Comments on: Is that a logo in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

Is that a logo in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

alms — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:56:10 -0800

Lest we think the London Olympics are unique in their remarkable bad taste, oddee.com brings us some of the most unfortunate logos ever.

By: wendell

wendell — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:04:48 -0800

Most of those (and some that are even EEK-ier) have already been covered by MetaFilter's Own dabitch in her AdLand site.

By: pruner

pruner — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:15:46 -0800

previously (The Phallic Logo Awards)... some logos are duped here.

By: rob511

rob511 — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:23:37 -0800

Hospital for Special Surgery, hmmmm?

By: empath

empath — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:27:31 -0800

Another one The arlington pediatric one is still up. I drive past it all the time.

By: tula

tula — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:29:21 -0800

I'm getting sex ads on this very thin site linked from--how bout a nsfw warning? Oh, and very meh.

By: dilettante

dilettante — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:04:09 -0800

That jazz dancing one can't have been an accident.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:40:24 -0800

How unexpected! Thanks to the advertisement featured so prominently on the linked page, I am now aware that there are a number of scantily-clad, non-Asian ladies right here in my own little corner of Tokyo! It's not a part of town noted for a very high percentage of foreigners, so imagine my surprise! And apparently they're just dying to meet me! Thanks so much for the post!

By: L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg

L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:10:00 -0800

As much as I hate admitting I don't get a joke, what's the problem with the Hospital for Special Surgery one? With a little work I can see it at a one-armed man with a huge penis who has for some reason braced one of his legs against a wall, is that it?

By: hydrophonic

hydrophonic — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:32:00 -0800

Arby's. I never really saw it that way until I saw the ad where the constructions workers sexually harass the guy in the suit. It's a dick-shaped neon halo that appears when you're horny. youtube's got the whole thing.

By: Sangermaine

Sangermaine — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:09:15 -0800

L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg, I think what you're supposed to see is a child sitting on a bench with a man with an erection standing in front of him.

By: Riki tiki

Riki tiki — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 01:07:01 -0800

Sangermaine: the Hospital for Special Surgery logo is the one below the corresponding text.

By: dabitch

dabitch — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:52:38 -0800

Really? The hospital for Special Surgery logo requires a whole 'nother level of dirty mind - and I thought I was good at this, wendell even told me so. On the other hand you just have to be childish to laugh at brand names like the poo tofu-stick ;)

By: katillathehun

katillathehun — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 11:26:37 -0800

I read some commentary about the Special Surgery logo on a design blog somewhere a long time ago, completely separate from any of the above links. Their thoughts were that it looked like "special surgery" might leave their patients ending up with all their limbs on the wrong side of their body. So, it's not necessarily perverse, just unfortunate.