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Today's Google Doodle is pretty amazing

Those doodlers have really excelled with this one.

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PEOPLE ABOUT TO kiss, a monster’s face, a butterfly, a frog, a magician and a space invader are just some of the things that people have seen in today’s Google Doodle.

The search engine has transformed its home page into the Rorschach test, the well-known ink blob test developed by the Swiss Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.

The interactive doodle was developed to celebrate Hermann Rorschach’s birth 129 years ago and users have been asked to share what they see on Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus using the hashtag #RorschachDoodle.

Rorschach died at the age of 37 from peritonitis brought on by a ruptured appendix but before his untimely death he had completed Psychodiagnostik – his book describing how inkblot testing could be used in pscyhoanalysis.

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    Mute Michael O' Keeffe
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    Nov 8th 2013, 10:29 AM

    A woman’s pelvis. I know i worry about me too.

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    Mute Polly O'Donnell
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    Nov 8th 2013, 10:35 AM

    It’s OK Michael, no need to worry, first thing I saw was a pelvis too!

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    Mute Jane Travers
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    Nov 8th 2013, 2:22 PM

    Thank jeebus for that, you two! I was administered the Rorschach test as a bulimic 17year old by an absolute quack of a counsellor. I said I saw a pelvis, and she diagnosed me with “fear of sexual intimacy”…

    Seriously.

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    Mute John O'Neill
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    Nov 8th 2013, 4:12 PM

    Come on now Jane, you’ll have to provide us with a least 50 examples from your life that will prove that her diagnosis was wrong!!

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    Mute Jane Travers
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    Nov 8th 2013, 5:44 PM

    Well now John, where to begin… ;)

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    Mute Joan Griffin
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    Nov 8th 2013, 10:27 AM

    2 birds on a branch

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    Mute dave
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    Nov 8th 2013, 8:21 PM

    Thats what i seen

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    Mute Dee4
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    Nov 8th 2013, 10:32 AM

    A person holding an ink blot at arms length

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    Mute Gary Guilfoyle
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    Nov 8th 2013, 10:38 AM

    A bell

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    Mute Paul Somers
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    Nov 8th 2013, 11:27 AM

    Or a wine Decanter?

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    Mute Itsthe Law
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    Nov 8th 2013, 11:39 AM

    R2 D2

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    Nov 8th 2013, 6:04 PM

    Stay off that Wine Paul, Hic!

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    Mute Emer Daly
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    Nov 8th 2013, 10:27 AM

    Two birds and little man in a parachute

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    Nov 8th 2013, 12:38 PM

    I literally thought the same

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    Mute Shite sticks
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    Nov 8th 2013, 12:58 PM

    2 gay birds touching penises

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    Mute John O'Neill
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    Nov 8th 2013, 4:10 PM

    A hornet’s nest hanging in a dark cave….

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    Nov 8th 2013, 11:41 AM

    A man telling me to get the matches and burn it all.

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    Mute bothyhead
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    Nov 8th 2013, 11:01 AM

    All I’m seeing are bats, bats, and more bats. And on one occasion a woman’s womb. I think it’s time for me to book a trip to a psychologist.

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    Mute Eamonn Connaghan
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    Nov 8th 2013, 11:22 AM

    A donkey coming over a hill with a monkey in a Dublin jersey on its back, juggling sets of flaming playing cards.

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    Mute Stephen Barry
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    Nov 8th 2013, 10:06 PM

    Fuunly enough that excactly what i saw.

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    Mute Emily Elephant
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    Nov 8th 2013, 11:09 AM

    Mohammed.

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    Mute Jack Russell
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    Nov 8th 2013, 10:55 AM

    G spot

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    Mute Jack Bowden
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    Nov 8th 2013, 11:16 AM

    2 Twitter birds.

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    Mute Fred O'Connor
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    Nov 8th 2013, 12:14 PM

    The inkblot test is a very useful tool for identifying perfectly symmetrical psychotic fantasies that would have otherwise gone undetected.

