Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Subliminal, Liminal and Superliminal

Is it me or does the logo for this drink look like it says "Evil" instead of Full? Don't get me wrong, I'm not a conspiracy theorist or a religious zealot, but I don't know...the way the writing is, the color scheme, the fact that one of their drinks is called "Blue Demon"...this may be the drink of the Devil. But I guess you can't spell "devil" without "lived" right? MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

Happy Halloween by the way. Let's hear it for pagan rituals and candy. ;-)

Anyway, "subliminal" is another one of those words like "overwhelmed" where you rarely hear the root word without the prefix. Like "liminal" is the normal state of everything being ok. That's not an interesting word I guess. It was on The Simpsons, Bart's Boyband/ join the navy episode, that brought that up but it was a good (albeit funny) observation.

Lisa: "What's superliminal?"
L.T. Smash: "I'll show you." (leans out window). "Hey YOU! Join the Navy!"

Yvan Eht Nioj!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

The benign 2 point font "a product of the Coca Cola Company" on the bottom is a funny contrast to the badass script above. It's like even evil rage is now trademarked by multi-national corporations.