{"id":5545,"date":"2007-06-05T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T07:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2007-06-05T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T07:57:00","slug":"worst-logo-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/worst-logo-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst logo ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wrap-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/uploads\/images\/2012-olympic-logo.gif\" alt=\"image\" width=\"329\" height=\"365\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sigh. Isn&#8217;t the logo above, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/latest.cfm?id=874402007\" title=\"London unveils its 2012 Olympics logo\">unveiled recently<\/a> for the 2012 Olympics, in a class of its own for badness? Have the gentlemen who selected this design never heard of the virtues of simplicity? How they must all hate <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swoosh\" title=\"Swoosh -- Wikipedia\">the Swoosh<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And can you believe they paid &#163;400,000 for this? (That&#8217;s about Rs 3.2 crore.) Pestilential parakeets plunder.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspisdrift.com\/\" title=\"Aspi Havewala\">Aspi Havewala<\/a>, who also points me to a discussion on BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/sporteditors\/2007\/06\/new_2012_logo_sparks_big_backl.html\" title=\"New 2012 logo sparks huge response\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: Anon Tipster points me to <a href=\"http:\/\/timworstall.typepad.com\/timworstall\/2007\/06\/lisa_simpson_gi.html\" title=\"Lisa Simpson Giving a Blow Job -- Tim Worstall\">Tim Worstall&#8217;s revelation<\/a> that the logo shows Lisa Simpson giving a blow job. The two gifs below, <a href=\"http:\/\/theospark.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/london-olympics-logo.html\" title=\"The London Olympics logo&#8230; -- Theo Spark\">created by Theo Spark<\/a>, illustrate that and go a bit further. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wrap-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i184.photobucket.com\/albums\/x41\/theospark\/london-copy.gif\"  alt='london-copy.gif' \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wrap-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i184.photobucket.com\/albums\/x41\/theospark\/Olympics2.gif\"  alt='Olympics2.gif' \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now I like it!<\/p>\n<p><b>Update 2<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/scribbler.in\/\" title=\"Scribbler\">Scribbler<\/a> points me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/06\/04\/bbc_olympics_cx\/\" title=\"No goat sex at the Olympics, rules BBC\">Andrew Orlowski&#8217;s post<\/a> on how the BBC, showcasing user-generated logos, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Bbc-goatse-olympics.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Worst logo ever\" title=\"Alternative Olympic logo\">ran a parody<\/a> of the infamous <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goatse.cx\" title=\"Goatse -- Wikipedia\">Goatse<\/a> on their website. Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh. Isn&#8217;t the logo above, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/latest.cfm?id=874402007\" title=\"London unveils its 2012 Olympics logo\">unveiled recently<\/a> for the 2012 Olympics, in a class of its own for badness? Have the gentlemen who selected this design never heard of the virtues of simplicity? How they must all hate <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swoosh\" title=\"Swoosh -- Wikipedia\">the Swoosh<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And can you believe they paid &#163;400,000 for this? (That&#8217;s about Rs 3.2 crore.) Pestilential parakeets plunder.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspisdrift.com\/\" title=\"Aspi Havewala\">Aspi Havewala<\/a>, who also points me to a discussion on BBC here.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,10,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Worst logo ever - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/worst-logo-ever\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Worst logo ever - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sigh. 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