Actually, Rick, "Mr Yuk" was invented by the Poison Control Center of the
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1971. It is the visual
inverse of the "Smiley Face", and was intented to warn pre-reading children
that the container's contents something bad for them. See:
http://www.chp.edu/mryuk/05a_mryuk.php
BTW, the famous yellow smiley face was invented about 1951 or 1952 by my
next door neighbor, Kurt Plowitz, a UN artist, and was originally used in a
UNICEF fund raising campaign, called "A Smile for UNICEF". I still have a
children's jigsaw puzzle from the original campaign. Being the UN, of
course, they didn't bother to copyright it. It resurfaced in the mid-60's in
the US when an Indiana radio station started an add campaign based on it,
and has been ubitquitous ever since.
Clive
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick McGowan [mailto:rick@unicode.org]
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 12:55 PM
To: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Re: MISTER YUCK
"Mr YuK" is a logo put out by the National Capital Poison Center.
It comes on stickers like this:
http://www.poison.org/mrYuk.htm
Rick
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