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

http://blogs.1037themountain.com/files/2011/08/Composite.jpg

For months I thought the stuff between his hood and sunglasses was exposed brains, and that this man's forehead had been removed.

http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/1734756341/Arby_s_logo_jan_2012_reasonably_small.png

It turns out this isn't a nose.

is it a condom

http://lorriefrear.com/cms/files/projects/1977-to-1987/1985_santitas_01.jpg

Those are flowers and an earring, not two eyes and a smile (give me some leeway on this one; I was very young).

http://content.sportslogos.net/logos/54/66/full/w5aqbkrk24pv86dfgh5a1bh06.gif

ELB? what the fuck is an elb?

I still don't know how to interpret Charlie Brown's "hair" squiggle.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/CharlieBrown.jpg

Yooops.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/CharlieBrown.jpg

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.

that squiggle is hair???

you thought Charlie Brown was bald?

the arrow in the FedEx sign

http://www.veryicon.com/icon/png/Folder/Colorflow%20Full/Fedex.png

also, the Disney signature, as a kid that did not look anything like "Disney" to me

that fedex arrow is meant to be subconscious i think.

charlie brown IS bald (or shaved -- his dad is a barber)

also, the Disney signature, as a kid that did not look anything like "Disney" to me

for real man, that is a straight up capital G

I thought Arby's was a cowboy hat

weirdest looking oven mitt I've seen

http://www.kencollier.org/graphics/roseisroseTolerance.gif

I still refuse to believe this kid is blonde

xpost

Wait...I thought it was a cowboy hat, too. I am confrused.

huh

turns out it IS a a cowboy hat. I thought bcs that stupid oven mitt was their spokesperson that the hat was supposed to be an oven mitt and I was very confused

still am apparently

There were lots of logos and such that I thought were intentionally scary that (I assume) weren't actually meant to be. Like:

http://blog.trufcreative.com/img/PBS2.jpg

I didn't understand why they wanted so badly to frighten me after Sesame Street.

BLERG.

http://blog.trufcreative.com/img/PBS2.jpg

http://i50.tinypic.com/28s076x.jpg

I thought Zero didn't have a lower jaw. felt bad that people made stupid jokes at his expense when he obviously couldn't enunciate properly.

expos "elb" logo is one of the most hare-brained i've ever seen

I thought the white bits were (disembodied?) fingers:
http://jasonbentley.org/blog/img/warnerbros70s.png

http://gosublogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/goodyear-logo-150x110.jpg

Still have a hard time reading the Goodyear logo as a winged foot/ankle.

http://www.sunkistswimteam.com/mssst/UserFiles/Image/EM_Sunkist.jpg

sinkist?

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

took me forever to figure this out. mostly cuz i was seeing it like this:

https://crypto.stanford.edu/forcehttps/firefox.png

Still have a hard time reading the Goodyear logo as a winged foot/ankle.

Trying to work out what else one would see it as?

Thanks to my ex and his sense of humour, every time i turn on my DVD player and see this, I think "PLONEER"

http://www.steves-digicams.com/Pioneer-logo.jpg

xp I just find that, at a glance, it doesn't read very well. I've seen it as some kind of gas pump (imagining Goodyear -> Cars -> Gasoline) with the wing being the pump, pointed to the right.

http://www.thecitrusreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Hawaiian_Punch-punchy.jpg

antlers? hairdo?

xp Or a hand with finger pointed.

i thought hawaiian punch kid had a pineapple on his head. because hawaiian punch tastes like pineapple

tastes like gross

Punchy's a good one. Never knew wth was going on there. Just looks like a piece of trash on his head.

Looks like a beat up old tin crown to me.

Crown of thorns, red with the blood of Christ, drink for gross sacrament.

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

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

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

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...

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

oh wow that brewers thing

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!!

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

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

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

oh god

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

Adding colours makes it even more obvious.

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...

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

A polar bear on the telephone.

