Pub Sign FAIL

[major_clanger]

On the 26th I was driving up to Cambridge from Woking in between various Christmas visits. (My brother kindly agreed to be driven up with me and then head home, thus getting round the issues of me not having a car and there being no trains.) As we passed through Harston I took a peek to see what the pub that's not the Queen's Head was calling itself now.

This year it's the Three Horseshoes, and they've got an appropriate sign. Now, if you google for 'Three Horseshoes pub sign' images you get a lot of signs showing three horseshoes side by side or in some sort of pattern. But the management at this place had gone for something more artistic. Alas I didn't stop to take a picture, but this drawing represents their new sign:



Oops.

Comments

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

I don't know. The biohazard symbol sounds like quite an appropriate sign for a pub

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

Well, this place always seems to sell itself as a high-end gastropub, so it may not be the best for them!

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

It kind of looks like The Three Loo seats.

[davidwake.livejournal.com]

Also, only one horseshoe is the right way up, the luck will run out of the other two.

[uitlander]

Well, we could always arrange regular gatherings at 'the Biohazard' and see how long they enjoy being called that. Maybe its all a bit post-modern?

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

I see that less as a biohazard sign (okay - I may see rather more of the original than some) and more a picture from above of some poor bloke sitting on the loo with his legs crossed, his hands hanging limply to either side and looking very glum. If that's what a night on their beer and food does, then I wouldn't want it!

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Argh - so it does! But I like naming the pub The Biohazard :-)

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Can it be rearranged into a Goatse?

I ask merely for information.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

I don't think so, which sadly is more than can be said for the logo of one organisation I was a member of.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall that in Dave Langford's "The Leaky Establishment" there's a pub near the nuclear facility called "The Wheatsheaf" whose customers universally refer to it as "The mushroom cloud"

[quercus.livejournal.com]

I read that as three omegas, more than three horseshoes.

The end, the End, The END!!!

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

That was my first thought, too.

[e-spy.livejournal.com]

And there I was thinking it was the Ariat logo... Although similarly equating horses and biohazards doesn't seem entirely unreasonable.