# Has anyone else noticed this secret of "The Perfect Storm?" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 5, 2001, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-noticed-this-secret-of-the-perfect-storm/60871 "2001-04-05T03:16:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-noticed-this-secret-of-the-perfect-storm/60871/21 "2001-04-07T02:57:07Z")
> [@](#): > > He wrote “Subliminal Seduction” back in the 70s, where he claimed that advertisers were intentionally burying suggestive words and images in ice cube reflections, smoke, and such in advertisements. A lot of people thoughht Key just had way too much time on his hands. The funniest thing was when some ads DELIBERATELY (And obviously) put things in the ice cubes in their ads in response. Not sure what you want to make of it, but there was most certainly a naked woman in short-shorts on my middle school’s Coke machine, hidden in an ice cube. My best friend saw it and asked me “Do you see anything in these ice cubes?” No clues. I immediately noticed the buxom lady. We talked to roughly 300 seventh graders, none of whom were prodded into seeing a naked lady (ie “Do you notice anything?”) and they all saw the same thing. Make of it what you will - the ice cube was even a darker blue where her booty shorts were. And you could totally see her nipples. Somewhere in my brain, a complicated algorythm struggles to emerge. Instead, I clearly picture the nekkid lady on my seventh grade soda machine. Life is weird. ---
**Author:** ![Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-noticed-this-secret-of-the-perfect-storm/60871/22 "2001-04-07T09:19:23Z")
1. Isn’t there a website somewhere with pictures like this that I can spend hours on? Huh? Huh? 2. As regards the movie… the problem with true stories is everybody dies (name me one person who doesn’t). I didn’t know I was going to see a true story, I thought I was going to see _Twister II: The Sea’s Cool As Well!_ I felt dumb. It was cool but caught me off-balance and floored me. So rather than get deeply touched, of course, I declared it crap and gargled my Sprite. I am a _guy,_ okay? 3. There is something really nice about the idea of imagining a man’s death, when it was unknown. I’m serious. It has the workings of a noble epitaph. I hope the families saw it that way. I heard one didn’t, but that’s another story. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-noticed-this-secret-of-the-perfect-storm/60871/23 "2001-04-07T16:14:51Z")
If no one came back on the boat, how do you imagine it’s a true story since no one was there to write what really happened ? ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-noticed-this-secret-of-the-perfect-storm/60871/24 "2001-04-07T16:55:23Z")
It’s a made-up story with real people. [sup]And after 45 posts in 18 hours, there’s post #2000, on my birthday. **racinchikki** will be starting a party thread in MPSIMS shortly.[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-noticed-this-secret-of-the-perfect-storm/60871/25 "2001-04-07T16:56:56Z")
Well I don’t think you’re crazy **MSK** , because I can see them too. And I distinctly remember seeing them a while back when the picture was released also. It creaped me out then, and creaps me out now. I think the problem here is the picture that is linked to above. Because in that image, I don’t see anything like I remember seeing. So, I took the liberty of finding some other pictures that _I_ think show faces in the waves: -From the [Warner Bros. Page](http://perfectstorm.warnerbros.com/cmp/splash-fr.html). Towards the right of the bow are some faces. In [this](http://www.iconographics.net/Images/Standard_2/ThePerfectStorm-Advance.jpg) image, in the bottom right, there seems to be a lady screaming- imbedded in the wave. Here’s [another](http://www.movieweb.com/movie/perfectstorm/co1.jpg) one, off to the right. And, finally, some figures hanging out on the left side of the bow, upper wave, [here](http://www.movieweb.com/movie/perfectstorm/poster.jpg). I don’t know about you all, but _I_ think their there. ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-noticed-this-secret-of-the-perfect-storm/60871/26 "2001-04-07T17:11:57Z")
Yikes! Sorry about that. I should have cleaned it up a bit before I hit submit. I think [this](http://www.iconographics.net/Images/Standard_2/ThePerfectStorm-Advance.jpg) image shows the faces in the waves best. Towards the _lower_ right, in and amongst the waves, there appear to be a _number_ of people screaming. - Maybe that’ll read better. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2001, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-noticed-this-secret-of-the-perfect-storm/60871/27 "2001-04-07T20:44:32Z")
> [@](#): > > **(MSK)** FWIW I find it interesting that there **is** intentionally an obvious penis in the tower of the original cover of The Little Mermaid but the spooky faces in the wave _cannot_ be accepted as being there. FWIW, [Snopes disagrees](http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/mermaid.htm), and they say they spoke with the artist himself. ---
**Author:** ![Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-noticed-this-secret-of-the-perfect-storm/60871/28 "2001-04-08T07:53:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by handy \* > \*\* > If no one came back on the boat, how do you imagine it’s a true story since no one was there to write what really happened ? \*\* The true bit: ship sails out. Doesn’t come back. There y’go. That was _kinda_ the plot of the film, too… ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-noticed-this-secret-of-the-perfect-storm/60871/29 "2001-04-08T18:12:30Z")
Further hijack: The book wasn’t so much about the fishermen and the boat, it was about **The Storm**. It isn’t a true story, but it was **based** on a true story. The author, Sebastian Junger, pieced together _what possibly happened_ by interviewing people who had been on boats in trouble in similar storms. Nobody knows for sure what happened to the crew of the _Andrea Gail_, and it will probably never be known what really happened. The high 100’ waves were documented in the North Atlantic during that storm, so there is a high probability the boat was overcome by such a wave. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-noticed-this-secret-of-the-perfect-storm/60871/30 "2001-04-08T18:33:46Z")
Maybe I’m just easily influenced but I see them too. I always thought the wave looked menacing, maybe this is why. I also see a face in the clouds, just below and to the right of George Clooney’s name. To me it looks like a bird face with large bulging eyes and a beakish mouth. Or maybe I’ve got way too much time on my hands.🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-noticed-this-secret-of-the-perfect-storm/60871.md?page=1)