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USA Today Graphic Gets A Lot Of Attention Due To A…Suggestive Illustration

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A Snapshot graphic that ran in the USA Today this past Friday has been getting some unwanted attention throughout the Internet today. The graphic explains the dangers of excessive heat and depicts a cartoon sun holding a thermometer. That’s not what it looks like though…

What does it look like? I’m not going to tell you. You’ll have to ask your parents.

Hopefully this will give the rest of you a little smile at the end of your workday.


(h/t Charles Apple via Poynter)

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  • TangledThorns

    OMFG, lol.

  • Dem4Ever

    Barbara Walters looks like the Sun when she’s got sunglasses on.

  • szore

    ROFL

  • Steve_27

    Hot Hot Hot!!!

  • MediaiteCensorsSux

    very stupid story.

  • Mia Kulper

    Dear lord! The graphics artist who created that really should be canned. This was no boating accident.

  • 2012freedom

    That is friggin’ hilarious. I even like the expression on the face of the sun – LOL.

  • Mia Kulper

    This is somebody who doesn’t need their job.

  • jonathan

    This is just the kind of subversive humor I want in an illustrator. I might even open a USA Today hoping for more.

  • Mia Kulper

    Really? You don’t think this is screaming out “FIRE ME!”

    It’s funny, sure and gutsy no doubt, but if “corporate” doesn’t fire this guy, then something is wrong upstairs.

    Then what’s next for USAToday? A centerfold?

  • AmericaSucks

    Hottest masturbation session ever.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ryan-Cooper/1058087532 kswheels

    I guess I sort of see it. Kind of. Not sure I would if it weren’t spelled out for me though.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ryan-Cooper/1058087532 kswheels

    Mia Kulper said:
    Really? You don’t think this is screaming out “FIRE ME!”

    It’s funny, sure and gutsy no doubt, but if “corporate” doesn’t fire this guy, then something is wrong upstairs.

    In order to fire the guy they would have to admit what the drawing implied. I don’t see that happening.

  • Mia Kulper

    Admit to who? The shareholders? No, I don’t think they’d have to admit anything., at least not anything that isn’t already very apparent, in newstands everywhere across the nation.

    No, seriously, if this guy isn’t fired tomorrow I’d be surprised, but ya never know.

  • Mia Kulper

    There are prolly 10 people waiting in line for that job, whatever it pays.

  • bumsrush

    That’s funny. Now, let’s go look up dirty words in the dictionary! Next, we’ll check out the lingerie section of the Sears & Roebuck catalogue!

  • lobodons

    So thats how you get heat stroke.

  • Nature Freaky

    lobodons said:
    So thats how you get heat stroke.

    If there was a post of the day contest on Mediaite, this would be a prime contender.

    Extreme LOL!

  • JacksonGT

    Can’t stop laughing! That is hysterical! Don’t fire him; promote that guy!

  • Nature Freaky

    bumsrush said:
    That’s funny. Now, let’s go look up dirty words in the dictionary! Next, we’ll check out the lingerie section of the Sears & Roebuck catalogue!

    I do not know about lingerie, but apparently the mens underwear section of the Sears catalogue pushed the envelope back in the day.

    http://www.snopes.com/business/hidden/sears.asp

    I will stick with the Victoria’s Secret Catalogue.

  • Nature Freaky

    Mia Kulper said:
    Dear lord! The graphics artist who created that really should be canned. This was no boating accident.

    If I was a graphic artist, I would probably be fired for doing something like this.

    Nature Freak salutes USA Today.

  • Laddy Go-Rod

    “that’ll be twenty bucks, please.”

  • CaptainAmerica

    It looks like a graphic they’d use on “Red Eye”.

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  • Paul G

    2012freedom said:
    That is friggin’ hilarious. I even like the expression on the face of the sun – LOL.

    is the sun blowing or sucking? HAHAHAHAHA

  • Tedderman

    That reminds me, if you plan to go nude sunbathing this summer, don’t forget the sunscreen.

  • felixw

    USA Today stole this image from one of Anthony Weiner’s tweets.

  • Gasket

    I like how the business end is red too. LOL. Seriously. Must. Find. Better. Editors.

  • Nature Freak

    Now that it’s the end of September, there needs to be a follow up to this story.

    So many questions to be answered…

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