dysmenopausal Kansas school teacher wishes happy birthday

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2857046

Oh my.

It's been that long?

Of course, the dysmenopausal Kansas school teacher is that age.

proud2Blib  (1000+ posts)       Wed Feb-13-08 10:02 AM
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Happy 50th Birthday to the Peace Symbol!!

Peace Symbol Says Style, Not Hope

by Kevin Brooker

There is certainly symbolism to the fact that, this month, the peace symbol turns 50 years old. Slightly stooped and timeworn, alas, like humans of that age, it struggles to maintain relevance.

If you don’t count religious emblems, the peace symbol has become one of the world’s most enduring and recognizable of hieroglyphics. Quite a feat for an image which, instead of being based on some famous existing object, was designed precisely for the use that it has most often been made.

Its author was an English commercial artist and anti-nuclear activist named Gerald Holtom. He was one of many intellectuals in Britain during the 1950s who were deeply agitated first by having witnessed the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but then watching their own government, despite being in a time of postwar material hardship, race to join the nuclear club.

The sheer madness of that ambition was summarized, in the minds of activists, by an offhand remark by soon-to-be Prime Minister Alexander Douglas-Home: “The British people are prepared to be blown to atomic dust if necessary.”

more . . . http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/11/6990/

I dunno.

Only fifty years old, and "one of the most enduring symbols"?

One can think of ocean-liner-loads of symbols ten times older than that.

And besides, the "peace symbol" wasn't even half that age, before a younger generation began mistaking the Mercedes-Benz emblem for it.

Anyway.

I have no idea what to make of the bonfire; the ham-and-eggs primitive for some reason seems to have upset the dysmenopausal Kansas school teacher primitive.

dweller  (1000+ posts)      Wed Feb-13-08 10:26 AM
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1. ...

http://www.uspeacememorial.org /

peace

Hamlette  (1000+ posts)      Wed Feb-13-08 10:59 AM
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2. 50 year olds are stooped and timeworn?

what a wanker

and an idiot

Wanted to read what he had to say but couldn't get past the fact he is not a good observer of life or is an idiot in which case, this author is worth reading.

proud2Blib  (1000+ posts)       Wed Feb-13-08 11:03 AM
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3. Whatever, Dude

[Lord Undies]

The symbol always looks like a footprint left behind by a chicken, circled for emphasis.

[Chris_]

The ankh is thousands of years old and pretty well universally understood to mean "life."

These people are really full of themselves.

[franksolich]

These people are really full of themselves.

Yeah, they are.

I think that because during the early 1980s, when the "peace symbol" was still in its early adulthood, and people mistook it for the Mercedes-Benz emblem, or vice-versa, proves how "enduring" it's been.