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Local Woman Finds "GOD" in Eggplant [img]

abclocal.go.com — A Delaware County woman says an eggplant has reminded her that God can be found anywhere, and anytime.

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  • badjoke, on 10/10/2007, -4/+96All hail GOO! I mean...GOD...right...
    • Akaji, on 10/10/2007, -40/+10Peter: Brian, there's a message in my Alphabets It says oooooooooooooo.
      Brian: Peter - those are cheerios
      • canewediggit, on 10/10/2007, -1/+27you know what? that was funny 4 hours ago when errornix used it a little further down the page.
        • OGTL, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Akaji, you comment way too much. Go outside or something, for ***** sake.
      • humperdeath, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I can tell, that was a completely unretouched photo too. Actually, it looks more like it spells CIO, but what do I care.
        • mikesherov, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Proof that eggplants endorse labor unions!
    • Terr01, on 10/10/2007, -9/+2Impossible. Everyone knows it should be written "G - D".
      • VanillaStarfish, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1WOW YOU ARE SUCH A JEW
        • Terr01, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1... Good god. And that is why your mother shouldn't let you use the internet.
    • Dhalgren, on 10/10/2007, -4/+25All praise GOO and JEBUS...
      • tharju, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1GOO, GID, could be DOG upside down
        • themastersb, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1GID reversed is DIG and if you add a G it's DIGG. OMG. Coincidence? I think not.
    • ICSU, on 10/10/2007, -4/+34"If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. Results like these do not belong on the resumé of a Supreme Being."
    • runeasgar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+28god has very poor handwriting.
    • redfox2600, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21It looks more like Gid
    • hmemcpy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17http://i13.tinypic.com/6g06f6t.jpg
    • Cloud7654, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11looks more like GiP to me..
    • demon39063, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Goes to show that people can and will find any symbolism they are looking for about everywhere.
      • dezmo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3actually, the seeds really do resemble letters of the alphabet
        • MacEnvy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4So does seaweed when it's arranged correctly. Doesn't mean it's divine.
        • mashw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Dezmo did not mean it was caused by something divine but merely pointing out forced self-deception into seeing symbolism is not necessary in this case, it does resemble, at least the letter G and O.
      • Quake120, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The term pareidolia describes a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant. Common examples include images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon, and hidden messages on records played in reverse.

        Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. The term was coined in 1958 by Klaus Conrad, who defined it as the "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness". Apophenia is often used as an explanation of some paranormal and religious claims. It has been suggested that apophenia is a link between psychosis and creativity.

        The human brain is designed to recognize patterns in randomness. Hence seeing images of god, jesus, or the devil in things like smoke clouds, fire, eggplant, etc.

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
    • ChronicColonic, on 10/10/2007, -6/+2I heard the eggplant is a very erotic food. I think the woman actually found the eggplant's G-spot.
    • Blah_Blah_Blah, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1that doesnt say god.... that says GRE.... my initials! everyone worship me!
      • L33tmaster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Damn you, you just reminded me I have to study for the GREs...
    • dorshorst, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Am I the only one who thinks it looks more like 666?

      Hail Satan!
    • StormTrooperVII, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yes, it definitely says goo. story buried as inaccurate.
  • DukeMojo, on 10/10/2007, -3/+196It's a good thing Eggplants speak English.
    • griz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+27If she cut it the long way across it would have said Allah or Yahweh.
      • ubuwalker31, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Dug for obscure mystical reference.
    • moosepants, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2And if she let the eggplant replicate with itself, she would have had the entire population of Mt. Olympus written in the resulting eggplants.
    • faithfreedom, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2Maybe that's the only language she can understand.
    • rhabd0mancer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Just imagine how many godly messages we have overlooked because they were written in Aramaic.
  • a12k, on 10/10/2007, -18/+1i'm waiting for someone to make the ebay comment..
    :-D
  • scubasteve11, on 10/10/2007, -14/+20She's my neighbor! I live four doors down!

    Holy crap!
    • mothman13, on 10/10/2007, -1/+82You know what must be done.
    • griz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Good luck with that.
    • Dhalgren, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Did you "goo" in her eggplant?
    • 8086ed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+36First her with her holy eggplant, and now you, four doors down with your holy crap.

      Your street is truly blessed.
    • theholycow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Well, at least the word "Local" in the headline applies to you.

