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20 July 2006
Has anyone ever looked closely at the Toastmasters' Logo?
GOML - it's an unintentional goatse. Knave, you should submit that to BoingBoing, if you don't totally hate them (as seems to be the fashion of late). They love that stuff.
The logo resembles the infamous 'goatse', which is a photograph of a man using both hands to stretch his anus about 4" wide. Trust me on this, you do not want to see it.
It's become a kind of internet legend, and it's sort of fun to point out things that resemble goatse, whether deliberate or accidental. So any circular object with hands on either side is fair game.
In addition, people who know about goatse try to sneak the imagery into mainstream media to give those in the know a laugh.
Ok, When I first saw the logo, with no former knowledge of goatse, other than having "heard" it mentioned on Mefi, I thought the hammer part of the gavel looked liked knuckles. Ok, so I wasn't too far off. Wikipedia was helpful, but I'll pass on seeing the actual picture though.
Actually, I have seen that before. If you go to the "Unfortunate appearances" of the goatse tribute site (nsfw duh) you'll see a bunch of logos like that.
photo by splunge
photo by TheophileEscargot
photo by Kronos_to_Earth
photo by ethylene
