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On the frontcover there is a symbol, does anybody know exactly what it represents?
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I got that tattooed on my arm years ago. I asked Wayne about it and he said "I have no idea probably some Japanese crap that Andy was into at the time"
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Good enough for me! :D

If memory serves, it showed up first on the Walk Away 12" and - I think - was used on the Black October tour. Given the tendency to - ahem - appropriate cover art from various sources, I wouldn't be surprised if this had originally come from a print or painting or similar.
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looks like sun eclipse on the wester sky :roll:
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Well it is a crescent and a line. I guess the line represents the horizon.
Maybe sunrise or sunset?
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Nah, fiver says it's one of these (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_(crest)):

http://www.flopdesign.com/fordesign/kamon2.gif
http://www.flopdesign.com/fordesign/kamon3.gif
http://www.flopdesign.com/fordesign/kamon4.gif
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http://www.flopdesign.com/fordesign/kamon4.gif

isnt the 2nd one in on the top row a mish logo? :lol:
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Von might have had a japanese crest in mind but I think it's probably something he designed himself.
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Quiff Boy wrote:http://www.flopdesign.com/fordesign/kamon4.gif

isnt the 2nd one in on the top row a mish logo? :lol:
One needs to be able to count to higher numbers than three for it.
Nope.
7th of first row or 8th of 8th row. ;D




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It's a stylised depiction of the head of a bull, representing "ersatz hippy bullshit", as any fule kno.
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:lol: .... hum of the powerlines ... again ...

I'd like to know the year of manufacture of this, say, thing ...
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What? That image there? I just did it this morning :lol:
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:D ... ah, I had wondered, looks like from a catalogue ... :lol:
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I have the Photoshop-fu. ;D
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It looks like the top of a male genital organ with a barbells-piercing shot through ...

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I always liked the 'other' logo... and was very happy when I spotted a tattood one on a lady's shoulder the other week. She was in front of us in the queue to get icecream... icescream for crow ;D
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markfiend wrote:I have the Photoshop-fu. ;D
What is Photoshop-fu? ... :eek: ... My version is something like 6.0 ... :lol:
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lachert wrote:looks like sun eclipse on the western sky :roll:
It's one of these pictures one can, say, flip and see from two directions ... like a tunnel ... :D
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markfiend wrote:I have the Photoshop-fu. ;D
have a word with me fiendy :|
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as a professional designer (they pay me for this shit) I have searched long and hard for reprazent!ations of the Black October symbol and only two ring true, and they're missing the bar
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Being645 wrote:
markfiend wrote:I have the Photoshop-fu. ;D
What is Photoshop-fu? ... :eek: ... My version is something like 6.0 ... :lol:
Sorry, it's a joke, Photoshop-fu like kung-fu :lol:
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:lol:

... ah, I should have gathered ...
maybe it's the slight difference between Fu and Chi that blinded my comprehension partially ... :lol:

Thanks for explaining ... :D ... :notworthy:
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markfiend wrote:Image
At least I now know what this is supposed to mean:
For those who do not know, The Sisters of Mercy are a rock'n'roll band. And a pop band. And an industrial groove machine. Or so they say. They make records. Lots of records, in fact. But not in your galaxy.
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I found this symbol before many years in a book of astronomy.
According that book, this is the symbol of Charon planet, which is a kind of Pluto's moon.
Charon was also the ferryman who ferried the dead to the underworld (in Greek mythology).
I took a quick look on the net and I didn't find the symbol exactly.
But I found that:

http://www.space-art.co.uk/gallery.php? ... -of-Charon

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