Anand’s Favourite Badges From The Badge Box
September 10, 2007 on 5:47 pm | 2 CommentsOkay, I felt it time for a new blog. But lacking in inspiration I turned to the friendly badge box and rummaged for 10 minutes. By which time I had hand selected 11 of my favourite badges (approximately 1.1 [thanks stu damnit] badges selected per minute). So, behold, Anand’s Favourite Badges From The Badge Box:
This badge is good not only because I didn’t know there was a Cornish Seal Sanctuary (well I do now), but also because I like Seals. Go figure!
The logo just looked quite cool, I have no actual idea what Bays is. That may sound really ignorant but I don’t mind 
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“Oh my god it’s a Batman Badge! I can’t control my excitment!” is what first comes to mind when gently turning it over in my palms. Not only that but as an added bonus you get a large number 6 in banana yellow in the top left hand corner.
I think I would have supported the miners had I been alive in 1984. Now we totally have robots to do it so everyone’s cool. Once again; totally ignorant ^^.
This is not so much a badge as a shiny shiny medallion. It glimmers as I pick it up on this sunny day. My appeal to it lies in the fact that I recently visited Malaysia… though the secrets of this medallion lay long forgotten along with it’s friends’ in, The Badge Box. (Read previous sentence like intro to “The Twilight Zone”, replacing “The Twilight Zone” with “The Badge Box”).
I can’t help but agree with the Broadwater Farm Defence Comitee’s tenacious message telling Police to get off their farms. Once again I am merely too ignorant to google into this incident further, but it’s quite obvious from the outrage that the badge emits that the police were in the wrong in this battle for getting police off the farm.
The draw of Marina and her seal pup Oink is unmistakeable. This wonderful series set on a Submarine is completed by a badge with a giant fish with a laser coming out of it’s mouth really.
Whether the badge is of a failed band (The Litter Wardens?), a secret society devout to keeping Britain’s streets clean or maybe off the lapel of a Vandal doing Community Service, you cannot deny the mere sophistication of the pure white on black lettering. The authority emitted by the badge is undeniable, and even as I took it out of the box I had the urge to clean up all the diet coke cans sprawled around me.
I believe it’s more the fact that it says “Made In USSR” on the back of the badge than the badge itself. This means that it must have been purchased before the fall of the USSR, so therefore makes it a nice little artefact. Oh, and it’s shiny!
I thought my BadgeHunt was going well, but when I found a second Batman badge I realised it was going fantastically. The whole jumping out of the badge thing that The Bat Man has going on really stand out on this badge and it’d be a good wear for any social occasion or comic book show.
This final badge confused me a little, the usage of a logo almost identical to that of WHSmiths is one thing, but why would “The Westcountry” need a badge. Anyway, I’m sure I’ll be donning this one whenever I leave my homeland of “The Westcountry” and venture into other places where people may mistake me as a local and only realise I am not when they see my flashy “Westcountry” badge. Thus I will avoid looking stupid in other places when I don’t know directions to places such as “The Train Station” or “The Tourist Information Office” that GCSE modern language exams are oh so fond of.
Anyway, that wraps up my Cool BadgeHunt for the day.
Cheers for reading.
:)