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Sweet jeebus, the same exact thing happened to me! I bet we were smoking out of the same kind of pipe, too! 
I’ve been trying for years to puzzle out if the Saturn logo was the planet or the cursive capital letter “s”. I think the answer is “yes.”
Once when camping on a dark, new moon night (after dirtying our pipes), a friend and I went for a walk through the woods (on a trail, we weren’t that stupid). We didn’t have flashlights, but we did have some votive candles. Holding them in our hands blinded us, so we soon discovered that holding them on top of our heads was better.
“Hmm…” I thought. “If only we had some sort of bucket with a long handle to hold the candles in that had a shield on top so the glare wouldn’t blind us…and maybe a glass window so dew wouldn’t drip on the wick. With some holes to let in air for the flame…”
:smack: Yeah, I “invented” the lantern.
Another time when eating a cheeseburger, I used a rather overripe tomato, which got rather squishy. “This is fantastic!” I thought. “It’s so sweet! All it needs is a little salt, and maybe a splash of vinegar for acidity! It would be perfect for a cheeseburger!” :smack: D’oh!
This is exactly what I thought. I thought it was Madison “Square Garden” when it is actually “Madison Square” Garden.
Who knew?? 
Last night, I dreamt I was, sadly and inexplicably, still in school, and my class was administered a four-page-long I.Q. test. Each question was a different type from the others; some were wordplay puzzles, some mathematical, a few used pictograms, etc. I had the very strong impression that every other student was zipping through the test with alacrity and even joy (to judge from the sounds of pencils scratching and page-flipping), while I was felt utterly intimidated and defeated by the thing before I had even begun – like I needed a good night’s sleep, or a caffeine hit times ten. I even procrastinated the fateful moment of starting it, by signing my name to all the pages first. When I finally addressed my attention to the puzzles, I was quickly stymied by most of them, to the point of not even understanding how I could go about solving them. Things were looking very dire, when I woke up…
… and realized that the whole thing was a dream and [John Malkovich’s voice] in MY head! It’s MY HEAD![/JM voice]
How exactly does one part of one’s brain cook up a gibberish I.Q. test that the other part of one’s subconscious brain can’t make any headway with?
Well if it makes the logo lapsers feel any better, I still don’t get the Toyota logo. I keep thinking ‘bull’ or ‘Taurus’ when I see it. What am I missing?
From here.
Yeh. Whatever, Toyota. :rolleyes:
I’ve always admired the old Northwest Airlines logo. First you see the “N”, then you see the “W”… then you notice the triangle that polarizes the N/W formation is actually the compass point for north-west.
Then NWA had to ruin everything by changing it to their crappier new design.
Hey, thanks! So it wasn’t me after all LOL. I’m with you on the NW Airlines logo. Too bad ‘new improved’ is rarely the latter.
You know, I’ve had some similar dreams. Not similar in the way that I’d be sitting at the desk with a test, but I’d have something that I’d be looking at or reading or doing that made no sense to me and was something completely out of character for me too. I usually wake up from these dreams, stare straight up at the ceiling and wonder what in the hell just went on for the next couple minutes (or until I turn the alarm off and happen to doze back to slumberland, much to the chagrin of work).
I have used the expressions “eye candy” (good looking) and “nose candy” (theatre slang for cocaine) individually for years without realizing how similar they were.
Maybe I should start using “ear candy.”
To me, Ear Candy equates to sappy pop music. Usually performed by guys and girls who are undoubtedly eye candy, who are undoubtedly partaking of nose candy.
I’m still not seeing the cursive capital S in the Saturn logo. Doesn’t the cursive S lean to the right, not the left?
Maybe 15 years from now I’ll be sitting behind one at a light and go “A-HA!!!”
Theatre logos: the Canadian Jane Eyre logo has a face hidden in it. Ditto the better known Miss Saigon, which took me years to find.
In my freshman year I studied Thomas Mann’s “Mario und der Zauberer” - which is an allegorical account of the rise of (italian) Fascism.
The title translates as “Mario and the Magician”, and is intended to give the idea of a nation under a sorcerer’s spell.
However… for some reason I read it as “Mario and der Sauberer”.
In German, “sauber” means “clean” so I somehow managed to translate it as “Mario and the Window-Cleaner”.
For 3 weeks I struggled to understand how shiny windows had anything to do with the rise of a fascist state. :rolleyes:
The “a-ha” moment - when it came - was in the middle of a seminar and (most embarassingly) was exclaimed out loud to my whole class. :smack:
…and the Acura logo is and inverted Honda “H” with the ends pinched a bit more to make it an “A”
:eek:
Yeah, it says “longhorn cattle” to me.
All those who scrolled down to the bottom of the page immediately after reading post #32, raise your hands.
I thought it was a compass/sextant type thing. :smack: :smack:
Cute Pete, I just had my own “a-ha” moment trying to make sense of your post.
Wow, I didn’t realize that until I read your post. :smack:
When I realized why my username pops up in threads about space travel. I chose it because at the time I was working on undersea (sub-) fiber optic (-light) cable projects. The other meaning didn’t occur to me for a long time after.