A grinning cartoon striped cat drawn in black and white has the word “GRIN” in uppercase letters above its head.  Located at the bottom are the words “and ignore it” written in lowercase.  The illustrator’s last name is written next to the cat.  The text is black, and the background is light blue.

This is Sandra Boynton's humorous take on the phase “grin & bear it”.  Ms. Boynton is an award winning American author, illustrator and humorist. She began her career designing greeting cards for Recycled Paper Greetings in the 1970’s.  In the mid 1980’s, she sold over 80 million cards a year.  She has authored and illustrated over fifty books for children and adults.  Recently, Ms. Boynton has added songwriting and music producing to her repertoire.

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Love is a strong affection for another person or thing, sometimes indicating romantic desire. "Love" is used here as an acronym: Lord Our Vision Enlarge, which refers to an idea in the Christian Bible that Jesus wants to enlarge people's vision to see God and his kingdom the way Christ does.

This is one of many variations of a heart shape. The heart shape is a graphic symbol representing an expression of love. The use of the heart shape originated in the Middle Ages, though it wasn’t used to symbolize love until the 15th century. Today, it is frequently used on romantic items to indicate a specific love of something. 

The image of an arrow through a heart often refers to the Greek deity Eros and/or the Roman deity Cupid, who is often depicted as a young boy with wings and a bow and arrow which he uses to strike people into falling in love with each other.

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Whitehead & Hoag Co. was one of the first companies to produce patented celluloid pinback Button. The company specialized in advertising and political campaigns and produced unique novelty items featuring whimsical designs.

Long before the phrase "fly" indicating a person was good looking or well put together became popular from In Living Color’s “Fly Girls” dance troupe in the 1990s, the term “fly” was used as an adjective as early as the 1850s. Charles Dickens’ 1858 tale, "Arcadia", uses fly as slang for a quick-witted person. An article written in 1999 by Les Aldridge and published by Random House cites that in the 1870s, “the National Police Gazette wrote about ‘the young...men about town who think it is awfully 'fly' to know tow-headed actresses’”, using fly to describe something as attractive and cool.

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A percentage in mathematics is a number ratio expressed as a fraction of 100. To state “100%” means all of something or a perfect score. It is often used as an expression for agreeing with someone or something fully and completely.

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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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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. 

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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.