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

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

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!

This probably belongs on here:

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

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?

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

Ha ha ha

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

wtf Tuomas? u trolling?

the eternal question

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.

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

whoa

the arrow in the FedEx sign

I never saw the arrow until just now - woah.

cf. bear in the toblerone logo

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The logo for the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.

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

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

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

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

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

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

woah the Toblerone bear!

whoa Jack in the Box

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

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

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

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

xxpost Hurting: EXACTLY

oh wow that brewers thing

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

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

I guess the lion mane is supposed to be "U ARK" but it kind of looks like it could be "U APE" or "URPA"

o or is it U APB (U arkansas pine bluff)?

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