Here is an attempt at an exhaustive list of objects drawn as colorful icons on the cover of the hardcover 2007 edition of Steven Pinker’s “The Stuff of Thought.”
- fork
- trash can
- sunglasses
- lamp, desk
- salt shaker, pouring
- football helmet
- door (safe vault?)
- film canister, 35 mm
- mortar and pestle
- plunger, toilet
- vial, poison
- condom
- speaker, tweeter and woofer
- cup with toothbrush
- straitjacket
- medicine dropper, dropping
- monitor, computer
- pills, medicine (capsules)
- glove (gauntlet)
- hammer
- sardine tin, half-open
- padlock, open
- briefcase
- teabag
- hand grenade, pineapple
- ice cream cone
- pinwheel
- bandage, adhesive strip
- roll (paper or textile)
- cigarette or joint
- paintbrush, dripping
- dynamite or firecracker, fuse lit
- bullhorn
- brassiere
- toaster, bread popping out
- bowling pin
- Martini glass, with olive
- Game Boy
- toilet
- cell phone
- underpants, briefs
- teacup and saucer, sugar cube above
- computer with keyboard (different from computer monitor)
- blow up doll
- cigarette or joint (again)
- flag, atop pole
- pistol
- dildo or vibrator
- hatchet or axe
- television set
- handcuffs
- clock face
- roll, toilet paper
- popsicle or creamsicle, bitten
- straitjacket (again)
- electric chair
- lipstick
- kitchen mixer or egg beater
I think (from the first hundred pages) that each of these items is referenced at some point within the text. But how interesting that the only two items that Steve-o repeats are a straitjacket and a cigarette or joint.