Comments on: Catch Osama, Not Fish

By: SteveAudio

SteveAudio — Sun, 14 May 2006 04:57:26 +0000

Mark:
I think your first instinct was correct:
“Catch Osama,
not fish”
is spot on, and really says it all. You’re over-thinking it.

By: toto

toto — Sat, 13 May 2006 14:27:06 +0000

How about the bush pic first, then “catches fish, not Osama” ?

By: bago

bago — Fri, 12 May 2006 12:43:19 +0000

W. Clearing brush and catching fish since 9/11.

By: PainterWoman

PainterWoman — Fri, 12 May 2006 07:26:45 +0000

I like the one I saw at IU this weekend:
Practice compassionate impeachment.

By: wuchi

wuchi — Fri, 12 May 2006 01:20:45 +0000

What the hey, I’ll offer a bit more advice.
Skip the additional text and the re-write.”Catch Osama/Not fish” is killer snark. The alternatives don’t begin to compare.
To restate in words adapted to the meanest understanding, which is what you want for a button: Bush ain’t doing what he’s supposed to do… and here’s the picture that proves it.

By: Quiddity

Quiddity — Thu, 11 May 2006 17:55:16 +0000

Fishin’ Accomplished!

By: wuchi

wuchi — Thu, 11 May 2006 16:20:14 +0000

There is a faked picture that’s been around for a while of Mr. Bush holding up a fish, with a flooded-out street scene behind him. His father is there as well.
The picture could be used as a whole, but it would probably be better if you extracted the image of Bush and the fish. I’d work with a neutral background to emphasize the Bush figure — and to draw attention to the words. They should be in stop-sign red.

By: anonadmin

anonadmin — Thu, 11 May 2006 15:47:33 +0000

If he ever caught a fish it was probably with a shotgun, we know he’s using a “line” trying to catch Osama.

By: Rook

Rook — Thu, 11 May 2006 15:10:38 +0000

I sent an email in response.
But, I could see the use of the fish symbol used by the Conservative Christians with a circle and line over it, followed by a pic of Osama in a net.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 11 May 2006 14:59:55 +0000

I used to fish when I was a child and found it was always better to catch the fish when they were still alive. So I’m not sure, even if you found DaVinci to do your graphics, if I agree with the suggestion.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html
Catch the crooks and Lets Save Democracy!

By: Nicholas weaver

Nicholas weaver — Thu, 11 May 2006 14:37:14 +0000

Its not that hard. Think bold contrasting colors and a simple graphic. I think for this one, a charactacher of bush saying “My best day was when I caught a fish”
EG, I once did a design for fun that I was tempted to have printed up and handed out for people to stick on other people’s SUVs, but decide that would be vandalism…
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/fund_bumpersticker.pdf

By: David

David — Thu, 11 May 2006 14:03:56 +0000

while the designers are working on Mark’s slogan, could they also take a shot at the “change one letter at a time to go from one word to another” sequence that I’d like to see in circulation:
ID
IS
BS