Couple Claims Jesus Appeared On Pancake

[sasha031]

you can see what we are up against, this is actually news worthy

A couple in Ohio claims the image Jesus appeared to them after he whipped up a weekend breakfast of pancakes, according to a Local 6 News report.Mike Thompson said he was making flapjacks for his family over the weekend when an image caught his eye.Upon closer inspection, Thompson noticed what appeared to be the face of Jesus. He showed his wife, who agreed the image appeared to be Jesus.Thompson said he believes the image is a sign from above.The couple is selling the pancake on eBay with an opening bid of $500.
http://www.local6.com/news/6880241/detail.html

[tenshi816]

1. I always wonder, when things like this happen,

why do they always think it's Jesus? It's not like there are any photographs of him to use for comparison.

Jeebus, people are stupid, aren't they?

[muriel_volestrangler]

26. My defining moment in becoming an atheist was based on that

A room full of Christians was shown a vague pattern that looked like a man with a beard, and they all chorused "It's Jesus!". At that moment, I knew, when I'd just seen a man with a beard, that the brainwashing had failed to take with me.

[FreedomAngel82]

35. Well isn't it usually Mary?

[BlueJazz]

47. I believe it was the Holy Virgin Mary wearing a Beard.

:)

[PATRICK]

2. Syruppy piety

I wonder what shapes the mold will take. Angelic choirs?

[Bill McBlueState]

3. whoa, it's up to $1425

http://cgi.ebay.com/Jesus-PanCake_W0QQitemZ6251847554QQcategoryZ1447QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

These pancake-eteers may be more shrewd that we're likely to give them credit for.

[SidDithers]

44. Man, I need to make a pan with a Jesus shaped burn pattern...

in it. Just think of the money to be made! Jesus french toast! Jesus pancakes! Jesus grilled cheese! Jesus quesadillas!

The possibilities are almost endless.

Sid

[Roland99]

4. Looks a helluva lot more like the FSM to me!

All hail his noodly appendage!

[BlueEyedSon]

14. FPCM?

[Roland99]

36. FSM

Flying Spaghetti Monster.


He who created all that was, all that is, and all that ever will be.

[BlueEyedSon]

37. Flying PanCake Monster. Obviously a more powerful deity.

Certainly has a better press agent (this week).

[Roland99]

38. Oh....I get it now

;)

[genie_weenie]

51. ha ha ha ha

Awesome! Seems to me to resemble H. L. Mencken smoking a cigar...

[greyl]

5. No, that's Mohammed.

I guess he'll be showing up on Belgian waffles as soon he fine-tunes his "appearing on breakfast foods" technique.

[BurtWorm]

6. That's not Jesus. That's Marty Feldman.

My God! Marty Feldman is the Messiah! Spread the Word!

[wtmusic]

16. ROFL!

Aaaaah, ya beat me to it!

[AllegroRondo]

17. Thats exactly what I was thinking!

[CrazyOrangeCat]

20. Deep down . . . I always knew Eyegore was the messiah.

:freak:

[BurtWorm]

31. He is risen again!

On a pancake, yet. Go figure.

[jpgray]

40. Yes! Or Jack Elam

[Atman]

7. Looks like Mohammed to me.

;-)

[greyl]

10. jinx! :) nt

[Benhurst]

8. How dumb. It's obviously Vlad the Impaler, better known as

Count Dracula.

[salvorhardin]

19. No, no, no!

Not Count Dracula. It's Count Chocula.

[Mabus]

23. We had the same idea

and I provided the proof at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=378739&mesg_id=378797

[greyl]

27. You're right, it looks a LOT more like Vlad. :) nt

[meisje]

9. Note to self: EAT MORE PANCAKES

[BlueEyedSon]

11. Looks like Zeus.

[Protagoras]

12. Don't know about pancakes but there are certainly some Fruitcakes

out there.

And that's not Jesus...it's my next door neighbor Charlie. He hold frequent drum circles which would be okay except they are late at night and I wish the hell he'd stay out of other people's pancakes.

[Mabus]

13. It looks more like Vlad the Impaler (aka Dracula)

[BushOut06]

15. Note to self: buy Jesus-shaped branding iron, lots of pancakes

and other stuff. Make fortune on Ebay.

