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Man in the Mirror (sorry, Kristen, but Michael Jackson is not "MJ"...that nickname is reserved for Michael Jordan.) :)

#1: Susan Duncan (medic25733) on Nov 7, 2016

Looks just like him

y'all needed an influx of 20x B&W's...sorry, but that's about as good as I can do to make something recognizable in that space. Kristen's comment on the last one made me wanna give it a go though. hope ya enjoy!

thx, Susan! :)

Enjoyed I did. Very nice.

Totally enjoyable!

Hooray! I knew it would be, as soon as I solved his hair along the top rows.

I'm not sure a celebrity can copyright initials (though Spike Lee gets very testy whenever someone dares to use the word "spike").

Fantastic likeness. He was one of my favorites. Too bad he messed himself up with all the plastic surgery. Still he was a genius when it came to music.

The whole MJ thing got me thinking about famous people who are recognizable from just two characters.

There are a lot of people who are known my two initials and last name (ie. J.D. Salinger, A.J. Green, P.T. Barnum, B.B. King, A.A. Milne, C.S. Lewis, etc.) and a healthy number of people known by three initials (ie. MLK, JFK, FDR, LBJ, ODB, etc.), but what about two?

MJ = Michael Jordan (have to go with Kurt on this one)
KG = Kevin Garnett (to keep on the basketball theme)
TI = Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. (rapper)
OJ = Orenthal Simpson
DW = Darrel Waltrip (I live in the South)
R2 = don't need the "D2" to know who this is

not going to include Jay-Z even thought it sounds like "JZ" :P

any others?

MJ was Peter Parker's love interest for many years, long before Michael Jordan was born. Trade that net for a web.

I am absolutely amazed you got such a recognizable image with a 20x20 black and white grid. Good job on the design. Good puzzle too.

LT....though it was also given to 2 ppl. Lawrence Taylor(my preferred) and LaDainian Tomlinson

Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by infrapinklizzard.

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Abie (or AB) from the short story

"ABCD goldfish?"
"L,MNO goldfish!"
"YSAR!"

Or as I heard it a century ago:
ABCD puppies?
L,MNO puppies.
SMR
CMPN?

mary jane may have been known as mj, but i'd argue that the ubiquity of that knowledge in common culture now isn't as prevailant as michael jordan...and the whole question must be framed in today's "day and time" for it to be even as minimally meaningful as it is.

forgot about LT (taylor for me too). with exceptions to everything, it's funny how the following seem to be the trends:

2 initials + last name - literary figure
three initials only - civic leader
two initial only - sports star

The Spiderman MJ was well known in the 50's-70's (well, to comic book nerds at least :-), and that name revived more modernly with the Spiderman movie (which had a fair degree of popular exposure). I'd actually never heard of Michael Jordan referred to as MJ, but that might just be my limited interest in basketball. (My son's name is Jordan Michael Macdonald, which was not directly intended to refer to the basketball player but I knew that there would be some identification there.) Loved him in Roger Rabbit, though.

I certainly remember OJ as distinguishing Simpson (he was also often referred to as "The Juice" - derived from the OJ initials, obviously). Popular football player, and a tolerable actor long before he became a celebrity murder trial defendant.

Back when the Groklaw web site was operating actively (it is still on-line ut there has been no new writing for over 3 years), PJ was a heavily and widely used reference to Pamela Jones, the person who authored that site - it didn't figure heavily in popular culture (at least, not directly - major media reporters had learned to check her site for incisive and knowledgeable information for any computer related legal issues.

good observation....when you first said it, I thought of a ton more of the top of my head. literary figures, that is. TS Eliot, JK Rowling, JR(x2) Tolkien (lol), EE Cummings, etc etc

agree with #11 :)

MJ are actually MY initials, so stop it!

hahahaha, Jota! :)

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