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Mold growing behind refrigerator looks like Jesus

Mark Frauenfelder at 4:01 pm Mon, Oct 22, 2012

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"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)

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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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.