The website was registered in February 2007, with an online shop selling a variety of related merchandise featuring the slogan, ranging from T-shirts and bags to deck chairs and chocolate bars. The Imperial War Museum in England has approximately six and fifteen additional copies were found in February 2012, where they were appraised on the television show Antiques Roadshow. As of 2012, Barter is not the only place that houses original copies of the poster. According to Mary, they had sold over 40,000 copies by March 2009. Not knowing its origins, the couple had it framed and hung it in the shop, where they began selling prints of it the following year. In 2000, Stuart Manley and his wife Mary found the poster folded at the bottom of a box of old books they purchased at an auction for their Alnwick, England bookshop, Barter Books. Though more than million of these posters were originally commissioned, after the war ended they were kept in storage where most were destroyed. Defend It With All Your Might" and "Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory." It was intended to be used to strengthen morale in the event of a large-scale attack or occupation, which many considered inevitable at the time. What an amazing, glorious, unbelievable feeling.The Keep Calm and Carry On poster was commissioned in 1939 by the temporary Ministry of Information in England, following the printing of two other inspirational posters stating "Freedom Is In Peril. one really big 8 hour long uterus-kicking pitocin induced contraction) the nice nurse took pity on me and gave me an injection of stadol while I was awaiting my cervix to get with the program so I could have my face time (or back time as the case may be) with the epidural man. Secondly, I’ve never had xanax or morphine, but during my contraction (yeah just the one. Pip pip, jolly good, stiff upper lip, and all that stuff). (Altho makes sense it came from the Brits (#42). If not, a trite little saying isn’t going to help. I mean, if one is calm by nature, they don’t need to be reminded to do so. Oh Jenny…first of all, I’ve always found that “Keep Calm…”statement a bit glib. Because it both promotes and discourages drug use at the same time, and that dichotomy acknowledges the complicated and multi-layered nature of motherhood. “ Just say no to ripping your own arm off.” Because first of all everyone listens to that advice, and secondly, no one wants to get involved in a class of drugs that ends with you wanting to rip off your own arm. I think we could have won the War on Drugs with that slogan. But you have to rip your arm off to get it, so I don’t recommend it. Like, have you ever had a morphine drip? Because it’s like being frenched by a unicorn. I’m not glorifying drugs but – in my defense – some drugs are pretty damn glorious. But I’ve made a new “Keep Calm” sign designed especially for people like me with extreme anxiety disorders. Okay, you guys? I’ve been reading these Keep Calm memes for the last 80 billion (internet) years and I just want to scream, “I CAN’T KEEP CALM BECAUSE I HAVE AN ANXIETY DISORDER AND YOU CONTINUALLY T ELLING ME TO KEEP CALM IS JUST MAKING IT WORSE AND NOW I’M SCREAMING ON THE INTERNET AND IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT.” Seriously, I’m not responsible for that.
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