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Category: Weirdness
Posted on: March 24, 2006 9:33 PM, by PZ Myers
Jesus. Everyone is sending me their local manifestations of Jesus…here's another one, imbedded in a plank in a deck. And it's for sale!
It's a real bargain, too—this Jesus is not your ordinary dime-a-dozen clumsily scrawled Jesus, but is clearly rendered by the ghost of Picasso.
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Comments
Oh man! Who put the Ent through the saw mill?
Posted by: Ronald Brak | March 24, 2006 9:46 PM
Uh, since when did Jesus have a trunk? I swear that thing reminds me of a Gary Larson cartoon...
Posted by: Corkscrew | March 24, 2006 9:53 PM
That ain't Jesus. It's Ann Coulter. And she's got wood!
Posted by: Coragyps | March 24, 2006 10:07 PM
Wooden jesus where are you from
Korea or canada or maybe taiwan
I didn't know it was the holy land
But I believed from the minute
The check left my hand, and I pray
Can I be saved, I spent all my money
On a future grave
Wooden jesus I'll cut you in
On twenty percent of my future sin
Porcelain mary her majesties pure
Looking for virgin territory
Coat hanger halos don't come cheap
From television shepherds with living room
Sheep, and I pray
Can I be saved, I spent all my money
On a future grave
Wooden jesus I'll cut you in
On twenty percent of my future sin
"Wooden Jesus"
Temple of the Dog
I thought this might make sense given the pic for this post....
Posted by: Christian | March 24, 2006 10:08 PM
Again, this Jesus looks like a Star Wars character
Its all about Ephant Mon.
/officially out-geeked everyone here. Take that PZ.
Posted by: Will | March 24, 2006 10:18 PM
This is no joke... no hokey vague image in a muffin... nope the real thing... only 5 miles from the Plaster Jebus, too.. and Leprechauns are WAY more interesting than out-of-wedlock god-bebbes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nda_OSWeyn8
Mobile... my hometown!
Uncle Don
Posted by: Don Culberson | March 24, 2006 10:20 PM
double dipped jesus is so cool
Praise the woo...i mean lord
Posted by: bigdumbchimp | March 24, 2006 10:22 PM
They built a deck out of Ted Nugent! Who would'a thought?
Posted by: Rick @ shrimp and grits | March 24, 2006 10:34 PM
That's not Jesus. That's an alien.
Posted by: Stoic | March 24, 2006 10:46 PM
Any fool can see that that is the FSM. All hail his noodly goodness!
Posted by: Holly | March 24, 2006 11:09 PM
Picasso-esque, yes. It looks more like two half-melted masks of Jesus, stuck together, to me.
Posted by: Pete K | March 24, 2006 11:09 PM
Benzene needs help.
He's an undergrad who has a 10-page research summary paper due date quickly approaching, and doesn't yet know what he wants to write about. The task is to simply talk about and analyze an animal taxon. The task is cruelly vague. Orignally, Benzene wanted to pick an endoparasite and use it as a jumping off point of invesitigate the co-evolution of endoparasites and the human immune system as a vehicle for laying credence to the hygiene hypothesis of allergies. But that hasn't worked out. So Benzene needs a cool animal (i.e. not C. elegans or D. melanogaster) upon which research has been done that he can write about.
Your suggestions please?
Posted by: Benzene | March 24, 2006 11:11 PM
It's a squid!
Posted by: idlemind | March 24, 2006 11:16 PM
It looks to me like one of the female baddies from the classic Japanese anime Captain Harlock, the Mazone, although I often think of them as the Sylvidres because I saw the French dubbed version of Harlock, Albator, as a teenager. Anyways Mazone agents are generally tall, lithsome women with long hair who wear hooded capes while sneaking about, and whose eyes sometimes glow when they're menacing someone.
Posted by: tim gueguen | March 24, 2006 11:19 PM
Wow! I just ran a plank that looked like that through planer. Doesn't look much like the savior anymore though. Does that fall under heresy or sacriledge?
Posted by: David | March 25, 2006 12:28 AM
It's fairly obviously General Grevious from Star Wars III nonchalantly vomiting. Perhaps he saw the movie he was in.
Posted by: Turnip | March 25, 2006 1:21 AM
Benzene: Vampyroteuthis infernalis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_squid
Posted by: Azkyroth | March 25, 2006 2:45 AM
As is most often the case with Jesus pareidolia, this is an image of Fidel Castro. Of the remaining cases, a considerable portion are actually Jerry Garcia.
Posted by: bad Jim | March 25, 2006 3:16 AM
That's not Jerry Garcia, that's Gandalf!
Posted by: Ron | March 25, 2006 5:50 AM
But how do you know it isn't Saruman?
Posted by: Michael I | March 25, 2006 6:16 AM
Looks like Cthulhu to me...
Posted by: John Wilkins | March 25, 2006 6:41 AM
It took me a few seconds to puzzle it out, but it finally came together...
Roger the alien from American Dad!
Posted by: Gene | March 25, 2006 6:57 AM
Hmm. Opus? Apparently, God can't draw very well.
