Allah gets an Oscar for his show of Omnipotence!

[LaPalida]

Locals flocked to the village's pet shop, Water Aquatic, this week after it was noticed that the markings on the scales of the two-year-old albino Oscar fish mimicked the Arabic script for Allah.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1700465,00.html

Some more graffiti by Allah.

http://www.miraclesofislam.com/

[Qitsune]

Much better than the virgin mary grilled cheeze.

[DavePalumbo]

Eyeing the patterns a little suspiciously, he added: "I hope that wasn't painted on."

I wish they gave an example of what the actual script looks like, because I just see a fish with some spots

[quesadeist]

Amazing use of punnage for the title of this thread considering the Oscars just came on last night (I think). Props to LaPalida for that one.

[N D Hill]

It's a good thing that goldfish didn't have Mohammed's face on it instead.

[Pixeldragoon]

Better than a human named Mohammed, he'd be killed instantly.


Oh wait...

[Xpose]

I wish they gave an example of what the actual script looks like, because I just see a fish with some spots

yea that's what I was thinking

[Undefeated]

"It's a sign of something - no doubt - probably God,"

Yeah, sure, why not.

[LaPalida]

http://img349.imageshack.us/img349/9171/allah1gn.jpg
http://www.aljazeera.net/mritems/images/2006/2/5/1_595275_1_48.jpg

Behold! Compare and be convinced! ;P

[Jonoy]

OMG!
Now I am a true believer...
...in rectile disfunction...

[Red_Rook]

if you flip it, mirror it, close one eye, put some difference clouds and a plastic wrap filter on it, focus on an object 100 meters behind it you can kinda see it... i think, its like one of those magic eye books. No wait.. its a sailboat!

[Snarfevs]

http://www.aljazeera.net/mritems/images/2006/2/5/1_595275_1_48.jpg

Behold! Compare and be convinced! ;P

It's a new strain of intelligent fungal infection that tries to spell out names of god on its victims so that noone will dare treat the poor thing!

I wonder if they come in a kabbalistic variety so that if I collect and read 72 of them the world will end or something?

[dogfood]

In the mid-90's there was a load of sports shoes that arrived in Saudi Arabia whose tread, when leaving marks upon the sand, had a vague resemblance to something very sacred. The shoes could obviously note be worn (grinding this image in the unclean dirt), and destroying them would be sacrilege, so they are evidently sitting, locked away, in some werehouse. We're talking millions of pairs.

[Taj]

http://img349.imageshack.us/img349/9171/allah1gn.jpg
http://www.aljazeera.net/mritems/images/2006/2/5/1_595275_1_48.jpg

Behold! Compare and be convinced! ;P
Actually thats the side that says Moh..muh....whatever Mohammed
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y78/tajn/mohamed.gif
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y78/tajn/1_595275_1_48-1.jpg
Probably fake so whatever.

[glikster]

if you flip it, mirror it, close one eye, put some difference clouds and a plastic wrap filter on it, focus on an object 100 meters behind it you can kinda see it... i think, its like one of those magic eye books. No wait.. its a sailboat!
A schooner is a sailboat, stupid!

[egerie]

I wonder if this type of fish has a tendency to have seemlingly random orange spots like this.

[Scubasteve]

I love when people attribute simple and random patterns to the "Hand of God" yet it looks like it was scrawled on by your average 2nd grader.

[DavePalumbo]

yeah, and the Washinton Monument is really a giant penis... whatever

[onionface]

I think God/Allah has a bigger budget than this.

If he/it made the heaven the earth, the stars and all life. I'm sure his/it's sign wouldn't be on the side of a fish.

SNARFEZ:
I like that theory, perhaps this is proof of Evolution, animals are evolving to mimic humans holly words, they will live longer and produce more offspring.

I love how in the article, just some random guy inspects the fish, claims that the coloring is authentic then comes to the result, " the color isn't fake so therefore it is proof that God exists, and is sending us a message"

what ever happened to chance dipweed!.
especially when their writing looks like fish scale patterns to begin with.

[Snarfevs]

I like that theory, perhaps this is proof of Evolution, animals are evolving to mimic humans holly words, they will live longer and produce more offspring.


Reminds me of the Heike Crab actually:

Heikegani (平家蟹, ヘイケガニ) is a species of crab native to Japan, with a shell that bears a pattern resembling a human face. It is locally believed that these crabs are reincarnations of the spirits of the Heike warriors defeated at the Battle of Dan-no-ura as told in the Heike Monogatari ("The Tale of the Heike").

Heikegani are rarely eaten, and it is considered proper to throw them back into the sea if they are caught. For this reason, the Heike crab was used by Carl Sagan in his popular science television show Cosmos: A Personal Voyage as an example of unintentional artificial selection, as the crabs with shells resembling Samurai have a greater chance of reproducing.

And what does it look like?

http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/7877/image52yx.gif

It's a very good and often ignored evolutionary case study. Industrial melanism seems to get more discussion but this is just as interesting - have a population with varying degrees of samurai-likeness in their carapaces, the least samurai-ish of each generation get eaten and the rest go on to breed, reinforcing their features. I could imagine that if there was a species that actually did have intrinsic markings that spelt out 'Jehovah' or whatever people would probably only stop eating it when the name was spelt out in perfectly formed times new roman.

When you think about it it's pretty similar to the eye spots that develop over thousands of generations of butterflies. It's just humans need something better than eyes to scare them away, so what better than the semantics of chowing down on something holy or culturally significant (iirc the heike crabs were believed to be the ghosts of drowned heike samurai) to keep you safe to reproduce? :D

[Slash]

The christians are catching up:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b21/slashesc/holy_seabass.jpg

[Professor Az]

This looks a whole lot like a pet fish called a Tiger Oscar fish. I've owned several before, and these fish can get pretty big (up to 18 inches and about three pounds), and make great pets.

Yes, they end up with all sorts of random patterns, and the patterns can change, especially when they get excited, like right before feeding.

That pic is simply too funny, slash. :tihi:

[Scubasteve]

I had a few Tiger Oscars, they were starting to get really big, then we had an ice storm one winter that knocked the power out a few days. You know when a pond freezes and the fish freeze up with it and thaw out and live next spring. Turns out oscars don't do that...

[LaPalida]

I don't know about fish freezing up... I would think they would die. Frogs do that (freezing up for winter and then thawing out later). Then again I may be wrong but I always thought that it's the top of the water that freezes and the fish just live below occasionally rising up for oxygen when there is not enough to go around. But anyway, Oscars are tropical fish and it's for sure that they would die if your aquarium goes below a certain temperature. I had a small one once... it got killed by another larger cichlid in my tank :(

[Scubasteve]

Im pretty sure some do. My Oscars killed all my fish, except for one of those sucker fish. The pet store guy said they could live together. Guess not!

[Infinit]

@LaPalida: fish are no frogs!!!
they die if you freeze them! (don´t try it, the poor fish)

this whole thread is just too funny

[LaPalida]

Yep Infinit that's what I thought... but Scubasteve made me doubt... maybe he knew something I didn't.