I used to think the neighborhood watch sign was some sort of spinner or a Ouija Board accessory. Never saw it as a sideways-glancing eye.
Yes, it is. What is the clock supposed to represent? Is there something especially bad about peeing at 3:30?
Malleus, Incus, Stapes! (I assume unknowingly) brought up one of mine: The “religious” label used by wierddave’s SDMB badge plugin always looks like an ear to me.
It’s actually two hands praying
More like you’re always peeing.
Well I’ll be dipped in shit.
Or a barbed penis. :eek:
The Arby’s used to look like some sort of fish jumping out of a pond or something when I was little. It took me forever to figure out that it was supposed to be a cowboy’s hat.
There’s a “heart health” logo on bottles of Diet Coke. (Seen in the upper part of this.) It’s a dress with a heart over it. But I swear to god it looks like a little devil with an eyepatch (or just winking, like this.)
The old post office logo always reminded me of an airline captains hat. I don’t know why.
The best I can do is make it into a devil cat.
The Dodge Ram, however, is obviously a uterus.
I think I can be forgiven for this one, because it’s NOT clear unless you know its history, which wasn’t something I knew.
When I first moved to upstate New York, I was confused by the railroad boxcars with the Chessie System logo on it:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/Chessie_System_logo.png
(Sorry it’s so small – it was really big on the trains:
http://www.sd45.com/chessie/index.htm).
What the hell was that supposed to be? It was obviously serving as a sort of capital “C”, but the crinkly shape on the inside of the “C” made no sense. The first time I saw one, I thought the paint on the logo had cracked and peeled that way. Then I saw others, and realized that it was supposed to be that way, but for the life of me I couldn’t figure out why.
It looked like the silhouette of some oddly distorted cat, possibly drawn by someone with limited artistic ability.
I eventually learned that it was the silhouette of a sleeping kitten in bed – the odd shape was due to some parts being obscured by the sheets and pillows:
“Sleep like a kitten” was the motto, obviously harking back to the days when they mainly hauled passengers instead of coal and the like.
The stylized ‘C’ logo of Champion athletic wear always looks like a little laughing demon to me, even when correctly oriented.
A little test for those of you having trouble with the deer head decal - do you also see the doe?
I see a vase. Oh, and two people kissing.
many years ago Boston’s Real Paper ran a feature called The Real Puzzle, with offbeat puzzles. One of them featured wordless signs used at the Olympics – you were supposed to match them to their proper meaning. The puzzle proved to me that the signs were pretty much failures. My favorite was what was supposed to be the Female Athletes sign – it was a stylized woman in an sleeveless athletic shirt (like a basketball shirt), with a light circle (on a dark background) for a head, and her torso in the shirt outlined (with white arms), and a pair of outlined circle breasts (to show this was a girl and not a guy).
apparently a lot of people described it as “An Owl Hooting at the Moon”.
It looks to me like a “Warning – Cthulhu Crossing” sign. 
There is a logic to it, of the ‘game of telephone’ variety.
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal -> Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad -> Chesapeake Systems (CSX) -> Chessie Systems -> Cheshire Cat -> kitten logo
(which was depicted on a boxcar in a movie with Julia Roberts, who played opposite Sean Connery, who costarred with Mel Gibson, who played the mentor to Kevin Bacon in…) 
Long after the Pontiac icon elsewhere on their cars had gone to the V-shaped emblem, the red hi-beam indicator on the dashboard was still an outline of the old Indian head logo. With no features, just the (simplified) outline of a head with neck and the headdress, it mostly looked like a manufacturing accident. I always wondered why they couldn’t manage to make a nice round hole for the red light to shine through instead of that jagged thing.
One of these links is just like the other,
Both of these links really belong …
Wasn’t there an actual kitten named Chessie?