It looks very much like a giant penis?  I think that writer's penis must have problems.  It looks more like a giant incisor than a penis.

tojo2000 wrote:

I think that writer's penis must have problems.

Remember, Europeans are primarily uncircumcised and clearly possess long, dagger-like genitals. It's why they've been so popular in gayporn since the 1990s. You might not have known this. I'm just Julie your Cruise Director, now offering seating on the Fiesta Dick...the Lido, the Promenade...

headkicker_girl wrote:

The plant is basically telling us to stay away.

Perhaps it's the most delicious thing in the world, and we're just too uncultured to appreciate it. Kinda reminds me of what they say about durian, which should be the Official Fruit of High Street. Now we just need a coin, a [freak] flag, and a favorite bird, and we're all set.

George Orr wrote:

Not quite; we'd need a coat of arms. You're the graphics guy, so you get to make us one.

That sounds like an interesting little project. I'll start collecting images. Should there be cakefarts and asshats?

EDIT: I was thinking s'more about this and I think I'll give it a go. Anyone is welcome to help. Heraldic shields and coats of arms are highly symbolic illustrations. I've already got some durian, a corpse flower, and some poison ivy, so that pretty much does it for the border scrolls. We need a pithy line in Latin and some idea for the individual graphics that might go on the shield. I think I'll have a hat-wearing donkey on one side, but can't think what might go on the other.

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One of my recent favorites, originally posted by Dhal:

How about a tard?

pALEPHx wrote:

We need a pithy line in Latin...

FACIO QUIDNAM VOLO.  Alternately, the phrase from the original Addams Family movie.  I can't remember it at the moment, but it's kind of long; something like, "With pleasure we devour those who would oppress us."

...I think I'll have a hat-wearing donkey on one side, but can't think what might go on the other.

The coats of arms I've seen have four images, not two; and yes, I don't see how you could omit an ass wearing a hat.

Coitus Ergo Sum

George Orr wrote:

we'd need a coat of arms.

Do you have any idea how many arms that takes? Sheesh.

sigmoid freud wrote:

Coitus Ergo Sum

Well, we're obviously going to have to go with the saltire.

[edit] And something on the damn thing needs to be rampant.

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sigmoid freud wrote:

How about an official reptile?

The obvious choice is a trouser snake:









And since we need a fourth...Sparkling Wiggles should round out the lot.  For fnord ya know.

for the latin, I think our only real choice is Caveat Lector (let the reader beware)

karenw wrote:

Fun to play -- but I can't wait to see the one you design, pale.

It's going to take me a few days to piece together something suitable, I think. Combination of 'new job schedule' and what I expect to eventually be a lot of cooks for one porridge. I think your 'quickie' is fetching and insightful. Since I am not as tenured/jaded as the rest, pray tell, what do the red and gray symbolize?

pALEPHx wrote:

what do the red and gray symbolize?

cruel.com's layout made use of these colors.

karenw wrote:

pALEPHx wrote:

what do the red and gray symbolize?

cruel.com's layout made use of these colors.

Very well, then they shall be incorporated. Any more tales from the crypt? Things that might be due this strange honor? (btw, crimson was probably going to figure prominently anyhow, if not by coincidence, then because it's the color of blood)

I was gonna mention the owl.  All I can remember about it is that it was reading a book and was goofy-lookin'.  Did it have a mortarboard, too?  Does anyone have the image?

Perhaps The Cade can provide you an owl image.

Does anybody know the Latin for HAW! HAW! HAW!...?

So, while I think that "caveat lector" is the natural choice for our slogan, "ex nostrum posteri" (from our posterior) would also be a decent choice.

Decadence wrote:

Well, fuck all.  Why did I think that he had a mortar-board as well?

fucking tootsie roll pops.

karenw wrote:

If we want to get all cartoony and ridiculous, it could also incorporate a mini M&Ms tube...

Can't. It's a brand. Nice idea tho. I think I'll be doing at least two versions, to test. One will probably be more "cartoon-based" than the heraldic crests we've seen on other sites. Such an item, if I can get it done right, would double as a logo. Still need more suggestions for individual graphics to go inside the boxes.

George Orr wrote:

Can you do a long-necked bong crossing a liquor bottle?  Or perhaps a dildo...

Bottle of absinthe.

pALEPHx wrote:

sigmoid freud wrote:

George Orr wrote:

Can you do a long-necked bong crossing a liquor bottle?  Or perhaps a dildo...

Bottle of absinthe.

It would be hard to tell, at that size, what sort of liquor it was. And dildo = phallus, rather directly. If people simply want a bouquet of penises, then speak now or forever hold your piece.

All in favor?

"Aye!"

Decadence wrote:

I've no fucking clue what's going on here. Are we getting the bong or not? Was that the phallic reference?  Wait . . .  Is it too late to request a Fat Freddy Scat reference?

It's an ongoing case of "be careful what you wish for." I could easily pop a bong into one of the four panels still available for smaller, symbolic graphics, but we seem to be running the razor's edge on turning into the proverbial passel of penii. If everything everybody recommends is penile--either literally or merely phallic-shaped (remember, we started this with the 'titanic penis flower')--then it's just going to end up a crest of sexual one-note-ness. I still give us more credit than that.

Yes, I'll be willing to allow one panel for general drug-related debauch, but it's so hard to single out "Should it be a liquor bottle, a bong, a handful of pills, what..?" I will probably devote one quarter to a representation of 'all of the above' in some more abbreviated, graphic way. That still leaves three to fill.

I suppose I am asking all the Irregulars to dig deep into their memories for seminal imagery that doesn't necessarily involve semen. I want to make a serious go of the High Street Coat o' Arms, and have already begun collecting and editing the elements for one, but I don't wanna be stuck, drunk off my rocker on Friday, just blasting through lolcats, horses, and Meg K*lso's ass.

"Fat Freddy Scat" will require either an explanation or a graphic reference. I may have lurked for years, myself, but it's increasingly evident that many of the "major events" of Cruel Past did not have quite as much resonance for onlookers. Besides, this is NOT Cruel, and Cruel is dead. I don't mind chucking an owl or a severed head in there, but the symbolism should be based more on what we think HS is or should be. If the best many can come up with is weenie-palooza, and you've left it to a gay man to draw/digitize half a dozen forms of cock for a site-wide emblem, then you may be doubly disappointed if I actually succeed.

Decadence wrote:

Really?  Be-Cause . . .   Have you ever attempted to converse with any of these perverts (Yeah, give me that fucking look; But, you all know that I'm right)? And, again, the "meth-heads" are ignored.  Yeah, way to create a bit of fucking harmony amongst the disenfranchised.

I'm sure there'll be some way to slip in a glass stem, for the crackies, methies, and whoever requires such an implement to consume their DoC. While we're at it, how about a syringe? How about a fan of about six of them, like arrows in the eagle's claw on various US denominations? :P

If I'm 'ignoring' our resident speedfreaks, it's mostly because they're not that evident to me. If anyone comes off like they're hitting crack and overdoing their posting, using convoluted word structures and rushing through premises they figure everyone else understands, then it's probably a dead heat between Wilber and I, and I know I'm not doin' any stimulants stronger than coffee.

Regardless, the "drug panel" will be as equitable as I can make it, graphics-wise. One cannot as easily translate a tab of blotter acid into something that will eventually be only a few pixels on a side, and then expect it to be seen and understood by all. The same really goes for 'mystic' symbolism (read as "Cthulu could make an appearance, but his many tentacles would bump off the ivy and the penis-shaped flowers").