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

Hah, I was thinking that the other smiley face was the first one, but the top left corner was the nose, like it was in profile.

Amazed by many of these logos, but esp. FedEx arrow. So elegant. There's a brief interview with the designer here: http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000273.php.
One other thing about the logo: the bottom of "ed" in Fed falls ever so slightly below the writing line. Wheels of a truck? Or am I making stuff up now I can't look at logos in a normal way any longer..?

I can see it now. YAY!

yeah the big smilie face is just a big version of the same g!

that spartan golf logo is genius

and yes idgi the lyle's logo. bees eating a dead lion? that's not a trick of the eye it's just fucked up

Wish there was a 'bees eating a dead lion' exhibit at the zoo.

I always thought that the bees were building a nest inside the dead lion?

the g in goodwill

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:28 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg!

maybe it's like those parasites that control animals, and the bees turn the lion into a puppet and it's like a zombie bee-filled lion

how could would THAT be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLCZjw2FXPE

dogs lions

that spartan golf course one is amazing

And then you break open the bee controlled zombie lion like a pinata and golden syrup comes out?

Because I think that's what JFK really wanted NASA to work on, but he settled for telling them to go to the moon instead.

the only thing cooler than a zombie lion bee golden syrup pinata is the moon, tbh

i never noticed the 31 in the BR before. That explains why that logo always makes my head hurt though.

xp If it was a zombie bee golden syrup pinata moon, then I'd agree with you.

idk a decomposing lion swarmed with bees sounds like a fitting emblem for a product called 'treacle'

I wish they hadn't shut down the space missions; we could send a bee-filled zombie lion to the moon.

xp Golden syrup isn't the same as treacle

At least in the colloquial English sense. 'treacle' usually refers to black treacle.

Except when talking about 'treacle tart', which is usually made with golden syrup.

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.