You're Old

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Text on Button YOU'RE OLD AND I'M nOT
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Blue, red, and green text on a black background.  

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© HALLMARK CARDS

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During the 1980s, a new class of slang was driven by separating younger generations from the generations of their parents, often with humorous effects. Phrases like, "you're old and I'm not" were meant to tease adults and seniors for growing older. It was common to tease the person celebrating a birthday with phrases like this or birthday spankings as a family tradition in 1980s-2000s America, although these traditions are celebrated less and less in more modern times.

Hallmark began in 1910 when Joyce Clyde Hall started selling postcards. He had little money—not even enough to take a horse-drawn cab to his lodgings at the YMCA—but he had an entrepreneurial spirit and the determination of a pioneer. Hall quickly made a name for himself with the picture postcards he sold. Rollie Hall joined his brother in business, and the company was named Hall Brothers. On January 11, 1915, a fire destroyed their office and inventory. They took the only salvageable item, their safe, and set up shop again. With $17,000 in debt, they decided to press onward. As postcard sales declined, they recognized the public’s desire for more privacy in their communication, so they started offering high-quality Valentine’s Day and Christmas cards mailed in envelopes. The fateful fire resulted in the Hall brothers’ decision to buy printing presses and begin producing their own greeting cards in 1915. Hallmark eventually made the move to manufacture and sell collectable memorabilia including pin-back buttons, most of which revolve around holidays and other special events.

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Catalog ID IB0272

Infectious Substance

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Text on Button INFECTIOUS SUBSTANCE IN CASE OF DAMAGE OR LEAKAGE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY PUBLIC HEALTH AUTHORITY 6
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Black text on a white background with a black symbol

Curl Text NES (800) 637-2384
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NES is a company that works with businesses and government agencies to make sure that employees and the environment are protected. The company provides education in the form of environmental and industrial hygiene consulting through workshops, training, and other personalized services. Some of the issues that NES discusses are indoor air quality, mold, water damage and exposure to hazardous materials. Not only does NES work to insure that work environments are safe, they also want to make sure that companies are following health, safety and environmental rules and regulations. NES has worked with companies such as; Pacific Gas and Electric and The Sacramento Bee. The company is based in California but helps companies throughout the country.

This is the symbol and sign used to identify that a container holds an infectious substance. Examples of infectious substances are: a human or animal that is known to be infectious, biological products such as vaccines, and cultures any intentionally bred infectious substances. 

Catalog ID AD0102

I Don't Date Outside My Species

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Text on Button SORRY! I DON'T DATE outside my SPECIES
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Erratic and uneven text centered that descends downward in black on a white and red checkered background.

Curl Text 80 © KALAN Philia 19151
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This saying implies that as a potential date, the reader of the button is so repulsive as to be considered an animal or alien.

Catalog ID IB0091

This Is My Costume

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Text on Button This is my Costume
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Black button with orange text, some white text.  The "o" in costume is a jackolantern and below the text is Halloween themed images. 

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Halloween tradition in the United States consists of trick or treating, which is when people go from house to house knocking on doors receiving sweets, snacks, or candy. While trick or treating is aimed towards children, adults indulge in costume parties, many of which offer prizes for costumes or have a strict dress code that you must have a costume to enter the party. For people who don't want to get into the holiday spirit or those who do but put no effort into it, this wearable may bypass a party dress code.

Catalog ID IB0122

If I Seem Weird

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Text on Button If I Seem Weird think about how you seem to me
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Tilted blue text on upper half, tilted pink text on lower half.  Background is divided in half, yellow on the right, white on the left.  

Curl Text © 200? (last digit indiscernible) DUCK AND COVER - OAKLAND, CA
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Catalog ID HU0052

Did You Fart

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Text on Button Did you fart or is that a weird beeper?
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Black text on white background. 

Curl Text BUTR-846624 copyright RPP Inc
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Catalog ID IB0276

Come Back When You're Happy

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Text on Button GO AWAY AND COME BACK WHEN YOU'RE HAPPY
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Wavy capitalized black text in a yellow oval with a black outline on a green background.  

Curl Text © 1996 DUCK AND COVER - OAKLAND, CA
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Catalog ID IB0275

I'm One Too

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Text on Button I'M ONE TOO
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White text on purple background. 

Curl Text FERNE SALES & MFG CO. P.O. BOX 113 T.C.B. WEST ORANGE N.J. 07052
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Catalog ID CL0459

You're So Ugly

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Text on Button You're So Ugly, when you were born, the doctor spanked your mother!
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A pink cloud boarderd with bold black with black text on a metallic background.

Curl Text PGB SERIES 5 © 1985 American Gag Bag Atlanta GA
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Catalog ID IB0110