All my life, I thought the Montreal Expos logo said “ello”. I could not figure out why the HELL… it would say this. I thought about how the Montreal Canadiens are nicknamed the Habs, a reference you wouldn’t get unless you knew something about the history of Quebec. I figured maybe it was something like that, and that maybe I would get it when I was older. And then the team left Montreal in 2004 and then who cares after that. But of course you see the occasional diehard still wearing a hat with the mysterious logo, as I did today when I was leaving the library. In that split-second it dawned on me… it’s an M!!! Get it? M for Montreal! Can you see it too? Thank goodness, one more mystery from my childhood to strike off the list.
This reminds me of my confusion over the logo for the Bay (you know, the Hudson’s Bay Company, that good ol’ Canadian department store).
Does that look like a B to you? It definitely didn’t to me when I was a kid. A B looks like this: B. This to me looked like a screwed up M with a tail, not at all like the Bs my teacher wrote on the board. While I knew that it was called “the Bay”, whenever I looked at the logo I would say in my head ”MmmmhfhhjfjBBbaaay”. Until one day when I was maybe 11 we were driving by and I looked at it a little differently and suddenly a B appeared in my field of vision. It looked so weird! So wrong! Bring back the mysterious non-letter! I have regressed: now whenever I look at it I still say “MmmmhfhhjfjBBbaaay” in my head.
Being a kid is WEIRD cause the world just doesn’t make sense.
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kerri
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I am so, so, SO with you on The Bay. Like “What kind of SCREWED UP B IS THAT??” I remember thinking that ALL THE TIME as a kid going into the Bwwkkkmmm-ay. Like really, WHAT were they thinking when they designed that.
[And the President's Choice logo.]