Man, these are great! I just wasted a huge amount of time reading all of these posts for the first time. I have to say that I love the "I didn't use Frontpage."...."um...we did." LOL
My favorite personal one came from a client for a snowboard/surfing excursion company. I came up with some really great icons and logo with a nice "cool" grey and white colour scheme.
Client: "Could we make the icons a little more abstract? You know, make them have nothing to do with snowboarding or surfing. A…