A MISSHAPEN egg produced by a Texas hen is being hailed as a “miracle” by its bird-brained owners, Pam and Tracy Norrell.
The hen’s lumpy offering features what looks to this sceptic like a chicken’s foot – but Pam Norrell insists in this YouTube video that it’s a cross, and that she thinks:
God did it.
Two of the funniest comments posted under the clip were:
God made a sign come out of a chicken’s ass hole. Makes sense.
and
This is proof that Jesus finally got laid.
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
December 5th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
How come Jesus and Mary never show up in person, but only in stupid crap like eggs, tortillas, irons and griddles? Wouldn’t they consider such things beneath the son of God and the Virgin Mother?
December 5th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
She’s cracked!
December 5th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
It’s not a yolk.
December 6th, 2009 at 12:14 am
An egg with a cross on its shell
Caused a Texan religiot to yell:
“Oh, gee, it’s a sign,
From our Lord so divine,
That we’re going to Heaven, not Hell!”
December 6th, 2009 at 4:07 am
At first glance, I saw “CBN News”…..I facepalmed
Then I found out it was “CBS News”….I still facepalmed
December 6th, 2009 at 8:42 am
They should incubate it and see what happens. Some weird little Jesus-chicken critter might hatch out and start up its own tv evangelist show.
December 6th, 2009 at 8:53 am
Away in an eggbox,
No crib for His bed
The little egg Jesus
Laid down His sweet head
The marge in the cold fridge
Looked down where He lay
The little egg Jesus
Asleep in the tray
The door opens widely
The poor Googy wakes
But little egg Jesus
No cheeping He makes
I love Thee, egg Jesus
Soft boiled in a cup,
With a row of bread soldiers
I’ll eat Thee all up.
December 6th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Gloria in Eggcelsis!
December 6th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Eggcellent guys! Shell we leave it there?
December 6th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Tried to watch the video but it was scrambled!
December 6th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Have you poached this story from somewhere else Barry?
December 6th, 2009 at 10:55 am
Once in some far Texan city
Stood a lonely chicken shed,
Where a bantam laid her ova
In the straw placed for their bed.
Jesus said: “This will be fun -
See the cross come out her bum!”
All the Christians had a field day -
Wet their knickers at the sight
Of the cross upon the ovum;
Gazed upon it with delight.
But the bantam was quite wild:
“Do not ridicule my child!”
(No apologies to Mrs C. F. Alexander)
December 6th, 2009 at 11:28 am
You’d think God would have waited until Easter to perform his miracle involving eggs, wouldn’t you? A misformed chocolate in a box of Milk Tray would have been more in keeping with the festive season.
Was it a virgin hatching, or was there a cock involved?
December 6th, 2009 at 11:34 am
Looks like that old perv god has been involved in a bit of bestiality.
December 6th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Can see why you filed it under ‘You Couldn’t Make It Up’, but actually somebody did (sort of) many years ago. In his short story ‘The Inspired Chicken Motel’, Ray Bradbury wrote of religious-looking symbols appearing on egg shells at a run-down farm. Real life is still barmier than fiction, then.
If you ask me, the life of a farmyard bird is quite symbolic of those of Islamic fundies’ wives. The lucky ones might not need to be kept caged via ‘battery’ methods, but still exist for little more than to produce food and babies.
December 6th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Why was it a cross? My not a manger or a Star of Bethlehem?
December 6th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
You’re just egging us on now, @mikespeir.
December 6th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Actually I think that the egg is quite interesting and extremely unusual. The problem being that it is obviously no more than that. To read some deep religious significance into it shows the same kind of ignorance and stupidity that probably gave birth to religions in the first place.
December 6th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Where’s Esther Rantzen when you need her, eh?
December 7th, 2009 at 8:21 am
It’s Texas for goodness sake, no more needs to be said.
December 7th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Sometimes you wonder if the nonreligious see things where they’re not.