The GOF (Great Olympic Fiasco) gathers speed on its downhill slide. In fact it rather reminds me of those cheese races they hold in, I think, the Somerset hills where they roll a huge round cheese downhill and various loons chase after it at risk of life and limb. Perhaps they should include it in the Olympics as an official sport, reeking as it would of cheddar and chaos.
Now, for a mere £400k of tax-payers' money (or, my money as I fondly think of it), they have produced a logo which, rather like the famous Rochart test, produced in me an instantaneous re-action - the collar badges of the Waffen-SS. The fact that it was in pink produced further images in my mind which are best left undescribed! I can only assume (and ever-so-slightly hope) that the theme tune for the opening, er, spectacle will be "Spring Time for Hitler In Germany" danced by some suitably exquisite and Aryan-looking young men.
Can't wait!
Additional 6th: Apparently some people are experiencing nausea, headaches and dizziness when viewing this logo - just like me. However, they are epileptics and I'm not, so what's my excuse? I think I'm fixated on the £40o grand!
Also, 'Ratty' can't see any link to the Waffen-SS, so I told him to concentrate on the top left and bottom right shapes and then go here:
My Granddad is furious - he says if he knew then what he knew now, he'd have fought for the Nazis.
Like the SS badge? Really?
Posted by: Flying Rodent | Wednesday, 06 June 2007 at 00:21
Look again, Ratty, at the top left and bottom right, zi-zag shapes. Then look at this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_unit_insignia
And I'm not the only one, I heard some one on the radio describe it as looking like a swastica on speed!
Posted by: David Duff | Wednesday, 06 June 2007 at 09:18
It must be our ages, David. My immediate reaction too was "It's the SS". Vee haff vays of makink you attend zee Games.
Posted by: dearieme | Wednesday, 06 June 2007 at 19:28
I tell you one thing, Dearieme, it would take an SS division to get me to watch a competition designed to test whether our drug addicts can do better than their drug addicts!
Posted by: David Duff | Wednesday, 06 June 2007 at 20:21
[First paragraph deleted by me for the reason that Mr. Bananas makes clear in his second paragraph below. Thankfully, the school bell went so he was unable to write anything further.]
All marketing organisations should have someone with as puerile a mind as mine working for them, and this is why.
Posted by: barry bananas | Thursday, 07 June 2007 at 12:22