Lots of one-horse provincial backwaters can boast a “legendary local baker.” But how many local bakers were formerly biology teachers? See? Another feather in Ann Arbor’s proverbial cap!
I am so glad I am not the only person who thought that. I drove past the sign on Huron, and I didn’t see the words or the cup first, I just thought, “Why are there 3′ sperm on that sign…. oh, it’s supposed to be steam coming out of a cup. How can they have not noticed…”
Then OF COURSE I had the juvenile inclination to climb up and paint little smily faces on them. Good thing I’m so old and frail.
Erin, Dylan: don’t you think the designers achieved exactly what they wanted? Of course it’s supposed to look both like spoons wiggling towards a coffee cup and sperm swimming towards and egg. That’s the kind of attraction and allure their coffee has, get it?
Item! The logo for Real Estate One looks kind of phallic, or maybe I’m just repressed!
posted by George on December 16th, 2004 at 3:19 pmThere’s an ERC ad of the same type on Stadium - and I, too, thought it was sperm collecting around the ERC logo ‘egg’.
Re: Real Estate One, I guess I can see it, but the ERC ad is much more… explicit, shall we say?
posted by KGS on December 16th, 2004 at 3:36 pmGeorge - heh! I admit I haven’t seen the sign in question, so maybe it is worthy of mention in the News.
posted by ann arbor is overrated on December 16th, 2004 at 3:47 pmLots of one-horse provincial backwaters can boast a “legendary local baker.” But how many local bakers were formerly biology teachers? See? Another feather in Ann Arbor’s proverbial cap!
posted by Boris on December 16th, 2004 at 4:34 pmFertile grounds for speculation.
posted by Laura on December 16th, 2004 at 7:02 pmThis just confirms my long-held theory that all Biology teachers and bakers are perverts.
posted by Arab Guy on December 16th, 2004 at 7:07 pmI am so glad I am not the only person who thought that. I drove past the sign on Huron, and I didn’t see the words or the cup first, I just thought, “Why are there 3′ sperm on that sign…. oh, it’s supposed to be steam coming out of a cup. How can they have not noticed…”
Then OF COURSE I had the juvenile inclination to climb up and paint little smily faces on them. Good thing I’m so old and frail.
posted by Erin on December 16th, 2004 at 9:15 pmis there anybody who didn’t think that the first time they drove by? don’t they have an approval process for billboards?
posted by dylan on December 17th, 2004 at 1:34 amErin, Dylan: don’t you think the designers achieved exactly what they wanted? Of course it’s supposed to look both like spoons wiggling towards a coffee cup and sperm swimming towards and egg. That’s the kind of attraction and allure their coffee has, get it?
posted by Chris on December 17th, 2004 at 3:13 pmYeah, but sperm swimming in coffee is not an effective advertising image.
posted by Lehigh Valley Refugee on December 17th, 2004 at 3:33 pmWell, someone thought it was a seminal idea.
posted by Laura on December 17th, 2004 at 9:35 pmLaura, that remark deserves a standing ova-tion.
posted by Brandon on December 17th, 2004 at 10:24 pm(furiously tries, for 15 minutes, to make a pun on “blastocyst,” fails miserably, tips hat to punmeister Brandon).
posted by Laura on December 19th, 2004 at 2:57 amHello folks nice blog youre running
posted by lolita on January 19th, 2005 at 8:55 pm