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# I had this idea for a project (no politics involved)


We get a bunch of happy pictures and make some A3/A4 posters, asking folks to cheer up. Just a bit.

Then we go up and down our local High St asking shop owners and managers if we can put a happy poster in their window.

If you wanted to get Gormanesuqe about it, you could map out which stores are happy and which aren't, and then set up a town-by-town happiness index, but I digress....

1. What do you think? Sound like fun?
2. Does anybody have any deliriously happy 'shops that they wouldn't mind sharing this way?


[edit] OK, give me a few days to make a home for it and we can start building some posters next week.
(I helped save b3ta! Manic can teach you the secret of fire, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:27, archived)
# sounds like a good idea!
i shall think of my local shops.....

edit: yeaah, uni would be a good place... plenty of noticeboards in the halls
(I helped save b3ta! viperrr mostly comes out at night, mostly, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:28, archived)
# the crackheads at my tube station
would be delighted
(I helped save b3ta! sinisterduck, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:29, archived)
# hmmmm
not sure about that
(garfi3ld, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:29, archived)
# Can I put them up around the uni I work in?
(I helped save b3ta! the_fabulous_dancing_yak You like game? You come see 5punk.co.uk. You like!, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:29, archived)
# anywhere public, I would think
I started off wondering what could be done to cheer up the odd laundromat...
(I helped save b3ta! Manic can teach you the secret of fire, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:31, archived)
# If it happens can we have a mini comp to design a standard set?
/edit or at least to show off pics of the locations
(garfi3ld, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:31, archived)
# that's be up to mods, I would expect
(sorry to throw this out on a newsletter day)
(I helped save b3ta! Manic can teach you the secret of fire, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:33, archived)
# indeed
although putting it off a week ain't so bad
(garfi3ld, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:34, archived)
# Which Uni do you work at?
Do they know how much time you spend on the interweb?
(Zed Smith, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:34, archived)
# if he's working at mine
i'll already know ;)
(I helped save b3ta! lazygamer VS tittybiscuits, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:36, archived)
# Oxford Brookes
and yes, but my manager likes b3ta and im the second in command (in my department) so it doesnt matter!
(I helped save b3ta! the_fabulous_dancing_yak You like game? You come see 5punk.co.uk. You like!, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:44, archived)
# my aunt works at oxford brookes
do u know a clare fox?
(I helped save b3ta! The Incredible... accident free since, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 19:08, archived)
# yay!
sounds like a "positive vandalism campaign" a friend and I did years ago
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:30, archived)
# positive vandalism
like anti-burglary?
(I helped save b3ta! summat to do with kittens, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:34, archived)
# it involved, amongst other things:
lots of poetry, some luggage labels, some postcards, a stool, an umbrella and a tree.
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:36, archived)
# that sounds
fab, i need something like that cos i'm in a bit of a 'funk' today
(I helped save b3ta! summat to do with kittens, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:37, archived)
# did you write poems
on ugly people and then beat them with umbrellas?
(I helped save b3ta! rogan, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:41, archived)
# Splen
did idea.
(I helped save b3ta! Hankster, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:31, archived)
# Hmm
I'd like to rent a video beard and stick this on it.



I'm sure everyone would love it.
(I helped save b3ta! 100% Cock Raw like carrots., Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:31, archived)
# class
I want a video beard too
(garfi3ld, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:32, archived)
# I'd love to have a video beard
thatd be brilliant!
(I helped save b3ta! the_fabulous_dancing_yak You like game? You come see 5punk.co.uk. You like!, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:32, archived)
# yeah but I have a beard already
so I would only require an upgrade
(garfi3ld, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:34, archived)
# Hehe
Typoes suck.

he.
(I helped save b3ta! 100% Cock Raw like carrots., Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:35, archived)
# glad you left it in tho
/the typo the typo
(garfi3ld, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:37, archived)
# not that one
thats prob the best typo ive ever seen EVER! fact!
(I helped save b3ta! the_fabulous_dancing_yak You like game? You come see 5punk.co.uk. You like!, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:47, archived)
# Is it a
Goatse Beard ?
(I helped save b3ta! The Mighty Gusset Doesn't Care - And Doesn't Care Who Knows It !, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:40, archived)
# that goes really well
with Aphrodite - I Got Five On It, does your video beard have sound?
(I helped save b3ta! NomDePlume fo shizzle my nizzle old bean, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 19:02, archived)
# I love the idea!
Post something big and Ill make sure a few A4 copies go around the lab notice boards :)
(--=| Daz |=-- has forgotten something, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:31, archived)
# soundsa bit like that
Gouranga thing, which I thought was good until someone told me it was a load of looney monks...
(RowdsterDelux, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:32, archived)
# Around a hospital
would seem a delicious idea...
(witty_ditty has made multiple miaows since, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:34, archived)
# gormanesque
don't tell me that's now a word

great idea though

slogan: "why don't you cheer up or fuck off"
(I helped save b3ta! muteboy, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:37, archived)
# I represent the whole of Cheshire
COUNT US IN!
(I helped save b3ta! Cosmo Smallpiece Nickers Nackers Knockers, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:41, archived)
# yup
and me
(Mr M@ Probably not that difficult!, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:45, archived)
# aye up
kid!
(I helped save b3ta! Cosmo Smallpiece Nickers Nackers Knockers, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:48, archived)
# allo
how's you
(Mr M@ Probably not that difficult!, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:49, archived)
# are you a
Joinee?
(I helped save b3ta! Shoosh up your lips Not state-funded, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:46, archived)
# Yes
I agree most wholeheartedly and somethingelsedly.
(Neville Squamous, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:50, archived)
# Sounds like a great idea!!
Thing is where can I get the source image of that "famous" kitten?
(sbeck, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 12:51, archived)
# Here
members.lycos.co.uk/scaryduck/nohands.jpg

(I helped save b3ta! Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 14:14, archived)
# Yay!
You could drop clues to the local press about some sort of kitten worshipping cult.

Or not.
(I helped save b3ta! Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 14:12, archived)
# 1 minute to go
until 5:30pm I saw this. I just had time to knock up 2 quick copies of it before 5:30 - (slurfers HAVE to leave work at 5:30, not a second later!)

First up - Blockbuster:


That should cheer up people not being able to find any decent films in there.

and then the 2nd one? Well, this poor van driver HAD to have it:


(wild, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 18:04, archived)
# Ahahahahahahahahahahaha!
And here was me thinking NoHands would serve only by way of example...

Here's a slightly happier one (click for printable embiggening in new window):

(I helped save b3ta! Manic can teach you the secret of fire, Fri 20 Feb 2004, 18:24, archived)