Talk:I Love New York/Archives/2013

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I heart

Mentioning the "I heart ..." expression is not a casual observation. Its currency in US slang is easily verifiable, and it is quite obvious that its origin is the I♥NY logo. (Though it was not the first to use the heart in a rebus form, there is no doubt it made it popular and recognizable around the world.) A Google search on the expression, even excluding NY, "New York", and the "Huckabees" film gets 1.7 million hits [1] and returns such varied results as I Heart Bacon, I Heart Rootkit, I Heart Jake, I Heart Wool, I Heart Morgan Webb, I Heart Rummage, I Heart Gitmo, etc. N.B. many of these do not use the heart symbol at all, only the text e.g. I Heart Rummage. This is a very significant slang expression which should be noted in the article. Dforest 03:11, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

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Lampooning this phrase has become relatively common, to various degrees of success. A website selling various t-shirts changed the heart to an outline of a plane, following September 11th.

This seems redundant after describing 'countless knock-offs' and I don't think its prudent to start a list of them. --Dforest 03:32, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

The I (airplane) NY is likely not notable as it's not used often, but a few more common variants come to mind:

I L♥VERMONT (I love Vermont)
I ♥ my dog, cat, whatever... as a bumper sticker
I ♥ whatever... but with the (heart) maliciously replaced by another symbol, usually a (club)
I (spade) my cat
Gary Larson's classic Far Side monster driving with I8NY (I ate New York) vanity pl8s
MAD Magazine's "I'd (heart) NY but a mugger (club)bed me with a (spade) and grabbed my (diamond)s."

If reference to any of these published works turn up elsewhere in Wikipædia, perhaps a "see also" from this article would be in order? --carlb 03:45, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

The logo is the origin of heart = word: Love?

In the Heart (symbol) article, it states: "The use of the heart symbol as a logograph for the English verb "to love" derives from the use in "I ♥ NY", introduced in 1977," yet this article makes no mention to such an important fact (if true.) Is it true/verifiable? If so, it definitely has a place in the article, doesn't it? Dancindazed (talk) 07:19, 5 July 2013 (UTC)