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We don't ask questions like that here. You're making the bus less safe.

MacCrocodile on March 1, 2014 at 10:29 AM

It actually doesn't.

tacomagirl on March 1, 2014 at 10:33 AM

Project much?

MrBaker on March 1, 2014 at 10:41 AM

Or gobbling their flesh until their ribs are exposed.If that is any better.

Headlikeahole on March 1, 2014 at 10:44 AM

Can't drawn human figures just hug anymore?

Madskillz80 on March 1, 2014 at 10:44 AM

A penetrating question.

Pope Peabrain on March 1, 2014 at 10:53 AM

wut?

Urgutha Forka on March 1, 2014 at 10:54 AM

Former Catholic priest started new career as graphic artist?

rob! on March 1, 2014 at 10:55 AM

A: because you are a mental ten year old who sees a hug and thinks buttsex.

glerg on March 1, 2014 at 10:58 AM

You only see what your brain lets you.

Banna on March 1, 2014 at 11:00 AM

Huggery, not buggery.

TomJohnsonJr on March 1, 2014 at 11:17 AM

P.S. It's a nonprofit effort that's spread nationwide from YMCA of Louisville. To support it locally, donate to Youthcare, whose Safe Place coordinator Jillian Hill might cheerfully answer any snarky logo-related questions. http://www.youthcare.org/about-youthcare…

TomJohnsonJr on March 1, 2014 at 11:22 AM

It looks like a house with a giant jack-in-the-box inside.

Supreme Ruler Of The Universe on March 1, 2014 at 11:23 AM

Yes! I'm so glad I'm not the only one that thought that!

on March 1, 2014 at 11:36 AM

Odd. I've always seen that sign as a wrap-around breast grope.

TechBear on March 1, 2014 at 11:37 AM

Because you're a fucking demented sick short eyes that needs to be locked away?

on March 1, 2014 at 11:37 AM

It's the Janet Jackson Rolling Stone cover.

Tiffany on March 1, 2014 at 11:49 AM

Moreover, once we've ignored the people who want to read sexuality into the logo, why does it depict a white adult protecting a black child?

robotslave on March 1, 2014 at 12:03 PM

Wait, I was reading race into it there, and that seems inappropriate. My apologies.

The logo actually depicts a yellow adult protecting a black child.

robotslave on March 1, 2014 at 12:04 PM

I agree with @15 & 17. To me that graphic indicates a safe place for fondling someones tits from behind.

I don't see where the hell anal penetration comes into it.

Ophian on March 1, 2014 at 12:07 PM

There is no graphic that can't be interpreted sexually. We're just going to have to deal.

Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In on March 1, 2014 at 12:19 PM

The butt sex is compulsory. But it's safe.

sirkowski on March 1, 2014 at 12:25 PM

Question of the Day #2: Why can't Stranger writers learn to spell?

(It's buses.)

bigyaz on March 1, 2014 at 1:22 PM

@24

"busses" is an entirely correct spelling for the plural noun, if my copy of Webster's Third Unabridged is to be believed.

robotslave on March 1, 2014 at 1:54 PM

@26: "In 21st-century English, buses is the preferred plural of the noun bus. Busses appears occasionally, and dictionaries list it as a secondary spelling, but it’s been out of favor for over a century. This is true in all main varieties of English."

The word buss is a synonym for kiss. Its plural is busses.

bigyaz on March 1, 2014 at 2:00 PM

@27

You'll have to cite your source for that proscription. In present-day usage, lots and lots of writers, editors, and in-house style guides use "busses" to mean the plural of the vehicle.

robotslave on March 1, 2014 at 2:05 PM

@22: Really, a cup of coffee graphic, a steep hill graphic road sign, a diamond graphic, a swastika graphic?

Phoebe in Wallingford on March 1, 2014 at 2:17 PM

This is like a Rorschach test. I saw an oddly shaped fish skeleton superimposed on a cloverleaf inside a tiny house.

RainMan on March 1, 2014 at 5:23 PM

Ophian @21: Wishful thinking?

lolorhone on March 1, 2014 at 10:23 PM

If they have to shout "SAFE!" from the rooftops doesn't that mean it's about as "safe" as, say, a church?
Sexual aggression isn't the first thing I saw in the sign, but the mere fact of having to make that assertion spooks me.

SifuMark on March 2, 2014 at 4:36 AM

On third examination: When I give a hug for friendship or comfort our heads are never in that relative position. These two people are either head-bonking or snogging, inside of a phallic symbol no less.

Also it's bussing for me: two syllables, two letters (see the word syllable for an example). Say it with me: bus-sing.

SifuMark on March 2, 2014 at 4:43 AM

@23 lol

EricaP on March 2, 2014 at 8:41 AM

Well, at least no part of it forms a heart, so there's that. But really, didn't ANYBODY on the approval committee have a dirty enough mind to at least raise the issue of how this mark could be interpreted?

Westside forever on March 3, 2014 at 9:52 AM

It looks like that because both figures' lack of a neck make it appear that they are being viewed from above...or are both bending over. One person bending over another person who is bending over does have a certain air of aggression. It could also seem that the yellow figure was beginning to attempt the Heimlich maneuver on the black figure.

Redo the icon, give them necks, problem solved.

Drusilla on March 3, 2014 at 1:20 PM

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