God may not leave traces of His existence in our world, but Ceiling Cat does. Take a look at this map of the London Underground:
and then the hidden message:
Actually, there are 35 animals on the underground; see them here.
As the site notes:
As famous as the black cabs or red double-decker buses, the London Underground Map is loved for it’s [sic] bright colours, striking design and unique style. When most people look at the ‘tube’ map, all they see is a pattern of colourful lines that helps them work out where they’re going and how they’re going to get there.
But did you know that, hidden within the map, there is a world of Animals?
The Animals were discovered by Paul Middlewick in 1988. They’re created using the tube lines, stations and junctions of the London Underground map. Paul found the original animal, the elephant, while he was staring at the tube map during his daily journey home from work. Since then, Elephant & Castle, as the elephant is called, has been joined by many others from bats to bottlenose whales.
h/t: Grania
Has anybody actually ridden any of those routes? Might be interesting to see what discoveries are to be found, even if only pareidoliacally speaking….
b&
But where is the face of Jebus?
Right here:
http://media.heavy.com/media/2013/03/116.jpg
Cheers,
b&
That’s hilarious!
Oh my gosh. This is just like Our Lady of Guadalupe revealing herself in the sap on the bark of the Ginkgo tree.
My favorite underground map is the one with all the names represented as anagrams (http://www.steveprentice.net/tube/TfLSillyMaps/anagrammap.gif) It provides the traveler the exciting challenge of trying to figure out the anagram before you miss your stop
Note: readers may want to check the entire website out for further types of underground maps.. the “rude map” is rather splendid I think
I spent part of my senior year in college near Oracle Rust!
Aha… you must have been studying at On Bossy Nutritive then!
Well there is a ‘Show Kitten’ on the Northern line!
(Kentish Town)
Well, there you have it! Can you imagine the odds against finding such clear signs of Ceiling Cat on TWO totally different sorts of Underground Maps? How can this be a mere coincidence? So much for the fundamentalist rantings of those strident Ceiling Cat deniers!
Verily it is so! Praise the Cat!
Someone will know this in more detail I hope: there is a Somerset Zodiac of animal and human shapes laid out in the old field boundaries in SW England that is meant to represent a deliberate pattern designed and made by iron age/bronze age (?) peoples. It’s a lovely sequence of pareidolia
Actually, there are 35 animals on the underground; see them here.
Of which, I count four dogs, one cat. 😉
Hate to spoil things, and I haven’t looked at the other animals yet, but I tried tracing the ‘cat’ route on the top map, and things didn’t quite line up the same way they do on the bottom, eg. try matching the cats back as drawn on the lower map with the upper map.
Cats are very limber animals
You’re right: I noticed that too. Somebody seems to have been photoshopping the map to make things line up!
I’m singing in the rain,
just singing in the rain.
What a wonderful feline,
I’m happy again.
Mornington crescent!
No, no – we’re playing Trumpington’s variation. You’re In Nidd now I’m afraid.
In case foreigners don’t get the reference, here’s some help
I miss Humph, so totally irrelevantly here’s the infamous countryside joke http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=285DD7QECzY
If you want to pop in & see me I am by the cat’s laft ear!
oops! LEFT ear… (Kings Cross)
Paul Middlewick sounds like the sort of person who can actually see bears, lions, dragons and whales in the constellations of the night sky. Perhaps he possesses the imagination gene that was so common in the ancient Greeks.
I visited London for a week in 1991 to work at the BMNH. I rode the tube to there and other destinations. On one trip, a very British lady asked me for directions. I was able to tell her what she needed to know. I enjoyed that.