>>You know, it really annoyed me when all hands got excited about that "face". It's like when people see Christ's face in burnt toast and that. Last week, there was a Jesus face in the suds dregs on a pint of beer. I'm sure the Lord would want to reveal Himself in a more permanent way. > >Re: "face" on Mars. > >We are geared by evolution to recognize patterns and especially human faces. Therefore when the angle and the light and shadows hit just right, as in the original photo, people "recognize" a face on Mars. Then the idiots and illiterates start the theories about aliens and god and such. > >Re: burnt toast. >The phrase attributed to P.T. Barnum comes to mind: "there's a sucker born every minute".
It's interesting that "holy ghost" is rhyming slang for "toast"
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night - Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
