This is an actual logo designed in 1973 for the Catholic Church’s Archdiocesan Youth Commission.
In fact, it won an award from the Art Directors Club of Los Angeles and is shown in the 1974 ADLA Awards Annual.
It can also be found in the Design Archives of AIGA, “the professional association for design.” We know it looks like a sick joke, but you can see it here for yourself.
We know the 70s were simpler times, gentler times, more innocent times. But for God’s sake, man, did no one in the Archdiocesan Youth Commission see anything wrong with this design? No one?
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This is sooo bad, funny, but bad.
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I can’t see it
. Is that white circle supposed to be a testicle or something? Is it a slight against that American who won the Grand French Bicycle thing, since it’s only one circle?
What am I missing?
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The head can represent the head of a kid doing blowjob … there’s many other logo of that kind .
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Hahahahahaha! If I wasn’t laughing, I’d be crying!!!
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Well,I guess it’s kind of like a Rorshach ink blot…you see what you want to see….but if I was a Catholic altar boy,and I saw this logo,I’d run like hell
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Testicle in a Y shaped cup? Seriously, I’m missing the humor in this image, and I HATE THAT! Someone please clue me in.
Maybe the white circle is a penis as viewed from the front?
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Fwahahah! Maybe the approval committee were all newbie priests … or women?
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no, the boy is viewed from behind and is giving the priest a blo*job
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You must be European, first thing see is a boy blowing a priest.
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Oh DeanH, you just made me blow coffee out my nose. Fabulous response – only wish I had thought of it first! LOL!
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HI
Is the fact to be american or european really important here ?
I’m french and I hope all free minds from the whole world, from EU as from USA, will be able to feel the same in front of such an injurious logo.
Our church is offending our youth because the pope denies most cases of pedophily acts done by priests. These priests are lways protected and their maximum penitence is to move to another city and continue, just in order to break the protestations. None of them was signaled to authorities by the catholic church … NEVER !
So men, don’t you think we have more to say than your stupid “US vs EU” Appartheid ?
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Well, auto, I believe that the previous exchange was just a little bit of giving back as good as you get it.
This logo is an ink blot test for dirty minds. Back in the 70′s, it was clearly a simpler time, and nobody thought much of it — unlike the London 2012 Olympics logo, which, after they were *told* it looks like Lisa Simpson engaging in a little fellatio, was STILL plastered all over England. Something about hard-headed numbskulls comes to mind there.
There’s nothing funny about the pedophilia issue, but that isn’t and shouldn’t be an indication that everything the RC church does is somehow wrong.
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Nearly two years later and here I am with an updated screen name and absolutely no recollection of this post I made. Perlcat has explained it to precision. Autowash, welcome to this board. It would be good to have a regular visitor from the continent who, like you it seems, has no desire to cast aspersion or insults. We hope for freedom for all people except those supporting oppression of others. My father flew B17s over France to lift the oppression of the nazi bastards from Europe and my beliefs are the same as his were.
Regarding the Catholic church, they have certainly been the brunt of an overwhelming amount of attention. I was raised Catholic and was not a victim of the bad sorts that cause the church all their trouble, but do know some people that were.
Again, we appreciate the view of anyone wishing reasonable discourse and while we do not give any quarter to those who offend, sometimes our humor might cross into a base sort that could be misconstrued. Please take no offense unless you dished some first.
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Omagad, I see little child su***ng ***k
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HAH! Ok, I see it now
. Thanks for clueing me in.
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LOL.
Prophetic?
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Second look at Sinead O’Connor!
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This is why the Catholic church has problems now. In the 70s, they were using a logo only pedophiles would find attractive. Look at their workforce now.
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Oh, that is sad and terribly funny. I do want to say I still belonged to the church until 1970 and I even worked as a maid and cook at an abbey and saw nothing inappropriate or sordid, nor heard rumors. Heck, the abuses I saw were just plain human nature – people with power using it unkindly.
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Could you guys who like this site, and this story, kindly do us a small favor? Well, the chief Editor here actually was the one who discovered this long lost logo a few days ago. And the story has been popular. So popular that others are of course grabbing the image and blogging on it. But it was a bit disheartening today to see on Andrew Sullivan’s blog, that he just posted it I think yesterday and already has around 700 Diggs. He didn’t do anything wrong, he credited the site he found it on, who had likely found it on ours and did not follow proper etiquette and credit us. We’re emailing Andrew now to ask if he can change his credit link. But, in the meantime, can you do your IHTM buddies a favor? Can you click the Digg Button at the top of the article to Digg ours so we aren’t completely run over by the massive traffic on Andrew’s piece on The Atlantic’s website?
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Strike that 700 Diggs from 27 minutes ago. Make that 1500 Diggs now. (:
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You gotta be f*cking me!
Rah! Got it? It’s a joke! Fo real.
Better than the obvious one: “this logo sucks”
Sigh…
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Is that a tripod?
Are all these hits coming from Vatican IP’s or Gehenna IP’s?
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My Dad told me this story from his childhood… He asked permission to become an altar boy. My grandfather told him no. When my dad asked why, he was told something to the effect of, “you’re too young to understand, but you’ll thank me later.”
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oh god, i lol’ed
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aiga link is now this: http://designarchives.ws1.hq.aiga.org/entry.cfm/eid_9051
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When you posed for this artist, which one were you?
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Hilarious, FormerlyDean. An early contender for funniest comment of the day.
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Thanks! It is an honor just to get the nomination!
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twitchy mitch! Sneaking in on your belly again! Good to wipe my shoes on your spooged face again. You stink of rotting mackerel, as usual, you cont.
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The imaginary oral sex he just got from fantasizing about this logo is the best he’s ever had. Well, other than from his blow-up doll. Even he resists sometimes.
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cont, think? No, you stink. Logic is well outside the purview of stinking liberal liars such as yourself, cont.
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***None of them have ever gotten any kind of education. None of them tested things for themselves! What does liberal mean anyway!***
Couldn’t have said it better myself
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This little sh1t needs a kick in the b@lls. At least Princess Bedpan is marginally entertaining.
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cont has no ball other than the single hard turd that has grown round rolling about her cranium.
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good bye stink cont.
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