Oh my, we might be the same person! I hadn’t finish reading your post when I clicked on the deer logo, and thought, “Uhh, that looks like a guy on fire.” It clearly wasn’t that, but I also didn’t think anyone else would see it that way.
As a kiddo, I couldn’t figure out for the life of me why the post office would use that stupid looking hook thing for a logo. Then one day, I suppose viewed from the right angle and in the right light, it dawned on me. It’s a freaking eagle! I never mentioned it to anyone (until now) because I figured it was embarrassingly stupid, but I suppose it isn’t after all. And if it still is, we can be embarrassingly stupid together.
My first thought on the green one was something like “I’ve eaten a sailboat!” And the ribs looked like either wind or “action” lines. I thought maybe they were trying to imply nausea (seasickness).
I always thought the old Post Office logo looked like some bizarre human-like thing with a gigantic oddly-shaped head that was facing the left (or ‘his’ right). Like the head swooped entirely into a gigantic nose. I finally figured out it was a bird when I wondered what that stupid thing on the right (his back) could be…
Sir, I regret to inform you that your readings indicate you have sarcasticulitis unimpressivisus syndrome. You will now be labeled as such for the rest of your natural life and attend required mandatory counseling, for which you must appear. Additionally you have been prescribed massive doses of Redoubtalin. Side effects include indigestion, hives of the armpits, and a melting spleen. Also you must have a rectal exam. Bend over.
And I too was trying to parse the usps logo with the wing as a head or something. Probably because I thought bird->beak->prominent triangular area must be a beak. Or something.
I had a really hard time seeing that Herky thing as a hawk, even though I knew that was what it was going in!
There’s a local pizzeria which uses pizza boxes, the illustration on which shows two fellows wearing blazer jackets of some sort and with pastry chef hats. Since it’s a line drawing with no color fill, the meaning of lines is kind of ambiguous. To me it always looks like trick-or-treaters wearing giant bird costumes, with the V shape of the opening in their jacket being the long beak.
For the longest time, I thought the D in the Disney logo was a backwards G or some sort of six. I STILL see that first before reminding myself it’s a D.
Oh! When I was a kid I always thought the Disney logo looked like “Disnep”. I even rationalized it a little, “the company is called Disney but the logo says Disnep because logos don’t have to be the name of the company”.
