So this time, a guy leaves a brillo pad (for those not from the U.S., a steel wool pad with soap in it to scour pans and such) in his sink. He removes it, and what does he see?
He claims it’s Jesus.
Um. Seriously? I mean really, Jesus? In that?
He may claim that, but I think we all know who it really is.
Tip o’ Karen Black’s sharpened teeth to Fark (warning: potentially inappropriate language in that thread because, duh, it’s Fark).
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December 18th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Come on now, that’s obviously Animal.
December 18th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
If the sacred image of your holy Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, is going to come to you, it won’t do so in a rainbow, or the leaves of a holly tree, or flock of birds – hehe – but in a smelly Brillo pad soaking in your three-day-old macaroni and cheese. He should check the bottom of his empty cans of Bud Light for an image of the Virgin!
I said before if I saw another moron who sees the face of Jesus in a random, pointless location, I’d punch myself in the face until I don’t care anymore. Suppose I better get started!
December 18th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Ah, the old pattern recognition kicks in.
Damn! I think I just saw a saber tooth tiger in my trees.
Oops. Nope. Just another raccoon.
Whew! For a second there, I thought I’d have to run.
My ancestors ability to detect patterns is why I’m here at all. Better to be safe than sorry.
Still, for THAT pattern, I’d have to go with the critter. Jesus had a better hair cut.
GAry 7
December 18th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
I thought it kind of looked like Animal, from the muppets …
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.muppetcentral.com/news/2007/052507_animal.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.muppetcentral.com/news/2007/052507.shtml&usg=__C6A0D5zPxdjbRdgUPNQ6yypcQ_g=&h=300&w=300&sz=23&hl=en&start=5&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=GME7sZ24OPGHOM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3DMuppets%2BAnimal%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1C1CHMI_enUS323US323%26sa%3DX%26um%3D1
December 18th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
I know you get off on these small amusements, Phil, but it really is getting a bit tedious. Whata ya got? A hundred of these? Two? We get it. We get it.
Did you do the Titan lake glint yet? Oh, you did. Good job. Have a sandwich.
December 18th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Why do people want this guy to come back? He’s clearly going to be some giant hideous Lovecraftian blob. To say nothing of his mum, for that matter.
December 18th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Oh my word…It IS animal!
December 18th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Animal was my second choice, actually.
December 18th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
canderleun (#5): As long as newscasts take stuff like this seriously, I will make fun of it. That’s a promise.
December 18th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Put these people away in an institution so they wont hurt themselves.
December 18th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
I’ve got my looney Xian specs on, but I’ll be gosh darned if I can see ANYthing in that mess. I mean, usually there’s a faint hint of something, but jeez (so to speak), this one’s a loser.
December 18th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Sorry. It’s Señor Wences’ hand.
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2005/08/16/books/21jain.html
December 18th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
You’re looking at it wrong. Those aren’t eyes; they’re arms. And when you look at it that way, it’s obviously Ricky Ricardo standing behind a xylophone.
December 18th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
You need to submit it to http://totallylookslike.com/
December 18th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
You know, if I were a Christian, and something with that face met me at the Pearly Gates, I’d run as fast as I can to the other place!
Actually, now that I look closer at it, it looks like Gary Busey!
December 18th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
I see a turtle.
December 18th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
I just ran this picture through ‘Tineye’ (an image comparison search engine), and it found 0 matches out of 1.989 billion images searched. Just sayin’
December 18th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Er, make that 1.1989 billion images searched…
December 18th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Hilarious. It actually reminds me a bit of The Thing, from Fantastic Four.
December 18th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
I have to admit it looks more like a Vogon to me……
December 18th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
I dunno; I see Teddy Roosevelt.
December 18th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
I see either a dog’s nose, or Jabba the Hut.
December 18th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
It kind of looks like a ‘Critter’ from that old sci-fi movie.
December 18th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
It IS a vogon.NOW I see something. I didn’t see anything in the photo that reminded me of ANY thing for the longest time.. Animal? nope; JC? naw. What does that say about my imagination? Don’t answer that…
December 18th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
It might have Animal’s hair, but the rest of the face is pure Oscar the Grouch.
December 18th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
It’s quite clearly a polar bear’s head and arm facing to the left. He’s probably reaching for an ice-cold Coca Cola Classic as polar bears often do this time of year.
December 18th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
No, it’s Ed Asner with a beard and glasses! (Sadly, it looks like he was mugged, because his glasses are broken.)
December 18th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Thanks a lot Phil. That movie gave me massive nightmares as a kid. Now you’ve re-awakened the horror.
