HIT POST AND FLAME OUT

November 9, 2010 12:09 PM

FREAK OUT AND BREAK THINGS A poster-maker toy for you.
posted by The Whelk (76 comments total)

Here's a game first attempt at mashing up the "Keep Calm" meme with one of the t-shirt slogans of my youth.
posted by Strange Interlude at 12:16 PM on November 9, 2010

I just made one that reads FREAK OUT AND BREAK SHIT, thanks to you. Twice.
posted by jquinby at 12:18 PM on November 9, 2010

Vote for mine!
posted by Threeway Handshake at 12:18 PM on November 9, 2010

Obvious.
posted by Curious Artificer at 12:19 PM on November 9, 2010 [5 favorites]

Heh.
posted by Thorzdad at 12:20 PM on November 9, 2010

My first predictably ribald attempt had already been made by someone else, by fortunately, my second attempt has a deft subtlety that few others can match.
posted by Greg Nog at 12:21 PM on November 9, 2010 [4 favorites]

Oh damnation, I didn't even actually read that first link. At least I had 'shit' in there.
posted by jquinby at 12:24 PM on November 9, 2010

I can't link to mine because of some kind of ridiculous "The specified path, file name, or both are too long" error, but I trust you'll find it.
posted by theodolite at 12:24 PM on November 9, 2010

ta fucking da
posted by shakespeherian at 12:25 PM on November 9, 2010 [8 favorites]

Also
posted by Threeway Handshake at 12:29 PM on November 9, 2010

They should generate png instead.
posted by Gary at 12:31 PM on November 9, 2010 [6 favorites]

Obvious.

mattdidthat!
posted by The Whelk at 12:33 PM on November 9, 2010

ta fucking da
posted by Benny Andajetz at 12:34 PM on November 9, 2010

FUCK YOU got MINE
posted by quin at 12:35 PM on November 9, 2010

Break a leg
posted by okokok at 12:36 PM on November 9, 2010

Chair, a little obsession of mine.
posted by The corpse in the library at 12:40 PM on November 9, 2010 [8 favorites]

Avast!
posted by Faint of Butt at 12:43 PM on November 9, 2010 [2 favorites]

Libraries aren't always calm places.
posted by morganannie at 12:44 PM on November 9, 2010

QFT
posted by ND¢ at 12:47 PM on November 9, 2010 [2 favorites]

Never forget!
posted by Halloween Jack at 12:50 PM on November 9, 2010 [2 favorites]

Oh man, I rolled my own earlier this year, but this is certainly more convenient.
posted by cortex at 12:54 PM on November 9, 2010

LOL'd, voted.
posted by hermitosis at 12:59 PM on November 9, 2010

I forgot mattdidthat did that (ha!) already. But I added the flag, see!
But I couldn't remember the hex code for MeFi blue, which would have really been better to use
posted by Curious Artificer at 12:59 PM on November 9, 2010

Here I go, spoiling the fun.
posted by Metroid Baby at 1:01 PM on November 9, 2010

LEG IT!
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 1:05 PM on November 9, 2010 [1 favorite]

Damn, I wish they had a Che icon so I could make:

I HAVE
NO IDEA
WHO
THIS
GUY IS
posted by griphus at 1:06 PM on November 9, 2010

Thanks for this - I have now created a few, but since they relate to in-jokes I won't bore you. But this has been great fun!
posted by Megami at 1:06 PM on November 9, 2010

in between the walls
posted by jquinby at 1:07 PM on November 9, 2010 [1 favorite]

Heh.
posted by cromagnon at 1:08 PM on November 9, 2010

(SO HARD)
posted by hermitosis at 1:10 PM on November 9, 2010 [1 favorite]

My wish for you all.
posted by punkfloyd at 1:14 PM on November 9, 2010 [1 favorite]

Metafiltery
posted by ND¢ at 1:15 PM on November 9, 2010

what
posted by not_on_display at 1:15 PM on November 9, 2010

Oh THAT gate key
posted by cashman at 1:15 PM on November 9, 2010 [1 favorite]

Must you all be so verbose?
posted by Hardcore Poser at 1:16 PM on November 9, 2010 [2 favorites]

The boys I nanny for have a rug (or rather, their family does) that is the traditional "KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON" but I swear, they're definitely mis-reading that thing as "FREAK OUT AND BREAK THINGS."

