… or eggplant, in this case.
Looking at this one, at first it appears to pretty good! But then I looked at it more, and realized the G is actually more like a C. The bottom part curls in to make it G-like, but the top curls in too, thus rendering it categorically not-G.
Of course, cod is a fish, and a fish is a symbol of Christ. See? Even I can connect the dots seeds.
Also, in the video on the site linked, she flips the slice over, and a horned head is clearly seen. The flip side of God? Or a martian invader?
And what’s with the second O above the middle O? COOD? GOOD? Are eggplants GOOD? I actually don’t like them, so that interpretation is obviously wrong.
The last letter looks like a D, but could also easily be a P…
OH NOES! It spells GOP.
Eggplants:
Via Fark, of course.
August 13th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Obviously, the small ‘o’ is God’s halo!
All together now:
Pareidolia, the destroyer!
August 13th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
I love that DOOMED image…now Photoshop the slice of eggplant into the mouse’s paws.
August 13th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
I for one would like to welcome our new vegetable overlords….
August 13th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
Hey, that one IS pretty good! It’s about to the level of the “Sex” written in disney movies.
August 13th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
I think God wrote “Gid” and he dots his I’s with a little halo like ABR pointed out.
On the other hand, not only does god write like a teenage girl, his handwriting freakin’ sucks. How am I expected to worship someone with that sort of sloppy penmanship when what we all should really be doing is giving him a pat on his helmet-clad little head and telling him “Not today God. Your bus is the short one behind the big one, and please stop eating the paste.”
We really should be worried, Phil. I mean, I think God had a stroke or something (which really would explain a lot, I suppose).
August 13th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
You MUST get your pic taken with this thing.. this … abomination ;^)
Clearly an illuminati free mason ploy since the curls on the “c” and the “d” both represent right angles..
On a seperate note.. mikejanitch.com will be making a comeback by Oct.. with ACTUAL reporters and funding … better watch out ;^)
August 13th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
It spells (the beautiful) GIA.
August 13th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Looks like ‘Gip’ to me, so we have all been ‘gipped’.
August 13th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
No, no. Clearly it spells ‘goop’. Which, when you cook eggplant, is what you get.
August 13th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
spacenaut: The obvious conclusion is that God exists, and he’s Ronald Reagan.
August 13th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Well, Julie, “goop” is considerably easier to spell than babaghanoush. So, let’s cut the guy some slack. I mean, it’s not like he’s all power… err… well… maybe he just didn’t have time?
August 13th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Even mice won’t eat egg plant
Yuck!
August 13th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
This reminded me of one of Nietzsche’s better anti-christian witticisms:
It was subtle of God to learn Greek when He wished to write a book — and not to learn it better.
Don’t you understand? God is functionally illiterate. That’s why He draws all those pictures Jesus and Mary. That He is using letters indicates something, but what?
August 13th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
These threads, incidentally, are always my favorite to read the comments.
August 13th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
It looks like “CiD” to me, as in El Cid, the 11th century general who fought the Moors. According to Wikipedia:
“El Cid” is derived from the word al-sÄ«d in the Andalusian Arabic dialect (from the Arabic sayyid, “chief” or “lord,” a title of respect).
So CiD is our lord, and he is telling us to go fight S’mores.
August 13th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
There was a movie based on El Cid. Charlton Heston played the title role. He also once played Moses, but more telling, he was in Planet of the Apes. Now that I look at that mysterious middle character in the eggplant, it kind of looks like Dr. Zaius. Hmmmm…doesn’t this tie into the oil stain post now? What are you trying to tell us, Dr. Zaius? Dr. Zaius?
Should we start making s’mores with eggplant?
This is a confusing sign, indeed.
August 14th, 2007 at 12:19 am
Sorry, I don’t see all these eggplant messages and Jesus on the pavement images? They all look upside down to those of us in Australia
The eggplant discussion reminds of the joke about the dyslexic agnostic – he wasn’t sure if he believed in Dog.
August 14th, 2007 at 2:08 am
You forget about Satan who can pretend to be an angel of light, planting these items around so people venerate them instead of the One True God
OK I confess this is yet another spam filter test, hence using my real name instead of my usual ID of Sticks (Now you can see why I use that ID).
Christianity is not about cute little drawings or images in pieces of toast, it is about living better lives and being excellent to one another, to quote from Bill and Ted…
August 14th, 2007 at 2:09 am
God speaks English..
(or Spanish, in the case of “Cid”…)
August 14th, 2007 at 2:56 am
It’s G:D, but with so little text there is no way of knowing what G:D is an abbreviation of. Now if you had the rest of the vegetables off that production line you might get something like:
G(od):(Damn) I’m fed up with putting seeds in things.
August 14th, 2007 at 5:14 am
It’s interesting that this came up again just now.
As it happens, I saw nine real angels yesterday at my Aunt Helen’s funeral, come to carry her to her final rest, and they had nothing to do with visions, or invisible people, or pareidolia.
They were United States Marines.
August 14th, 2007 at 5:45 am
I see a big fat hoax.
