Jul 222010
Ye gods…
http://www.inspiredsilver.com/p948_the-modern-claddagh-ring.html
The Modern Claddagh Ring
If you don’t get why this is funny-fail, don’t worry… you’re probably better off. If you do get it, you’re probably like me, wondering if this was intentional.
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Ewwww.
now that is funny.
If they don’t know what they did, I envy their innocence.
If they do… well played.
Jim
Okay, maybe it looks like the hands are trying to pull the heart apart.
Modern Irish (say 150+ years) jewelry design has sucked, and those awful Claddagh rings rank right up there with today’s sterling silver cream ewers shaped like cows that are as common as lampreys in the Great Lakes.
Back in the Good Ol’ Days, before the filthy Protestant English political blight arrived, the Irish could turn out some beautiful workmanship regarding jewelry…as witness the 8th century Tara Brooch:
http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/Images/109images/insular/tara_brooch.jpg
That’s really impressive looking, isn’t it?
Especially when you consider that it’s only seven inches in overall length, so that some of that detail is damn near microscopic.
Another little Irish beauty was the Ardagh Chalice from the 9th century:
http://www.celtic-weddingrings.com/ardagh-chalice.asp
Which didn’t exactly suck from a artistic workmanship point of view either.
Both it and the Tara Brooch are national treasures of Ireland.
Oh, wait.
I think I just figured this out; it’s supposed to look like a pair of hands pulling a asshole wide, isn’t it?
Interesting Freudian take on the design concept, but it’s supposed to be two hands (a girl and her boyfriend, husband and wife, members of a family, or close friends…standing together in mutual love while grasping a single heart).
Frankly, if my rectum got spread so wide that my tailbone made a indentation in the top of it…causing it to resemble the shape of a heart…I’d be really concerned about the bowel movement that was about to follow, as I would think I was about to drop something the size of a softball into the toilet with a lot of screaming involved before it finally came out. 😀
Now that they’ve made rings and have them on the website, how can they gracefully back off? How can they admit what they have done, and then change the design? Will they get too many orders from a specific kind of person who may thank they for creating a new communications method?
I’d love to be listening as the women who created all that talk about how to escape from what they have done.
This is one of those times when their best option is to *completely* ignore the situation. The increased traffic will generate some additional income from the goofs who think it’s hilarious; their regular customer base will probably be completely oblivious. If they say or do anything, all it will do is increase attention and ridicule, with the possibility of turning off their customer base. Let it sit on the website until it’s had its business run, then quietly pull it in the next major catalog revision.
They all incorporate a heart and two hands BTW:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claddagh_ring
It’s just in this case they’ve changed how the hands are grasping the heart…which does make it look like they are trying to tear it apart.
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