Want to caption some witty protest signs?
Feb. 8th, 2017 12:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kestrellI've been enjoying Alexx's descriptions of signs he sees, but I really wish there was a Website where someone collected and captioned the best signs.
Yeah! "the semiotics of protest signs" --someone needs to do this as a thesis!
For now, could I ask people to caption the signs in this article?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/not-usually-a-sign-guy-but-geez?utm_term=.pn8W4qv4zE#.oc24M6jMxW
I would also be interested in people leaving comments regarding their favorite signs.
Yeah! "the semiotics of protest signs" --someone needs to do this as a thesis!
For now, could I ask people to caption the signs in this article?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/not-usually-a-sign-guy-but-geez?utm_term=.pn8W4qv4zE#.oc24M6jMxW
I would also be interested in people leaving comments regarding their favorite signs.
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Date: 2017-02-09 01:09 pm (UTC)lol Okay, anything to do with librarian humor is a win. Thanks!
From: serakit - DW Comment [mailto:dw_null@dreamwidth.org] Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2017 12:36 AM To: kestrell@panix.com Subject: Reply to your entry. [ kestrell - 260330 ]
serakit http://serakit.dreamwidth.org/profile replied to your Dreamwidth entry http://kestrell.dreamwidth.org/260330.html "Want to caption some witty protest signs?" in which you said:
I've been enjoying Alexx's descriptions of signs he sees, but I really wish there was a Website where someone collected and captioned the best signs. Yeah! "the semiotics of protest signs" --someone needs to do this as a thesis!
For now, could I ask people to caption the signs in this article? https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/not-usually-a-sign-guy-but-geez?utm_term=.pn 8W4qv4zE#.oc24M6jMxW
I would also be interested in people leaving comments regarding their favorite signs.
The reply was:
Picking up where others have left off: 19. Someone holding up a sign which is a screenshot of one of Trump's tweets, reading "The electoral college is a disaster for democracy." The tweet is dated 11/6/12. 20. There are two signs in the shot. The one that is the focus is a plain-lettered sign reading "No Country for Old White Men", and the other is lower, off to the left, and lettered in blue with some red words, and reads "I am more than just an immigrant, transgender, black, Muslim, Latino, woman. I am a human being." 21. Two signs, both reading "Queef on him" in all caps. One is light blue lettering and has two pink hearts, the other is plain red lettering. 22. Three signs in one picture: one reading "Let's talk, not fight" in black and red on plain cardboard, one reading "If Britney can make it through 2007, we can make it through this!", and one that says "The future is female, no2" and there's another word on the end that I can't quite make out from the picture. 23. Sign reading "Gays 4 Trump?" with a picture of a person with long hair and a dress with scales that's captioned "Oh, baby, not my gay ass." 24. Black writing on pink posterboard reading "Mike Pence likes Nickelback." 25. Sign carried by a person of color: "Put avocado on racism so white ppl will pay attention. #NotMyPresident."
Still a few more to go in the article.
I think my favorite that I saw was a riff on Goodnight Moon posted to the Boston March Facebook group:
"Goodnight Obama, Goodnight moon, Goodnight legally unrestricted womb, Goodnight science, Goodnight facts, Goodnight corporate income tax, Goodnight water, Goodnight air, Goodnight equal rights everywhere."
(Yes, someone fit all that on one sign.)
Also a riff on Green Eggs and Ham: "I do not like you down my shirt. I do not like you up my skirt. I do not like you near my rump. I do not like you Mr. Trump!"
And of course the one that read "You know things are bad when librarians start marching."
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