Ha ha ha, that's pretty awesome. For those who think that must just be coincidental, or that Tallim is just seeing things that aren't there, the way the hands are positioned on the O in relation to the rest of the image and the other letters of the graphic dispel any potential doubt there might be that some graphic designer somewhere was having a laugh - that is
definitely a Goatse reference. It isn't even the first, or most
prominent time that "hands stretching apart an orifice in a
familiar manner" have appeared on a magazine cover.
[HEADING=2]Behold![/HEADING]
Sneaking stealth parodies of Goatse into unrelated images has become something of a graphic designer game; the only real question here is whether or not the folks who
approved it were in on the joke, heh.
Pegghead said:
There's no way in hell I'm going to look it up, but if that's all it is then why is it called "Goatse" and why have people said they couldn't eat meat for a week afterwards (don't be afraid of describing it, people have described scenes from both a Serbian film and August underground and haven't been banned...unless it's something far worse than anus stretching...and involves a goat).
As I understand it (I've never personally witnessed any of the classic shock sites [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShockSite][footnote]Yes, that is a link to a TV Tropes, so you should weigh whether or not losing several hours of your life is worth knowing about horrible things you should never ever look at before clicking on it. Except you probably already did, ha ha![/footnote], but I've been around long enough to know far more about them than I really want to[footnote]And the mental images my brain produces just from
descriptions are bad enough![/footnote]), the initial anus stretching... is just the first of a
series of images.
Presumably the others are worse.
