I don’t know whether this belongs under Jew Cooties or Israel Derangement Syndrome, but it is the most awesomely awesome paranoid Jew thing out of Iran since the Star of David on the roof of whatever the hell that building was.
Iran says it’s going to boycott the London Olympics because the symbol looks like it spells the word “Zion.”
Judge for yourself, and laugh. And laugh. And laugh.
In a formal complaint to the International Olympic Committee, Tehran has called for the graphic to be replaced and its designers “confronted”, warning that Iranian athletes might otherwise be ordered to stay away from the London Games.
According to the state-backed Iranian Students News Agency, which is frequently used to convey official pronouncements, the letter says: “As internet documents have proved, using the word Zion in the logo of the 2012 Olympic Games is a disgracing action and against the Olympics’ valuable mottos.
Yes, us wily Jews. We live in your minds, rent-free … all the time.
Update: Instalink! Thanks, Glenn!
You know, I can almost see it. The first two definitely looks like a Z and the last one looks like a N that has been drinking heavily. Then if you read down rather than across…
Russ is right, I can see it too, but I doubt it was “The Jews”, it reminds me a lot of particular LDS (mormon) youth conference brochure I saw once, sadly I can’t find it on the net, but that one more clearly spelled out “Zion”, but they were refering to a more Provo-centric version.
Either that or the London committee had some truly committed rasta-mon it the graphic design department, it would make a good reggae cover.
I think if you read it sideways it says, “I buried Paul.”
:-)
This is ridiculous…no self respecting Jew would EVER approve that crappy logo….
Actually, you are all wrong. Reading from the top left to right you have a “Z” and then an “O.” The bottom letter is a very stylized “R.” This of course represents the being ZOR, from the dark nether worlds of the Department of Control. ZOR will, in time infiltrate the marrow of each and every Islamofascist and begin to produce Hebraic blood cells, eventually turning them all into Hasidim. How the Brits caught on to this secret is unknown. :D
GM Roper: +5.
It’s a stretch to see the word “Zion,” but it’s an even bigger stretch to see “2012.”
On a related note, how much to you think the London Olympics paid for such a crappy logo? Don’t they also have a weird, minimalist/cheap mascot?
Methinks Ahmaneedanewjacket’s been hittin’ the hash or khat a little hard!
The symbol is a disintegrating mess, a reflection of a schizophrenic Blighty.
In a stroke of unplanned serendipity, Zor begins the process of transformation with the strongly representational symbology of a brit milah, which somewhat explains the huge crowds of Islamic men screaming and moaning in the public squares. Their pain is real.
My greatest hope is that a large percentage of snark-purveyors will grab hold of and run with “The Zion Games” as a moniker for these Olympics.
The mullahs are late to the party as usual.
We decided what the symbol looked like back in 2007, and “ZION” had nothing to do with it.
You’re all wrong (though ZOR resonates, if you know what I mean.)
It has to be read RIGHT to LEFT. What were you thinking?
Top right – O next letter Z
Bottom right Z followed by I
Ozzie ! (Osbourne.) You dummies.
If you squint and looks sideways it spells: SOROS
On second thought I think it says Zuul!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnTCajL7I_U
But . . . Persian Farsi is read right to left . . . so . . Ozni . . . but which Ozni . . Osborne? Mubarak?
I’m thinking it might say Zork, as in the famous trilogy of text adventure computer games of the 1980’s put out by infocom. Or maybe it’s saying Zod, as in general Zod, Superman’s nemesis from the comics and the Superman II movie. or maybe it’s Zoink, the utterance from Scooby and Shaggy in the Scooby Doo cartoon. Whichever, they all represent the conspiracy of the Jew to dominate the world.
We all know about the zionist underpinnings of the Zork franchise, Superman II and Scooby Doo right?
It’s Zardoz! Yeah, that movie blew, but so does this logo. Who designed this crap, some art school dropout? Horrible, SO first semester High School Introduction to Art class.
And let’s not forget, Islamist cranks don’t need a reason to hate Jews, just a place.
+5…. Thank you (and ZOR thanks you as well :)
The interpretation is quite simple. For an accountant and a conspiracy theoretician this is indeed a Jewish attempt to take over the world.
2012 = 20 X 12 = 240. The 24th letter is Y.
20 – 1 = 19. The 19th letter is S and the 9th letter is I
20 – 2 = 18. The 18th letter R
Do I have to spell it out for you? YISR. Obviously it is meant to spell out Israel.
Or maybe just maybe it’s actually code for all the Jews in the world to start their world domination scheme. Maybe it says 2012 AND Zion. Meaning, 2012 is the Year of the Jewish onslaught. We only have one year left till the Jews take over.
“……………. and was Jerusalem builded here
among these dark satanic mills….”
Don’t forget the supermarkets! Filled with orange jooos, grape jooos, coconut jooos! I stick to the flouridated water. Better Communist mind-control than jooos.
Yes, those Jew-hugging, Zionist Britons — can’t trust them at all when it comes to the Jews. They love us!