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    Mute Ciaran De Bhal
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    Nov 8th 2013, 11:57 AM

    Elton John wearing a black TuTu and matching tights, sitting on a horses ass, waving this years budget, being chased by Ringo Starr sitting in a 1987 JCB with a flat tyre … Amazing google

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    Mute Michael C Sherlock
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    Nov 8th 2013, 11:16 AM

    Hold it upside down..looks like a pup throwing up:-P

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    Nov 8th 2013, 10:42 AM

    Two birds carrying a dead bird home!!!

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    Mute David Mc Skane
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    Nov 8th 2013, 10:54 AM

    A lamp shade

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    Nov 8th 2013, 11:10 AM

    Rorschach’s journal…

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    Mute Mike Reid
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    Nov 8th 2013, 10:46 AM

    two lions in robes kicking a football at the same time

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    Nov 8th 2013, 11:00 AM

    Really interesting facial hair

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    Nov 8th 2013, 11:28 AM

    2 maps of Ireland.

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    Nov 8th 2013, 11:22 AM

    So that is what my dog would see

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    Nov 8th 2013, 12:05 PM

    A bell,bat,beasts with wings and a woman’s womb…

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    Mute sleeping duck
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    Nov 8th 2013, 4:17 PM

    I see 2 separate images.

    the first being the larger darker image its looks like 2 Kerry blue dogs heads facing away from each other and joined by a collar.

    The second image looks like a person sitting at a picnic table far away in the distance or some sort of flying apparatus (a hot air balloon mixed with a helicopter and a motor bike) and its up in the sky.

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    Mute Dave Meade
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    Nov 8th 2013, 1:23 PM

    Or two owls fighting over a macaroon in front of the kitchen blind.

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    Nov 8th 2013, 11:38 AM

    two t-rexs balancing on footballs

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    Nov 8th 2013, 11:42 AM

    I think the plant is dead.

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    Nov 8th 2013, 1:37 PM

    A massive orgy with all the playhouses Disney characters

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    Nov 8th 2013, 6:20 PM

    My school copybook when I spilled my inkwell all over it

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    Nov 8th 2013, 11:35 AM

    Meant for Sinead…sorry

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    Mute Nigel O Keeffe
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    Nov 8th 2013, 11:34 AM

    Just curious Michelle..is there a correct answer?

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    Nov 8th 2013, 4:36 PM

    At the end of the day it’s a blob of ink and open to interpretation.

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    Mute Stephen Barry
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    Nov 8th 2013, 8:44 PM

    Whats that you say strange blob? Kill all humans

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    Nov 8th 2013, 1:28 PM

    Two baby gorillas stuck together

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    Mute Kevin Thornton
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    Nov 8th 2013, 12:56 PM

    Is it the new energy saver BAT MAN light

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    Nov 8th 2013, 12:31 PM

    2 fish sharing an umbilical cord

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    Nov 8th 2013, 4:27 PM

    a fella sitting on a chair.
    with a note pad.

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    Nov 8th 2013, 12:59 PM

    dancing pair.

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    Mute Jamie Gibbs
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    Nov 9th 2013, 4:51 AM

    Ceiling light in a dark room!

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    Mute John Magee
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    Nov 9th 2013, 8:22 AM

    It symbolises Martin o Neils and Roy keanes(in the form of maps of Ireland) imminent struggle for power over the international soccer team,while John Delaney prepared his parachute in the backround for yet another great escape.

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    Mute Amy Rice
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    Nov 8th 2013, 10:40 PM

    It must be “oo” bit because the two G’s in the frame behind are in the name, plus there’s the L and E in the window so it only leaves the two o ‘s in the middle!

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    Mute Amy Rice
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    Nov 8th 2013, 10:43 PM

    Ah damn, I’ve just seen the o’s in the hands holding the picture!! Looks like two birds to me!!

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    Mute Martin Conway
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    Nov 8th 2013, 1:10 PM

    Brian cowen

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    Mute Stephen Barry
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    Nov 8th 2013, 10:16 PM

    Its intersting the different interpretations, from what i can make out of it is, most people here have surpressed homosexual tendencies with homicidal ideation.

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