LOOSE LIPPS

Es war die Lerche und nicht die Nachtigall.

        

A collection of Loose Lipps posters generated by Flux AI :

A variation of the " Loose lips sink ships " theme that I only came across yesterday. Check out the article  How "loose lips sink ships" was updated for modern war times for more information or listen to the CBC podcast (@ 13:10 mins). Back during the Second World War, a new kind of "Don't Do It" advertising campaign was born. It was a dangerous time. There were spies and intelligence operations hidden around the country. So the U.S. government created a poster. The visual showed a warship on fire, sinking in the ocean. The words said: " Loose lips might sink ships. " The goal was to discourage casual chatter about troop deployment and ship lanes that could be shared during pillow talk or between departing soldiers and their families. Critical information that would benefit the enemy. The Canadian version of the poster dropped the word "might" to be even more direct, saying: " Loose lips sink ships. " Decades later, in 2...

I joined*  NeXT 33 years ago and spent 37.5 dog years (1991 - 1996) working for the company that Steve Jobs had founded after leaving Apple. Background information on the genesis of the NeXT logo designed by Paul Rand : "A subordinate at Next Computer was showing Jobs shades of green for the company’s logo. More precisely, she produced some 37 shades of green before coming upon one that pleased the master . " Source:  TOUGH BOSSES INSANELY INSPIRING ,  Chicago Tribune,  November 8, 1993. Source: Logo Presentation Book by Paul Rand, 1986. See LogoDesignLove.com for more information about the creation process and logo presentation. * The employment contract stated April 1, 1991, but I already attended CeBIT 1991 which opened  March 13 following booth setup starting March 10.

Source:  Wikipedia Loose lips sink ships  is an  American English   idiom  meaning "beware of unguarded talk". The phrase originated on propaganda posters during  World War II , with the earliest version using the wording  loose lips might sink ships .