I read awhile back that there’s concern it might trigger seizures in some susceptible people.
I see a turban, a beard, an open mouth, a raised right hand, and the word “London.” Clearly it’s an image of Muhammad summoning his followers.
Kneel before ZOD!
I think the logo looks like a swastika.
Or could it be the missing pieces of that jigsaw puzzle that fell off the table and some pieces were never seen again?
It also looks like the map I was supposed to put together in third grade.
Or is it that Rorschach blot that reveals obsessive thinking?
I think since finding the Star of David on top of their national airline building they’ve just starting looking everywhere for hidden Jewish emblems.
I, for one, welcome our new Jewish overlords.
If you look at it backward it says “Paul is dead”.
Personally I think it looks like a broken mirror. Not sure this bodes well for the games.
Since the logo is obviously “2012” and can be misread as “zion” (2=z, 1=i, O=0, sideways 2=n), then the Iranians should boycott the entire year of “2012”. I wonder if they’ve seen the movie “2012” (I mean “zion”)?
Does ANYONE still give a hoot what Iran says or does? Crazy is their order of business.
What’s up with the little parallelogram in the center? Just the nose of the second 2? Or is it a Hebrew ‘yod’ (?)?
wait… how do you boycott the olympics when you don’t have a team?
oh and? new travels fast, they’re only, what, 4 years late?
I can only read “Nozi”… *shrug*
I think it looks like a Rorschach test, which, apparently, it is.
Huh – I thought it was a gay Ziggy…
I would suggest they calm down and have a starbucks – but I think that’s a conspiracy also or something.
The Persians’ claim is unsubstantiated scientific rubbish.
Anyone can see that the inscription in the left column refers to the Knights Who Say Ni and the rune in the upper right quadrant represents shrubbery. We are still working on the last symbol but it is clearly runic in origin and not derived from cuneiform or any other oriental alphabet.
And here I thought Atlanta had had the lousiest Olympic logo (I was living in Atlanta in ’96). Look, folks; they have to DELIBERATELY read the symbols in a particular fashion to get ZION out of it, and that fashion is neither the way English is read, nor Arabic. English is read left to right, top to bottom, so, assuming that the numbers are really the English letters they claim they are, it spells ZOIN. Arabic is read right to left, top to bottom; that would spell OZNI, except that the symbols are not Arabic symbols, so there is no reason for ANYone to read it in that fashion. They are simply trying to get their base worked up – again – on an issue made of whole cloth. And, knowing the British, proud sons and daughters of Alfred the Great, Richard the Lionheart, Elizabeth I, Winston Churchill, et al., that they are, they will probably knuckle under. Again. Well, at least that travesty of a logo may be on its way out….
Have a look at what a ten year old girl designed for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee – fresh, straightforward, appropriate, and free. It puts the expensive and inexplicable Olympic logo to shame.
http://www.anglotopia.net/anglophilia/the-queen/the-queen-diamond-jubilee-emblem-unveiled/
These amateurish attempts at explanation are laughable. Clearly, the mullahs have scholars who devote their lives to studying such symbols for traces of Creeping Zionism – many of them do not even sleep, and eat only doe-eyed virgins after Friday prayers.
Who should we believe? Some internet wag’s instant analysis, or the measured judgment of a man who hasn’t shaved or bathed in fifty years? I humbly submit that if the scholar’s opinion is as strong as his odor, it cannot be denied, or covered up with decadent Jooish hygiene products.
Shalom! I like ’em!
And don’t forget their new Allanet: http://bit.ly/e6uEcz
“ZION” was the first thing I thought when the logo first came out. Seriously. I have to strain to see it as “2012”.
The mullahs have broken the secret Jewish code and have now learned to use a mirror, and then read from right to left! I wonder how long it took their “brightest and best” to figure this code out!
Seriously, this is one crappy looking logo, I look for the Brits to change it so as to not offend the famous Iranian Olympic team that are now practicing their marksmanship and motorcycle attack clubbing on the Iranian protesters
I think you’re missing the depth of this plot. Ignore the logo. 2012 spells ZION.
I wonder how they arranged that. Are the Mayans the lost tribe?
It won’t happen again until 2021. Thank goodness. I can’t take the pressure.
I think everyone should boycott them because, speaking as a graphics designer of 25 years experience, I must say that logo is beyond horrible. If any of my people handed that in to me I’d assume they were playing one of their little pranks on the boss.
Unaddressed in all this is a different question. Suppose that ugly logo did unmistakably spell “Zion”.
So what? No, really — so what?
Are the Iranians claiming that, by attending an event with a logo that can be misread as “Zion”, they will be converted to Zionism against their will, and will all want to start kibbutzim and wear funny hats and sandals? Or do they think that the Zionists are not-so-secretly controlling the Olympics, bribing the judges and circumcising the competitors, but that if we just change the logo everything will be fine again? (That would suggest that Zionists can’t control an event that doesn’t have a Jewish word in the title somewhere. Pretty weak world-conquerors, those evil Zionists.)
Our hostess is right; this does not pass the giggle test.