# God's Goatse
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-goatse/408448
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 18, 2007, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-goatse/408448 "2007-06-18T12:02:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2007, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-goatse/408448/1 "2007-06-18T12:02:27Z")
> **[The Hands of God](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gods-hands/)**
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> Photograph shows God's hands in a cloud formation.
Were it not for the SDMB, I would probably never have encountered the very _concept_ of a “goatse” photograph. Now I see a photo and think of it, even before getting to the bottom of the page where it’s pointed out.
Thank you, SDMB, for enriching my life. I think.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2007, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-goatse/408448/2 "2007-06-18T13:17:44Z")
The link crashed my browser.
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### Author:  [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2007, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-goatse/408448/3 "2007-06-18T13:29:49Z")
The original goatse shocker-picture is the one with the head-on view of the guy holding his anus open; you ain’t missin’ nuthin’…
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-goatse/408448/4 "2007-06-18T14:27:18Z")
> [@](#):
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> The original goatse shocker-picture is the one with the head-on view of the guy holding his anus open; you ain’t missin’ nuthin’…
My link goes to a Snopes page showing what was originally an odd-looking opening in the clouds, which has been photoshopped to include two clody/ghostly/Godlike hands holding it open, a la the infamous photograph.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2007, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-goatse/408448/5 "2007-06-18T14:47:46Z")
The fact that somebody took a goatse and made it into religious glurge… I find that wonderful. It’s things like this that make it worth waking up in the morning.
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### Author:  [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-goatse/408448/6 "2007-06-18T18:48:46Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham]
My link goes to a Snopes page showing what was originally an odd-looking opening in the clouds, which has been photoshopped to include two clody/ghostly/Godlike hands holding it open, a la the infamous photograph.
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I was assuming that the link that Lobsang was referring to that crashed his browser was the link to the original goatse picture, which the Snopes article links to, at the end.
I didn’t think Snopes would have crashed his browser, IOW.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-goatse/408448/7 "2007-06-18T18:54:33Z")
> [@](#):
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> I was assuming that the link that Lobsang was referring to that crashed his browser was the link to the original goatse picture, which the Snopes article links to, at the end.
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> I didn’t think Snopes would have crashed his browser, IOW.
Not sure why you’d think that – the way it was worded, following my entry, it seems pretty clear that he was headed to the Snopes link. Why that should have crashed his browser, I don’t know, but stranger things have happened.
I think if he was heading somewhere else (like the original goatse) he’d have said so.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-goatse/408448/8 "2007-06-18T19:48:17Z")
That’s a really old one. Still doesn’t fail to get a chuckle from me every time I see it.
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### Author:  [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-goatse/408448/9 "2007-06-18T19:56:02Z")
I actually see hands in the original photo. They’re fainter, but there are the coincidental shape of two hands, with thumbs roughly where the Photoshopper enhanced it.
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-goatse/408448/10 "2007-06-18T20:00:30Z")
God crashed his browser. How else can it be explained?
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### Author:  [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2007, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-goatse/408448/11 "2007-06-18T20:13:28Z")
\<[link](http://media.santoalt.com/funnypictures/goatse.jpg) \>
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-goatse/408448/12 "2007-06-18T20:46:06Z")
[QUOTE=bigbabysweets2000]
\<[link](http://media.santoalt.com/funnypictures/goatse.jpg) \>
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BAHAHAHA!!! That’s great!!
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### Author:  [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2007, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-goatse/408448/13 "2007-06-18T20:58:14Z")
[QUOTE=Revtim]
The fact that somebody took a goatse and made it into religious glurge… I find that wonderful. It’s things like this that make it worth waking up in the morning.
[/QUOTE]
Word. If they could only make a flash animation that goes from “Hand of God in Clouds” then flashes to “Is REALLY Goatse”.
Somebody out there has these skills, right? It’d be so much better than those ones with Linda Blair in The Exorcist and stuff like that that pop up and scare the shit out of you.
“Oooohhh, beautiful clouds, looks like hands holding open a… AAAhhhhh!!!”
ETA: You’d really have to be gullible to think those hands look natural. I mean come on…
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### Author:  [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-goatse/408448/14 "2007-06-18T21:10:25Z")
[QUOTE=Duke of Rat]
ETA: You’d really have to be gullible to think those hands look natural. I mean come on…
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Really gullible…the kind of people who forward glurge e-mails…I can see how this might have worked out. 🆒
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-goatse/408448/15 "2007-06-18T21:27:11Z")
> [@](#):
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> You’d really have to be gullible to think those hands look natural. I mean come on…
If you look at the second picture in the Snopes link you see the original, which at least a suggestion of the hand on one side. This probably inspired the rest. I don’t think anyone thought the Photoshopped version was real. At least I hope not.
And now that I look at the Snopes article again, it’s conceivable that **LobSang** clicked on the link given in the Snopes page, but I still think he’d be more explicit were that the case.
And Snopes does report that this dates from at least 2004, so it is an oldie (although I wasn’t hip to “goatse” back then, and probably wouldn’t have gotten it.)
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### Author:  [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-goatse/408448/16 "2007-06-18T21:55:11Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp]
Really gullible…the kind of people who forward glurge e-mails…I can see how this might have worked out. 🆒
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Who are exactly the same ones who would benefit from my Flash overlay idea. You can bet your ass nobody would be gullible enough to open the _next_ religious glurge email 😃
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### Author:  [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-goatse/408448/17 "2007-06-19T17:21:03Z")
Wow.
Why “goatse”?
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### Author:  [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-goatse/408448/18 "2007-06-19T17:40:22Z")
[QUOTE=Don’t fight the hypothetical]
Why “goatse”?
[/QUOTE]
That, for whatever reason, was the filename of the original.
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### Author:  [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-goatse/408448/19 "2007-06-19T17:54:40Z")
[QUOTE=Troy McClure SF]
That, for whatever reason, was the filename of the original.
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www.goatse.cx was the original. I always assumed it was an attempt at ‘goatsex’.
I always wanted to buy a huge billboard with just the address on it, and then count the number of calls.
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### Author:  [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gods-goatse/408448/20 "2007-06-19T17:57:49Z")
[QUOTE=hotflungwok]
www. goatse .cx was the original. I always assumed it was an attempt at ‘goatsex’.
I always wanted to buy a huge billboard with just the address on it, and then count the number of calls.
[/QUOTE]
Whoa! Break that link, it’s NOT SAFE FOR WORK and somebody could get in trouble clicking on it!
Ah, I just checked it (having no NSFW inhibitions) and it’s no longer viable. Still…
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