GrodsCorp

Rejected corporate logos

Tuesday 13 May 2008, 4:21 pm

The Editor

Categories: Corporate stupidity

Tags: logo, masturbation, UK

The Editor notes: Just like John West is best because of what it rejects, GrodsCorp is lowest in brow because of what other blogs reject. Welcome to Bruce for this special guest post.
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Owing to the fact that I don’t want to denigrate either my own blog nor the discussion list from whence this material came, I’m handing this one off to Grods and I won’t cite those responsible for its inception.

If you want to impute me personally, go ahead; smear me with guilt through association with this Grods lot, just don’t smear me with feces.

Apparently the UK’s Department of Government Commerce (a branch of the UK Treasury) was considering a particular revamp of their logo. Unfortunately, they’ve had to change their plans due to what I think is a disclosure of sorts. A bit like a Freudian slip.

I’ve said for a long time now that accountants use their personalities as a contraceptive and we all know that “Merchant Banker” is only one letter from “Merchant Wanker”. They are a pervy but lonesome lot.

Now we have the proof…

Exhibit A - The logo in question

Exhibit B - Rotate the logo 90 degrees

Exhibit C - Wait a sec for the happy ending

I’m guessing the Fleshlight edition wasn’t kinky enough for them.

14 Comments

Jeremy (Tuesday 13 May 2008, 4:35 pm) #

That’s like the logo legal aid used to have, which was a circle over a stylised curvy z shape, meant to signify a person with hands outstretched or something.

Only rotate it 90 degrees and it read “NO”.

They’ve changed it to a square inside a circle, now, which is meant to signify finding solutions for “square pegs” even in “round holes”, although what that says to me is “no matter what your shape, we’ll be jamming you through this round hole we already prepared”, which is, I think, an unfortunate message.
Bron (Tuesday 13 May 2008, 4:44 pm) #

Oh dear. Can’t comment. Laughing.
Keri (Tuesday 13 May 2008, 4:48 pm) #

Seriously, is there a line that even Grods won’t cross?
John Surname (Tuesday 13 May 2008, 4:53 pm) #

Incest.

…oh wait…
Bruce (Tuesday 13 May 2008, 4:54 pm) #

Even more unfortunate than me calling the “Office of Government Commerce” the “Department of Government Commerce”.

Actually, I can relate to the dubious message being sent by legal aid.

A number of years ago, I went to legal aid for advice on a cop who held a gun in my face (who had no intent to arrest me or grounds to or even the vague appearance of grounds to). Person from legal aid went AWOL on the meeting and I got no answers as to why.

That was after Police Complaints didn’t acknowledge my complaint and before the Ombudsman was over a month late in responding to my complaint to them about the Police Complaints Authority being tardy about responding to their complaints.

All which was capped off with the PCA, after being contacted by the ombudsman, giving a demonstrably bogus account of why they didn’t contact me in the first place, based on a supposed misspelling of an email address that I didn’t initially give them to contact me, but rather one from a much later communication (where I asked the PCA to please respond) that didn’t match the date.

I can sympathise with those pushed through very narrow squares.

Unless they can pick up their acts (and get some decent support in the case of legal aid), they all need their respective offices and departments merged and given the mother of all wank logos.
xander (Tuesday 13 May 2008, 5:14 pm) #

amazing!
benji (Tuesday 13 May 2008, 5:14 pm) #

ah ha ha ha ha ha
Bridgit Gread (Tuesday 13 May 2008, 5:35 pm) #

That reminds me of the war memorial in the centre of Warrnambool, Vic. It’s an angel holding a laurel wreath and when viewed from side-on looks like this.
Chuck A. Spear (Tuesday 13 May 2008, 5:47 pm) #

Jeremy, look out your window. Can you see the Angel with the Fleshlight?
Bridgit Gread (Tuesday 13 May 2008, 5:50 pm) #

The Blessed Lady of the Polymer Sleeve
Jeremy (Tuesday 13 May 2008, 5:53 pm) #

I’ll have a look, Chuck & Bridgit.
philip travers (Tuesday 13 May 2008, 8:14 pm) #

The symbol presented last looked like the supposed British humour.A dunny ,a modern dunny with the lid ready to be secured.Bruce’s take meant he was off the subject,and nearly in it.
Bruce (Tuesday 13 May 2008, 8:31 pm) #

The symbol presented last looked like the supposed British humour.

Ever taken an ink blot test Philip? I’d be curious to see the things you see.
Wah (Tuesday 13 May 2008, 9:32 pm) #

Fantastic, that didn’t even need the extra artwork to be so obvious.