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New GOP 2012 Convention Logo Ignores 47 States (Updated)
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| October 20, 2011
| Abe Sauer
Posted on 10/22/2011 12:39:26 AM PDT by Brandonmark
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To: numberonepal; Popman; aruanan
Image in the city logo bears scant resemblance to the Plant Hall silhouette.
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posted on
10/22/2011 6:47:16 AM PDT
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
To: Brandonmark
The three stars on the flag represent the three states that will be carried by Obama in the 2012 election.
The elephant is lifting it’s head in disgust, and it shows it’s hindquarters to those three states, in a symbolic “What the hell were you thinking” message to the voters in those three states.
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posted on
10/22/2011 6:48:22 AM PDT
by
july4thfreedomfoundation
(Abolish TSA....Abolish Department of Fatherland Security...Just Say NO to the American Police State!)
To: aruanan
Not to belabor a point, but the logo is definitiely an Islamic style top.
Plant Hall’s tower tops do not curve into a point.
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posted on
10/22/2011 6:57:06 AM PDT
by
exit82
(Democrats are the enemies of freedom.)
To: Brandonmark
YUK! That’s the best they could come up with?
Looks like some elite’s kid got icons on line
and dropped them all in a box.
The first one is worse.I don’t like any
‘pointy’ rooftops .
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posted on
10/22/2011 7:15:02 AM PDT
by
TribalPrincess2U
(2012—They vote twice— we'll vote three times.)
To: jocon307
Actually the gay community is represented. When you combine red and white you get pink.
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posted on
10/22/2011 7:25:08 AM PDT
by
tal hajus
("Thank you sir. May I have another?" GOP)
To: exit82; Tainan
Not to belabor a point, but the logo is definitiely an Islamic style top.
Plant Halls tower tops do not curve into a point.
A. Plant Hall is Moorish Revival architecture. The Moors were Muslim.
B. The top part of each tower tapers almost to a point at the bulb and rod holding the crescent (another Muslim symbol) up above it. The logo eliminated the rod and the crescent, so the drawing in the logo was actually less Islamic than the detail of the building it represented. The palm tree, though, looked like three red crescents that were later reproduced as the three stars
Image in the city logo bears scant resemblance to the Plant Hall silhouette.
Ha ha ha. You're really reaching now. The whole point of a logo or an element in a logo is to point out a distinctive feature and only that distinctive feature or it'll get cluttered (and the logo was getting cluttered by putting in too many buildings). The Moorish dome is the most distinctive feature of that building. It's the one people see sticking up into the sky. You may as well say, "Hey, Plant Hall has a bunch of domes, but the logo has only one, so the logo can't be referring to Plant Hall." Notice that the other buildings in the logo are representations of other actual Tampa buildings. There's simply no disputing that the dome represented Tampa University in general and Plant Hall in particular.
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posted on
10/22/2011 7:25:49 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: who knows what evil?
Mine was tongue in cheek, too. I really botched that.
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posted on
10/22/2011 7:30:36 AM PDT
by
numberonepal
(I'm on the Cain Train. The Herman Cain Train!)
To: numberonepal
Lots of us complaining about how that first cup of coffee just doesn’t seem to be working this morning... :-)
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posted on
10/22/2011 8:35:39 AM PDT
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: Brandonmark
I think the criticism about the minaret is valid, but I think the one about the stars is silly. Is Texas ignoring the other 49 states?
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posted on
10/22/2011 8:38:33 AM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(Cain = National Sales Tax; Perry = Amnesty for Illegals; Romney = Obamacare forever. Who's left?)
To: Brandonmark
To: aruanan
Now you are belaboring the point.
Your feeble architectural explanation aside, the domeson Plant Hall distinctly lack the curve to the pointed top shown in the logo.
The base of each tower top is onion shaped,going in a straight line to a donut,,and the top of the dome is truncated. A stylized dome would have easily incorporated what actually exists, as it is a distinct architectural design.
not being from Tampa, my first thought would be that you have a mosque downtown with a dome.
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posted on
10/22/2011 10:11:03 AM PDT
by
exit82
(Democrats are the enemies of freedom.)
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