Those silly Graphics Designers

[hekk]

The irony, it burns.

[El_Kabong]

Heh, now all they need is to add a symbol for a spanner...

[Lobsang]

I don't get it.

[hekk]

Look at the tagline..

Then mentally make the gears turn. The irony hits you then.

[Inner Stickler]

Originally Posted by Lobsang

I don't get it.

If you imagine gear 1 rotating clockwise it makes gear 2 rotate counterclockwise making gear 3 rotate clockwise which makes gear 1 rotate counterclockwise and then problems begin.

[Charger]

That is hilarious. I wonder if it is deliberate.

[garygnu]

I'm wondering if it was disconnected in the original draft and someone, perhaps someone not on the design team, forced a change because it wasn't all interconnected.

[Lobsang]

Or maybe we're simply not seeing the third dimension, where two of the cogs aren't touching at all. i.e. they are al different distances from the viewer.

[jjimm]

It gets more publically embarrassing than that. The obverse design on the back of the British 1997/1998 £2 coin, represents the then nineteen EU member states, as cogs, interlocking in a ring. Some said it was a subtle anti-EU message.

[matt_mcl]

Originally Posted by jjimm

It gets more publically embarrassing than that. The obverse design on the back of the British 1997/1998 £2 coin, represents the then nineteen EU member states, as cogs, interlocking in a ring. Some said it was a subtle anti-EU message.

I think you'll find that the obverse of that coin depicts Her Majesty the Queen, as does most every other British coin. The design you mention is the reverse.

Silly numismatist!

[jjimm]

Bugger. Explains why it took so long for me to find it while doing an image search on "£2 coin obverse".

[Boyo Jim]

Oh man, that's hilarious. Do their trains actually move, or do they sit there and heat up until they explode?