Comments on: Hunka hunka burnin’ pareidolia

By: Xenu

Xenu — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:01:06 +0000

hmm i see Napoleon there, not Elvis.

BTW anybody seen French&Saunders on BBC making fun of ghost talkers?

By: Elliott

Elliott — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:16:41 +0000

You’re all wrong! Can’t you see it’s Liberace?

By: mena

mena — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:51:48 +0000

I also see a guy in 18th or 19th century clothing and with a haircut from that era. Sorry!

By: captain swoop

captain swoop — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:47:25 +0000

It’s the Duke of Wellington

By: south

south — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:26:51 +0000

I’ll second the Napoleon and living in Memphis I think I have the authority to say that that ain’t no Elvis.

By: Jacco

Jacco — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:54:59 +0000

Hang on, wait a minute, should it not be the other way around? Isn’t this a picture of Elvis that strongly resembles a piece of rock? After all, he has been dead for almost 30 years…

By: Seth

Seth — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:26:03 +0000

BWAHAHAHAHAHAH.

Pareidolia, how you mock us.

I have to agree on the Napoleon image, though Elvis is understandable. Actually, I’m just glad that nobody’s seen a cat in it yet.

By: scienceteacherinexile

scienceteacherinexile — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:36:51 +0000

Does anyone have a clip of the Denis Leary bit on Pareidolia?
Well, he didn’t call it that, but he did have some interesting comments on people who see the Virgin Mary in water stains, road signs, and I think a muffin…..

By: Lo'ihi

Lo'ihi — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:28:04 +0000

Les Miserables? No, more like ‘The Little Match Girl’ – the snow is steadily falling on her bare breast. Or is it the composite image of the little poor girl with her grand ma’s sagging whatnot? Strange. They are supposed to be reunited in heaven, but the rock seems to have fallen to the earth. Maybe the God didn’t buy the story, and sent it back.

By: Melusine

Melusine — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:50:40 +0000

His nose points very downward and it looks like little glasses on his bridge, so it looks like John Lennon to me. Perhaps in a Sgt. Pepper getup.

By: CR

CR — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:56:24 +0000

I like the Kinks reference, ABR, and your play on the song lyrics.

By: Troy

Troy — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:45:01 +0000

I definitely see the Napolean previously mentioned. The Kang didn’t have that kind of nose.

By: J.S.Brown

J.S.Brown — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:34:57 +0000

For more pareidolic fun, you guys can see the following page. The guy in the picture gave me this link in a chat room just a few days ago.

http://www20.brinkster.com/techsoft/

By: chimango

chimango — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:40:13 +0000

looks more like JosÃ© de San MartÃn in our five pesos from Argentina (little more than a dollar and a half); It matches the colour at least. --> link c'mon, i mean: this guy liberated almost half a continent from spain! almost as big as elvis! Link fixed by The Bad Astronomer

By: Art

Art — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:19:56 +0000

Hmmm…. looks more like one of the early portraits of Napoleon to me. “Pareidolia is in the eye of the beholder.”

By: Gan Uesli Starling

Gan Uesli Starling — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:13:53 +0000

No, you’re all wrong. It’s very clearly James Madison…during his presidential years, with comb-over. Where’s Dolly?

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:44:14 +0000

Those darned Elvis fanatics are always taking credit for things inappropriately! That is clearly an image of the prophet Pete Townshend from about the time of the release of “Tommy.” Death to the theiving Elvians! Long Live Rock!

By: Seamyst

Seamyst — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:25:09 +0000

If I squint at it, it kinda looks like one of those old portraits of Shakespeare or someone of his time.

Wait! Does this mean Elvis was guided/inspired by Shakespeare?

By: mln84

mln84 — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:19:11 +0000

Being in a rock, I guess it’s “old Elvis”. (As in way more than 6K years old…)

By: toomanytribbles

toomanytribbles — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:53:16 +0000

that’s not even his good side.

By: Michael J

Michael J — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:42:19 +0000

At least this one is a lot clearer than most of the other ones out there.

By: Rasputin

Rasputin — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:24:48 +0000

I think it looks a little more like Tom Paine myself. But then, I’m a heathen.

By: ABR

ABR — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:22:42 +0000

Am I the only one who starts humming the Destroyer by the Kinks when I see the word “pareidolia”?

There’s a little yellow man on my bread…

By: John Armstrong

John Armstrong — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:15:21 +0000

Come on, that’s clearly cut/pasted in..

Oh, the one on the left.

By: Stonez

Stonez — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:02:47 +0000

Elvis has left thee buil… is part of the building?!?