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Started by Cuddlefish, February 07, 2011, 11:24:57 PM

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Cuddlefish

February 07, 2011, 11:24:57 PM
Works good as a flyer on it's own. What can we add?
A fisher of men, or a manner of fish?

Icey

#1
February 08, 2011, 05:49:36 AM
It needs a picture. It's a tough one though, to make it all surreal and tasty, without going political and whatnot.

BadBeast

#2
February 08, 2011, 05:52:08 AM
"Or the Baby gets it"
"We need a plane for Bombing, Strafing, Assault and Battery, Interception, Ground Support, and Reconaissance,
NOT JUST A "FAIR WEATHER FIGHTER"!

"I kinda like him. It's like he sees inside my soul" ~ Nigel


Whoever puts their hand on me to govern me, is a usurper, and a tyrant, and I declare them my enemy!

"And when the clouds obscure the moon, and normal service is resumed. It wont. Mean. A. Thing"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpkCJDYxH-4

Elder Iptuous

#3
February 08, 2011, 10:35:02 PM
you could use a "World Warefare Fund" logo in the corner?



(like the world wildlife fund, if its not really obvious by my little mash)


ETA: the tank is a copyright image from a googlesearch, and is just used as an example, if that kinda stuff is of concern...

President Television

#4
February 12, 2011, 04:30:18 AM
Couple it with a picture of a particularly sad-looking nuclear warhead?
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BadBeast

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February 12, 2011, 07:58:24 AM
Quote from: Unqualified on February 12, 2011, 04:30:18 AM
Couple it with a picture of a particularly sad-looking nuclear warhead?
Or a maimed Soldier, being helped off the Battlefield by his marginally less maimed Buddy. In the background, an enemy Gunner is carefully taking aim.
"Save the War, while there is still a War to save!"
"We need a plane for Bombing, Strafing, Assault and Battery, Interception, Ground Support, and Reconaissance,
NOT JUST A "FAIR WEATHER FIGHTER"!

"I kinda like him. It's like he sees inside my soul" ~ Nigel


Whoever puts their hand on me to govern me, is a usurper, and a tyrant, and I declare them my enemy!

"And when the clouds obscure the moon, and normal service is resumed. It wont. Mean. A. Thing"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpkCJDYxH-4

Elder Iptuous

#6
February 12, 2011, 04:24:07 PM
that would lend sympathy to the individual soldiers, though. which doesn't seem like the point.
you want to appear to be attempting to evoke sympathy for the war itself as endangered...

Cuddlefish

#7
February 12, 2011, 05:29:39 PM
Y'know, even with just text, this could be really funny to put outside/around Army recruitment centers/booths. I missed a good opportunity last week, they had the Nat'l Guard set up a booth at my school. I was just thinking how funny it would have been to have a "save the war" slogan hanging right behind it. Oh, well. next time.

Maybe some false-facts to go with it? "If we pull our soldiers out, the terrorists have won!" "Ending the war will put millions of americans out of work" and so on. I don't have my computer (computer is dead, long live computer) so if anyone feels like fudging around with the idea, feel free, but unfortunately, I don't currently have the resources to get to it right now  :sad:
A fisher of men, or a manner of fish?

BadBeast

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February 12, 2011, 05:40:11 PM Last Edit: February 12, 2011, 05:41:52 PM by BadBeast


Oops, wrong War.  :oops:
"We need a plane for Bombing, Strafing, Assault and Battery, Interception, Ground Support, and Reconaissance,
NOT JUST A "FAIR WEATHER FIGHTER"!

"I kinda like him. It's like he sees inside my soul" ~ Nigel


Whoever puts their hand on me to govern me, is a usurper, and a tyrant, and I declare them my enemy!

"And when the clouds obscure the moon, and normal service is resumed. It wont. Mean. A. Thing"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpkCJDYxH-4

Cuddlefish

#9
February 12, 2011, 05:48:54 PM
Also: "The pulling out of our troops will be an admission of wrong-doing/failure, and we all know that the fight for democracy and capitalism is the Good Fight"
A fisher of men, or a manner of fish?

Nephew Twiddleton

#10
February 12, 2011, 06:17:46 PM
Quote from: Cuddlefish on February 12, 2011, 05:48:54 PM
Also: "The pulling out of our troops will be an admission of wrong-doing/failure, and we all know that the fight for democracy and capitalism is the Good Fight"

Kinda long, needs to stick in the mind more. Maybe something like "Pulling out troops is an admission of failure." and then "The fight for democracy and capitalism is the Good Fight."

Could also twist around something I came up with a couple of years ago, and say something like "Forcing choice on those who didn't choose it." The point being that invading a country on the pretext of liberating it and changing it to a democracy is hypocritical.
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Nephew Twiddleton

#11
February 12, 2011, 06:18:53 PM
Also you could use some of those old Uncle Sam posters for this.
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Elder Iptuous

#12
February 12, 2011, 06:41:13 PM Last Edit: February 12, 2011, 06:43:22 PM by Iptuous
when i saw the catchphrase at the beginning, obviously being a riff off of, save the whales/rainforrest/spotted owl/fuzzy creature with big eyes/etc..... it seemed good because it was simple, humorous, and the cognitive dissonance of jamming the concept of 'war' into the slot generally occupied by fuzzy cuteness forces the reader to think 'why the fuck would i want to save that?!'

the suggestions here seem too frontal...
why not leave the concept of 'war' as an floating ideal not associated with any current politicized situation?

ETA: if you mention 'pulling the troops out', etc. the reader immediately reaches into his bag of talking points and defends his mind.  with the simple 'save the war' message, there's nothing to fight, really.  that's why i liked it.

Nephew Twiddleton

#13
February 12, 2011, 06:47:52 PM
Quote from: Iptuous on February 12, 2011, 06:41:13 PM
when i saw the catchphrase at the beginning, obviously being a riff off of, save the whales/rainforrest/spotted owl/fuzzy creature with big eyes/etc..... it seemed good because it was simple, humorous, and the cognitive dissonance of jamming the concept of 'war' into the slot generally occupied by fuzzy cuteness forces the reader to think 'why the fuck would i want to save that?!'

the suggestions here seem too frontal...
why not leave the concept of 'war' as an floating ideal not associated with any current politicized situation?

ETA: if you mention 'pulling the troops out', etc. the reader immediately reaches into his bag of talking points and defends his mind.  with the simple 'save the war' message, there's nothing to fight, really.  that's why i liked it.

That's a good point. Maybe graphically, then, some sort of weaponry, like the sad nuke mentioned earlier. I'm not sure if this would be considered politicized, but maybe another subversion of a phrase could be "We need to reduce undeployment"
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Soy El Vaquero Peludo de Oro

TIM AM I, PRIMARY OF THE EXTRA-ATMOSPHERIC SIMIANS

The Good Reverend Roger

#14
February 12, 2011, 06:56:52 PM
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
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"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.
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