      To the rest of us, she's just "Woman", not "Local Woman". Why does the headline say "Local Woman"?
    • flashback99, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4none of the diggers above me got the genius that was your comment.
      • dannyb37, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Please don't tell me this is another mordor thing?
    • obxjdt, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2"3 doors down" is better.....
  • errornix, on 10/10/2007, -4/+249Peter: Oh my God, Brian! There's a message in my Alpha-Bits! It says 'OOOOOOOO'!
    Brian: Peter, those are cheerios.
    • fstorino, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5It's comforting to know that there are Family Guy passages for every occasion...
      • imacashew, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1lol @ passages....FG is scripture...I love it!!
  • Platysquirrel, on 10/10/2007, -2/+139Is it just me or does that say GiD?Last I checked 'O's don't have dots.
    • sonmiles, on 10/10/2007, -4/+42She's got it upside down. It's spelling out DOG.
    • h4ppymac, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16it's a halo over the 'o' /sarcasm
    • Virak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22No, it's quite clearly a diacritic over the 'o'. I don't know why god would spell his name as "Go̊D", though.
    • Razster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Looks like GiD to me.
      A group identifier, often abbreviated to GID, is a numeric value used to represent a specific group.
    • jtb4, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2at least you know it's not photoshopped
    • tehbored, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Looks like it could have been Gie. The D looks kind of like an e.
    • NeoCortex, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7God's German?
    • WarpFox, on 10/10/2007, -1/+24he did it because GOD, XxGoDxX, SSJGod, and XxSephirothGodxX were already taken.
    • SkaGoblin, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1It's an umlaut. That makes it more metal
    • ICSU, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5The accent mark was put there to test your faith, of course.
    • Radan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Well, I believe most eggplants are dyslectic.
      • Waterrat, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2 That's Dyslexic.
        • Radan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"Dyslectic
          adjective & noun
          a general term for disorders that involve difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols, but that do not affect general intelligence"

          - Apple Oxford Dictionary
    • mwmccullough, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I saw a butterfly.
  • ripstuntz, on 10/10/2007, -13/+137Sure, God places his name inside of an eggplant but cannot stop a crazed gunman from killing 3 people and injuring 5 in a church.

    Crazy, huh?
    • Haz3rd, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Some things are important...
      • Waterrat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1 But this is not one of them...
        Why do people even report such nonsense?
    • boyasunder, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9God's recent hunger for baba ghanoush must've distracted him.
    • TheUngod, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5God has more important things to do than preventing murder. Making eggplant taste good is a big one.
      • Radan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Too bad he had to put his logo on it though, now no one will taste the only eatable eggplant in the world.
    • patch6, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Be reasonable. It takes time to arrange all of those seeds like that.
      Multitasking is harder than it looks.
    • tbr0, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0gotta prioritize you know
    • imacashew, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1eggplant seeds don't have free will, murderers do.
  • fluidfoundation, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8I'm sure some kind of "God Parmesan" joke can be made.
    • MacEnvy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Nah, everyone knows that the holiest cheese is Swiss.
  • CletusJones, on 10/10/2007, -5/+4God is a melanzane? Friggin' mooley.
  • superguysteve, on 10/10/2007, -0/+109St. Peter: well Lord, its time to cleanse the Earth again. How would you like to handle it this time? Plagues? Flood?
    God: Meh, I'm thinking about writing some graffiti in a bunch of vegetables.
  • thundershot69, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1Gi Joe
  • fpcyber, on 10/10/2007, -6/+40Someone teach this woman to spell, I see GID.
  • SilkSteel, on 10/10/2007, -6/+37Haha, thats my hometown. People are crazy religious nuts out there.. got nothin better to do besides support Bush and thump bibles.
    • ChromaVita, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Well then you can go hang out with the guy that lives 4 houses down from her, and bitch about how crazy christians are, and how much you love your LOLcats.
  • Scyth3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+46I'd eat it.
  • rayearth42, on 10/10/2007, -22/+12I, for one, welcome our new eggplant overlords.
    • borninda818, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14that comment rarely works anymore...gotta wait for the right story
    • profOblivion, on 10/10/2007, -5/+1Not feelin it... sorry. :(
    • rayearth42, on 10/10/2007, -13/+6I thought this was a pretty good one for it.
    • voetsjoeba, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Hmn, semi-fail. Nice try though.
  • chawkie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+66MMMM...sacrilicious....
  • Piedramente, on 10/10/2007, -9/+1DON'T EAT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • blaaguuu, on 10/10/2007, -5/+56Nothing special... He's just signing his work.
    • mushoo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Apparently he's been slacking off and letting the baby jesus do all the doodling for him.
  • shadowmoose, on 10/10/2007, -1/+43What did people do before the internet.
    • Baelorn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Well they generally held town fairs celebrating the miracle of "God" on an eggplant and wrapped up the evening with a book burning or two.
    • troyallen069, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Have sex
    • Cloud7654, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Same thing, but secretly....
    • krnldmp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0church
    • dotdan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2There was this radical thing called the newspaper. People actually had to pay for news and then sit down reading a hard copy of it--antiquated, huh?
    • Cenobite, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Put question marks at the end of their questions.
  • wattznext, on 10/10/2007, -9/+47I would have guessed that if a woman was going to find G-d with a vegetable, it'd be with a cucumber ;)
    • griz, on 10/10/2007, -9/+1digg down
    • ed3839, on 10/10/2007, -8/+5G-d? What the ***** is G-d? Why the hell are you censoring yourself from typing God? Does adding that 'o' give it some weird power in your mind?
      • kaeves, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8He is probably Jewish. They do not write out any names for their God as a way of showing respect. If you want more details, go here: http://tinyurl.com/y5gcqo.
        • theholycow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Interesting reading. Next time remember that automatic linkification includes the period you inconveniently put at the end of your link.
      • 4degrees, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1seeing that the "o" was not too clear in the picture it could be anything. So really the "g" and the "d" were clear.
    • Dhalgren, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Yet this woman finds it in an eggplant... What does that tell you about her "elasticity"?
  • zyklon, on 10/10/2007, -5/+1Great.
  • Leo420, on 10/10/2007, -8/+0Jesus was right... God is in everything... Way to go J man...
  • CaptShmo, on 10/10/2007, -5/+80The other day i saw the flying spaghetti monster appear to me in my spaghetti
    • expat001, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20Me too!! Raman!
    • Dhalgren, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22"And 'Lo shall his noodley appendages caress and bless your esophagus"
      -The book of Creamy Parmesan
      • tblasko, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I laughed out loud for a good solid minute! Thanks for making my day. The guy in the cube next to me is probably pissed
  • dcbebop, on 10/10/2007, -10/+3morons. where do these people come from?
  • expat001, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21My God will only display his image in a grilled cheese. I call fake on this eggplant God!
  • BigBlondeViking, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Actually Spells Either GiD or G8D if you look close... just make it into Eggplant Parm~
  • Shawnosaurus, on 10/10/2007, -7/+8I've seen movies on the internet wherein women using eggplants yell "oh god!", but nothing like this. This is truly underwhelming.
    • nunzi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2unlike most things i read online, that comment actually made me chuckle outloud in front of the computer. thanks for that, dugg up.
      • Waterrat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1 I as well...I'm sure squash would work as well for eliciting the "Oh God" response.
  • monkeyrun, on 10/10/2007, -8/+1"i'm waiting for someone to make the ebay comment.. "