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

the container is smallish, the decoration on the tin is kind of ornate, and...LOOOK I'M SORRY I'M JUST NOT ALWAYS THAT OBSERVANT

desiccating lion corpse being consumed by flies

Juan Carlos II Brand

xxp I'm English and we see this image so much that it's kind of like a non-image by the time we're six or seven years old. Kind of like how I imagine American kids see Ronald McDonald and think 'that's Ronald McDonald' and not 'urgh creepy clown dude'.

if he were a creepy clown corpse who was being consumed by flies (actually bees), then I think this would be a different story

abbott's post about the brains is killing me btw

― Scott, bass player for Tenth Avenue North (Hurting 2), Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:13 PM (52 minutes ago)

It made the Unabomber SO MUCH SCARIER. I thought, how come no one has caught this man? Just look for the man with the terrifying exposed brains.

They could put Ronald McDonald corpse honey on the McFlurries.

I'm probably the wrong U.S.er to talk about Ronald, who has always given me the weirds. I remember at age seven being at a 4th of July parade and when the float with Ronald came by, hearing the other kids cry out his name. "Ronald! Ronald!" not in fear. It was the first time being in a crowd and thinking, what is wrong with all these people? Am I the only sane one here?

Abbs between Ronald and Unabomber here you are on fire! :D

re batman logo, the halloween special covers are great for this:

http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Batman:_Legends_of_the_Dark_Knight_Halloween_Special_Vol_1_1
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Batman:_Legends_of_the_Dark_Knight_Halloween_Special_Vol_1_2
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Batman:_Legends_of_the_Dark_Knight_Halloween_Special_Vol_1_3

I don't get where the "KKK" in a Marlboro pack is supposed to be, can someone explain?

they're referring to the red & white wedge/triangle design element, which occurs 3 times on the pack

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01252/speed_1252043c.jpg
I always see this chap as a bloodhound with circular ears.

maybe not circular ears then. but definitely as a hound of the basset/blood type. it looks fuck-all like a speed camera.

MoT be rockin' some old cameras

http://blog.vinpowerdigital.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/old-camera.jpg

It looks like a one-eyed man with his mouth open waving at you

one eyed man mouth open who takes off his hat to say hi is what i see.

BTE.

you guys really can't see the swimming shark? he only wants to say hai to u.

The hat

http://media.masslive.com/living_impact/photo/012911-curtis-comic-strip-partialjpg-f13147e5c59eab1e.jpg

Isn't it a trucker hat on backwards?

Yeah, I think so. It's just so far back on his head and so strangely depicted though

It's esp. confusing in the b/w strips, but I had trouble finding one via cursory gis

I think Billingsley's made the crown too narrow and the back too flat compared to the height of the crown and the length of the bill and also compared to Curtis' head's size.

He read the ILX trucker hat thread, but has never actually seen one in real life

dudes he has a fan blade stuck in his head

It looks like a fucked-up shoe or something

it also maintains the same profile when he turns his head!

Maybe it's a shoe stuck on a pole sticking out of his backpack?

Woudl at least explain why he's getting bullied. "Hey you! Shoe-pole-backpack boy! What ya doin' with that shoe on a pole sticking out of your backpack?"

hEy KiD!
YouR hAt LaCkS pErSPecTivE aNd is BaDLy DrAWn
gIMMe yOuR lUNch MonEY
*shove*

(sorry was going for Calvin and Hobbes bully font, failed)

12yo Disney-tween bully

real unabomber speaks out
http://i.imm.io/oYMy.png

http://www.whizz-kidz.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/new-look-logo.jpg

ironic sagging belly in the new look logo

Spartan golf club thing is a killer piece of work. I hope whoever came up with that took the rest of the month off after coming up with that one.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a2/Goodwill_Industries_Logo.svg/182px-Goodwill_Industries_Logo.svg.png

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, May 10, 2012 12:52 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hey look. I found you a new house.

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/282610_3649790735093_585739145_n.jpg

we gooned out over the secret arrow in the FedEx logo several years ago here:

Cleverly designed corporate logos

I still stand by my statement

Wondering if PP's house is no. 9 on its street...

Woah @ Goodwill house!

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

it looks like a butterfly of brains

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

The MBay

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

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

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

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

excitable calligraphy

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

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

what planet is that?

planet nerd

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