Best. Campaign. Slogan. Ever.

June 3, 2004 8:21 AM

Let's Roll! [may be a teensy bit NSFW]
posted by Johnny Assay (8 comments total)

Dude, we totally forgot our slogan.
posted by Aaorn at 9:16 AM on June 3, 2004

Hey! Dell Boy isn't permanently out of a job after all! W00t!
posted by WolfDaddy at 9:21 AM on June 3, 2004

I dunno...maybe it's because I'm a New Yorker who saw the events of 9/11 first-hand, but this kind of makes me queasy. I have no problem with the new campaign's cause, and I despise how Lisa Beamer has tried to exploit the phrase, but that expression became famous in a very specific, tragic context.
posted by LairBob at 9:47 AM on June 3, 2004

I think that phrase was pretty much already thoroughly exploited by Bush.
posted by sonofsamiam at 10:02 AM on June 3, 2004

President Bush giving the hand sign for "Let's Roll."
posted by sfenders at 10:47 AM on June 3, 2004

but that expression became famous in a very specific, tragic context.

And the phrase "kicking the habit" was born out of the withdrawl effects of heroin. You can find misery in anything if you want to.
posted by Dark Messiah at 3:08 PM on June 3, 2004

"kicking the habit" was born out of the withdrawl effects of heroin.

And here I thought it was some kind of ritualized nun abuse condoned by the catholic church.
posted by prodigalsun at 4:23 PM on June 3, 2004

why not, celebrate election night victories with a round of Who Wants to Smoke My Honeybear?

(one question i got contains a theory for the origin of '4:20' i'd never heard before.)
posted by danOstuporStar at 10:57 AM on June 4, 2004