View Full Version : Olympic Logo Flap
Ksyrup
06-07-2007, 07:36 AM
Being the huge Olympics fan that I am ( ;) ), I have taken an interest in the flap over the recently unveiled London 2012 logo:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/43012000/jpg/_43012939_olympic_pink.jpg
Some comments: Conservative MP Philip Davies described the design as "childish and ridiculous" and "a pathetic attempt to appear trendy". Labour MP Stephen Pound said the emblem should be replaced after complaints it had led to epileptic seizures.
And one site had a few nicknames for the logo, including Gay Swastika Puzzle and Lisa Simpson Giving Head (cue Nelson: Ha Ha!).
So, I guess the BBC had a competition to suggest alternatives to the logo, and this one somehow made it through and was shown on TV, I believe. It has since been pulled, although as one site suggested, "It's actually not a bad choice, given that hosting an Olympics games is an experience much like being sodomized by a battering ram."
WARNING - there's nothing wrong with what's below, but no one how doesn't know what this is based on should go looking for the real thing - WARNING
http://craphound.com/images/goatseolympics.jpg
Sean Stayte: "Here is my design for the Olympic logo. It is very simple and so memorable. The hands represent Britain pulling together to reveal the Olympics."
Celeval
06-07-2007, 08:09 AM
The Sun newspaper also did examples, including one by a trained monkey.
Toddzilla
06-07-2007, 08:13 AM
That alternate logo is the greatest olympic logo in the history of the universe
Critch
06-07-2007, 08:13 AM
So, I guess the BBC had a competition to suggest alternatives to the logo, and this one somehow made it through and was shown on TV, I believe.
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/9238/530088950b0d4f91765osz2.jpg
Can't tell if that's real or photoshopped.
Ksyrup
06-07-2007, 08:16 AM
No, I believe there are clips of it being aired on youtube.com.
Fidatelo
06-07-2007, 08:16 AM
I kind of like the official one.
Passacaglia
06-07-2007, 09:09 AM
The Sun newspaper also did examples, including one by a trained monkey.
Ping: Karl Pilkington
Yellow5
06-07-2007, 09:15 AM
Here is the clip
hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsNqA6fbwR8
Logan
06-07-2007, 09:43 AM
I kind of like the official one.
You would, you puzzle-loving gay Nazi.
:)
Ksyrup
06-07-2007, 09:47 AM
Actually, I think he's a Simpson's fan.
MikeVic
06-07-2007, 10:08 AM
Lisa Simpson Giving Head (cue Nelson: Ha Ha!).
Now that's funny!!
RendeR
06-07-2007, 10:26 AM
http://craphound.com/images/goatseolympics.jpg
Sean Stayte: "Here is my design for the Olympic logo. it is very simple and so easy to see. The hands represent London pulling its asscheeks apart so the Olympic committee can ram the city of London and the Entire British nation right up the ass."
Fixed.
Fidatelo
06-07-2007, 10:36 AM
You would, you puzzle-loving gay Nazi.
:)
Someone should make a movie about the life of a puzzle-loving gay Nazi and how he gets through life. Maybe he befriends a handsome young Jewish man that excels in the art of handcrafting superb wooden jigsaw puzzles. I think it would be fascinating.
Ksyrup
06-07-2007, 10:40 AM
Someone should make a movie about the life of a puzzle-loving gay Nazi and how he gets through life. Maybe he befriends a handsome young Jewish man that excels in the art of handcrafting superb wooden jigsaw puzzles. I think it would be fascinating.
Let's get Izulde right on this.
Toddzilla
06-07-2007, 11:15 AM
Sean Stayte: "Here is my design for the Olympic logo. it is very simple and so easy to see. The hands represent London pulling its asscheeks apart so the Olympic committee can ram the city of London and the Entire British nation right up the ass."RIP subtlety
RendeR
06-07-2007, 04:26 PM
RIP subtlety
I only posted that in passing and didn't read thoroughly..What'd I miss and how rediculously did I miss it? =)
Honolulu_Blue
06-07-2007, 04:37 PM
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/43012000/jpg/_43012939_olympic_pink.jpg
Lisa Simpson Giving Head (cue Nelson: Ha Ha!).
I find this to be the most accurate description of this logo. It's really bad.
JeeberD
06-08-2007, 11:24 AM
I only posted that in passing and didn't read thoroughly..What'd I miss and how rediculously did I miss it? =)
One word: goatse
Google it at your own risk.
RendeR
06-08-2007, 12:55 PM
One word: goatse
Google it at your own risk.
I will NOT fall victim to THAt little trick again!
MUhahahahaha
One word: tubgirl.
Google it at your own risk.
Fixed.
sterlingice
06-09-2007, 02:42 PM
I just don't see what's so awful about it. I mean, it's not really good but marketing is so hit and miss that I don't see what's so bad about it.
SI
JediKooter
06-10-2007, 06:26 PM
That logo would have been good, say around 1985ish...
ThunderingHERD
06-10-2007, 06:31 PM
Very bad design. Not pleasant to look at, plus it took me like 5 minutes to figure out what it was actually supposed to be (am I alone on that?).
Logan
06-10-2007, 06:38 PM
Well, that's Lisa's head in the upper right, her bent knees on the bottom right, and right in the middle, going into her mouth...
Very bad design. Not pleasant to look at, plus it took me like 5 minutes to figure out what it was actually supposed to be (am I alone on that?).
Umm.
It's supposed to be something? I mean, really, not Lisa-swallowing-Nelson's-DNA, but something pertaining to London and/or the Olympics?
:confused:
I don't see it.
JeeberD
06-11-2007, 05:35 AM
Umm.
It's supposed to be something? I mean, really, not Lisa-swallowing-Nelson's-DNA, but something pertaining to London and/or the Olympics?
:confused:
I don't see it.
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JasonC23
06-11-2007, 12:14 PM
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I wouldn't have noticed that in a million years if you hadn't pointed it out.
ThunderingHERD
06-11-2007, 12:17 PM
I wouldn't have noticed that in a million years if you hadn't pointed it out.
I didn't realize it until I saw the goatse version where you can clearly make out the 2012.
ThunderingHERD
06-11-2007, 12:23 PM
I didn't realize it until I saw the goatse version where you can clearly make out the 2012.
I originally thought it was some terrible geometric abstraction of eurasia--kinda looks like England in the corner.
I wouldn't have noticed that in a million years if you hadn't pointed it out.
+1
Critch
06-14-2007, 12:07 PM
hxxp://img9.imagepile.net/img9/12224olympicgschpunken.gif
Possibly NSFW, I guess. A real RIP for subtlety.
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