Sadly, I haven't seen any good pareidolia stories lately, you know, stories in which someone, usually Jesus, Mary, or the Pope (or sometimes Elvis, who, let's face it, is basically the same thing as Jesus, Mary, or the Pope), shows up as a seeming image on some sort of object or other. It can be a piece of sheet metal, a tree, under an expressway underpass, and even on a dog on his--well, best not to say.
Cats, of course, felt left out in this pareidolia arms race. Consequently, one cat decided it was time to take action, as CNN reports. That's right! It's the Jesus Cat (not to be confused with The Jesus Lizard, a cool punk rock band from way back).
You know, to me it looks more like the Face on Mars. Maybe it's a Martian cat.
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While I am on vacation, I'm reprinting a number of "Classic Insolence" posts to keep the blog active while I'm gone. (It also has the salutory effect of allowing me to move some of my favorite posts from the old blog over to the new blog, and I'm guessing that quite a few of my readers have…
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We've seen the Virgin Mary on trees, under a freeway overpass in Chicago, a window in Perth Amboy, NJ, and even in the brain. We've seen Jesus himself show up on toast, on a piece of sheet metal, on a potato chip, on a pierogi, on a ceiling tile, and even on a cat. Heck, we've even seen…
Ya gotta love it. Whether it be the Virgin Mary under a freeway overpass on W. Fullerton Avenue in Chicago or on a window in Perth Amboy, NJ, or the face of Jesus on a shell, on the wall of a shower, on a sand dune, a potato chip, or (my personal favorite) a pierogi, it would seem that human…
I have a soft spot for pareidolia, as regular readers know. It amuses me to no end to see Jesus and Mary popping up on freeway underpasses, tacos, toast, pieces of sheet metal, Lava Lamps, and the like. I thought that I had seen it all--until now:
His image has been seen on rocks, windows - even a…
It's good to know the world is in such fine shape that news programs have time to devote to this kind of story.
Who is dumber, the family or the reporters? This is ridiculous! Although the cats are kind of cute...
Dammit!!!! I want those 2 minutes and 12 seconds of my life back!!!! UGH!!!
All hail the Jesus Cat!
All hail? Weeelll, Okaayyy...
"Hey, Godzilla, come here a moment, please! I need you."
Points at cat.
"Stomp."
Meo--STOMP
Crickets chirp.
The End.
I dunno. If that's Jesus, he's had some major work done since his last photo op on the cheese sandwich. Or was it the rusty sink...
And appearing on a cat? I think Jesus needs to get a better agent.
Looked more like Chewbacca in a fireman's helmet to me.
Looks like the face on Mars to me too. Maybe it's proof all those cartoons were really trying to tell us the truth that Marving the Martian is really out to take over the Earth.
You know, legend has it that tabby cats were given the distinctive M on their foreheads as a mark from Mohammed, so maybe that fur portrait isn't the prophet we think it is....?
Haven't seen any good pareidolia stories lately? Sheesh.
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I see the devil's dark face in the black fur of Jesus Cat's little friend. They should name him Lucifer.
I'm sorry, I could NOT see the face of Jesus in the fur, no matter how hard I tried. Cute kitty, though.
All hail Kriskpy Kreme glazed doughnut stain cat!
Interesting how some of the family members couldn't see the face until the son took a blurry picture of the so called image. Then it just popped out. After that, they were fighting to call the news channels. Fantastic.
You need a blurry image to see the face on Mars as well.
I hope for the sake of the poor kitty that no one decides to preserve this miracle. The phrase "more than one way to skin a cat" comes to mind.
Kitty on the news one week, on Ebay the next...poor kitty.
how fitting it looked like jesus in the shroud since that turned out to be a fake as well.
Have you been to Goshen? I have (once, that was plenty) and this does not surprise me one bit.
That's not jesus, it's Wolverine! it IS a sign!!
Orac, you're a fan of The Jesus Lizard? I'm kind of surprised.
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If you tilt your head to the right it looks like a giraffe and a motorcycle.
No, it's "pareidolia."
It looks like a patch of fuzz to me...
Oh wait....it is a patch of fuzz.
And yes, the Jesus Lizard is a great band. So is the Jesus and Mary Chain
"Kitty on the news one week, on Ebay the next...poor kitty."
You can't sell live animals on Ebay but maybe a pelt. There's more than one way to....uh....I wonder what they'll charge for the fee line.
Well, there's hope for kitty yet. The dog with Jesus in its butt fir didn't lose his fur to eBay, at least not yet: http://yoism.reality-movement.org/images/Penn&Teller/DogButtJesus.gif Personally, I think that's a truer image of the late great JC than the kitty fur.
Hey, there was a story recently about a woman who found Jesus in a cheetoh. She calls her find...no, I'm not making this up...."Cheesus".
Reminds me of the time Jesus healed the leopards.
Doesn't that woman know Cheetohs never prosper.
I for one welcome our christ-bearing kitty loverlord.
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Sorry... I couldn't help it. Err um, the Devil made me do it!
Courtesy of Dave Barry's blog
Past this link into your browser for the jesus cheeto:
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=7082667&v…
The dog butt jesus was a photoshop job. A great one but fake nonetheless.
From the link BA posted:
Cheesus is going to get very, very stale that way. I wonder if he will resurrect out of the box and open the vault doors in protest? (leaving angels behind to explain what happened to those who come looking for him, naturally)
The dog butt one was real originally, I think. Its later "incarnations" on the web have been...ahem...enhanced to play up the Jesus-like details.
WTF? Why is this crap on CNN? Was it a particularly slow news day?
It only looks like some of Jesus' younger pictures, before he started trimming his beard and using conditioner. Who I really think this is, is Jesus' stunt double Marius. A lot of people say you can't tell them apart from most angles. The reason I think it's him is the kitten's forehead. See the big "M" there?
P.S. how do people even think they know what Jesus looked like?