So what really is going on here? It looks like a snake eating a person. I just never looked at it clos..ely.

It is sticking out its tongue St George's Flag. Just Italy's way of making fun of the English.

That really doesn't look like its tongue, it looks more like a man.

That snake must be related to the Saab...thingy. For the record, what is the Saab thingy supposed to be? A fire-breathing griffon?

What the hell's a griffon?

The Saab logo is just a griffin with its tongue sticking out. It happened after Saab became Saab Scania.

I'm pretty sure the AF is just a combination of Italian coat of arms?


Edit: After some quick research. The Alfa dragon thing, is actually a child devouring serpent. It now gets my vote for best logo ever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscione

And if you ask "who is Harry Potter" or "what is a Hobbit," I'm going to have to conclude that you're the victim of child neglect.



Seconded.

I have never seen a single harry pooper movie.

That "griffon" is probably the gayest thing I've ever seen, what is it from?

"Here we just sell small rectangular objects. They're called books. They require a little effort on your part, and make no bee-bee-bee-bee-beeps. On your way please."

Actually .. the entire cast could have died of plague in the first 5 min of the first movie for i care.

okay i wasn't gonna say anything but seriously onikozah... a griffin is such a well known mythological creature...

it originated in ancient Greece and is used in cathedrals and mythology throughout history. it's half eagle/hawk and half lion.

it's a fairly well known creature.

I've heard of the name, never knew what exactly it was. Knew it was Greek too. I've overheard some kids before talking about World of Warcraft, and saying they "rode a Griffin."

Miltov's griffin sucked. This one's awesome:





That is fantastic...entirely meaningless and ridiculous. Yes! I really cannot believe I was right.

At least my griffin didn't, you know, wear jewelry.



Books. Have you ever tried them?

Yeah, who needs three thousand years of history, we have WoW...



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin

I have no interest in the harry pooper stories so i cant be bothered to read them. Nice generalization though.

WIN.

Überwin

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Man, no matter how much you hate Harry Potter movies or books, you still have to read the book or see one of the movies.





Just so you can see what it's all about.

With Harry Potter, you gotta read the books. The movies are dumb, and are a pale shadow of the books. At best.

The LOTR movies are good, but only if you've read the book.

In general: when a story is first a book, then a movie, read the book. Or at least don't judge the book's quality by the movie.

It's always annoying though when people say the book is much better than the movie. Even if it is, still annoying to hear it.

I'm going to have to agree with Onikozah, and as for LOTR i couldn't stand to read the book but i really liked and understood all the movies.

I read the first Harry Potter book, and never read anything past that. Just not a fan.

Same here, and LOTR sucks

IF you ever read a book you would understand.

Oh, I understand. Don't assume all people who would rather watch a movie than read a book, don't read at all.

ZOMG!! you didnt read book because you have no time or interest in read childrens novels!!! you are so dumb.

Well just the other day a couple of my friends made everyone watch all the Harry Potter movies up to number 4. I fell asleep during the first one, left halfway through the second one, couldn't watch all of the third one, but I watched the entire fourth movie and I actually really liked that one.

So, uhh, in my opinion, the fourth movie is good, don't really know about the rest.

The book is always better becuase there is more detail in it and it is left to people's own imagination. The assumption come is based off your statement becuase most people who get pleasure out of reading understand that. It is exactly what Mitlov said, movies are just a pale shadow of the books.

I have discovered that knowing harry potter is a good ice breaker. I think J.K. Rowling is a horrible writer who basis her writing solely off a single formula repeated several times.

My beef was not with people who like movies. Film is an amazing art form. My beef is, when there's a famous series of books, which has a spin-off series of movies, I hate it when people talk about it like only the movies exist. As in:



In short, I hate it when a movie is made out of a book, and the book subsequently ceases to exist in popular culture, for all intents and purposes.

What?

He's saying that once a movie is made after a book the book tends to become less popular. :\

Not just that it becomes less popular. It's that people don't even associate the story, the concept, and the characters with the book anymore. I don't like how a derivative movie completely eclipses the original book in the minds of many. I hate that when you mention "Harry Potter," people assume that you're talking about the movies as opposed to the book. It'd be like if you mentioned the New Testament and someone assumed you were talking about some Charlton Heston movie.

Well I was interested in LOTR when I watched the first movie, so I continued on watching the next two movies of the trilogy. I loved the story, so I bought the 3 books with the prologue The Hobbit. It's story is far more interesting in the books because the movie left out some parts which is quite interesting. So books win, LOTR too.

the Harry Potter movies and books both suck. Lotr was meh. the books were alright and the movies were good.

now harry potter seems to have spawned things like Eragon. crappy kid fantasy movies.

stop talking about books fags. the topic is about the Alfo Romeo logo.

Holly crap no need for flaming!

Grow the fuck up and quit using epithets. You wouldn't call people "spics" or "kikes," would you?

Eragon was also a book first, just for the record, released in 2003. I don't know if it was any good, but we sold plenty when I worked at Barnes & Noble. In short, Eragon is a book first and a movie second, just like LOTR and Harry Potter.

For the record, I hate you.