Balls for Leader Campaign Logo. – The Anna Raccoon Archives

by Anna Raccoon on May 29, 2010

Guido has asked for suggestions for a logo for Ed Balls’ campaign to be elected as leader of the Labour party.

There is only one possible logo that would adequately sum up the devastation that has been imposed on this country; the debt that has been foisted on our children’s heads; the sense of shame we all feel, after 13 years of this man’s influence on our government.

It is the ancient symbol of the pawnbroker. The origin of the word ‘pawn’ is, of course, the Latin word pignus.

Pignus troughius – we will be lucky if we can ever redeem our country.

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1 Pericles May 29, 2010 at 09:46

Love the etymology, Anna.

Don’t usually engage in ad porcum attacks but I’ll make an exception in this case and point out that he has the face for it · porcaque sua.

Perfect choice for the logotype.

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2 woodsy42 May 29, 2010 at 09:50

for a logo for Ed Balls’ campaign to..

I thought you had it with the knitted tit!

3 JohnRS May 29, 2010 at 15:26

Three balls, three cheers!!

4 Pedant May 29, 2010 at 16:00

Sorry to rain on your parade, but (from the Oxford English Dictionary):
pawn (1)
“something left as security,” late 15c. (mid-12c. as Anglo-L. pandum), from O.Fr. pan, pant “pledge, security,” also “booty, plunder,” perhaps from Frank. (cf. O.H.G. pfant, Ger. Pfand, M.Du. pant, O.Fris. pand “pledge”), from W.Gmc. *panda, of unknown origin. The O.Fr. word is identical to pan “cloth, piece of cloth,” from L. pannem (nom. pannus) “piece of cloth,” and some feel this is the source of both the O.Fr. and W.Gmc. words (perhaps on the notion of cloth used as a medium of exchange). The verb is first attested 1560s, from the noun. Pawnbroker is from 1680s; pawn-shop is from 1849.

5 Anna Raccoon May 29, 2010 at 16:07

Pedant,

http://www.myetymology.com/english/pignus.html

6 Pedant May 29, 2010 at 21:59: Ok, I’ll accept that pignus is Latin (or English for a pledge). That doesn’t mean that pawn, another word for pledge, derives from pignus. Which is a shame, because it would be neat if it did.

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7 Demetrius May 29, 2010 at 16:04

May I recommend Guy Mitchell’s “Theres A Pawnshop On The Corner” from around 1952? There are lots on You Tube.

8 Mick Turatian May 29, 2010 at 18:30

porcaque sua

Surely this should read sus rather than sua?

9 Pericles May 29, 2010 at 21:17

Could have used sus but I used porcus and porca. “And his sow.” My Latin’s rusty so I stand to be corrected.

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10 Mick Turatian May 30, 2010 at 07:38

Oh, I see. I was thinking a “Pig and a Swine”. The ref to Mrs Ovaries was lost on me. My Latin ‘O’-level was taken a while ago…

11 Pericles May 30, 2010 at 10:22

In a sense I was being rather unfair : it would be churlish not to admit that — at least till she starts to speak — Mrs. Balls is actually quite attractive.

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12 Anna Raccoon May 30, 2010 at 12:27: Pericles – you have been a hermit too long. Time to get out into the real world……..

13 g1lgam3sh May 29, 2010 at 22:47

There were a couple of decent campaign slogans on Guido’s too.

“Vote for the Scrote”

“Vote Balls, get a Cock”

14 Pericles May 30, 2010 at 22:41

“Pericles – you have been a hermit too long. Time to get out into the real world ……..” — Anna

Just goin’, Ma …

[exit S.R. followed by a raccoon]