Number three looks like a banana-fish flambe. Can't imagine what product that might translate into.

Is number 6 the guy who invented the Pringles container?

Owl-Man appears to be Hawk-man's head on Bat-man's body. A rather mixed genre-bending action figure, much like OMG.

Number 1 is the "Heartbrand" logo on Good Humor bars (mmm, Toasted Almond). According to this Wikipedia entry, Unilever slaps the Heartbrand logo on its worldwide ice cream brands, except for Breyers and (thankfully) Ben & Jerry's.

5 is Archer Daniels Midland

What was the pun?

I don't know what the Arbutus Ticklefest is, but I am proud to live in a country where we have the right to celebrate it! USA! Maybe it's related to this video(PG) where Howard Stern (yuk, I know) straps a bikini model in a chair and will only let her plug her movie after being tickled. That seems fair. I think all celebrities should have to denigrate themselves in some way if they want to sell themselves on TV.

Off the track there. No, that totally makes sense since Owl Meat is selling out as Owl Man now. Where have our super heroes' ideals gone?

Thanks for the strawberry pound cake Jody.

It's who's for dinner. OWL Meat. Get it? EL

Some disclosures:
4) You can't see from my photo, but the scales are balancing a crab&sea creature of some sort versus "100%". It's in my very own kitchen.
6) This is the only image I could find of a character that represented something that is no more.

Banana-fish flambee? I said 9 volt battery, not car battery! In semiotics everything in a symbol has meaning. I wonder what the ring around him means?

Owlman is from the pre-crisis Earth 3 in the DC universe. He died during the Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Clink on my name to see why I know this.

Number 3 looks like the Good humor logo.

I'm dead? Holy Nerd Alert Rosebud! That is scary. I've been going to a therapist for years and didn't know that much about myself. Of course, I have amnesia from the Space-Time boomerang head wound from issue number 17. A couple of questions: where are my keys? Why can't I love?

#1 is Good Humor. #5 and #6 look familar, but I can't place them. #2, #3, and #4 don't even look familar. But, hey, I knew Ownman!

Is no 6 the guy from Shakey's Pizza??

Number 6 looks like it's from the old Pappy's Pizza Parlor chain.

Being a corporate sellout really takes it out of me, so I didn't have the energy to give you any multi-media extras when I did the post. To rectify that, please watch as two corporate stooges ruin forever, one of my favorite songs, U2's "One".

... it is gettng better, now that we're the same, ... and it's one bank, ... one spirit, we get to share it ...

Today's theme is corporate sellouts (by Super Villains, I know it's short walk.)

One bank, one love.

It's OK, Owlie. I understand that you came back from the antimatter universe around 1998. I had stopped reading comics, I mean graphic novels, by then.

#6 is indeed Pappy's Pizza. I vaguely remember it from childhood as does a friend of mine in his thirties. Player Piano, .... vague. I'm pretty sure that it was the hap hap happiest place on Earth. Compare to Shakey's Pizza which had the crap crap crappiest pizza on earth with its burnt cracker crust. Does anybody have a better recollection of Pappy's? The internet seems to be Pappy's free except for the picture which I cropped from an old photo of aerosol Pappy's roast beef dressing. (???)

I have vague memories of Shakey's, Pappy's and another place being marketed in the same way -- nostalgic pizza fun made by drunken Irish barbershop quartet rejects. Plus ghost pianos.

America - nostalgic for non-existent times.

No. 6 looks like Snidely Whiplash in his little-publicized second career as a lion tamer.

#5 ... while the green thing is probably supposed to be a leaf, it seems like the devil's tongue to me. That being said, it respresents the company that was NOT represented in the movie Michael Clayton. It is the logo for the company that was NOT the inspiration for the company that blew up George Clooney's car.

#5 is ADM, Archer Daniels Midland, bringing you political talking head on Sunday morning forever. It's also the focus of a new movie starring Matt Damon and Scott Bakula called The Informant. Scott Bakula played Captain Archer on Enterprise. Conicidence? I think not. Good game Owlie. It doesn't leave that after taste of dimethylglucosalicylicide-D.

How did you get Owl Man to fly?

How did you get Owl Man to fly

I'm thinking it has a lot to do with decorative codpieces and a slightly used BeDazzler.

Stephen B. got #5 before 7AM today, kids.

We didn't have Pappy's Pizza in MKE but we did have Shakey's. I remember that their crust always seemed like Saltine crackers. We also had a Pipe Organ Pizza that set up shop in a deserted Howard Johnson's. It had a real theatre pipe organ and employed very talented organists. The pizza wasn't bad either - better than Chuck E. Cheese even.

RTSP: Yeah he watches a lot of Bravo and QVC.

I'm thinking it has a lot to do with decorative codpieces and a slightly used BeDazzler.

I bit early for that 2-martini lunch, isn't it RtSO?

#1 is Good Humor. You guys are good. Hard to argue with documentation.

It almost never too early for a 2-martini lunch. Add to that decorative codpieces and if you're not at a Shakespeare/Restoration theatre symposium, make that 3 martinis. Now I have to find a BeDazzler on eBay. Oh, the possibilities are endless to turn an ordinary codpiece (as if there were such a thing) into something with style.

I'm expecting a better effort on Number 3. I have six different versions of him in various poses and activities.

