Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Adolescent humor is destroying the corporate world. It seems that infantile minds can find fault with every brand name and every corporate logo, and all too often it can spell disaster for a company both in revenue and reputation.

The Business Media In Education Initiative got in a pile of trouble after unveiling their new corporate logo:


They spent a fortune rebranding themselves with this perfectly proper design, but still the inevitable occurred. The logo was discarded and the company publicly shamed after some potty-minded prude pointed out that hidden in this haphazard assemblage of letters is the unmistakable image of a lobster inappropriately touching a two-dicked man.

In England, the Office of Government Commerce had to scrap the logo they'd spent a small fortune on:


It's crisp. It's clean. It's unobtrusive. But after they slapped it on the side of their building, people literally fainted dead away in the street. "Ohmigod!" they screamed. "If you tilt your head to the left, it looks like a snowman jerking off!"

The immediate public outcry resulted in the sign being yanked off the building and the logo being trashed, even before the Society Against the Sexual Exploitation of Snowpersons got involved.

There are many, many more examples of this madness, and added together they make us wonder: Do the captains of industry really have to kowtow to a world of sniggering children whose brains see something dirty where no such thing exists? Sadly, the answer is yes. Just this week, the Wisconsin Tourism Federation had to change its name after being made aware that its acronym WTF was crude internet slang.

It seems that the federation didn't realize there was a more common meaning of WTF until it made headlines on a blog that compiles questionable logos. And once again, a company had to pay a small fortune to a fix a nonexistent error.

Henceforth they'll be known as the Office to Mitigate and Facilitate Getaways, but you know some nit-picking granny's going to find fault with that.

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