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

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http://www.caufields.com/productimages/Halloween/Hat/Images/16_8010.jpg

i will show you fear in a handful of nuts (how's life), Thursday, 10 May 2012 00:47 (fourteen years ago)

Did he soak a straw hat in Hawaiian Punch? Between that and all the punching, I'm a little concerned for his mental health.

You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 10 May 2012 01:01 (fourteen years ago)

xp Or a hand with finger pointed.

― fit and working again, Wednesday, May 9, 2012 8:19 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

always saw this when i was a kid

mizzell, Thursday, 10 May 2012 01:08 (fourteen years ago)

Speaking of old baseball logos:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_t9cz_Wm8jtw/SelR4X2YkPI/AAAAAAAAALI/ZC5T-Pb1v20/s400/brewers+logo+classic.jpg

I never saw that the mitt is made up of an M and a B until years later...

Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 10 May 2012 04:49 (fourteen years ago)

charlie brown isn't bald -- schulz explained in an interview once that he is meant to have 'very light blond hair.'

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 10 May 2012 06:11 (fourteen years ago)

oh wow that brewers thing

yoel rak (toandos), Thursday, 10 May 2012 06:38 (fourteen years ago)

There's a popular Finnish comic strip that has character who looks like this (the bald guy):

http://www.cupika.fi/images/etusivu.gif http://www.kvaak.fi/images/articles/02092008154249-1.jpg

For the longest time I was wondering, "Why the heck does he have a weird skin flab under his nose?!". Then I happened to read some of the early strips where he was drawn a bit differently, and it turns out he's supposed to have a "boxer's nose": the upper curve is supposed to be the bridge of his nose, and the lower curve is the actual nose. I still get angry at the artist anytime I see the strip in the papers: there's no way the reader can interpret those two bits as part of the same nose!!

Tuomas, Thursday, 10 May 2012 09:53 (fourteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31MT74YPBQL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

WTF does '3'3'3. even mean?

btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Thursday, 10 May 2012 09:56 (fourteen years ago)

not exactly misinterpreted, but ever since someone pointed it out to me I've never been able to look at the London 2012 logo without seeing Lisa Simpson giving someone a blowjob.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2007/06/04/logo2128.jpg

my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 10 May 2012 09:58 (fourteen years ago)

oh god

btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Thursday, 10 May 2012 10:07 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.celebitchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/olympiclogoheader.jpg

Adding colours makes it even more obvious.

Tuomas, Thursday, 10 May 2012 10:56 (fourteen years ago)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffzQq5etXos/SaFgTJO79RI/AAAAAAAAAYc/kJxelZgyD8c/s400/HeavenFront.jpg

I've mentioned this before, but years ago I put this vinyl cover on my wall because I thought it looked cool, and only after it had been there for months did I realize what those mountains were, and why the Natural Four looked so happy.

Gives a new meaning to the album title as well...

Tuomas, Thursday, 10 May 2012 11:09 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.digitalmarmalade.co.uk/media/logo-barclays.jpg

A polar bear on the telephone.

Mark G, Thursday, 10 May 2012 11:13 (fourteen years ago)

the blue man in the PBS logo always creeped me out too

obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 10 May 2012 13:11 (fourteen years ago)

Expos logo is clearly a lower-case e for Expos, a stylized capital M for Montreal that swirls into a lower-case b for baseball!

obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 10 May 2012 13:16 (fourteen years ago)

This probably belongs on here:

http://cl.jroo.me/z3/v/P/z/d/a.aaa-KFC-When-you-see-it.jpg

Moodles, Thursday, 10 May 2012 13:40 (fourteen years ago)

nickb and moodles otm. too me forever to catch the faces in the GITM cover, and when i first encountered the KFC logo, i couldn't tell what the hell that was under the colonel's head. a cartoon body?

10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 13:54 (fourteen years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/2xOoF.jpg

banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 13:57 (fourteen years ago)

Ha ha ha

You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 10 May 2012 13:58 (fourteen years ago)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ffzQq5etXos/SaFgTJO79RI/AAAAAAAAAYc/kJxelZgyD8c/s400/HeavenFront.jpg

I've mentioned this before, but years ago I put this vinyl cover on my wall because I thought it looked cool, and only after it had been there for months did I realize what those mountains were, and why the Natural Four looked so happy.

Gives a new meaning to the album title as well...

― Tuomas, Thursday, May 10, 2012 7:09 AM (3 hours ago)

wtf Tuomas? u trolling?

unregistered, Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:34 (fourteen years ago)

Tuomas the nose on that comic strip dude is driving me crazy! I don't know how you can stand it!

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:07 (fourteen years ago)

Tuomas' boss takes the Capt. Scabbard nose a little too far.

http://www.rankopedia.com/CandidatePix/125408.gif

pplains, Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:12 (fourteen years ago)

yeah, agreed. it's horrible. betty manages a similar nose pretty well:

http://cdn.svcs.c2.uclick.com/c2/34515a805fff012f2fdb00163e41dd5b

10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:22 (fourteen years ago)

though his sometimes just looks like it has a chunk taken out

10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:22 (fourteen years ago)

wtf Tuomas? u trolling?

the eternal question

10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:23 (fourteen years ago)

Always wondered what was happening with Studs Kirby's nose.

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4132/4976656036_c5033dbfa4_b.jpg

though I've always been sensitive about Studs, since he's the comic character that most resembles me.

pplains, Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:32 (fourteen years ago)

Bagge's stuff is often abstracted to the point where there's no percentage in comparing it to literal human anatomy.