I dunno which they need more, literacy skills or a more accurate rug.
posted by sonika at 1:17 PM on November 9, 2010 [2 favorites]

I'm a hater, so I'm gonna hate,
posted by zix at 1:18 PM on November 9, 2010 [1 favorite]

But I couldn't remember the hex code for MeFi blue, which would have really been better to use

It's #006699. Which is really easy to remember if you pretend that it's that scene from Bill & Ted where slightly-future Bill and Ted are trying to convince slightly-past Bill and Ted of their authenticity:

Slighty-past Ted: If you guys are really us, what hexcode are we thinking of?
Slightly-future Bill and Ted: #006699, dudes!
Slightly-past Bill and Ted: Whoa!
Bill, Ted, Bill, Ted: [air guitar]

posted by cortex at 1:20 PM on November 9, 2010 [7 favorites]

Words to live by.
posted by ND¢ at 1:23 PM on November 9, 2010

WASH
HANDS
AFTER
HANDLING
WANG

is mine, as is

CHEW
30 TIMES
BEFORE
SWALLOWING
FOOD
posted by klangklangston at 1:23 PM on November 9, 2010 [1 favorite]

DO A THING.
posted by katillathehun at 1:25 PM on November 9, 2010

I have wanted to make this poster for a very long time. Thank you, Internet!
posted by ardgedee at 1:29 PM on November 9, 2010

heh
posted by The Whelk at 1:29 PM on November 9, 2010 [2 favorites]

Tribute to Gary Larson
posted by maxwelton at 1:34 PM on November 9, 2010 [1 favorite]

Yar har and fiddle dee dee...
posted by Halloween Jack at 1:36 PM on November 9, 2010

House is a British guy with an American accent
posted by l33tpolicywonk at 1:36 PM on November 9, 2010 [1 favorite]

I take a stab at it: http://goo.gl/5Hb1M
posted by jim in austin at 1:37 PM on November 9, 2010 [1 favorite]

I thought this was topical.
posted by tommasz at 1:38 PM on November 9, 2010 [1 favorite]

Seltzer wisdom.
posted by headnsouth at 1:42 PM on November 9, 2010 [1 favorite]

For Terry Pratchett fans.
posted by Halloween Jack at 1:46 PM on November 9, 2010

thank you, cortex

A Better MeFi-Centric Poster
posted by Curious Artificer at 1:53 PM on November 9, 2010 [1 favorite]

Slightly off-topic: if the original poster is in the public domain, does this also hold for the crown illustration above the text?
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 2:04 PM on November 9, 2010

Kicking it old-school.
posted by Slap*Happy at 2:07 PM on November 9, 2010

It doesn't look like the site has a search option, and I made this one on Sunday, so it's likely too far back in the "browse" section for me to bother looking.

Here it is on my server.
posted by tzikeh at 2:08 PM on November 9, 2010

cee lo green approved
posted by maxwelton at 2:28 PM on November 9, 2010

Original link courtesy of thepinksuperhero
posted by The Whelk at 2:35 PM on November 9, 2010

Here's mine
posted by jonnyploy at 2:36 PM on November 9, 2010

Have you seen my ...

never forget
posted by liza at 2:53 PM on November 9, 2010

Oh wow, I found mine in the browse section, and only *one* poster later, someone had done a parody of it!
posted by tzikeh at 2:54 PM on November 9, 2010

one more for the road... let it go
posted by liza at 2:59 PM on November 9, 2010

LONGCAT IS LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong
posted by ardgedee at 3:20 PM on November 9, 2010 [1 favorite]

.
posted by defenestration at 5:37 PM on November 9, 2010

Ah, memories of youth in the '80s.
posted by Shepherd at 5:50 PM on November 9, 2010

Arrgh, the save didn't seem to work. Frankie Say Relax Don't Do It is now a lost dream.
posted by Shepherd at 5:52 PM on November 9, 2010

My philosophy of life is based on movie quotes.
posted by drlith at 5:53 PM on November 9, 2010

For my *ahem* neighbors.
posted by dhartung at 6:12 PM on November 9, 2010

Pynchon's variant
posted by chavenet at 10:35 PM on November 9, 2010

Jame Gumb

Git it Git it

Beaker

Lollers

Aleister
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 10:54 PM on November 9, 2010

I made this. Ia! Ia!
posted by KingEdRa at 12:30 AM on November 10, 2010 [2 favorites]

Butt of course.

It doesn't seem to want to take any more. I can't get the Save Poster link to resolve. So much for a Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet poster.
posted by klangklangston at 1:15 AM on November 10, 2010

I've lived my life by that motto.
posted by Pallas Athena at 8:43 AM on November 10, 2010

Easy peasy lemon squeezey
posted by Greg Nog at 10:01 AM on November 10, 2010

just for fun and keeping with the british theme
posted by whoaali at 12:18 PM on November 10, 2010

Memories....
posted by ~Sushma~ at 2:07 PM on November 10, 2010

For all the roller derby peeps out there
posted by Lucinda at 12:28 PM on November 11, 2010 [1 favorite]

Before this site existed I commissioned this one with an offer of pie.
posted by doift at 11:41 PM on November 11, 2010