[Bill McBlueState]

18. I'm hungry for pancakes now.

Thanks a lot. :(

[Canuckistanian]

21. Could be the Unabomber

[pepperbear]

22. So in other words, it's

"Godmustsurelybeshiningdownonusfromabovetoallhischildreninhisinfinite wisdomwithlibertyandjusticeforallonenationunderGod.....so how much do you think we can get for it?"

[Brewman_Jax]

24. Reminds me of Rasputin

was on last week on History Channel.

[elehhhhna]

25. Thank Jah it ain't Muhammad. Could start a food fight.

[Solly Mack]

28. lolol so a "sign from above" gets auctioned off to the highest bidder

lololol

God sent me a sign, so I sold it! Praise the Lord and pass the syrup!

Evidently God's "sign" was - go prey on the gullibility of others and rip them off...or maybe it was - Jesus isn't commercialized enough, go put this pancake on ebay...

lolololol

[gWbush is Mabus]

29. forget the pancake - buy the frying pan!

[SoCalDem]

30. Looks like mold to me

:)

[sasha031]

32. my question is where do people get the money

to piss away on such nonsense, oil at $60 a barrel, high food cost, ect.

[FreedomAngel82]

33. Not the Virgin Mary this time?

I guess she's taking a break. :shrug:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

34. "I meant to appear at this IHOP across town..."

I'm sorry. I just don't see Christ's face looking up at me in that thing. And I should know what He looks like- He walks by my side throughout the day.

[BikeWriter]

39. Looks like Charles Manson to me.

[kick-ass-bob]

41. Jesus had a lazy eye?

Who knew??

[ChoralScholar]

42. I am going to invent a Jesus-pattern griddle just for this purpose...

on another note,

I once had a biscuit that looked just like Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., but I was really hungry, so I ate it.

[Arger68]

43. Jesus H. Christ on a pancake.

It's up to $1525.00 with 31 bids!!!

[neoblues]

48. Just in case anyone was wondering...

"The Etymology of Jesus H. Christ"
http://www.christianorigins.com/etymology.html

"Our Father, Who Art in Heaven, Harold Be Thy Name."

From the study of Biology: "in contemplating the holy mystery of the Virgin Birth in the light of reason, will inevitably conclude that the H. stands for none other than Haploid"

"The theologian will undoubtedly be familiar with "IHS," which stands for the Latin phrase "Jesus Hominum Salvator," which means Jesus, Savior of Man."

From History: "in 312, the Emperor Constantine saw vision of the cross in the sky and heard a voice saying that he would conquer "under this standard" or "in this sign." The Latin words would be "in hoc signo," which abbreviates to IHS."

The article has at least four more possibilities... all pretty far fetched imho.


From Wikipedia...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_H._Christ

"Jesus H. Christ is an example of slang serving as a mild, joking curse. The expression is most commonly used in a wry, sarcastic, cynical, or joking tone, although it may nonetheless be perceived as blasphemy, being a variation of "Jesus Christ". The expression jokingly implies that the "Christ" in "Jesus Christ" is a surname rather than a title ("Christ", meaning anointed, is Greek for "Messiah"). The expression dates to at least the late nineteenth century (although according to Mark Twain it was already old in 1850), and likely originates with the ancient Christian three-letter symbolism IHS (the Christogram)."

Then, from "The Straight Dope":
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_033.html

"Finally, a reader makes the claim that the H derives from the taunting Latin inscription INRH that was supposedly tacked on the cross by Roman soldiers: Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Hebrei (Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Hebrews). Trouble is, the inscription is usually given as INRI: Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum (J.C., King of the Jews). "

I posit my own significantly less scholarly guess: Jesus "His Holiness" Christ (although that'd be JHHC); perhaps shortened to Jesus Holy Christ! Since it's often used as an Exclamation! and is likely to be interchangeable with "Holy Crap**!".

**or other related term.

[neoblues]

45. So I guess they didn't (and aren't going to) eat him...

Will that be one of the requirements of the sale? "And by purchasing this Holy Pancake, you promise not to eat Our Lord and Savior."?

Anyway, gauging by the picture, he's not looking too good... "His" eyes are a bit cockeyed...

