May 24, 2004

1:32 PM

The ultimate act of defiance? Just now on Air America Radio, Randi Rhodes described a poster / pin design that was common in the 1960s that featured a mouse giving the finger to an eagle, with a caption that said "the ultimate act of defiance". Any idea where I might find an image of this? Googling didn't turn up much.
posted by Space Coyote to (9 comments total)

It actually reads, "The Last Great Act of Defiance," which you could learn by Googling, "act defiance eagle mouse." Here is a colored one and here is a larger outline one (copy and paste to defer the referrer blockage).
posted by rafter at 2:42 PM on May 24, 2004

Thisturned up at the same site. Heh.
posted by konolia at 4:38 PM on May 24, 2004

rafter, that doesn't look like the one I remember from the 70s when I was a kid (probably left over from the 60s). Or maybe it's just pixellation that makes it look digitized and different.

I can't remember if one of my hippie cousins had it as a tee or poster, or if I saw it in a comic magazine. They used to have all kinds of posters and black-light posters and peace-sign patches and iron-ons and tees for sale in comics in the 70s. "Patience, my ass!" was popular, as was "Keep on Truckin'," of course. And pot leaves. As a kid I put patches all over my favorite shirt, one of which was a sargeant's stripes shoulder patch with a peace sign in the middle.

Coyote, you might find the vintage image (if rafter's isn't it) on the site I linked to or on a site like it.
posted by Shane at 4:38 PM on May 24, 2004

konolia, i just printscreened and saved that (as I don't know the trick to get around prohibited right-click) from the site I linked to! It's on there too. That image will come in handy...
posted by Shane at 4:48 PM on May 24, 2004

konolia, it's on the site I linked to as well! I just saw it. That image will come in handy...
posted by Shane at 4:50 PM on May 24, 2004

d'oh! (connection timed out)
posted by Shane at 5:14 PM on May 24, 2004

Not that I haven't done this myself, but did someone perhaps link direct to somebody else's graphic? Cause I think a substitution



may have occurred.
posted by jfuller at 6:03 PM on May 24, 2004

Those will do nicely enough, thanks all :)
posted by Space Coyote at 6:19 PM on May 24, 2004

jfuller, thus the need to copy/paste the URL. The original image is at the bottom of a lengthy and javascripty page.
posted by rafter at 10:28 PM on May 24, 2004