In article <slr### [at] tealhhjpat>, 
hjp### [at] SiKituwsracat (Peter J. Holzer) wrote:

>> Pop quiz: What's NASA's logo? What's Amazon.com's logo? What's IBM's
>> logo?
>>
>> I think I'd be pretty safe in saying that _everyone_ here knows what 
>> those organisations are, but I would be very surprised if anyone
>> could describe the logos of all three.  Why is this the case? 
>> It's quite simply that NASA is 'NASA', IBM is 'IBM', and Amazon.com
>> is 'Amazon.com'. 
> 
> Er, no. While NASA may not have a logo (although I seem to connect the
> name always with a certain font where the "A" doesn't have a horizontal
> bar), Amazon and IBM do have a logo: Amazon has[1] a black triangle with
> a white meandring river in it (presumably the Amazon in an "A"). IBM has
> an intersection of the three letters "IBM" with horizontal bars.

I was trying to point out that we recognise those organisations by their 
distinctive names, as opposed to their their logos.  I was not 
suggesting that they didn't actually have logos.

Henry.

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