Comments on: Help, can you identify these three symbols?

Question: Help, can you identify these three symbols?

oflinkey — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:12:23 -0800

I am trying to identify three different symbols, two of which were bumper stickers and one is a popular tattoo...[mi]

The first symbol, a bumper sticker, is a black circle with a white border, and within the border is a white "W", and underneath that, a white, five-point star.

Second symbol, a bumper sticker, is a cartoonish-looking tiger head with the French "le tigre" written underneath it.

Third symbol is the popular tattoo that I saw about 500 times at the Little Steven's Underground Garage Fest two weekends ago... a five-point star that is black and red, with each arm of the star being half black and half red.

These are all probably obvious, but I am, as usual, oblivious.

By: mrcircles

mrcircles — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:33:39 -0800

the third one is a nautical star

By: oflinkey

oflinkey — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:43:40 -0800

Thank you mrcircles.

By: fionab

fionab — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:47:32 -0800

Is the second one related to the band Le Tigre, or perhaps the clothing brand?

By: oflinkey

oflinkey — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:52:54 -0800

fionab- well, I had originally looked at the band sites and could not find any bumperstickers that looked like the one I have seen. Maybe, though, so thank you. I will keep looking.

It is weird, but the cartoonish tiger head kind of as the same expression that our orange cat often wears, so we have taken to callimg our little Melon "le tigre". I just thought I could find the sticker, uh, for the cat.

By: fionab

fionab — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:04:06 -0800

It's not this logo, right?

By: fionab

fionab — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:26:10 -0800

As for the nautical star tattoo, my understanding is that it has a history of being associated with the punk movement [this may be bleed over into ska as well]. This FAQ has a few ideas along that line.

By: the fire you left me

the fire you left me — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:46:39 -0800

from your FAQ:
it has the two alternating colors meaning racial unity and tolerance.

Then later:
(probably pressed into service or shanghai'd)

It kills me when people use the slur shanghai'd. Is there really no depth to slogans?

By: oflinkey

oflinkey — Sat, 28 Aug 2004 00:27:21 -0800

fionab- No, that isn't it....

By: ChasFile

ChasFile — Sat, 28 Aug 2004 07:31:18 -0800

As for the nautical star tattoo, my understanding is that it has a history of being associated with the punk movement

Two words:

emo.

By: fionab

fionab — Sat, 28 Aug 2004 07:46:26 -0800

ChasFile - meaning, what, that it's only emo and not punk? The tattoo has been associated with punk long before emo showed up, from what I understand. It could be both now though - obviously I'm just putting that out there as a consideration for oflinky. I have hardly enough authority to get into that debate!

By: Mo Nickels

Mo Nickels — Sat, 28 Aug 2004 09:26:33 -0800

Shanghaied is a slur? What?