Posted by: Steve Sutton | March 25, 2006 7:11 AM
I agree with Turnip--looks like Our Savior is horking up his socks.
Posted by: Chris in STL | March 25, 2006 8:01 AM
My vote is for Al Gore.
Posted by: Dwimr | March 25, 2006 9:15 AM
I say we keep posting and watering down the whole "I saw Jesus in (insert object)"...that way it'll become a ubiquitous function of urban legend, and thus lose its impact.
Posted by: BlueIndependent | March 25, 2006 10:44 AM
At Emma's bar in River Falls, Wisconsin, there used to be an image of Jesus between the urinals in the men's room. True tale!
Posted by: povertyrich | March 25, 2006 11:07 AM
this Jesus is not your ordinary dime-a-dozen clumsily scrawled Jesus, but is clearly rendered by the ghost of Picasso.
I was thinking more Johnny Hart. Which is only fitting, as it would drive the jeezers nuts. OK, nutser...
Posted by: Doozer | March 25, 2006 11:07 AM
That doesn't look anything like Yassir Arafat, which I suspect is closer to what a hypothetical historical Jesus would look like ...
Benzene, Homo sapiens is a pretty well studied animal...
(In 6th grade we had to do a report on an astronomical object, and I chose the Earth.)
Posted by: Keith Douglas | March 25, 2006 11:11 AM
Flying Spaghetti Monster in wood pics - PLEASE!!!!
Posted by: Terry Long | March 25, 2006 12:04 PM
Well, thanks PZ! I was starting to think my otherwordly manifestation wasn't as worthy as plaster jebus and jebus on the crotch. Before the excitement dies down on these incredible blessings, I hope I can sell it! This seems much cooler than a grilled cheese.
Posted by: RH Bourdeau | March 25, 2006 12:22 PM
On the plus side, no one has bid on it as of the time of this post.
There is yet hope for humanity!
Posted by: Jan Andrea | March 25, 2006 12:37 PM
not sure of whom it's an image, but I'm pretty sure that's a dowsing rod there to the left of it.
Posted by: CCP | March 25, 2006 2:41 PM
This is getting really sad.
Posted by: dbpitt | March 25, 2006 3:01 PM
Yes, but if Jesus is a plank of wood, then how are there Pigmies+Dwarfs?
Posted by: Honeybee | March 25, 2006 4:46 PM
How that image of Jesus in wood came into being is irreducibly complex.
Posted by: BlueIndependent | March 25, 2006 4:56 PM
"rendered by the ghost of Picasso."
No, of Dali!
Or maybe Vermeer, whose ghost has been seen before:
_The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used as a Table_ (1934) Salvador Dali
Posted by: Shell | March 25, 2006 8:00 PM
Hey, I got Jesus, too! The closer from my screen door was ripped off the door by a big gust. The screw holes make perfect eyes, a dent in the wood forms a mouth, and some staining creates a beautiful aura about the whole heavenly face. Ok, maybe it really does more closely resemble Darwin, but pictures of Darwin formed by "natural selection" don't do well on e-bay. Jesus is the real cash cow.
Posted by: Russ | March 25, 2006 8:22 PM
In his classic cycle of "Manitou" horror novels, Graham Masterton explains that there is a hideous entity called the Great Old One (shades of Lovecraft...) lurking behind our reality. everytime you notice something strange like a face or a silhouette in wood, in the folds on a cloth, in the shape of a cloud, in a tree, it's actually the Great Old One trying to set foot in our world again.
So whoever said "Jesus" might want to think twice...
Posted by: Christophe Thill | March 26, 2006 4:14 AM
"rendered by the ghost of Picasso."
Wonder why they added the Mondrian border on the Ebay posting?
I guess they don't know much about art either...
Praise the Board! Now that might make a nice bumber sticker.
It also might add new meaning to "shiver me timbers"
Posted by: Fernando Magyar | March 26, 2006 7:12 AM
Hey! If you squint your eyes just right, and really, really believe, my [body part redacted] looks just like the body of Christ! Communion, anyone?
Posted by: i dunno | March 26, 2006 7:14 AM
what about THESE markings on the wall?
http://www.nemoramjet.com/illuspicpzmyers.htm
Posted by: nemo ramjet | March 26, 2006 11:11 AM
Looks like Odin to me. BTW, the auction ended w/no bids. Apparently not worth $999...
Posted by: Sixpak Chopra | March 26, 2006 9:30 PM
Looks like Odin to me. BTW, the auction ended w/no bids. Apparently not worth $999...
Now wait a minute. That's a premature conclusion! I was originally going to start the bidding at $9999. Maybe that's my mistake. I undervalued it! Have to think a little more about my marketing efforts too.....
Posted by: RH Bourdeau | March 28, 2006 7:12 PM
I've just found a comic about on Salon.com that seems appropriate to this thread. See: http://www.salon.com/comics/lay/2007/03/13/lay/index1.html
Summary: snowbound community of zealots short on food. Only flour, eggs and milk remaining. But something is wrong with the frying pan and everything comes out with the face of their saviour on it. As the hunger gets worse questions arise...
Posted by: Martin Watts | February 3, 2008 4:14 AM