whoa I never noticed the bees on the Lyle's logo. and I was puzzled because we used to eat the Lyle's treacle cake as a weekend treat for a while when I was a kid, and how could I not have noticed? but apparently they're not on the cake packaging:http://www.gummibako.com/gallery/d/202-1/syrup_cake.jpg
did Mr McVitie say "we're not making your cake unless we can airbrush these sodding insects out of the logo"?
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 10 May 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
"when you want sweet, delicious flavor, just remember to look for the brand with the dead cat and a cloud of buzzing insects!"
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
xp to Marlboros picture - hanging black men and the jew what? are those meant to be legs? why would the jew(?) have legs shaped sort of like an M? this hurts my brain
amazed by most of this in thread; had only really noticed the FedEx arrow. I have one to share! Two smilie faces, not just one:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a2/Goodwill_Industries_Logo.svg/182px-Goodwill_Industries_Logo.svg.png
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 10 May 2012 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
super impressed by the Spartan golf club logo right now
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 10 May 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i looked at it for a full minute while it was slowly revealed to me
― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Thursday, 10 May 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.soultsretailview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/whsmith_redcar_graham_soult.jpgIt was ages before I figured out that each side of the cube spelled out the company name.
― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
the head within the head is a TEMPLE do u see xp
― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Thursday, 10 May 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
I saw the Spartan one right away but I can only see on smilie face in FFM's pic. I'm sat here squinting my eyes and tilting my head and everything!
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 10 May 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
the g in goodwill
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 May 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
The 'jew' there is the letters mar upside down I guess - no idea about the black man.
WMSMITH - I can see the M/I/H - what's the T?
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 10 May 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
Hah, I was thinking that the other smiley face was the first one, but the top left corner was the nose, like it was in profile.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 10 May 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
Amazed by many of these logos, but esp. FedEx arrow. So elegant. There's a brief interview with the designer here: http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000273.php.One other thing about the logo: the bottom of "ed" in Fed falls ever so slightly below the writing line. Wheels of a truck? Or am I making stuff up now I can't look at logos in a normal way any longer..?
― willem, Thursday, 10 May 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
I can see it now. YAY!
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 10 May 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
yeah the big smilie face is just a big version of the same g!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 10 May 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
that spartan golf logo is genius
― goole, Thursday, 10 May 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
and yes idgi the lyle's logo. bees eating a dead lion? that's not a trick of the eye it's just fucked up
Wish there was a 'bees eating a dead lion' exhibit at the zoo.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 10 May 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
I always thought that the bees were building a nest inside the dead lion?
― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:28 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
omg!
― mizzell, Thursday, 10 May 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
maybe it's like those parasites that control animals, and the bees turn the lion into a puppet and it's like a zombie bee-filled lion
how could would THAT be
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 May 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLCZjw2FXPE
dogs lions
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 10 May 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
that spartan golf course one is amazing
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 10 May 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
And then you break open the bee controlled zombie lion like a pinata and golden syrup comes out?
― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
Because I think that's what JFK really wanted NASA to work on, but he settled for telling them to go to the moon instead.
― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
the only thing cooler than a zombie lion bee golden syrup pinata is the moon, tbh
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 May 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
i never noticed the 31 in the BR before. That explains why that logo always makes my head hurt though.
― Scott, bass player for Tenth Avenue North (Hurting 2), Thursday, 10 May 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
xp If it was a zombie bee golden syrup pinata moon, then I'd agree with you.
― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
idk a decomposing lion swarmed with bees sounds like a fitting emblem for a product called 'treacle'
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 10 May 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
I wish they hadn't shut down the space missions; we could send a bee-filled zombie lion to the moon.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
xp Golden syrup isn't the same as treacle
― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
At least in the colloquial English sense. 'treacle' usually refers to black treacle.
― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
Except when talking about 'treacle tart', which is usually made with golden syrup.
― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
mmm treacle tart
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
is treacle delicious? i hope it doesn't taste like meat bees.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
treacle tastes like delicious, not at all like meat bees
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
Treacle sponge is also golden syrup iirc. And my parents called the golden syrup cake "treacle cake" but 1. Google is not backing me up there 2. apparently there is also a McVitie's / Lyle's black treacle cake which I have never seen in the shops and now want to try.
(Even though there is currently a cake turning to cardboard in my fridge after we ate about 2 slices each, because we are not big cake eaters. Not that you'd know it to look at me)
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
we need to get back to talking about signs before I start waxing lyrical about golden syrup DUMPLINGS!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
Always called this 'golden syrup sponge'http://www.deliaonline.com/Images/xlarge/ma009-steamed-treacle-spon2-18791.jpg
― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
In 1982 necrophage bees were discovered--bees that feed on carrion. But they don't make honey in carcasses. They spit on the rotting meat and then slurp up the broken-down protein slurry and bring it back to the hive where it's partially digested again and deposited in little containers to feed the larvae.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VyLSuy6fSAU/TIbzgLLDQPI/AAAAAAAAAHo/-V8nV1QiJgo/s1600/IMG_0001.JPG
Pour that over your sponge cake.
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
Stop trying to kill my treacle buzz...
― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
this thread suddenly went from awesome to disgusting
― Moodles, Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
meacle
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
i want to see and misinterpret the logo of a fitness drink called 'protein slurry', please provide.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Protein_slurry_pack
Protein slurry packs are canned food consumed by terrans. It appears that their taste leaves something to be desired.
― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
we get 'meat bees' on the back patio at work - they're attracted to food and they're kind of weird and gross
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/SurreyCC.pngIt took me years to figure out that this logo was supposed to be two interlocking oak leaves.
― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
ha i just gis'd a bunch of protein shakes and all the logos for that stuff are decidedly straightforward
― goole, Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
wonder if the fedex logo designer(s) were ever tempted by:
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/fedexlogo.jpg
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
The logo of the BBC Computer Literacy Project...http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/BBC_owl.svg/200px-BBC_owl.svg.pngFor a while I thought it was a movie camera, but it's supposed to be an owl.
― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
xp that kind of reads 'FedFux'
― banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link