Okay, we’re finishing up today with two lighthearted animal posts. Here’s a good case of pareidolia from the Daily Mail (of course). The headline below shows how far religion has fallen: imagine a major newspaper publishing such a sarcastic headline 50 years ago!
That’s right: someone found an image of Jebus in their d*g’s ear. The Mail reports:
Rachel Evans, 25, was bathing her mini Yorkshire terrier Dave in the bathroom sink when she took some photographs of the dog enjoying his shower.
However, when she showed the pictures to her boyfriend James Williams, 28, she spotted the face of the Son of God in the pet’s soggy ear.
The Mail has thoughtfully inserted a circle around the miracle:
Dog-lover Miss Evans shares eight-month-old Dave with her house mate Lewis Evans, 24, along with a seven-month-old chihuahua called Gilbert and whippet Flo, one.
The pair hope the divine appearance is a good omen, and she added: ‘We’ve not long moved into the house, so that would be good.’
The Mail has enlarged the ear so you can see Jesus better. To me it looks more like Christopher Reeves:
And the paper’s even bigger picture. Praise Him!
The only question is how long it will take for believers to show up at the Evans-Williams home begging to see the terrier and falling to their knees when they do so. The thing is, the image almost certainly vanished when the d*g dried off.
Maybe that just proves that I am not imaginative. Even on the largest magnification I don’t even recognize a human face much less Jebus.
Yeah, I don’t see it either.
It’s next to the nightjar.
clever repartee!!
Ditto.
Sometimes an ear is just an ear. A d*g’s butt, on the other hand, is always the son of G*d.
When I saw the post this sort of thing was my immediate thought.
3, 2, 1.. bingo.
Yep. I knew I had to be quick with this crowd. I’m only glad I didn’t also type “FIRST!” when I posted, because that would’ve been really embarrassing.
Mine, too!
Oh my Dawg! That is my new favorite photo of all time!
I see Jesus in my Beagle’s butt all the time. Haven’t been able to take a good picture yet, though.
Poor innocent pooch
I’m waiting for an image of Jesus to appear on some mutts testicles. Will the faithful then
have the balls to advertize the miracle.
Well if you follow Steve Muth’s link at #2 above, it’s appeared on a dog’s a**hole. Surely that’s even better…
It looks more like a Neanderthal with a swollen lip to me.
Praise be to the all merciful Neanderthal!
Me, too. They’re really reaching with this one. Doesn’t G*d have anything better to do?
I was thinking Tony Danza.
Gaylan from Planet of the Apes.
It’s Haruman!! Praise Him!
I thought it looked a bit like the statues on Easter Island (Rapa Nui).
“I want a head likes the heads they have on Easter Island …”
That’s what I saw, too. That, and the face on Mars. I was going to do a mashup of all three, but got called away. Ah, well.
Eddie disapproves.
These Jesus pop-ups are like a Christian version of “Where’s Waldo”.
There is no Islamic version since images of the prophet are not allowed.
Let me get this straight … you shot your dog because he had the prophet in his ass?
Big bristly moustache? Looks more like Thor to me.
If it was a cat I would believe it, but a dog? No way!
That’s funny. All I see is what looks like a profile of the top half of Sam Elliott’s head. Probably just comforting the wet pooch telling it “The dude abides”.
Sometimes it all just looks so hopeless.
Hmmm. I see the tail of a fancy goldfish and the head of a rhino-like creature, but no Jebus. My imagination must be misadjusted.
There was the agnostic dyslexic who would lay awake at night wondering if there really was a dog!
He was also an insomniac: “Did you hear about the insomniac, agnostic, dyslexic?” (to match the order of the words in the punchline)
Can’t see it, guess I don’t have the see jesus gene, thank the lord
I think that this Jesus got raptured up or something. He ain’t there!
Just another broken sensus divinitatis. We see a lot of that around here.
All I see on that dog’s ear is an image of Deepok Chopra…….
(Lassie, go get help!!)
Worse than ear mites!!!
Let’s hope those who make the pilgrimage bring Dave steak.
They’re just yanking our chain, right? People can’t be this nuts.
“People can’t be this nuts”? Seriously?
Have you gotten out of the house recently?
If not, brace yourself…. and be sure to wear a tin foil hat. It’s scarier than you might imagine.
Nah, I wasn’t being serious… I just wanted to use the chain yanking bit. 😉
Thank d*g it wasn’t Mohammed
good point! Pity the poor dog even more if that was the case.
Who says it isn’t? Which makes me wonder what’s Islams position on defacing an image of Mohammad?
where is the jesus? i can’t see it. seriously. can someone draw over the ear where the jesus is?
“The only question is how long it will take for believers to show up at the Evans-Williams home begging to see the terrier and falling to their knees when they do so.”
Another question is, how much will they charge?
tree fiddy?
Looks more like William Lane Craig to me. Never mind, same difference.
That looks WAY more like the Face on Mars than the Son of God.
Oh praise be! It’s a Pinna Prophecy … an Auricular Miracle!
I hear ya.
And I ‘ear ya too.
“It’s all about faith, it’s all about faith!”
oooh, a picture of jesus in a dogs ear, praise be the evidence.
idiots
OMD! It’s Tom Cruise!
Does anyone else see a gorilla or chimp in profile? Just me? I definitely see nothing that I can even imagine is a people face.
It’s a profile — side of nose and one eye pointing towards the right. He’s got a punky hairdo tho, a little spikey and all.
Like my grandma used to say, it just goes to show that you can’t make a silk Jesus out of a dog’s ear.
Or something.
And lets not forget that that is one cute widdle d*g. Yes he is! Yes he is! Who’s a widdle hair ball? Who’s a widdle hair ball?
I have a PhD.
😉
No inverse correlation between level of education and sappiness towards cwitters, widdle or big.
Jeez, you’re right! Totally like Christopher Reeve!
Ear, Ear eye say!! These people are barking mad.
The above said with a British distinguished 70 year old man or woman’s accent.
OK that’s enough. I’m pooched.
What? Are they stupid? That’s Poseidon for crying out loud!
I wonder if these people go to (for instance), the National Portrait Gallery, and every time they see a human face in a painting, they go, “oooh! oooh! Look! It’s Jesus!” ?
Because that’s pretty much what they are doing. Anything that looks vaguely similar to a human face, “oooh! oooh! Look! It’s Jesus!” Their brain has a serious confirmation bias for one thing. And, funnily enough, that one thing is not Jesus, it’s that common portrait of Jesus they saw as a kid, which almost certainly looks nothing like any real Jesus.
It speaks to the total lack of self reflection these people must have that they can’t see how ridiculous they look doing this.
Not to mention, just like Mohammad, we have no effing clue what the Jebus actually looked like, if there ever was such a character. Now, if they were in Tel Aviv and saw bearded orthodox Jews and pointed and said: “oooh! oooh! Look! It’s Jesus!” then they might have a crumb of credibility.
That’s some pretty impressive pareidolia. Like most posters I don’t specifically see Jesus, but the top half of a face in profile? Yeah. If I had to pick a “who,” it reminds me of Christopher Reeve as Superman.
No way. That’s Brandon Roush from the ‘Scott Pilgrim’ movie.
How do people even see these kinds of things? To me, unless I was looking for a face, I would not have noticed it at all.
You probably wouldn’t notice all the faces on my bathroom’s cork floor either.
I might…I do get that people see faces and patterns in weird things…it’s just that I doubt I would see it as Jesus, instead of some other person….but that’s just me 😛 Still liked the picture, nonetheless 🙂
That’s not Jebus! That’s my uncle Floyd!!!