Re: more... Re: the Penguin
Joe Gillman (jgil1215@bellsouth.net)
Sat, 25 Jul 1998 16:29:28 -0700
i personally like the peguin from the bud ice commerical dubby dubby dubby
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Jon Dowd wrote:
> The following is a quote from Linus Torvalds:
> I found it located at
> http://www.linux.org/info/penguin.html
>
> Somebody had a logo competition announcement, maybe people can send
> their ideas to a web-site..
>
> Anyway, this one looks like the poor penguin is not really strong
> enough to hold up the world, and it's going to get squashed. Not a
> good, positive logo, in that respect..
>
> Now, when you think about penguins, first take a deep calming breath,
> and then think "cuddly". Take another breath, and think "cute". Go
> back to "cuddly" for a while (and go on breathing), then think
> "contented".
>
> With me so far? Good..
>
> Now, with penguins, (cuddly such), "contented" means it has either
> just gotten laid, or it's stuffed on herring. Take it from me, I'm an
> expert on penguins, those are really the only two options.
>
> Now, working on that angle, we don't really want to be associated with
> a randy penguin (well, we do, but it's not politic, so we won't), so
> we should be looking at the "stuffed to its brim with herring" angle
> here.
>
> So when you think "penguin", you should be imagining a slighly
> overweight penguin (*), sitting down after having gorged itself, and
> having just burped. It's sitting there with a beatific smile - the
> world is a good place to be when you have just eaten a few gallons of
> raw fish and you can feel another "burp" coming.
>
> (*) Not FAT, but you should be able to see that it's sitting down
> because it's really too stuffed to stand up. Think "bean bag" here.
>
> Now, if you have problems associating yourself with something that
> gets off by eating raw fish, think "chocolate" or something, but you
> get the idea.
>
> Ok, so we should be thinking of a lovable, cuddly, stuffed penguin
> sitting down after having gorged itself on herring. Still with me?
>
> NOW comes the hard part. With this image firmly etched on your
> eyeballs, you then scetch a stylizied version of it. Not a lot of
> detail - just a black brush-type outline (you know the effect you get
> with a brush where the thickness of the line varies). THAT requires
> talent. Give people the outline, and they should say [ sickly sweet
> voice, babytalk almost ]"Ooh, what a cuddly penguin, I bet he is just
> _stuffed_ with herring", and small children will jump up and down and
> scream "mommy mommy, can I have one too?".
>
> Then we can do a larger version with some more detail (maybe leaning
> against a globe of the world, but I don't think we really want to give
> any "macho penguin" image here about Atlas or anything). That more
> detailed version can spank billy-boy to tears for all I care, or play
> ice-hockey with the FreeBSD demon. But the simple, single penguin
> would be the logo, and the others would just be that cuddly penguin
> being used as an actor in some tableau.
>
> Linus
>
> The second quote is from when Linus announced Linux v2.0 on Usenet:
>
> Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really
> embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen
> a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot
> more careful about what they say if they had. -- Linus Torvalds
>
> Jon Dowd - Ashland, Oregon USA
> jondowd@jeffnet.org
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> The top of my head shines through my haircut
> Even when I brush, shape and style
> The top of my head smiles at the young man
> Telling me I must have been alive awhile. ! :- )
>
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