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In any mass public gathering, positive (on the campaign trail, during sporting events, to raise awareness) or negative (at protests and/or strikes), there's bound to be people waving signs around.
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=== Positive Support Examples
== Real Life ==
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=== Negative Protest Examples
== Comics ==
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== Literature ==
* In one [[Hardy Boys]] story, the boys and their friend (Chester, I think his name was) are investigating a massive protest against a boat, and get handed signs (which makes for a difficult moment when the boys' employer turns out to be the owner of the boat). Chester brings his own sign reading "FRANK HARDY FOR MAYOR".
* In [[Larry Niven]]'s short story "Cloak of Anarchy", one character joins a protest group and holds up a blank sign. He intends this as a sociological experiment to see what people read into the sign; the protesters see him as [[Take That|mocking them and their cause]]
== [[Live Action Television]] ==
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Cartman: ''reading'' Bush is a [[Godwin's Law|nayzzi]]! }}
* One episode of ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'' started off with Johnny at a war protest. He was yelling, "I love pie! I love pie!", and holding a sign saying as much.
* An example from ''[[The Simpsons]]''
* Happened in [[Futurama]] with Leela and a group of protestors protesting against a Dark Matter oil rig flying too close to a penguin preserve on Pluto. The sign messages included:
{{quote|''Give A Hooto, Don't Pollute Pluto!''
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