You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:34 (fourteen years ago)

whoa

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:35 (fourteen years ago)

the arrow in the FedEx sign

I never saw the arrow until just now - woah.

wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:36 (fourteen years ago)

cf. bear in the toblerone logo

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhcp7iIDC01qbg4qwo1_400.jpg

Touché Gödel (ledge), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:37 (fourteen years ago)

omg hawaiian punch antlers kind of spell out "fuck you" if you look at them right

Scott, bass player for Tenth Avenue North (Hurting 2), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:40 (fourteen years ago)

I used to be a courier, but I took an arrow in the logo...

banal like anal (snoball), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:41 (fourteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v108/b18c_ej8/Butter2.jpg

biggie smallclothes (brownie), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:41 (fourteen years ago)

Holy shit, the Fed Ex thing. I thought someone had posted the wrong jpeg or something cuz I was all, "Arrow? What arrow?". That is some Magic Eye-style trickery.

You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:42 (fourteen years ago)

http://content.sportslogos.net/logos/30/608/full/5265.gif

The logo for the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.

pplains, Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:44 (fourteen years ago)

http://atssportsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/big-ten-logo.jpg

pplains, Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:45 (fourteen years ago)

I wonder if there would ever be anything nowadays that would get advertised/represented by a picture of a decomposing lion covered in flies.

Mark G, Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:47 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.londonlovesbusiness.com/Pictures/web/z/h/x/Golden-Syru_342.png

Mark G, Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:49 (fourteen years ago)

it kind of makes me IA that the Big 10 logo has '11' in it

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:50 (fourteen years ago)

hoooly shit, I've used lyle's for years and never noticed that

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:50 (fourteen years ago)

Jesus fish on the old Jack in the Box logo

http://www.jennykyledesign.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/jack_in_the_box1.jpg

Bulge Pimp (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:54 (fourteen years ago)

woah the Toblerone bear!

wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:55 (fourteen years ago)

whoa Jack in the Box

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:56 (fourteen years ago)

never in my life noticed the toblerone bear, and i grew up with that shit

10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:59 (fourteen years ago)

it kind of makes me IA that the Big 10 logo has '11' in it

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, May 10, 2012 11:50 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's like that video where Ice Cube says "1993" and holds up four fingers

Scott, bass player for Tenth Avenue North (Hurting 2), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:59 (fourteen years ago)

I was still a young 'un when this sign was out, so that's my excuse for not realizing her dress is a "bell".

http://www.starsareblind.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/taco-bell.jpg

pplains, Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:03 (fourteen years ago)

holy shit @ that Lyle's thing, never noticed that

Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:03 (fourteen years ago)

xxpost Hurting: EXACTLY

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:04 (fourteen years ago)

oh wow that brewers thing

Yeah, that is one of my favorite logos (sports or otherwise) of all time.

Carrie Antwoord (jaymc), Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:07 (fourteen years ago)

Wussup y'all, we're just Amazon, that company that has everything from A to Z.

http://library.corporate-ir.net/library/17/176/176060/mediaitems/93/a.com_logo_RGB.jpg

Bulge Pimp (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:09 (fourteen years ago)

Ha, I never saw Nunez's Unabomber sketch! Man, I'm dying!

Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Saturday, 9 June 2012 18:08 (thirteen years ago)

it looks like a butterfly of brains

Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Saturday, 9 June 2012 18:08 (thirteen years ago)

This ain't like no B I ever seen:
http://excruciatingminutiae.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/bay-logo.jpg

LaMonte, Saturday, 9 June 2012 20:23 (thirteen years ago)

The MBay

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 June 2012 20:55 (thirteen years ago)

http://theykid.com/wp-content/thumbnails/hanson.jpg

Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Saturday, 9 June 2012 20:56 (thirteen years ago)

Whoa I just realized Hanson's logo looks exactly like a photo of them

brony ver (s1ocki), Sunday, 10 June 2012 03:30 (thirteen years ago)

the Bay logo up there made me google Hudson Bay to make sure it wasn't shaped like that B

silverfish, Sunday, 10 June 2012 12:08 (thirteen years ago)

Isn't it just a gothic or other old style letter? Bay founded in mid 1800s iirc

she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Sunday, 10 June 2012 17:17 (thirteen years ago)

excitable calligraphy

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 June 2012 17:32 (thirteen years ago)

four months pass...

The Story Behind The Famous FedEx Logo, And Why It Works

continental op (doo dah), Friday, 26 October 2012 19:28 (thirteen years ago)

http://static.arstechnica.net/opensource/firefox-09-intro.png

what planet is that?

but the boo boyz are getting to (Z S), Friday, 26 October 2012 19:37 (thirteen years ago)

planet nerd

sleepingbag, Friday, 26 October 2012 19:37 (thirteen years ago)

four years pass...

Finally found the thread for advertising logos (thought it was a great logos thread but it's not) so I'll post one I saw today. Took me several seconds to see what they'd done with the "A."

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Sd6qj52i8l4/WRdvgLJzr7I/AAAAAAACi40/ifFE6K6XHDIlyZPqLAcJs1JeN6DAyLOPQCLcB/s800/hornitos%2Btequila%2Bshot%2Bworth%2Btaking%2Bbillboard.jpg

nickn, Thursday, 22 June 2017 04:49 (eight years ago)

eight years pass...

Have always heard about the "secret S" in the Subway logo, but listen, I'm not a dumbass, all right?

One arrow goes this way, the other arrow goes that way, so whaddya want from me? Clear as day.

https://i.ibb.co/v43BmnfP/Screenshot-2026-01-06-at-3-21-28-PM.png

It was last week around five in the morning that I looked over at a strip mall and finally saw the 's' that is between the two arrows.

pplains, Tuesday, 6 January 2026 21:26 (five months ago)


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