# Check out Google! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 20, 2003, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-google/149775 "2003-01-20T08:51:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-google/149775/1 "2003-01-20T08:51:59Z")
Five gingerbread people of varying shades, with different gender designations. Adorable! ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-google/149775/2 "2003-01-20T08:55:59Z")
Must be just your country’s version. ☹ What does it mean, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-google/149775/3 "2003-01-20T09:22:46Z")
January 20th is Martin Luther King’s birthday. (That would explain why you can’t see it outside of the US.) So Google is displaying an assortment of gingerbread people who are not to be judged by their color, but by their sugar content! ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-google/149775/4 "2003-01-20T09:28:58Z")
Very, very cool, then. 🙂 Thanks, **Rilchiam**. ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-google/149775/5 "2003-01-22T06:52:22Z")
Google actually does stuff like that a lot, for different holidays and seasons. Some parodies of the Google logo, which I find amusing: [link](http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=372) ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-google/149775/6 "2003-01-22T08:20:00Z")
OK I’m officially clueless. I saw that and thought “Hrmmm, google usually only alters its logo on holidays and special occasions, what is today, cookie day?” Since I don’t really watch tv or listen to the radio I kept forgetting it was MLK day. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-google/149775/7 "2003-01-22T08:56:27Z")
I vaguely knew it was MLK Day today (or sometime this week), but this thread reminds me of something that happened about three years ago. A few of us were at [Missions Fest](http://www.mfest.bc.ca), eating dinner before we went to the plenary session. Nathan told Brian how my brother had told him about a friend of his having Montezuma’s Revenge (i.e. diarrhea) on their trip to Russia. The other person at the table besides me (Justin) misheard this as “Martin Luther’s Revenge!” Very funny… we figured that he’d had a bit too much of MLK Day. (and we live in Canada, even! :eek: ) Note: as far as I’m aware, the five of us who were at the table that night fully support MLK and the ideas he was trying to promote. We weren’t making fun of MLK or the media coverage that we’d heard. Just saying this in case I get flamed for posting this funny incidental story. 🙂 F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-google/149775/8 "2003-01-22T09:01:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Flamsterette\_X \* > \*\*Note: as far as I’m aware, the five of us who were at the table that night fully support MLK and the ideas he was trying to promote. We weren’t making fun of MLK or the media coverage that we’d heard. Just saying this in case I get flamed for posting this funny incidental story. 🙂 > > F\_X \*\* Don’t worry, people aren’t _that_ sensitive here. After all, this is MPSIMS, not the pit :). ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-google/149775/9 "2003-01-22T11:03:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Flamsterette\_X \* > Nathan told Brian how my brother had told him about a friend of his having Montezuma’s Revenge (i.e. diarrhea) on their trip to Russia. The other person at the table besides me (Justin) misheard this as “Martin Luther’s Revenge!” Very funny… we figured that he’d had a bit too much of MLK Day. (and we live in Canada, even! :eek: ) Is Martin Luther’s Revenge what it’s called when you get diarrhea in the German city of Worms? ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-google/149775/10 "2003-01-22T11:16:28Z")
> [@](#): > > a friend of his having Montezuma’s Revenge (i.e. diarrhea) on their trip to Russia. Actually, you can have Montezuma’s Revenge only in Mexico. You can still have diarrhea in Russia, but it would appropriately be called Trotsky’s Revenge – the Trots, for short… ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-google/149775/11 "2003-01-22T18:05:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \* > \*\*So Google is displaying an assortment of gingerbread people who are not to be judged by their color, but by their sugar content! \*\* That is equally bigoted, they should only be judged according to their personality. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-google/149775/12 "2003-01-22T20:21:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cisco \* > \*\*Don’t worry, people aren’t _that_ sensitive here. After all, this is MPSIMS, not the pit :). \*\* Hey, you never know with **some** people around here… but thanks muchly for the reassurances, **Cisco**. 🙂 > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Doghouse Reilly \* > **Is Martin Luther’s Revenge what it’s called when you get diarrhea in the German city of Worms?** Eeeeewwww… worms in diarrhea… where’s the pukey smiley when you need it? But seriously though, I have NO idea… nobody I know has ever been to that city, so I don’t know what they call diarrhea over there. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zoe \* > **Actually, you can have Montezuma’s Revenge only in Mexico. You can still have diarrhea in Russia, but it would appropriately be called Trotsky’s Revenge – the Trots, for short…** In that case, I’d better tell my brother and his Campus Crusade friends to be extra careful when they go to Mexico in a few weeks! :eek: F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-google/149775/13 "2003-01-22T21:42:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \* > \*\*Five gingerbread people of varying shades, with different gender designations. Adorable! \*\* Waaah! I don’t see this. I’m using [http://www.google.com/](http://www.google.com/) What URL do you use? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-google/149775/14 "2003-01-22T22:12:40Z")
It was only on MLK day Violet. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-google/149775/15 "2003-01-22T22:18:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cisco \* > \*\*It was only on MLK day Violet. \*\* Thanks, Cisco. _Someone_ has not been paying attention! C’est moi. :o The above smilie looks like a sleeper rather than an embarrassed one. ---
**Author:** ![vertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3ec8ea/32.png) [@vertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vertigo)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-google/149775/16 "2003-01-22T23:39:16Z")
You can see what it looked like [here](http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html). ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-google/149775/17 "2003-01-22T23:43:50Z")
The obligatory [link to the archive of Google Doodles](http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html). They’ve done some really neat ones over the past few years and there is a story on the guy who draws them as well. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-google/149775/18 "2003-01-22T23:53:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Violet \* > \*\*:o > The above smilie looks like a sleeper rather than an embarrassed one. \*\* I agree, I always thought it should be called a yawnie. I don’t see how it conveys embarrassment at all. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-google/149775/19 "2003-01-23T03:58:42Z")
Thanks, **vertigo** and **Mtgman** for the links. Looks like I missed all the variations and themes. Dennis Hwang does great work. And - he’s cute! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-google/149775/20 "2003-01-23T04:01:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cisco \* > \*\*I agree, I always thought it should be called a yawnie. I don’t see how it conveys embarrassment at all. \*\* Maybe it’s a mouth breather sleeping! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-google/149775.md?page=2)