Many people who used to brandish their celeb weekly as a badge of good-humoured ordinariness are now too ashamed to do so.
A trade mark is a badge of origin of goods or services and is usually a name, logo or strap line (although there are cases of shapes or sounds being registered as trade marks).
Aaron Roman Weiner, who was recently seen Off Broadway as the likable ex-boyfriend in the LAByrinth Theater Company's "Thinner Than Water," plays Denny, a family man who considers his household's several large television sets badges of the good life.
It felt as if my wedding ring was a hurdle I had to clear to prove my commitment to academia, while Brendon's was a badge of stability and good-guy gravitas.
But examining America's badge of slavery is a good place to start.
When I was in school it was a badge of honor to get good grades.
The moms embrace frugality as the opposite of consumerism, a badge of their intelligence and good values.
Liberal interventionist had become the proud badge of a generation discovering the good war.
Fifa has become a badge of shame for the many good staff who work there.
On Wednesdays at the Grisly Pear, Sheriff Uncle Bob Robert Saidenbergg, or the Sheriff of Good Times, according to his badge) runs a bluegrass and old-time night.
