Pink horse with pink lines around black text over white background. 

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Lazy, white clouds under blue text over blue background. 

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Sketched puppy (with major puppy dog eyes) between brown text over yellow background. 

The phrase, "Happiness is a warm puppy" was first made popular by Charles Schulz, the creator of the Peanuts comic strip. In the comic that ran on April 25, 1960, Lucy hugs Snoopy and says, "Happiness is a warm puppy." The quote became one of the comic's most famous phrases, leading to production of Peanuts merchandise featuring the quote, various riffs on the phrase, and even inspiring a Beatles song. 

Red and yellow bowling pin above yellow text over red background. 

Bowling as a game goes back to at least 3200 BCE Egypt, and the sport was popularized throughout Europe beginning in the 3rd-4th century AD. European colonists in the 17th century brought the game to the United States, where eventually men's and women's bowling leagues with standard rules were formed between the late 1800s and early 1900s. Over the 20th century, bowling rose in popularity, and the United States Bowling Congress claims that currently more than 67 million people in the United States bowl each year.

Black and red text over yellow background. 

Topps, a company that is best known for sports memorabilia, produced "Wise Guy" pins during the 1960s that featured  satire/parody for novelty and humor.

Man blows out candle above black text over blue background. 

Illustrator Harry C. "Bud" Fisher (1885-1954) created "Mutt and Jeff," America's first daily comic strip. Fisher was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended the University of Chicago. He moved to San Francisco in 1907 and took a job as a journalist with the San Francisco Chronicle.  It was while living in San Francisco that he developed the comic strip and illustrated a number of buttons for Hassan Cigarettes.

Blue cartoon squeezed between two orange rounds below black text over white background. 

A mischievous boy rides on the back of a peeved boy below red text on yellow background encircled by green outline. 

Topps, a company that is best known for sports memorabilia, produced "Wise Guy" pins during the 1960s that featured  satire/parody for novelty and humor.

Man using a urinal below black text over blue background. 

“Get a grip on yourself” is an idiom typically said to someone in an effort to get them to control their emotions and behave in a more calmly manner. Earlier iterations, like “get a grip,” had different meanings. In the 1940s, it was military slang used to encourage someone to increase effort in what they were doing and transitioned some decades later into college slang meaning to pay attention.

Another meaning of the idiom is to get a good physical hold on something, as this humorous button seems to suggest. Someone standing at a urinal usually must properly hold themselves to correctly use it. If it were a matter of technique, it would probably be important to know that adjusting the angle and stance at a urinal can prevent “splash back” and wet spots on the clothes or floor.

White text over green background.