The Barclays Center Is a Rorschach Test for Readers Last week's deceptively simple question "What does the brand-new Barclays Center look like?" unleashed a tsunami of tragicomic visions from the depths of the City Room readership's collective unconscious. Comparisons to foodstuffs, mollusks and toilets abounded, along with creatures with protruding tongues and, of course, rusty something-or-others. Here, to celebrate the arena's opening on Friday, are some of our favorites from the more than 200 submissions. A lopsided bedpan. - Annette, NYC A beached humpback whale. - Clayton G, Park Slope Comb over. - Chris, NYC A huge mountain of rusting automobile crankcases. - Gerry, New York City Mega burger, medium well, pickle on the side. - Robert Wilkanowski, NYC Wooden waffle iron. - Joan, California A dirty scab over a nasty wound. - NK, Brooklyn The handle of a saw. - Holly, Georgia Looks like a lonely bun yearning for its burger. - Susan Isaacs, Sands Point, NY The Tonsure of Saint Peter? - Luke, Brooklyn An easy road win for the Milwaukee Bucks. - Mark L., Milwaukee, WI An underslung platypus? - AoTyana, Tennessee Chris Christie's old lumpy mattress. - troublemaker, New York, NY A deflated basketball...perhaps too appropriate. - A.A. Scharf, Pelham, NY Corrupt corporate design trying desperately to look hip. - Raul Rothblatt, Brooklyn Squished automobile tire. - jason Looks like a huge George Foreman Grill! - murali, New York A spoiled child sticking out its tongue at the neighborhood. - Lynn, New York A hell of a lot better than a ditch full of LIRR trains. - Robert C Guenveur, Brooklyn A soggy Oreo. - katie212, New York An old Motorola Startac cell phone. Rusted shut. - FJH, NYC An old-fashioned typewriter carry case that was run over by a bus. - asher, Brooklyn A rotting turtle. - Annie, Brooklyn Melted Roomba. - pauldonyc, Manhattan A portrait of V. I. Lenin as done by Salvador Dali. - Steve Schoenwiesner, Montclair, NJ I think it looks like a portrait of Salvador Dali done by a very drunk Lenin. - Dan Stackhouse, New York City It looks like two slabs of liver trying to say, "Developers are people too, my friend." - Nostranditmas, Brooklyn A hand held stapler. - RB, Queens A wicker laundry basket with a hole in it. - Max Cornise, New York Boba Fett. - Billy Tafadali, Tanzania A rusty alligator skull with a pronounced underbite. - John G., Brooklyn A pangolin. - S, New York, NY In fifty years, if it is still standing, it will be called "Iconic." - richard kopperdahl, New York City An airport 100 years after the apes have taken control of the earth. - Dan A., Jersey City Burping clam. - jd, Brooklyn A Whoopie Pie. - Ellen, New York, NY A potty training seat. - mikem, Nashua, N.H. A swimming pool being sucked up by a tornado. - Jan P, Rochester, NY Castanets. - BC, Ulster County, NY A cake that was dropped on the floor. - VW, Portland Smushed cockroach ... guts glittering, abdomen stuck up in the air. - Jeremy Davis, Brooklyn It looks like a toad sticking out its tongue. - Maritza, Richmond, VA Urban blight! - Carolyn, Park Slope The burned bagel that will choke Brooklyn. - Barry H. Mann, NYC Richard Serra meets McDonald's. - whatawasteofspace, Brooklyn A bust of Geordi La Forge, the engineer from Star Trek played by LeVar Burton. - JustZ, New York, NY A grilled cheese sandwich. - Technic Ally, Toronto An angry clam. An angry, angry clam. - Jeff Bowersox, Hattiesburg, MS It really looks like one of those Pillsbury flaky biscuits. - Katie Taylor, NYC It looks like the center of a Barclay. - BC, Hoboken, NJ