The grainy image emerged from a batch of Great Value pancake mix, bought at Wal-Mart for $1.25 - a suitably humble beginning for a wanna-be apparition. Port St. Lucie resident Dana O’Kane said she discerned the outline of Jesus and Mary in the mottled pancake and took it as a reassuring sign from her recently departed father. Her mother, the cook, thought it looked more like a bedouin and Santa Claus. An Alabama woman, who wanted a gag gift for her soldier-husband about to be deployed to Iraq, bid $338 for it on eBay, only to have the deal fall through. Finally on Saturday night, an Illinois man claimed it for $29. Nobody’s claiming loaves and fishes here, but it’s been an eventful two weeks for a slightly deteriorating breakfast staple.
I know…”Seeing the image of Jesus in [insert description of inanimate object here]” is almost as tired and careworn as the “severed penis” stories I was once so enamored of. What’s even sillier is that someone is willing to bid for this pancake on eBay. It’s almost as silly and unsupportable as anyone thinking that Ann Coulter or Bill O’Reilly actually have anything of value to say.
When I look at the pancake, I don’t see Jesus, but then I’m not predisposed to. I’m not a Christian. What I do see are the Romanovs just before they were executed in Yekaterinburg. I mean, just look at it. Can’t you see the terror in their faces? Or is that just a stray dollop of unmelted butter?
Of course, if you can get $29 for a single pancake, regardless of what it looks like, perhaps the real DUMB@$$ is the winning bidder.
Damn, all this talk about pancakes is making me hungry. I wonder if there’s a Waffle House anywhere around here??
