Orac is the nom de blog of a humble surgeon/scientist who has an ego just big enough to delude himself that someone, somewhere might actually give a rodent's posterior about his copious verbal meanderings, but just barely small enough to admit to himself that few probably will. That surgeon is otherwise known as David Gorski.
That this particular surgeon has chosen his nom de blog based on a rather cranky and arrogant computer shaped like a clear box of blinking lights that he originally encountered when he became a fan of a 35 year old British SF television show whose special effects were renowned for their BBC/Doctor Who-style low budget look, but whose stories nonetheless resulted in some of the best, most innovative science fiction ever televised, should tell you nearly all that you need to know about Orac. (That, and the length of the preceding sentence.)
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14 replies on “More pareidolia: At least this Virgin Mary sighting isn’t as bad…”
That’ll make a mighty fine coffee table.
Looks like a middle finger to me.
Looks like a mummy.
Turtle, possibly a red-eared slider.
In an article about it, the church warns against superstition and idolatry. My irony meter overloaded.
The frozen turd of a very big bird.
Cleavage…..Oh, was there a tree in the picture?
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.
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?
<3 my country…
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?
Mitchell and Webb do pareidolia.
A must see.
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.
Venus rising from the waves?
I have a chopping block that bleeds for a week every month; now I know why!
Looks like a Peruvian prince’s petrified pecker.