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Category: Entertainment/culture • Humor • Religion • Television
Posted on: July 20, 2009 2:00 PM, by Orac
...as the last Virgin Mary sighting in a bird turd smear on a pickup truck.
At least this time around, we're back to more conventional "Virgin Mary in a tree"-type sightings:
Of course, this time around, I have to wonder if the guy who cut the tree down is having a little fun with the faithful.
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Comments
That'll make a mighty fine coffee table.
Posted by: Greg Laden | July 20, 2009 2:15 PM
Looks like a middle finger to me.
Posted by: Nat | July 20, 2009 2:26 PM
Looks like a mummy.
Posted by: Jon H | July 20, 2009 4:06 PM
Turtle, possibly a red-eared slider.
In an article about it, the church warns against superstition and idolatry. My irony meter overloaded.
Posted by: Monado | July 20, 2009 4:33 PM
The frozen turd of a very big bird.
Posted by: blf | July 20, 2009 6:38 PM
Cleavage.....Oh, was there a tree in the picture?
Posted by: notmercury | July 20, 2009 9:19 PM
It just looks like a lump of wood with a vaguely humanoid outline on it to me. I suppose that the people who think they can see a specific person would tell me it's from a lack of faith, or something equally stupid.
Posted by: Kythyria | July 21, 2009 5:38 AM
If the Virgin Mary is in a tree stump, but the tree is cut so that no-one ever sees her, is she still there?
Posted by: QoB | July 21, 2009 12:21 PM
Meh, that looks more like my aunt Betty than the virgin Mary. The important question now is, what is my aunt doing in that tree?
Posted by: catgirl | July 21, 2009 12:27 PM
Mitchell and Webb do pareidolia.
A must see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1-bbz3crjw
Posted by: dt | July 21, 2009 1:06 PM
I don't think you CAN have too much fun with the faithful. It's one thing to tease your dog, because the dog doesn't know any better. But with PEOPLE...they're voluntarily walking into it.
Posted by: Zach Miller | July 21, 2009 3:43 PM
Venus rising from the waves?
Posted by: Mephistopheles O'Brien | July 21, 2009 4:39 PM
I have a chopping block that bleeds for a week every month; now I know why!
Posted by: MadScientist | July 25, 2009 3:36 AM