Wait, you got a WHAT now? II: Manufacturer Recognition Fail

[ZedOmega]

Musing about a story that's still making me laugh a night later.

One of our regulars was telling me close to the end of our shift about one of his own coworkers. He was talking about how said coworker was so convinced that the Apple corporation was so evil that she honestly believes that they chose the apple as their logo because of the whole 'Adam and Eve' story from the Bible. And from the description of her face when she said that, she was serious. I told him nonchantly that she'd have a heart attack if she had an iPod and discovered the nasty truth.

She does. And he's waiting for the chance to point that out to her the next time she gets on his nerves. Evil laughter is sure to follow after that.

[Nonstop_Death]

I'd pay to see her reaction!

Well, I'd rather see it for free...

[MoonCat]

Reminds me of the urban legend about Procter and Gamble: Their logo has (had?) a moon and stars. Some nutcase started a rumor that it meant they were part of some worldwide Satan cult. Emails are still going around "alerting" people to the nefarious origin of the logo.

[Subspace_Relay]

I saw something like that on Clients From Hell. I assumed it was embellished or made up. Then again, a dude I once knew had a story about a lecture he got on the gay agenda present in Lucky Charms in his college's cafeteria.

[Mr. Anubite]

I saw something like that on Clients From Hell. I assumed it was embellished or made up. Then again, a dude I once knew had a story about a lecture he got on the gay agenda present in Lucky Charms in his college's cafeteria.

Lucky Charms? Really?

Was it all of those rainbows or something? I'd like to hear the specifics of that one. I need the laugh.

[TheMike]

Reminds me of the urban legend about Procter and Gamble: Their logo has (had?) a moon and stars. Some nutcase started a rumor that it meant they were part of some worldwide Satan cult. Emails are still going around "alerting" people to the nefarious origin of the logo.

actually it was suggested they were a front for the "Moonies" because of the moon logo.

[Argabarga]

Lucky Charms? Really?

Was it all of those rainbows or something? I'd like to hear the specifics of that one. I need the laugh.

THey're always after me lucky charms, that's the REAL conspiracy

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

And I'm supposing that it never occurred to this person that the Apple Logo might have something to do with something less sinister? Something like Education perhaps? You know...the whole "Apple for the teacher" bit?

Especially considering that most of the people in my generation grew up with the Apple IIc computers as our first computer experiences? Or the venerable Macintosh SE30's?

Or how about the fact that the Bible never mentions a freaking apple in the first place?

And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil....
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
-- Genesis 2: 9, 16-17

As we all know, a serpent does get Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, and she quickly persuades Adam to join her (Genesis 3: 6). Thus they are expelled from Eden so that they can't get their hands on another magical tree.

So anything we find outside of the Garden of Eden, is not the "tree of knowledge of good and evil" since we are not permitted in the place where the sucker lives. Hence the gorram apple is not the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

[BaristaTrav]

Irrelevant since most historians and even theologians believe the "fruit" (never actually referred to as an apple in scripture) was actually a pomegranate. Apples were not widely available until hundreds of years later after cultivating them from what is now present day Kazakhstan. So she might be on to something if Steve Jobs' company was called "Pomegranate." Doesn't quite have the same ring to it, but I like it.

/history geek

[sld72382]

What I heard was that Apple got its logo because Steve Jobs was a huge Beatles fan and wanted to name his company after the band's record company at the time....

Apple Records.

[JustaCashier]

What I heard was that Apple got its logo because Steve Jobs was a huge Beatles fan and wanted to name his company after the band's record company at the time....

Apple Records.

....and we all know that the Beatles were long haired Commies!


Mike

[dalesys]

What I heard was that Apple got its logo because Steve Jobs was a huge Beatles fan and wanted to name his company after the band's record company at the time....

Apple Records.

And he promised to never ever get into the music business...

per Arlo Guthrie:
"Santa Claus wears a red suit: He's a communist!
"And a beard and long hair: Must be a pacifist!
"What's in the pipe that he's smoking? ....

[wagegoth]

actually it was suggested they were a front for the "Moonies" because of the moon logo.

That too. And the Satanist conspiracy. And a Jewish conspiracy (Kabbalah influence).

Moons and stars have taken on weird connotations for many people.

[dalesys]

Moons and stars have taken on weird connotations for many people.

FEAR the night!

[Nayeli_Sabia]

Fear the Night, count the shadows. There are Vashta Nerada in the dark.