Is the cook in trouble (with the Church)? I hear that making graven images of G_d is against one of the "ten" commandments... (though that has hardly stopped the Catholic Church, much less that guy who played Mad Max and made Jebus movie--Mel Gibson (or Melman Gibber**)). Still, maybe there's an exception for making wheat based images... for public "consumption"...

**
Definition: Melman - Larry "Bud" Melman*** from "Late Night with David Letterman".
Definition: Gibber - To prattle and chatter unintelligibly.

***

Wonder what he'd look like on a pancake; and even on a pancake doubt anybody'd mistake him for Jebus (the actual appearance of whom, nobody knows since somehow nobody bothered to actually draw/paint him back when he was said (by the Bible written scores to hundreds of years after the fact) to have existed--perhaps he was just "artist-shy" ("ancient camera"-shy) or had no artistically gifted followers and no "sketch artists" to draw him posthumously, or they took the 10 C's seriously or...). No, seriously, the pancake pattern has no thick black glasses; and besides, I only posted Larry's picture to remind people who Larry "Bud" Melman was--since, at random, I associated "Mel" and "Melman". Why make fun of Gibson? Well, he's just such a fun... I mean fundie kind of guy and to have him be called to create such a bloody, gory depiction of Jebus's last hours somehow strikes me as funny. Mad Max does The Crucafixion.

I guess you could say I just created a form of 'Cartoon' here, with Gibber as the butt of the joke, but I did so while making fun of one of those 'sightings' of one-third (the favorite third; mono-theism indeed) of the Christian diety... While this may, in a harmless way, almost approach blasphemy, I hope there will be no violent reactions. Please Forgive Me and Peace Be With You...

[Left Is Write]

46. I'm always amazed when people claim to see Jesus or Mary

in their food.

Why? Because, of course, no one knows what they really loooked like!

Perhaps he believes the image is a "sign from above" that he should try to fleece some poor slob on eBay out of at least $500? If it really were a message from God, would the message really be "Please make a profit off my name"? (Oh, but I'm sure this couple will donate any profits to a worthy charity.)

[neoblues]

49. GWB knows the pancake is wrong...

after all, Jebus's real image is supposed to look like himself, George W. Christ.

I mean really, since the common version of Jebus is known to be nothing more than the product of someone's imagination. If asked, surely George would share with us the "real", but little known truth--that G_d really made Jebus after his own (Shrub's) likeness (a couple of thousand years in advance, but that's no problem for G_d)... Shrub and his delusions of Godhood...

[4morewars]

54. X-tian wack-a-doos !

By far the MOST gullible people to come down the road in quite some time.

When I was in high school, 25 years ago, these wackos were not taken seriously. In fact they were a source of amusement, many of us pitied them !
Now, they are running the country, running it right into the ground.

[Fox Mulder]

50. It wouldn't surprise me if someone paid thousands of dollars...

for it on eBay. :eyes:

[Whoa_Nelly]

52. If they're so "Christian" (BTW--Wrote to the seller heehee)

They would be having it stored professionally for the "experts" to look at instead of trying to make money off of it. :eyes:


Hey, Mike THompson! Jesus called and said he wants his Bisquick back!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Jesus-PanCake_W0QQitemZ6251847554QQcategoryZ1447QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Seller invites people to write to him, so I did:

If you believe in Jesus, then why are you being greedy and making money off this thing? Have to assume you believe in Jesus if you also believe you can identify his image.

It's no small wonder I gave up pancakes and religion at the same time.

[Whoa_Nelly]

53. There's another seller with Jesus on a granite rock

He's decided to sell his rock for $500, too, since he saw the pancake up for bids:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Jesus-granite-Not-Jesus-Pancake_W0QQitemZ6252824071QQcategoryZ1447QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[4morewars]

55. It's the zig-zag man !

[bikebloke]

56. Jerry Garcia

... or maybe the drunk panhandling in front of the liquor store. But if it is Jaysus, I'm going to place some bids on eBay so I don't burn in hale.

[saltpoint]

57. The eyes suggest Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa). / nt

[saltpoint]

58. Five hundred bucks on ebay for a flap-jack Jesus? Maybe they'll

donate the money to the local public library or some other worthy cause.

Please don't tell me who actually buys the damned thing.

[Dukkha]

59. I think it's Rasputin

[NoPasaran]

60. Looks like Quetzelcoatl to me n/t