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Barry Duke on March 13th, 2010

IT’S not only Jesus and Mary who make appearances on unlikely objects, as a report this week from Malaysia indicates.
A while back, an image of the Hindu elephant god Ganesha (may peanuts be upon him) manifested itself on a tree adjacent to a Chinese restaurant in Taman Sri Selayang, and began attracting a steady stream [...]

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Barry Duke on March 12th, 2010

FRESH from his appearance on the inside of a Marmite jar, Jesus Christ’s latest cunning stunt was to appear as burnt bacon residue on a frying pan.
Yes folks, yet another example of pareidolia – except that in this case the image appears to have been deliberately created by 22-year-old Toby Elles, a bank worker from [...]

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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 [...]

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NOT only has Ireland acquired a blasphemy law in the last week, it  now also possesses a tree stump which allegedly bears a  resemblance to She Who Was Once Knocked Up by the Almighty.
According to this report, thousands of Irish Catholic eedjits have flocked to a County Limerick church to pray at the stump of [...]

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Barry Duke on May 5th, 2009

Mary, Mary quite contrary
Where does your image show?
On tortillas and toast;
perhaps the occasional roast –
And always with assholes in tow.
FORGIVE the terrible doggerel, but this was the first thing that sprang to mind when I learned this morning that another “image” of the Virgin Mary has made an appearance – this time in a Mexican [...]

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Barry Duke on October 3rd, 2008

ALLAH’S done it again! 12 years after the Muslim moon god revealed itself in an aubergine in Bolton, England, it chose to appear in a rotten mango in Sweden.
The lucky recipient of a message from on high is Rubina Sheikh from Helsingborg.
According to this report, as the two halves of Sheikh’s freshly sliced mango fell [...]

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