06-05-2007, 08:24 PM
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Originally Posted by lefty_monster  *scrolls back up to logo, crosses eyes and leans waaaaaay back in chair* omygosh! It IS numbers!
The sad thing is, you need someone to TELL you that they're numbers before you can see them. | Yeah that happened to me too and I imagine it will to many others.
I dont really like it. The colors are too bright.
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06-05-2007, 09:18 PM
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| It wasn't till I read some of the replies to the same thread on the British forum that I figured out what it was, having only looked briefly at the monstrosity, sorry, logo. The general consensus over on that forum is that Lisa Simpson isn't very innocent any more.... 
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06-05-2007, 10:07 PM
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| Maybe Barbie helped make it. All that pink. . . somehow it doesn't seem to go with hard work and pain and sweat.
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06-05-2007, 10:15 PM
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| Heh, found while cruising LJ... looks like somebody else isn't too happy about it either. | |
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06-06-2007, 09:35 AM
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#25 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Inquartata But The Tick is blue, not pink! | Not in the face!! | |
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06-06-2007, 12:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Phaeton The colors...burn my eyes! | Quote:
Originally Posted by Coldfire I dont really like it. The colors are too bright. | Well... Quote:
LONDON (Reuters) - Animated footage promoting the logo for the 2012 London Olympic Games was removed from the organizers' Web site on Tuesday amid concern it could trigger epileptic fits.
The video clip shows a diver plunging into a pool as part of a campaign to promote the jagged Olympic logo, a graffiti-like blow-up of the number 2012 in a range of colors including hot pink and electric blue.
A London 2012 spokeswoman said the concerns surrounded a four-second piece of animation shown at the logo's launch on Monday and recorded by broadcasters... The clip's removal follows comments by Professor Graham Harding, an expert in clinical neuro-physiology who developed a test used to measure photo-sensitivity levels in animated TV material.
"The logo should not be shown on TV at all at the moment," Harding told the BBC. "It fails Harding FPA machine test which is the machine the television industry uses to test images."
He said the footage did not comply with regulatory guidelines.
Charity Epilepsy Action noted there had been reports that people had had seizures while watching the animated footage.
The BBC reported on its Web site that a listener had rung its London radio station to say he and his girlfriend had suffered seizures while watching it.
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06-06-2007, 04:27 PM
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#27 | | Just Joined
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| the lash?
Hey Jeff
What's "the lash"? in the Churchill quote?
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06-06-2007, 05:11 PM
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#28 | | Scrub
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Originally Posted by marge Hey Jeff
What's "the lash"? in the Churchill quote? | A whip (or maybe a cat o' nine tails); the judicious administration of flogging. | |
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06-06-2007, 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by HDG A whip (or maybe a cat o' nine tails); the judicious administration of flogging. | Quoting from Pirates of Penzance: "They're right, it was the cat! "
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06-07-2007, 07:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Qbranch Not so! There were others before Izzy:
Waldi (Munich 1972)
Amik (Montreal 1976)
Misha (Moscow 1980)
Sam (Los Angeles 1980)
Hodori (1988 Seoul)
Cobi (1992)
I didn't know about Fatso before your post but what a great mascot! I wonder what unofficial character would be most fitting for London? | Jack the Ripper perhaps?
That is one bright logo.
Perhaps the gray foggy climate tones it down a bit,
but here in California it is blinding. | |
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06-07-2007, 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by D'Art It wasn't till I read some of the replies to the same thread on the British forum that I figured out what it was, having only looked briefly at the monstrosity, sorry, logo. The general consensus over on that forum is that Lisa Simpson isn't very innocent any more.... | Ahhh! I thought I was the only one who was thought that. | |
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06-08-2007, 11:18 AM
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#32 | | Scrub
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Originally Posted by Qbranch I wonder what unofficial character would be most fitting for London? | The yob and the toff. | |
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06-08-2007, 11:25 AM
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| I was thinking The Louweasel. 
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06-08-2007, 11:29 AM
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I'd have to say Mike Myers in the SNL "Hedley & Wyche" skit.
ETA: here's a video. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...eoID=648088736
I ask all the UK members to not beat me up for this.
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