    sell it on ebay. :P
  • cbartlett, on 10/10/2007, -4/+8I feel ashamed to live near this woman.
    • jun2san, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Really? Over that?
      Sounds like you've got bigger issues than this lady.
    • Waterrat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1 Imagine being one of her children! Oh,are they going to get it in school tomorrow!
  • CapnJef, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5That clearly says, GiD. Stupid illiterate Delaware people.
    • shadekeiko, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Erm, Delaware County is in Pennsylvania.
    • JCinDE, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Also clearly says "Delaware County" which is in Pennsylvania. Leave us Delawareans out of it!
      • ChronicColonic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8"You built a time machine....out of a Delawarean?"
  • bsolidgold, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Looks like 'Gia' to me.

    You see what you want to see, I guess.
  • octoquake, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1im not going to lie. thats pretty cool looking.
  • xnviews, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13That doesn't look like "GOD" to me. It looks like "GID", "GIA", "GIO", or GIP. But of course if your an ignorant and religious, I guess you get to ignore some things like the dot over the middle letter and accept others. Sounds a lot like how most religious people read the bible so it makes sense.
  • Kikkoman, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12turn it around it spells dog
  • moosepants, on 10/10/2007, -0/+28Is it just me or is Digg slowly turning into Fark? Not that there's anything wrong with Fark, but I like to keep my Fruity Pebbles out of my Frosted Flakes.
    • MacEnvy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No, if this was Fark it would cost me $5 a month to feel superior to other posters. On digg, I just have to wait for a creationism thread to feel superior.
  • pfeester, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Looks like an "i" in the middle to me...so, really, it's "GID". Hell, the "d" kinda looks like a ***** up "p" to me...so..."GIP"?
    • WaterDragon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Gip...Gipper...OMG it's the ghost of Ronald Regan!
  • CannedMango, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3So God dots his o's eh?
  • gogh102, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1sucks
  • UtopiaInTheSky, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Gid? Goo? Gio?
  • CannedMango, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25The difference between the sane and the insane:

    Sane people see "God" in their eggplant and think "That's neat, what are the odds?"
    Insane people see "God" in their eggplant and pick up the phone to call the news station.
    • theholycow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I like to think that I'm quite sane, but I'd damn well attempt to cash in on that. Maybe she can sell it on eBay...
  • Huevoos, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Marked as Wrong Topic, should be in PICTURES!!!
    • jankind, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Should be in RETARDED
    • shealer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Yes, unfortunately, there is no "PICTURES!!!" section, so "Offbeat News" sums it up well enough.
    • Huevoos, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Here I am thinking sarcasm tags were too much…
      I guess some people doesn't know the meaning of implicit sarcasm
  • PresidentSoup, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5how is this news?
  • elscorcho717, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Either God has terrible handwriting or this is pure coincidence. Which do you choose to believe?
  • Malhavoc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I think it actually says GOB, which to me means that even eggplants think it was stupid for FOX to cancel Arrested Development
  • markp93, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I have a nice pasta dish I can add that eggplant to -- the flying spaghetti monster.
  • CBTF, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5That's not God. That's GiD.

    The General Intelligence Department must be screwing around with the year's produce again.
  • Tylerbot, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Eggplants are known for being exceptionally religious; this makes sense.

    ..

  • stevegasm, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2fourth trimester abortion, right there.
  • morsosky, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2i found digg in my tomato; im going to report it to action news
  • esbern1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12oh my god i hate stupid people
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