“Googe” Is Still Google If You’d Tease Out That Strawberry Stem
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When something so well-loved like Google farts even a few molecules of putrid man-air, the world sniffs it hungrily. So when it somehow “botched” its Valentines logo, almost everybody quickly grabbed their urine-filled water pistols and began sniping at it. No, we’re not joining those bunch of shallow fools. No matter how extremists would insist that this is “Googe” and not at all “Google,” we’re standing by our guns to “protect” a beleaguered company in need of sympathy and insist, like a love-crazed teen heady with his first crush, that Google is Google is Google, and that puny phallic strawberry stem is all that matters. Although they should have made those two o’s to resemble the mammary glands of any of our favorite Hollywood bitches. Scarlett Johannson’s “puppies” might not hurt.
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February 15th, 2007 at 11:23 am
maybe you guys should ask the designer himself
http://wk.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2002/03/22/200203220003.asp
February 15th, 2007 at 11:55 am
hello rock, dennis hwang himself answered this around 8 hours ago on google’s blog, although we presume with tongue playfully in his cheek.
and i quote:
“When you look at the logo, you may worry that we forgot our name overnight, skipped a letter, or have decided that “Googe” has a better ring to it. None of the above. I just know that those with true romance and poetry in their soul will see the subtlety immediately. And if you’re feeling grouchy today, may I suggest eating a strawberry.”
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/strawberries-are-red-stems-are-green.html
that’s pretty naughty; he seems oblivious to the fact that the “oozing with subtlety” logo design was on fire on reddit and tens of thousands of other “very serious” blogs. one naughtier buddy suggested maybe if hwang used an erect dildo to represent the “L”, trying so “hard” to sodomize the “E”, then everybody would have clapped their hands than scratch their hands over hwang’s classy take on subtlety.
anyway, it was a good ride while it lasted.
February 19th, 2007 at 5:51 am
Apparently the Googe he’s referring to is Barnabe Googe, a 16th century English poet whose works can be summarized in this line:
“I did but see her passing by, and yet I love her till I die.”
But I wonder if he’s also familiar with this “Googe” http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=googe