Posted on 11/13/2006 11:18:01 AM PST by GoldwaterAvenger
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan holds a sign while demonstrating for the end of U.S. military involvement and peace in Iraq in front of the White House in Washington November 6, 2006.
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That first one is a picture of the footprint of the American chicken.
You beat me to it! I should scroll down before posting.
The one time I agree with ol' Cindy. I'll vote fore Mercedes, maybe a new SLR.
Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
Shhhhhsssshhhhhh! Be Quiet!
He did!
No one outside of Free Republic is supposed to know this!
Hopefully Conan will. I think he's the funniest of the late night hosts.
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Now, another question: Is it just an accident that a peace symbol has the same basic outline as a chicken's foot? Here's a real chicken's foot:
and here's a discussion of a dominoes game called "Chicken Foot", wherein we find the following representation:
Sure looks like a peace symbol to me...
While I was working on my post, you beat me to it (at least part of it)...
I'm a Beemer man myself.
My parents told me when I was a kid that the peace sign was indeed supposed to be based on a baby chick's foot, because that symbolized innocence, or Colonel Sanders, or something. Whether it's true or it, I have no idea. Neither of my parents were exactly hippies.
Boys and girls, this is why we have someone proofread our work ...
I suppose I should've known that, but didn't. Thanks...
"This forked symbol was adopted as its badge by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Britain, and originally, its use was confined to supporters of that organization. It was later generalised to become an icon of the 1960s anti-war movement, and was also adopted by the counterculture of the time. It was designed and completed February 21, 1958 by Gerald Holtom, a commercial designer and artist in Britain. He had been commissioned by the CND to design a symbol for use at an Easter march to Canterbury Cathedral in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston in England."
"The symbol itself is a combination of the semaphoric signals for the letters "N" and "D," standing for Nuclear Disarmament. In semaphore the letter "N" is formed by a person holding two flags in an upside-down "V," and the letter "D" is formed by holding one flag pointed straight up and the other pointed straight down. These two signals imposed over each other form the shape of the peace symbol. In the original design the lines widened at the edge of the circle."
From Wikepedia, FWIW. I had thought it was a stylized ICBM launching but what do I know? (Well, at least more than Sheehan, but that's still not saying much!)
I don't see that...but will confess to not being especially motivated to do so. It's a chicken's foot to me from now on...(grin)
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