I can’t say for certain, but look at how the lower parts of the “G” and “D” are bruised. How easy would it be to get some tweezers and insert some seeds into the eggplant’s flesh to turn a “kinda-sorta” word into a really readable one? Especially if reporters are coming over and you really want to get your picture in the paper?
Again, I can’t definitively say that it’s a hoax, but I find it more than a little fishy.
August 14th, 2007 at 6:44 am
It looks like GID or GIP to me. What that means, I don’t know. It’s not English, or any word in Spanish, Latin, or Greek that I’ve learned so far. What was written in The Lion King was “SFX”, for “Special Effects”. The world is just wierd like that. And, speaking of The Lion King, am I the only one who caught this sentence in “Can You Feel The Love Tonight”: “That the heart of this star-crossed voyager beats in time with yours”?
August 14th, 2007 at 6:45 am
Upside down, it looks more like “bug”. It’s a sign that insects are about to take over the world– or else homeland security is now wiretapping our vegetables.
August 14th, 2007 at 7:30 am
3.1415926godisnt’trealit’sjustusfoolsstuckintheuniversefactory5582741235
August 14th, 2007 at 8:07 am
Rob, the way I heard it, he was a dyslexic agnostic insomniac who stayed awake all night wondering about the existence of dog.
Also, with regard to eggplants: ew.
Also, plants can’t spell. Plants are really, really stupid.
August 14th, 2007 at 8:51 am
@The B.A.
“These threads, incidentally, are always my favorite to read the comments.”
Not too closely, it appears. I put a link to this in the “Jesus hits the pavement” thread yesterday, but Fark gets the credit for the blog entry?
August 14th, 2007 at 9:18 am
It’s Hungarian: CÅD
August 14th, 2007 at 9:22 am
Wait wait wait, COD? Oh great, god wants MORE money? For delivering a freakin’ eggplant? You know, I’d love to get into heaven, but I just don’t think I can afford it!
August 14th, 2007 at 9:27 am
LOL. People of faith are stupid!!!1!
August 14th, 2007 at 9:31 am
From the original article:
“Felicia told Action News that she recently had family members pass away and it is comforting that “GOD” appeared.”
Personally I think it might have been more comforting if they had not “passed away” in the first place. Also, if God wanted to put a message in a vegetable, wouldn’t he write something a bit more meaningful, and in Times New Roman or something instead of a childlike scribble? How about “HI – I EXIST” or better yet: “SORRY!”
August 14th, 2007 at 9:34 am
I think GID looks about right. Probably has something to do with why god’s such a homophobe.
August 14th, 2007 at 9:36 am
To take it one further, Encolpius, it’s the paranoid dyslexic agnostic insomniac: Stayed awake all night wondering if there really was a dog out to get him.
August 14th, 2007 at 10:16 am
Actually, the first squiggle does look like a “G” to me, but the last one is more of a “B”, and the middle one – if it’s turned sideways – is sort of a squashed “W” … “GWB” …
… AAAGGHHHHHHH! THE EGGPLANT IS EVIL! THE EGGPLANT IS EVIL!
August 14th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
I look at it and see C J E (if you take with the topp) and D ore P
So CJED ore CJEP
August 14th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Same as i Comenteary you wil see an smile fease with glases over the “O”
August 14th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
I djust reade the comeanteary upside then we got CJED CJEP CJEB
And then some thing come the midel one is an N
Then we got CJND CJNP CJNB
August 14th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
You’re missing the real story here. On the Action News websites (cue action news music) the reader poll states that 91% of readers would buy the “God” eggplant.
August 14th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Everyone seems to be missing the obvious… it’s not one word, it’s a phrase: “O GOD”
…as in “O God, I thought we’d seen it all with the Jesus smudge on the concrete”
August 14th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Hmm, Cod
Smoked cod poached in milk, with a nice white sauce.
August 14th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Well, I discovered Budda on the floor tile of the I-10 at MLK McDonald’s in Beaumont Tx. In the same part of the state a Jesus on the screen doon in Port Neches. All the Jesus’s and Marys ect, a blow had to be struck for ecuminalism.
August 14th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
And I am VERY fond of fried aggplant. I once attended a Voodoo ceremony, and to my horror I learned that they were going to sacrafice a poor inocent eggplant. At great risk I resqued the poor thing and took it hiome and made it comfortable in a nice warm skillet.
August 15th, 2007 at 8:44 am
You know what? It looks more like the arrangement of cardio and respiratory organs (heart, aorta and lungs) of the upper torso of a human.
/ Eggplants for Science.
// Yum.
August 15th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
It may be a message to buy GID
The stock price may explode.
August 15th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
I sliced an eggplant yesterday and checked every slice for a message — but God obviously isn’t trying very hard to get in touch with me.
Obviously all of you who dislike the taste are cooking the thing wrong. Try slicing it thinly, slathering it in olive oil and grilling it until it is limp. Or baking wedges of it with berberis (Ethiopian) spice mix (what I was doing). Yum.
August 16th, 2007 at 9:12 am
What I really want to see is a water stain, or a tree stump, or grilled cheese sandwich or something with the word “pareidolia”.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:33 am
To me, it looks like “GRO”.
June 13th, 2008 at 6:04 am
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