To Make Up for the Forty Years of Slavery, You Can Do the Banners
The Times - Looking Her Age
Europeans are in no mood to celebrate the EU’s birthday
The invitations to the European Union’s 50th birthday party went out months ago, and no unimportant detail has been overlooked. No important question, by contrast, has been settled.
Berlin, Europe’s “capital” for the six months of Germany’s EU presidency, will echo this weekend to the music of 27 discos, and 27 cakes are to be baked by cooks from every member state (Britain’s offering, unfestively, will be of the Eccles variety). At vast cost, a Polish designer has come up with a slogan for the party, in all EU languages: “Together since 1957”. Not only is this upliftingly original thought spelt out in the sort of cute multicoloured typography you would expect to see in classrooms for children with acute attention deficit disorder, it also bears no relation to historical truth. In 1957 and for more than 30 years thereafter, ten of the EU’s current members were locked in a living hell behind the Iron Curtain.
Pff.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
“Together since 1957”. Not only is this upliftingly original thought spelt out in the sort of cute multicoloured typography you would expect to see in classrooms for children with acute attention deficit disorder,
Seriously, I thought that was a Fark Joke.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Altho, my innerchile loves the primary color deal.
March 20th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Yeah, I think Mark Steyn or somebody had something on this trainwreck, or one like it, a couple months back.