Owl? I thought it was boobs?
Is it only people in the emoji era who think that the Smiths logo looks like "owl eyes", or did the people in the 60s and earlier also think that? I'm just wondering that culturally was it always a thing, or is it just in the modern era and our habit of creating smileys and communicating using keyboard symbols etc. that leads us to see things in the logo, but people in the 60s were more innocent?
In the modern era, marketing companies charge millions to create a logo, company color scheme etc. and I'm wondering whether early Smiths logo creators were just innocent and didn't realize what it looked like, or was it an inside joke and they knew all along?
The crown logo first appears on Smiths watches circa 1952. Was that an age of innocence??
My neighbor has nice owl eyes.
Last edited by Recht; 27th May 2020 at 03:36.
And there was I thinking it resembled Donald in a bad mood.
No wonder then that I too didn't get the inference of referring to a different avian species. Thanks for the explanation.
The logo looks like Donald Ducks eyes & beak.
Once seen the image can not be unseen.
Doh, I am well aware of that. Nevertheless, food is not its main selling point, is it! In fact, food is merely a pretext. I don't actually know if Hooters' food is good or not; the hooters at Hooters are, however, well known to be good.
Similarly, merely telling the time is not the main selling point of luxury watches.
Let me explain further...
number2 said "Ahh ''Hooters'', only in Merica. Another US export spoiling food across the globe" but it seems to me that, even though Hooters is ostensibly a restaurant chain, its true raison d'être is only tangentially connected with food. Food, as I say, is the pretext.
I then went on to compare that with the raison d'être of luxury watches which, in all honesty, is only tangentially connected with telling the time. Telling the time merely a pretext.
See what I mean? :-)
I was trying to avoid saying BOOBS. Dang it, now you made me say it!
It's too bad we didn't have the internet back then so we could search what people in the 50s were talking about. Maybe someone knows someone from back then who owned one and joked about it?
Although I doubt, I really hope we get a real answer to that question.
To be fair, there was never an age of innocence since ancient times when cavemen used to kill each other just to steal and satisfy their carnal desires with other cavewomen. With that said, I'm inclined to believe that those Smiths logo designers are mischievous, to say the least.
Designers/artists have always been naughty ;-)
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Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
I've don't recall ever eating at Hooters but did drink a lot of beer there in my younger days. The owl eyes logo is on every servers' shirt.
Sorry....going super off-topic....well aware of the owl on hooters branding but I've never heard the term "owl-eyes" used in common language as a euphemism for boobs. Certainly not in the UK anway...if I were to say to someone "check out the owl-eyes on her", they'd definitely look at me strange. I'm assuming it must be commonplace in the US then.
Call me naive, but I don't believe for a minute that the original designer(s) had any saucy allusion in mind.
It's a stylised crown. Not an exact reproduction of a crown, just a simple representation of one which at its small size on the wrist, viewed from a natural distance, looks right.
Of course, if you photograph it and display it up close to countless people on the Internet - something that would have been both impossible and unimagined at the time - then another way of interpreting it will quickly emerge. Then you have the 'once seen can't be unseen' issue!