Mold growing behind refrigerator looks like Jesus

"I took a picture on my mobile and then wiped it off -- it might look like Jesus but I've got three kids and can't be doing with mould in my house." -- Kenny Iddenden, atheist. (Via Arbroath)

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igpajo

Did Jesus wear dark aviatior’s glasses?
- timquinn
  
  Only on Sunday.
ilikesoccer

There are probably a bunch of idiot xians out there who are pissed because you wiped it off.
http://www.lightning-rose.com/ LightningRose

Why doesn’t anyone ever recognize Jerry Garcia without his glasses?
GawainLavers

Mr. Iddenden is in violation of God’s Law, which specifically covers how to deal with mold behind the fridge.
- FoolishOwl
  
  That actually seemed reasonable, until verse 49.
- enterthestory
  
  I wish I had more upvotes.
- giantasterisk
  
  Finally, a reason to read the bible — household cleaning tips!
Repurposed

Looks like it’s just Jeff Bridges, quietly abiding.
http://twitter.com/writebastard Ian Wood

Bullshit.

That is Terl, the Psychlo security chief of Earth, as gloriously portrayed by John Travolta in his film masterpiece, Battlefield Earth.
- http://www.aarongilliland.com/ Aaron Gilliland
  
  Didn’t recognize him without his giant, awkward spaceboots. Made of mold.
http://twitter.com/dr_bombay dr_bombay

easy rider, just sayin’.
Antinous / Moderator

Mold Jesus is kind of hot.
- Guest
  
  Yeah, and he’s a fungi once you get to know him. He really grows on you!
  - Smash Martian
    
    Mold Jesus is Myco-pilot.
    - Antinous / Moderator
      
      But he spore company on a long flight.
      - acerplatanoides
        
        While I cannot transubstantiate that, I hear he’s always been a reliable host.
    - GawainLavers
      
      You’re on to something here. He’s even wearing the aviators!
      
      Have we found the FSM’s only begotten son? The news brought by a lone voice crying in the kitchen?
  - acerplatanoides
    
    it’s quite a licheness
  - Daneel
    
    I’m petri sure he’s more cultured than that, but as they say, in vitro veritas.
- acerplatanoides
  
  he’s plastered
nonuscitizen

Looks more like Zeus to me.
- John Sheehan
  
  You beat me to it.
  - chgoliz
    
    Me too. Zeus, no question.
drokhole

Runciter!
Uppitynproud

I’ve seen better Jesi on my morning toilet paper.
- GawainLavers
  
  It’s “Jesopodes”.
http://twitter.com/fossilfuels Funk Daddy

I would have traveled a thousand miles and then paid you one dollar to let me pray before it and maybe pull my hair a bit while crying.

Was tSoGoLiH crying when you wiped it off?
gellfex

Round here they’d have had a mob outside the door praying to the fungus for healing. Maybe they’d be right if their problem were bacterial. Local believers turned a scar on a street tree that looked vaguely like a bathtub Mary into a shrine!

http://photos.nj.com/jersey-journal/2012/07/image_of_the_virgin_mary_appea_28.html
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Sane people should keep an eye out for these things so that we can scratch an upside down pentacle on them before the ruckus starts.
  - gellfex
    
    Sane people simply wouldn’t see Mary in a blob shaped scar on a tree! I’ve a belief that we wouldn’t have Abrahamic religions at all if we didn’t have schizophrenics.
    - ilikesoccer
      
      Or idiots…
- http://www.ikaink.net Itsumishi
  
  There was a tree near my house that’s shape kind of resembled a lady’s bits. Someone painted it various shades of pink and it looked much better.
destroy_all_humans

that’s not jesus, that’s my uncle roy. common mistake
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1584576741 Scott Rose

Nope, I really think that’s Rob Zombie. Much more likely to be stalking someone’s kitchen than Jesus.
Daemonworks

It’s funny how they always jump to jesus and mary for these things. Nonwithstanding that the modern images of them are incredibly anacronistic… who’s to say it’s not the ghost of some random hippy that was killed in the house back in the 70′s and burried under the rosebush?
jfaehnle

Serpico. Definitely Serpico.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1426556320 Billy Roesener

I think it looks more likeThe Dude… or His Dudeness.
http://twitter.com/shusune Shutaro Highwind

Looks more like Alan Moore to me.
http://twitter.com/incarnedine_v Dan Hibiki

On a similar note.
A robot finds Darwin in clouds:
http://www.neil-usher.com/
DewiMorgan

Since at first I saw a very buxom naked wench riding a horse (or perhaps a Sybian), it was hard for me to see the face. But yes, I guess the face is at least as convincing as the lady. Not as pleasing to the eye, though.
Mim

Reading these comments, I am quite shocked by how many mold people you may have killed.