that, keep up the good work Carter!

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