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2010-10-01 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Ever wonder where the peace sign came from?

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Posted by gorb 2010-10-01 01:35|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Horse crap. The original "peace sign" didn't have the middle line in the bottom. It was a line from the top to the middle that branched to either side without the middle "toe" of the chicken foot.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-10-01 03:09|| 2010-10-01 03:09|| Front Page Top

#2 And I remember quite well that the "original" peace sign was out for a couple of years before the version with the middle toe showed up.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-10-01 03:10|| 2010-10-01 03:10|| Front Page Top

#3 You are thinking of the Mercedes logo. It is a common confusion even among hippies.

Posted by SteveS 2010-10-01 04:16|| 2010-10-01 04:16|| Front Page Top

#4
Sometimes Wikipedia is correct:
The internationally recognized symbol for peace was originally designed for the British nuclear disarmament movement by Gerald Holtom in 1958. Holtom, an artist and designer, made it for a march from Trafalgar Square, London to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston in England, organised by the Direct Action Committee to take place in April and supported by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). Eric Austen adapted Holtom's designs to ceramic lapel badges.

The symbol is a combination of the semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D," standing for Nuclear Disarmament

Posted by Parabellum 2010-10-01 07:31|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-10-01 07:31|| Front Page Top

#5 So it started out as a U then became a N?

We're blaming the troubles of the '70s on a UN?

Posted by Skidmark 2010-10-01 07:35|| 2010-10-01 07:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Chickenfoot

Posted by Frank G 2010-10-01 08:09|| 2010-10-01 08:09|| Front Page Top

#7 No, I am not thinking of the Mercedes symbol. I remember quite distinctly. This would probably have been around 1969 or so.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-10-01 11:07|| 2010-10-01 11:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Hard to believe that the peace movement would adopt the logo of a well known, successful (and capitalist!) automobile company as their symbol. Even a blind wikipedia finds an acorn sometimes.

Posted by SteveS 2010-10-01 14:32|| 2010-10-01 14:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Nothing says "Peace" quite like a 1938 MB 230 Saloon.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-10-01 14:46|| 2010-10-01 14:46|| Front Page Top

#10 Oh, nonesense. It's been perfectly clear to me since the 60s that the symbol and the name was a pun on a piece of ass.

Flash the peace sign, and if you were any good, you got a piece soon enough.

Posted by KBK 2010-10-01 19:20|| 2010-10-01 19:20|| Front Page Top

#11 It's been perfectly clear to me since the 60s that the symbol and the name was a pun on a piece of ass.

I'm confused. What pun, KBK, in the symbol or the name?

Posted by trailing wife 2010-10-01 21:50|| 2010-10-01 21:50|| Front Page Top

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