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Banners of Note at the Stop Bush March (London)

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

19:33 / 20.11.03

MY all time march fave :

"Free Nelson Mandela!"

which appeared in a row with "I Farted!" and "OK, Who Touched Me?"

Also liked the portrait of Tone and Phone wrapped in the US flag with the large bold font "ARSE!"

"George Wanker Bu$h", "Buck Fu$h, Buck Flair" (also "Fliar" (sic) - do you see?) and, for raging ineptitude :

"Bin Bush, Bin Blair, Bin Bin Laden, Bin The Hole (sic) Lot"

Anyone else enjoy the perverse wit of the great unwashed? Pray tell...

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

19:35 / 20.11.03

Just a thought, but if they'd stuck "Trent" between "Hole" and "Lot", and added an extra "t" on "Lot", it might have been a better slogan.

Might.

But maybe not, eh?

spidermonkey

19:43 / 20.11.03

I saw a woman whose banner read " I love you George W" I can't work out whether it was meant to be ironic or not.

w1rebaby

22:02 / 20.11.03

I did like this photo off of Indymedia:

Ganesh

22:04 / 20.11.03

I saw a man carrying an enormous pretzel on a stick...

8===>Q: alyn

22:36 / 20.11.03

Okay, that's just weird.

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

07:06 / 21.11.03

There were lots of banners about pretzels...somethin to do with our royal family's ancestry and the american taste for German pastries I guess

Unencumbered

07:21 / 21.11.03

More to do with Bush having choked on one.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

07:38 / 21.11.03

A pretzel or a Roya- best stop there, methinks.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

08:52 / 21.11.03

Although I always assumed (even at the time) that the "choking on a pretzel" thing was bullshit, and Dubya was back on the sauce... maybe I'm just too quick to judge others by my own standards.

Bill Posters

09:11 / 21.11.03

hmm, interesting notion.

I liked the Bush Has Mad Cowboy Disease one, and the American Warwolf in London one. We also thought Bush is a Cunt had a certain directness to it. There was a Free Nelson Mandela, and an Okay, Who Touched Me? which made me chuckle, but my fave placard was: I Can't Think of a Slogan.

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

10:11 / 21.11.03

Yes, "Bush is A Cunt" was up there with the best of the best.

I missed the American Warwolf, quite clever that one...

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:45 / 21.11.03

I have to say that Cholister managed to convince me the last time we had a thread like this:

Calling Bush a cunt is an insult to cunts and it fucks me off royally. Saying that Blair is a cocksucking little toadie is completely homophobic and it disgusts me to see that sort of thing unexamined on Barbelith.

...To the extent that when I saw a placard bearing a drawing of Bush buggering a poodle with Blair's face, bearing the slogan 'The Special Relationship', I considered going over and having a word. Well, not so much a word.

Favourite slogan: 'Texans Against Bush'. Cos it must really not be fun to have the place you come from by accident of birth used as an epithet to suggest why Dubya is the way he is...

Bill Posters

11:35 / 21.11.03

there was an awful lot of homophobia yesterday in the imagery and slogans...

Tryphena Absent

11:50 / 21.11.03

I didn't quite notice... I suspect it depends how far you want to carry the whole idea of prejudice. George Bush grabbing the Queen's breasts, is it ageist? Disrespectful? Heterophobic? Is it okay because she's an authority figure, even though she has no real power?

Of course I might agree with you and just not have noticed yesterday.

Bill Posters

12:06 / 21.11.03

grabbing the Queen's breasts, is it [...] [d]isrespectful?

well call me the latest example of political correctness gone wild(TM), but glorifying sexual assault might - just might - not be the most constructive form of protest one could envisage...

er, on the original topic, according to a poster on U75 there was a woman with a poodle there yesterday. She had a banner saying, Bush, You Make Me Ashamed to be an American, and the poodle had a banner on it saying, Blair, You Make Me Ashamed to be a Poodle. Class!!

Less searchable M0rd4nt

12:22 / 21.11.03

Quireboy

12:30 / 21.11.03

One of the standout banners from the last march was double sided - with 'Nice bush' - and a pic of ... (well do I have to spell it out) on one side - and 'Nasty Bush' and a pic of Dubya on the other.

Quireboy

12:32 / 21.11.03

Then there was "Bush and Blair - fire blanks like your fathers should have done."

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

12:36 / 21.11.03

Yeah, and the auld maryjoanna leaf with the slogan 'The Only Good Bush'

Haw haw haw

Linus Dunce

23:31 / 22.11.03

Wasn't "Free Nelson Mandela" down to someone taking the piss?

Bear

23:37 / 22.11.03

Nope it was serious he fell down a well on Thursday night, didn't you see it in the news??

Linus Dunce

23:44 / 22.11.03

Or perhaps they were offering MP3s of the new Queen single.

Personally, I'd have gone for "U.S. TROOPS OUT OF CHECHNYA -- NOW!" ...

Tryphena Absent

23:50 / 22.11.03

There were a couple of people singing black power songs and modifying the words. It was weird to hear them after such a long time, they were singing things I remember from childhood protests.

Bear

23:53 / 22.11.03

I remember my childhood protests...

"Bring back British Bulldogs!!"

" Dude I'm not eatin Brocolli"

Those were the days, real issues.

Linus Dunce

00:02 / 23.11.03

"END U.S. SUPPORT OF IRISH REPUBLICANISM!"

"RECLAIM TIBET NOW!"

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