If you look at it with your head tilted to the right, it also kind of looks like an electron microscope scan of a mite. Those puppies will give you nightmares too.
December 18th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
From the same angle it also looks like the keyboard player from the Cantina scene in Star Wars (episode 4).
December 18th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Eric Cartman in a bad mood?
December 18th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
I dunno… I thought maybe it was an extra from a Geico commercial.
December 18th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
I think it looks more like Ernie on “My Three Sons” after someone punched him in the face while he had his glasses on.
December 18th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
It looks like an angry rottweiler to m.
December 18th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
I agree with what a few have said already – my immediate thought was Animal!
December 18th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Maybe it’s that little creature from the movie “Cat’s Eye.”
December 18th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
This looks a lot more like Jesus to me.
http://thehindsightfactor.com/jesus_image_found_in_dog_butt
December 18th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Ugliest. Pareidolia. Ever. *shudder*
Somebody is nuts enough to see Jeebus in that!? Yeeesh!
Fox being nuts enough to take it as a real news story ..? Well, that part I can just about believe.
Somehow don’t think that Jesus (if he exists) would be flattered by that. “You think I look like what?!”
December 18th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
If we’re talking specifically about religious figures, that looks a lot more like the FSM than the LJC. Make that FSM sans noodly appendages.
December 18th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
I’m feeling what Acronym Jim said. That third segment of Trilogy of Terror gave me bad dreams. I’d forgotten about that (repressed memory, no doubt) till you showed the pic, and it all came back. Years of therapy all for naught….. sighh.
December 18th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Well we all know that global warming is caused by the heat of the earth and the heat from all those fireplaces and boilers and other hot burny things.
Earth. Air. Fire. Water.
Skeptics Unite !!!
December 19th, 2009 at 12:00 am
I see Pangea
December 19th, 2009 at 12:10 am
I am quite sure that it’s Matt Groening.
December 19th, 2009 at 12:16 am
^ Huh? I don’t get that Doug Watts. Sorry.
Yeck. Of all the pareidolia things that one’s gott a be the worst & least Jeebus like I’ve ever seen. I’m with Flying sardines (37) on this one.
Off topic but BA are you going to do a review of the science in the new Avatar movie by any chance?
December 19th, 2009 at 12:26 am
there’s science in avatar?
they remote control blue cat people. with their brain. SPACE MARINES
December 19th, 2009 at 12:47 am
While on requests, please BA can you blog about the “waterworld” exoplanet, GJ 1214, that was discovered the other day? That’s one intriguing planet in my view & I’d really love to see your take and extra info & others comments on it.
(Ok, ok, I’ll stop pestering you ’bout this now. But, pretty please with a Hot Neptune on top, can you blog on that? …
)
December 19th, 2009 at 1:07 am
I for one blame the idiot casino that bought a jesus sandwich for $28000. Even since, any vaguely human shaped stain brings thoughts of CASH!
December 19th, 2009 at 1:44 am
Jesus who?
December 19th, 2009 at 1:50 am
I wouldn’t say this would be qualify as the news taking this “seriously”. If the headline was “man sees Jesus” rather than “man SAYS he sees Jesus”, you’d have a point — at this point, Phil, I think you’re just making fun of the ignorant. I’m pretty sure you can hear the female anchor guffaw in the background while the male anchor tells the story..
December 19th, 2009 at 3:42 am
I though the looked more like the guy from Ghoulies. And he’s made with a brillo pad…
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089200/
December 19th, 2009 at 3:43 am
I’m beginning to understand the mindset of those nutters who claim that they see god’s creation in all things. Obviously he had to put some sort of signature or trademark on everything.
December 19th, 2009 at 4:09 am
It is Zombie Jesus !!!
December 19th, 2009 at 4:39 am
Nah, it’s a drop head camel
http://tinyurl.com/ygs7pdo
BigBob
December 19th, 2009 at 4:56 am
If you rotate that picture about 45 degrees clockwise, you’ll see the face — or at least the bottom half — of Jesus. From the top of his face up he appears to be wearing wraparound sunglasses and is also a conehead. The greenish bit in the corner sort of becomes his robes. Praise be Conehead Jesus!
December 19th, 2009 at 5:52 am
BTW – that little wild screaming voodoo guy in Trilogy of Terror chasing Karen Black from room to room was really top drawer scary. That was one of the creepiest things on American TV – that and the older black & white Architects of Terror episode of the original Outer Limits (where they made Robert Culp into a bizarre, weird alien to scare humanity out of making war.) Many local stations aired Trilogy of Terror as well as that Outer Limits episode late at night so the kiddies wouldn’t see it. (I stayed up and had nightmares from both shows.)
