A little pareidolia, anyone?

Personally it looks more like Frank Zappa to me than Jesus.

You haven't yet heard about the Mohammed fish? (Links to pictures 'clarifying' the miraculous script - and disagreeing over where it is! - may be found in the comments.)

For a randomly stained piece of sheet metal it's not a particularly poor work of contemporary portraiture, but I seem to see a third eye and a second left cheek.

How is anyone supposed to know whether a given image actually represents anyone whose face we've never seen? Jerry Garcia I'd recognize. Perhaps even Lincoln, Washington, Voltaire or Diderot. Carlos V, from his many portraits and his most memorable jaw, certainly.

But Jesus or Mohammed?

I think it looks more like James Dean with spindly arms raised:

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now that they are selling holy hardware it can't be long before we get the "holy handgrenade".

I forget what animal it was, exactly, but it was something with a shell that lived off the coast of Japan. Peasants would throw back any of them whose shell looked like Samurai helmets...so now they ALL have shells that look like Samurai helmets. :^) (Just think of the selective breeding possibilities for religious icons... Keep it quiet, release them one at a time onto the market... ;^)

Hey, it's David Hasselhoff!

Qalmlea: It was a species of crab, and they tended to have shells that looked like puckered samurai faces. I think the scene was near an old battlefield, so the crabs were supposedly reincarnated samurai who died in the battle.

As for the specific pareidolia du jour, I see Mr. Fantastic and Clint Eastwood merging with a moai.

Extract from the memoirs of Madeupname Notreal,

I first realised I was blessed when, one day stepping out of the shower, I noticed what I took to be a birthmark on my left buttock. Upon closer examination with the help of some mirrors and my neighbour's young daughter, we discovered that it was actually the face of Mother Teresa.

We thought little of it until, several days later, I was sitting on a horse riding to the local stoat polishers convention. Imagine my surprise when the elderly horse suddenly developed great youth and vigour, running and jumping in fright at the sight of a UFO landing.

I thought it might be the flying saucer having the rejuvenating effect upon my equine steed, but Jesus appeared to me in vision when I fell off the horse and landed headfirst on a passing police car.

Jesus told me (in a Texan accent) that my buttocks were blessed with the holy sign of Teresa, and that any living thing - such as the horse - coming into contact them would be healed with the quantum energy of the Lord.

That night, I experimented by placing my buttocks on the chest of my asthmatic mother as she slept. A holy light flowed from them into her, and the next morning she awoke, magically relieved of her malady.

Over the next month, I healed many people in the same way, by the laying on of buttocks, and soon aquired a reputation. One doubter challenged me to sit upon his nose to cue his cold. Although the symptoms persisted, the deeper sickness was cured when, after just one face sitting session, he pronounced himself spiritually enlightened and rushed off in great haste to spread the news.

All that was mere months ago, and now I help millions by having them send their problems to me by email, and for a small charge I effect a healing by sitting on the computer, pouring forth my energy therefrom into the internet. Personal sittings can be arranged, and I have placed my orbs at the disposal of many famous politicians and film stars.

Much kind thanks for the hat-tip! The image looks WAY more like Wally from Leave It To Beaver, if you ask me. Wally or perhaps Boon from Animal House wagging his finger at Flounder and Pinto...new pledges, man. You can't trust 'em.

I'm also reasonably certain Jesus was in the cafeteria food fight scene.

They say several people agreed with their assessment, although a few suggested it looks more like legendary rock singer Jim Morrison of The Doors

Of the sheet metal riders on the storm Doors, no doubt.

Here's another good Ebay auction:Howard Stern Grilled Cheese

Qamlea, BronzeDog,

The species you're discussing is known as the Heike Crab. It is common to the area around Dan-No-Ura, Japan. This was the site of a famous battle in which the last samurai of the Heike (alternately, Taira) family were killed. Due to the selection pressure of local fisherman, the crab population ended up with a carapace that resembled a stylized facemask.