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Why We See Faces - Everywhere

Posted by timothy on from the and-doodle-them-too dept.

Berek Half Hand writes "Phil Plait over at Bad Astronomy has a great personal story of a paranormal visitation to his shower. His report explains a lot about human nature and how our brains our wired. Those of you who may be Kate Campbell fans will also immediately think of 'Jesus and Tomatoes' and the famous Nun Bun."

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  1. seeing faces = crazy by theMerovingian · · Score: 4, Funny


    I used to live in an apartment next to a schizophrenic guy. He left his dirty clothes scattered all over his apartment.

    One day, he brought me down to his house because he was seeing faces in the wrinkles of the clothes - and he was running around the room whacking his laundry with a stick to kill the faces.

    I moved not long after that.

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  2. I'm not surprised Phil was fooled by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    He doesn't realize that shower curtain is a product the People's Shower Curtain Collective. The curtain is engineered so that when the working-class struggle against the bourgeois fungus and soap scum is exhausted, the face of Lenin reveals itself as a sign curtain is going on strike and should be replaced.

  3. Happened to me too! by Dimwit · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was in South Dakota last year, and I was just driving through this nice wooded area, when I rounded a bend and...

    THERE WERE FOUR FACES, RIGHT THERE IN THE ROCK!

    I mean, like, GIANT faces, not small at all. I was pretty freaked out. I turned the car around and high-tailed it out of there!

    I can't be sure, but one of the guys looked just like Abraham Lincoln! The other one might have been Stalin, but I'm not sure...

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  4. It had to be said... by MainframeKiller · · Score: 2, Funny


    In Soviet Russia, Lenin showers you! ;)

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  5. Virgin Pancake by RealErmine · · Score: 3, Funny

    My girlfriend once was making pancakes and she discovered an uncanny image of the Virgin Mary in the folds cooked into one. After I confirmed its resemblance we comtemplated whether or not to eat it. Maybe, since we're not religious, we could have at least made some money charging admission to all the crazies out there. In the end though, there was only one sane course of action to take.

    She was delicious.

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