December 19th, 2009 at 8:03 am
I’m doiling this one as Moe. (I realize it’s probably just me that sees it that way).
Link for da kids
cyber-cinema.com/bestseller/t3stoogesjustmoe.jpg
It was easy to impress people when there were only 2 TV channels, eh? Thank FSM for premium cable and the internet!
December 19th, 2009 at 8:47 am
Yes, its “Animal”, in a ferocious “fear & loathing” mood. As drawn in watercolor by Ralph Steadman.
December 19th, 2009 at 8:53 am
OMG!! That little tiki doll scared the crap outta me when I was a kid. My older brothers MADE me watch that movie. Then, of course, laughed as I nearly pee’d my pants. The thought of the sounds that thing made are enough to send shudders down my spine.
December 19th, 2009 at 10:03 am
50. Keith (the first one) Says:
I’m beginning to understand the mindset of those nutters who claim that they see god’s creation in all things. Obviously he had to put some sort of signature or trademark on everything.
Kind of like those ‘do not remove tag under penalty of law’ tags on matresses?
J/P=?
December 19th, 2009 at 11:05 am
I was thinking more like how every object in Casino Royale had a Sony logo on it.
December 19th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Anybody remember The Maxx, a comic book and TV series (which, as far as I know, has not been released on dvd)? That thing reminds me of an Iz, the little toothy things that would chase after the Maxx in both our world and the alternate one. Izes would disguise themselves in our world with simple things, like bad wigs or an article of clothing. Seriously, that’s what this thing reminds me of, bad wig and all. (Of course, this image must be a photo negative, as an Iz is black.)
By the way, one of my earliest scary memories is the Trilogy of Terror doll. I remember almost nothing else of that show, save that thing chasing Karen Black and making that creepy noise. I think I was 3 or 4 years old at the time, and I don’t think my parents realized I was awake. (Fortunately, once they noticed me staring at the TV, my dad took the time to try to explain what a movie was, and how everything in it was fake, so I don’t think I ever had any bad dreams about the whole thing. None that I remember, at least.)
December 19th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Not Jesus…maybe John the Baptist, though.
December 19th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Jesus looks like a monster! It reminds me of a Where The Wild Things Are animal face.
December 19th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Maybe it is ‘Roid Jesus with a page cut and an eye patch? I bet he’s still fuming about that cross thingy.
December 19th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Thinking of weird ugly and totally unJeebus like images check this out :
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=985933
The war on Xmas has just got really surreal and OTT!
A “Jesus shoots Santa” display. WTF!?
Way to win people to your cause and show everyone the true Christian spirit of forgiveness and lovingkindness – NOT!
December 19th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
@CR,
I remember that series. I just checked and not only is it online ( http://www.mtv.com/shows/the_maxx/series.jhtml ), but it was also released on DVD ( http://www.amazon.com/The-Maxx-Complete-Series/dp/B002WJHDJI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1261285306&sr=8-1 ) three days ago.
December 19th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
59. Keith (the first one) Says:
I was thinking more like how every object in Casino Royale had a Sony logo on it.
Heh… I’m finding and watching the “Best of MST3K” short versions of several episodes, and one (don’t recall which, been going through a LOT of them this weekend) had a riff: They really misspelled ‘SONY’ =when Crow notices a sign.
J/P=?
December 19th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Aw, cool! Thanks, TechyDad!
December 20th, 2009 at 2:51 am
Jesus vs Santa or How Brian Boitano Saved Christmas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtCnJAVQnXE
NS4W
December 20th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Looks like a neanderthal to me or maybe trog?
December 20th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
On second thought it looks like Dr Eggman(akaDrRobotnik) from the Sonic the Hedgehog games if there is a blue blurr around that could be Sonic
December 20th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
one more thing I saw trilogy of terror as a teenager at the time I liked the first story about the teacher who puts ideas into students heads (forgive me I had rageing hormones back then) the second story I gessed before the end of it the third I think the childs play movies riped off
December 21st, 2009 at 8:54 am
Strange, such a perfect image of my wife appearing in a total stranger’s brillo pad.
December 21st, 2009 at 9:26 am
Ha! I thought it was “He Who Kills” as soon as I saw it too.
Yay for Richard Matheson. I just wish someone had done ‘I am Legend’ justice, instead of that tripe with Will Smith.
The Vincent Price movie is actually closer to the original.
December 29th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
I remember that movie with Karen Black, this is a great likeness,
Love the comments too – #72 cracked me up.
January 7th, 2010 at 9:17 am
Looks like the guy on the Pringles can.