LaticsChris Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Oldham's badge is The Awoken Owl. The Awoken Owl was known all around the Oldham area for being a very light sleeper and ill-tempered when roused from slumber during the day. Wordsworth, who often wandered these parts, probably makes reference to this owl in verse 42 of his poem Address To A Knot of Limestone Pavement near Todmorden: By turn and turn, to Oldham woods / Through frozen boughs, by moonlight dazzled / Here aloft an owl surveyed / Abrupt in nature, offish, frazzled. The main problem was that, this part of the country being very picturesque, those, like Wordsworth, who tended to outwardly exult in the natural beauty and the Infinite Grace behind its creation, would generally wake up the owl with their rapturous outbursts when he was attempting to get some sleep. Mothers would warn their children to be very quiet in these woods so as not to awaken the owl, as he could be very testy and no one wants to see the bed-head of an agitated owl close up. He is commemorated in Oldham's badge as a warning to other teams of the danger of awakening this sleeping giant of a club. So no one has. From When Saturday Comes' weekly email: 'The Weekly Howl' Linky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorrro Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 He is commemorated in Oldham's badge as a warning to other teams of the danger of awakening this sleeping giant of a club. So no one has. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Wight Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Can we not just wake it up ourselves? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsslatic Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 When I got back to the car on Saturday I realised in the elation of the celebrations coming out of the ground I had lost my Latics woolly hat somewhere between the City Ground and Meadow Lane. I'm going to need to purchase another one but my ambivalence towards the new badge is such that I'm wary. This thread has reminded me of my current troubled position, new hat or no hat?! I'd be grateful for any assistance on one of life's great dilemmas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorrro Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Just get a nice normal hat that you can wear in other situations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsslatic Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Just get a nice normal hat that you can wear in other situations. I have one of those. But without a special hat to wear for the football how else will I bring the lads the luck they've enjoyed for the last twenty years? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorrro Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Oh, so it's your fault is it? Good riddance to the hat, I say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego_Sideburns Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 He is commemorated in Oldham's badge as a warning to other teams of the danger of awakening this sleeping giant of a club. This goes back to the days when Latics were sponsored by Slumberland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego_Sideburns Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 ... new hat or no hat?! I'd be grateful for any assistance on one of life's great dilemmas. A new hat is a way of using up those TeamCard points before the end on the month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinevillawill Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 'The Awoken Owl' is on a similar level of sarcasm as the town motto 'sapere aude' or 'dare to be wise'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosa Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 I love Cameron Carter's surrealist stuff in WSC. He's a lot more complimentary about us than he was about MK: MK Dons are both pleasing to the eye and successful, but then so was Ted Bundy for a long period in the 1970s. The clinical nature of the badge will not endear the club to those who might be considering giving them a break. This crest resembles the kind of trophy set aside for Most Sporting Reserve Player ("Always turns out, helps put the nets up") at a Sunday league team's end-of-season awards night. The shape might suggest a stylised rendering of a wolf perhaps, but there haven't been wolves in Milton Keynes for years, certainly not since the review of the waste disposal procedure at Denbigh North Retail Park. Slipped in alongside the trophy or possible-wolf, the club's name reminds us of the awful compromise attempted by the owners to mollify the neutral fan, gaffa-taping the original club's nickname on to their initials. Surely for a club that has stolen another club's identity, an image more likely to appease, such as a panda in Bermuda shorts, would have been the best way forward. If I ever kidnapped next door's boy – well why does he insist on leaning his scooter against my wall? – I would wear a nice calming green t-shirt with a rabbit on when I went round to present my ransom demand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shorelatic Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 My take on the new badge is that it is a blatant advertisement for wealthy arab royalty to either invest heavily in us or come and take us over. You have a fierce looking owl that could be mistaken for a hunting bird of prey that they seem to like in that part of the world. Behind the fierce owl is obviously a pyramid, world famous in the middle east and behind the pyramid sand dunes which they also have plenty of - all to make our new arab investors feel at home. Simples!!! (all we have to worry about is the potential conflict between our current jewish owners and the potential arab investors) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M35FYC Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 i don't care whether its inspired by Wordsworth or a clever ploy for future investment.... its dreadful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Ritchie Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Owl Oh Win Latics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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