#4 I got at an Asian grocery store.

The really interesting thing about this game is that although these logos are all second or third tier companies, I knew I had seen several of the logos. I just could not put a product to them. It only proves that a good logo can be a powerful marketing tool.

#4 at an Asian grocery store... Good thing I am headed to H-Mart this evening. I'll be scouring the shelves, picture in hand, looking for the logo.

Is #4 fish sauce?

At the Shakey's where I worked decades ago in another life, the crust wasn't cracker-like or burnt, although it was thin and fairly crispy (except for the awful thick-crust stuff they introduced later). I liked the Shakey's crust, although I wasn't wild about their sauce.

Pappy's I mostly remember from going there with groups of people to drink beer. I don't remember any details of the pizza.

If you want cracker-like crust, go to the g*d-forsaken Ledo's. I won't join you, though.

You are very wise RTSO. I personally would be TERRIBLE at this game. But yes, logos are very very powerful tools. #5 ADM is excellent, it makes you feel good, which is what a global Death Star like ADM needs. #1 is good too, if a bit too obvious in its intent.

#2 is a red herring. It's for Singapore Food Industries. I like to throw in some odd stuff.

#3 is the Holy Grail of logos!

#3 is the Holy Grail of logos!

Arthur Treacher's?

#4 is indeed fish sauce.

I grew up in Laurel and we used to go to Pappy's all the time. They had a window back into the kitchen and you could watch the guys throw the uncooked dough into the air to make a perfect round crust. That and the guy who made the balloon animals. It was so much better than ChuckECheese.

#4 is indeed fish sauce.

I suppose weird pictures on products at Asian stores could provide years of entertaniment. Fish sauce alone has some mighty fine weirdness. This was from my own pantry, a good product that I call "scales" fish sauce. as ooposed to crabs, giant baby, or crappy plastic bottle fish sauce. Couldn't live without it.

Now that I am getting back into the Photoshop groove, future visual presentations may be more playful. I'm still trying to figure out how to get video from my HP camera to my PC. Instructions are absent.

Well, Owl Meat, more than 24 hours have passed since the game was posted, and nobody has yet to figure out #3, the last mystery logo. Time to reveal the answer?

#3 is special and I will be revealing more versions of him in future posts. Besides, I may need him in the next week for protection. I am afeared that I must get out of town for a while. I now have a library of dozens of logos, so the next logo game should be an even better experience. Even though I love this logo, I think that semiotically (No he didn't -- Yes he did!) is a disaster. It's supposed to represent an authentic healthy traditional food, but it scares the hell out of me, despite its cheerful demeanor. The circle around it reminds me of nuclear energy and his exploding/burning head is terrifying. I just can't give it up yet. But I did give you some more hints.

#3 is Chernobyl Boris, the happy radioactive banana. HIs motto was, "Don't panic, you're already dead."

Radiation poisoning is no laughing matter. You people are sick.

That was sign for burning th e trash day in Russia. Every house now burn things and close windows. not chernobyl

Radiation poisoning is no laughing matter. Oh, you would be amazed at what the Sandbox finds funny or can turn to farce. And some of it is even food related.

For some reason "Concerned Citizen" reminded me of this. I found my first copy of Baltimore Eats yesterday. It turns out that Celeste from Baltimore Eats is the same Celeste that my friend told me about. (She's awesome apparently and so is her grandmother.) Small Baltimore world. Anyway, there were no exclamation points in the article titles, not even "Cheers for Cherries". That must have been a little painful. Cheers for Celeste.

Radiation is awesome in its place. Maybe he's a good kind of radiation, like microwave or gamma? How about one of those self cooking MRE's that the troops get. You break the inside compartment and chemicals unite to create heat and cook your goat pilaf or whatever. Thermy Your Chemical Cooking Pal.

I swear I just saw Scott Bakula scurrying across my neighbor's roof. And there's an ice cream truck that's been in the neighborhood for hours playing a tune that sounds ominously like Nine Inch Nails' "Closer". I think it's time to beat Elizabeth out of town. Passport, keys, money, jerky, Tang, false beard: CHECK. See you once all this ADM/Good Humor/Trilateral Commission stuff blows over. For now I leave you in my half-cousin, medio-primo Chino Alvarez's capable hands. AWAY!

My cousin Owl Meat is gone away now. I don't know why. He does that. But I can use his pool and massage chair. So oK. And he leaves me some house money for beer and sandwiches.

Where did he go? All I have is papers with GOOD HUMOR scratched out and much of not sense like
Dough Room
Dough Moor
Gourd Homo
Doom or Hug
and then circled two lines is
ROUGH DOOM.

I don't know. But there is mucho plenty beer money and the iced box is full with buffalo meat. I'm going to Amicci's bar for a cerveza soon at happy hour 4. Beers on Cousin Owl.

Chino, I went to Amicci's bar around 7, but couldn't find you. What happened? Did Bakula get you too? I had a Corona and a Patron is your honor.

I'm sad that Rock Chiclet has given us so many great songs for the posts, but never included "The Terrier Song". Shame.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB1eQrCBw0k

Chino, tell Owl Meat to lay off the anagram generator. No good can come of it. And Scott Bakula never plays evil, he's Dr. Sam Beckett Quantum Learer for Goodness. NOw do the terrier dance.

Quantum Leaper, sorry.