Pictures, art, logos, etc, that took you a long time to interpret correctly

mmm treacle tart

is treacle delicious? i hope it doesn't taste like meat bees.

treacle tastes like delicious, not at all like meat bees

Treacle sponge is also golden syrup iirc. And my parents called the golden syrup cake "treacle cake" but 1. Google is not backing me up there 2. apparently there is also a McVitie's / Lyle's black treacle cake which I have never seen in the shops and now want to try.

(Even though there is currently a cake turning to cardboard in my fridge after we ate about 2 slices each, because we are not big cake eaters. Not that you'd know it to look at me)

we need to get back to talking about signs before I start waxing lyrical about golden syrup DUMPLINGS!

Always called this 'golden syrup sponge'
http://www.deliaonline.com/Images/xlarge/ma009-steamed-treacle-spon2-18791.jpg

In 1982 necrophage bees were discovered--bees that feed on carrion. But they don't make honey in carcasses. They spit on the rotting meat and then slurp up the broken-down protein slurry and bring it back to the hive where it's partially digested again and deposited in little containers to feed the larvae.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VyLSuy6fSAU/TIbzgLLDQPI/AAAAAAAAAHo/-V8nV1QiJgo/s1600/IMG_0001.JPG

Pour that over your sponge cake.

Stop trying to kill my treacle buzz...

this thread suddenly went from awesome to disgusting

meacle

i want to see and misinterpret the logo of a fitness drink called 'protein slurry', please provide.

http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Protein_slurry_pack

Protein slurry packs are canned food consumed by terrans. It appears that their taste leaves something to be desired.

we get 'meat bees' on the back patio at work - they're attracted to food and they're kind of weird and gross

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/SurreyCC.png
It took me years to figure out that this logo was supposed to be two interlocking oak leaves.

ha i just gis'd a bunch of protein shakes and all the logos for that stuff are decidedly straightforward

wonder if the fedex logo designer(s) were ever tempted by:

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/fedexlogo.jpg

The logo of the BBC Computer Literacy Project...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/BBC_owl.svg/200px-BBC_owl.svg.png
For a while I thought it was a movie camera, but it's supposed to be an owl.

xp that kind of reads 'FedFux'

not quite what I was looking for:

http://www.cherryflava.com/cherryflava/images/meatshake.jpg

wow @ that goodwill logo reveal

i don't think i've ever noticed that the 'g' in goodwill and the halfsmiley were the same thing

yeah, that's pretty cool.

too me a couple seconds to scan & decode the bbc computer literacy project logo, but i got the owl before i read the description. love that one.

also amazed by the secret meat shake. not sure whether or not i want to know...

the secret is PIG'S BLOOD

"We have lavender honey, orange blossom honey and some rather scrumptious carrion honey."

taste the secret

meat shake

What is that, the title to a porno?

village people, iirc

do the meat shake
the meat shake
do the shake

the problem with the WH Smith logo snoball posted a ways back is that it's so counter-intuitive with regard to standard reading patterns. in decoding english, the eye wants to go right to left, top to bottom, but that logo insists that we go bottom to top. the first thing we hit is that squared-off 'W', which looks more like an upside-down 'M' (a letter that's much more commonly squared like that), which makes me want to read it spinning clockwise, left to right: MSH.

smh

I need to lie down

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zmoEeqomXD4/SapaRu7-1oI/AAAAAAAABcs/UnF0OU-c5T4/s400/yamaha.jpg
Yamaha - three tuning forks

^ very timeless logo

I was like, wait don't they make motorcycles...and then ohhhh the music manufacturer lol

that's cool, I never noticed that

whoa had never noticed that yamaha thing

abbott's post about the brains is killing me btw

I never knew what the Batman logo was until Batman Returns came out. I always wondered what the hell a bumpy yellow oval had to do with Batman.

― franny glass, Thursday, May 10, 2012 12:26 AM (21 hours ago)

For a couple of months in the run up to the release of the 1989 Batman movie, there were billboards everywhere with just the logo, nothing else, no text, except maybe the date of the movie's release.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3c/Batman_ver2.jpg
During that time, I kept wondering to myself WTF this mouthful of rotten yellow teeth was all about.

yeah, i'm told there's a vase in here somewhere:

http://nowscape.com/images/Illusion_Mex-Vase.jpg

Still can't interpret these correctly...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Stereogram_Tut_Random_Dot_Shark.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stereogram_Tut_Random_Dot_Shark.png

love magic eyes. shark!

hate those fuckin things

have never ever gotten a single one of those. my eyes are broken, I guess.

I have literally never been able to see one of those magic eye things ever.

years of failing colorblind dot tests in science class kinda ruined me for staring at that bullshit, lol

The question that had to be polled.
Magic Eye pictures - can you see them or not?

the animated version of that one is really cool
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Stereogram_Tut_Animated_Shark_Small.gif

It's like staring at a belt sander.

or a river of vomit

wau @ that animated shark. can hardly tell what i'm looking at, but it's trippy as hell. flickering canyons.

a belt sander or vom river with weird windows into other realms