Before approving this design, it would have helped if the marketing executives were aware that “goon” is a (pretty new?) slang term for “masturbate”.
Of course, mayne they did know and this was a very savvy bit of viral marketing, but it reminds me of the time McDonald’s suggested that customers should fuck cheeseburgers.
For those of us over the age of nine:
goon
Well-known slang term in sexual subculture of chronic and compulsive masturbators, used both as a verb and a noun. Means achieving the trance-like blissful state reached when riding the edge of cumming for as long as possible, perhaps many minutes or even hours at a time. Also denoting the absence of control, compulsively pursuing that feeling as a avid masturbator. The term has been in frequent use for at least ten years, perhaps emerging from the physical look of one who is “gooning” or “in the goon,” which is a self-possessed, glassy eyed stare of stupidity (thus, an oaf). Also known as “bator mush” and “slain in the bate.”
See also giggity:
A word, originating from Quagmire on the show “Family Guy” that is used when somebody makes a remark that was not intentionally sexual but could be interpreted in that manner.
Another famous example of poor kerning.
I’m old enough to remember Alice the Goon on the syndicated Popeye cartoons when I was a kid. But to me, a ‘goon’ is a large, stupid, violent criminal henchman. Note that ‘Trump’s goons’ is being used currently to refer to ICE and other enforcers of Trump’s decrees.
I only learned the ‘masturbate’ definition a week or two ago.
Okay, you got me, what’s it supposed to be? I can’t come up with any spacing that creates sensible, benign signage.
Megaflicks?
“MEGAFLICKS”. I heard long before that store existed, many printers knew to be careful printing the word “FLICK” in all caps, lest bleeding happen turning LI into U.
MEGAFLICKS. ‘L’, ‘I’.
discourse.
“Slain in the bait” sounds like a Pictish imprecation
Oh, right. Of course.
I remember that one of the creators and producers of Barney Miller whose name was Theodore J. Flicker appeared somewhere in the credits, and every time I had to look twice because they used kind of a fat font.
And also while talking about Clint Eastwood.
Much like the now-infamous “10 FLICKERING LIGHTS”:
I know of one movie that might need a re-title.
The Goonies
The way the witch is gripping the broomstick is also not helpful in dispelling the unintended meaning.
Well, in reality, they are wankers.
In the British slang sense. But also in the US slang sense, being incels.
Today I learned …
OK, I immediately understood the MEGAFLICKS and FLICKERING LIGHTS but I’m lost on the xkcd entry
I’m glad I’m not the only one.
As a former graphic artist, proofreader and typesetter, I understand that xkcd all too well. Once you learn to notice bad kerning (too much space between the ‘c’ and the ‘e’ in offices), you’ll see it everywhere and it will bother you, like a crooked picture on a wall.
Spacing between letters should be equal to the point that if you poured imaginary sand between the letters, you’d use the same amount of sand between each letter.