"Mom, does God has a last name?" "No son, that`s his only name." Thanks Mr Hadley Stern, all the way from Toronto, Canada, for bringing us this short conversation, he had over heard in a quiet streetcar somewhere in rainy Amsterdam last summer. Welcome back to `Do you get it?` and thanks to you all for visiting our site and dropping off your reactions. And yes, we understood that the last Do you get it? was an easier one because more entries did come close to the right answer. But first some other `typographic` messages. From the United States we received the news that recently at one of the m&m-candie factories an employee got fired. As a "product-quality-checker" he was throwing out the m&m`s with `w`s printed on them. Oops, that`s bad, funny and stupid at the same time. Thanks to a certain Marisa from we do-not-know-where. Ms Leslie Mello from New York, NY told us that it isn`t that funny to have your car towed in her city. To get it back you have to go by subway to a far and giant parking lot on the East banks of the Hudson. Over there busses are riding around to drop you off at your own car. But before they let you board that shuttle, you have to pay for your fine, and not that little. Above the head of the one collecting all the money hangs a sign with the text: "the cashier has nothing to do with the towing of you car". A second message from Toronto, Canada, told us that not God but Jesus actually had a last name. It was `Christ`, Jesus Christ. Ok, Mr Hadley Stern, lets return to typography, because the matter discussed in this quiz over here is the face of type, their looks. And yes, some did remember that really well. Like an entry from Scotland, sent to us by Mr Nick Prescott, stating: "Hey `do you get it?` did you know that the typeface `Cooper Black` seems to me like a font dipped in chocolate. So they could sell that type face with the slogan `Cooper Black, the only face that`s chocolate dipped!`."Eh... thanks Mr Nick Prescott, funny, but not really the answer to the questions of our quiz. An other entry came to us, sitting on the bus between Boston and New York. "Do you get it? what? Do you like Gill Sans? Sure. What does it remind you of? The grandmother of Tobias Frere Jones. Do you use it? No. Why not? I don`t like it that much. Who made it? Eric Gill. What do you know about him? Englishman. He made a typeface I do use a lot, Joanna. Also he was a person not liked by many. That`s what I heard. Do you know when Gill Sans was published? No, I`d say the 1890`s, by Monotype. What do you think about 1928? Not a bad year. Was it that what it was? Yes, and you still think that you can win? Yes. But you didn`t know the date. You know, I knew it was in the twenties, but because of his colaboration with Johnston of the London underground I thought it might have been earlier. Ok, ok, we sorted out a lot of the questions. Now the last one, what do you like to win? A trip to Cuba. Why? Why not? That`s no answer. Yes it is. Why Cuba? Because Iım not suppost to go there and I hear the music is really good. But what has that to do with the Gill Sans? Nothing, it`s not Cuban. Come on, we already gave away a trip as a prize, so something else. Something from there. So, we have to go over there to get you something? Yes. Ok, that`s the prize, we will get you something from Cuba." On the bus, on his way to his grandmother in New York, Mr James Wynn from Chicago, Il, ‹the winner. And at last we got a third electronic mail message from Toronto, Canada, asking us: "Did you get my message about Jesus Christ, funny he?" Yes, Mr Hadley Stern, we did receive it and we think it is very funny. Send your solutions for the next `do you get it?` to Christiaan Vermaas [fax +1 401 454 6117] mentioning `I get it!`. From the good entries, we will give away only one prize. To become the lucky one, send us the name of the typeface of the shown sign, with the name of the designer and what you have to say about it. Lastly you have to mention what kind of prize you would like to win. Those are the rules and we wish you success.

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