Share a nice frosty, chocolate Allah with The King

Morrigoon · 08-04-2006, 01:24 PM

http://www.harpers.org/ImHatinIt.html

Personally... I think it's a coincidence and this guy's totally overreacting.

Alex · 08-04-2006, 01:59 PM

Here's a story with a picture: http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/35

Personally, I'm offended that Allah would take a name that looks like an ice cream cone.

Morrigoon · 08-04-2006, 02:03 PM

That's wierd... the link I used used to have a picture with it. Odd.

Ghoulish Delight · 08-04-2006, 02:06 PM

I don't know, I think he's on to something.

Spoiler:

Alex · 08-04-2006, 02:07 PM

Except that one stops halfway through the final letter so McDonald's just barely avoids sacrilege.

Ghoulish Delight · 08-04-2006, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Except that one stops halfway through the final letter so McDonald's just barely avoids sacrilege.

All the more proof. Clearly they purposely altered it just enough for plausible deniability. They need to change their signs to "Billions Insulted".

Capt Jack · 08-04-2006, 02:59 PM

"sometimes a banana is just a banana"

- S. Freud

SzczerbiakManiac · 08-04-2006, 03:23 PM

After reading that, I don't know how I could roll my eyes back any farther.

Alex · 08-04-2006, 04:26 PM

I find it ridiculous that anybody truly got upset by it, but I am also very amused that an abstract drawing of an ice cream cone produced a result that looks like "Allah" when tipped on its side.

I'm a decade removed from my college Arabic classes but I would have still been able to recognize it if someone had pointed it out to me.

tracilicious · 08-05-2006, 12:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

I find it ridiculous that anybody truly got upset by it, but I am also very amused that an abstract drawing of an ice cream cone produced a result that looks like "Allah" when tipped on its side.

Ditto. I had never seen the Allah symbol before (that I can remember) and was stunned at the resemblance in the picture. But upon further examination of the ice cream cone, the picture really did look just like an ice cream cone. Life is funny.

I don't see how Burger King had any choice but to change it. I didn't even know BK sold ice cream cones.

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Morrigoon I throw stones at houses Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Location: Location Posts: 9,534	Share a nice frosty, chocolate Allah with The King http://www.harpers.org/ImHatinIt.html Personally... I think it's a coincidence and this guy's totally overreacting. __________________ http://bash.org/?top "It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion." -- William Randolph Inge
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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Here's a story with a picture: http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/35 Personally, I'm offended that Allah would take a name that looks like an ice cream cone.
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Morrigoon I throw stones at houses Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Location: Location Posts: 9,534	That's wierd... the link I used used to have a picture with it. Odd. __________________ http://bash.org/?top "It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion." -- William Randolph Inge
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Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	I don't know, I think he's on to something. Spoiler: __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Except that one stops halfway through the final letter so McDonald's just barely avoids sacrilege.
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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	I find it ridiculous that anybody truly got upset by it, but I am also very amused that an abstract drawing of an ice cream cone produced a result that looks like "Allah" when tipped on its side. I'm a decade removed from my college Arabic classes but I would have still been able to recognize it if someone had pointed it out to me.
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