We Reach (UPDATED)

This can't be serious.

The over-45 crowd will be reminded of one of the worst and goofiest episodes of any of the Star Treks.

George Bush had his three-fingered W salute that supporters flashed when greeting him at presidential campaign events in 2000. And now, if a Los Angeles creative agency gets its way, Sen. Barack Obama will see fans meet him with his own salute like the one above. "Our goal is to see a crowd of 75,000 people at Obama's nomination speech holding their hands above their heads, fingers laced together in support of a new direction for this country, a renewed hope, and acceptance of responsibility for our future," says Rick Husong, owner of The Loyalty Inc. Husong tells me that he got the idea after seeing the famous Obama-Progress poster by artist Shepherd Fairey. "We wanted to get involved some way," he says. So, the agency came up with their own a symbol of hope and progress that also plays off Obama's name. "We thought, 'Let's try and start a movement where even while walking down the street, people would hold up the O and you would know that they were for Obama,' " says Husong.

Can something be creepy and silly at the same time?

(Thanks to Instapundit)

UPDATE: At the above Wiki link, there's this synopsis of the ST episode in question, The Way to Eden:

The Enterprise is hijacked by an insane doctor and his fanatical followers in an attempt to find paradise.

"Right."

UPDATE: There's nothing like the ridicule of your opponents.

Ms. Malkin has additional suggestions as to how Obama supporters can identify each other.

Van der Leun has the appropriate title.

The One Ring?

Confederate Yankee has the appropriate slogan (scroll to end).

UPDATE: Here's a Way to Eden video. Someone over a Ace's notices that the Star Trek aliens in the episode have...um...ear issues similar to the good senator under discussion.

UPDATE: Kinda, sorta, suggestive of Not Safe For Work...

And folks are just piling on now...so to speak.

Comments

[Maggie100]

No, the goofiest was 'Spock's Brain'. On the other hand, I can't even get MY brain around this idea. Absolutely creepy and silly at the same time. They're serious? Really and truly?

[MarketMan]

The photo has cropped the red, white and black arm band of our new Obama-led National Socialist Movement. I hope they make that correction in the upcoming posters.

[yochanan]

5. The “A-OK”
Mainly used by scuba divers to mean “OK” (to prevent ambiguity with the thumbs-up sign, which means “ascend”), this hand gesture is generally called ‘A-OK’, and in America and the UK is often used to tell somebody that they’ve made a great meal, as talking with your mouth would just be impolite. Essentially the meaning comes out as “great”, or “absolutely fine”.

Not so, however, in a few countries in Europe, where the numerical interpretation gives the signal an insulting overtone – essentially you’re telling them that you think they’re a ‘zero’.

Far worse, however, is the meaning in Brazil, Germany and a few Mediterranean countries: the circular shape of the gesture gives it the meaning of “anus”, and is therefore used to call somebody an “asshole”, or, by extension, a homosexual.

the brokeback mtn. version here i think

[Beth Donovan]

Oh, that is just ridiculous - actually, that graphic makes me think of a body part.

I corrected it here:

http://www.thedonovan.com/beth/archives/2008/08/all_these_graph.html

[waltj]

No Freudian interpretations. Just looks like a big zero to me.

[middleagedhousewife]

To make the sign in greeting to another Believer, one must a contortionist. Go ahead, try it! Pretend you're walking down the sidewalk and want to favor your Liberal friend w/ the salute. For it to be seen as in the above picture, YOU MUST WALK BACKWARDS! Like they say .... you can't make this up!
(Please pardon the caps.)

[Venomous Kate]

Gee, the first thing I thought when I saw that graphic was "Goat Boy".

Don't Google that. I mean it.

[baldilocks]

Too late. Get out the eye bleach.

Don't look it up at work, Mom!!!!