Of course the timing of this has nothing to do with Easter, but the Turin Shroud Center in Colorado has conned someone into giving them a shitload of money in order to recreate the face of Jesus from that 13th century forgery:
I don’t know about you, but he looks remarkably like those traditional pictures of some dude with a beard. But hey, why not use the Turin Banana:
Or perhaps the iron:
Or the KitKat found next to the shroud:
Or the Turin Dog’s Arse:
But the real question is: what would Jesus do in response to all of this speculation?
Or maybe …
Update: with thanks to Sean Burt.
1 April, 2010 at 12:13 pm
and the accompanying US tv programme on the “history” channel is being aired about now, US time 31 March – which is April fool’s day in the rest of the world.
1 April, 2010 at 1:34 pm
The answer to your question can be found by image searching “Jesus facepalm”.
1 April, 2010 at 4:57 pm
the dog’s arse one freaked me out. i didn’t realise it was a GIF animation and i thought I must’ve had one too many nutmegs…
1 April, 2010 at 8:47 pm
The British papers were calling it a revelation in that it revealed a ‘short and swarthy’ guy. As if we’d all been led to believe he must look like some babyfaced 7ft tall Nordic goalkeeper.
2 April, 2010 at 12:18 am
With clean hair.
2 April, 2010 at 12:19 am
He must have been pretty rank if he was a homeless dude. Ever got up close and personal – it’s like really, really strong ear wax?
8 April, 2010 at 9:54 am
really funny pics. Great blog. and I am a fan of your writing on marxism and theology.
8 April, 2010 at 7:26 pm
Will, flattery will get you everywhere …