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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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 Posted - 08/18/2006 : 09:58:39
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I know there's an old thread where we discussed various supposed Virgin Mary sightings in things like cheese sandwiches, bridge overpasses, balloons, and the like. However, I can't find it.
In any case, USA Today has a new one:
I love a god who can manifest an image of the holy mother of his son in a piece of chocolate. There's a rather rude query re eating, virginity, and oral sex, but I'll let it go.
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Chippewa
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Posted - 08/18/2006 : 10:48:27 [Permalink]
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Are you sure that's not The Maltese Falcon? |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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Posted - 08/18/2006 : 10:57:38 [Permalink]
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| Good call, Chippewa! I have one question, though: how does that fit into the holy family?!? |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 08/18/2006 : 11:30:24 [Permalink]
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FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — As a chocolatier to the rich and famous, Martucci Angiano has posed with many celebrities.
But on Thursday she held in her hand a figure that dazzles her more than any Hollywood star: a 2-inch-tall column of chocolate drippings that workers at her gourmet chocolate company believe bears a striking resemblance to the Virgin Mary.
Since the discovery at Bodega Chocolates, Angiano's employees have spent much of their time hovering over the tiny figure, praying and placing rose petals and candles around it.
Doesn't that little trollop ever stay home? She's nothing but trouble!
She stops traffic everywere she goes, and now she's responsible for an illegal work slow-down at the pogey-bait factory. If she needs attention so badly, she should just become a porn star and have done with it!
Yeesh!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 08/18/2006 : 11:46:17 [Permalink]
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US man survives chocolate ordeal
The vat was full of dark chocolate
A 21-year-old US man ended up in hospital after spending two hours trapped in a vat of chocolate, police in Wisconsin said on Friday.
But we know the real story, don't we....? Mary again! 
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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moakley
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Posted - 08/18/2006 : 11:52:43 [Permalink]
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| Chippewa nailed it. |
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Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. -Anonymous |
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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 08/18/2006 : 12:11:29 [Permalink]
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Doesn't that little trollop ever stay home? She's nothing but trouble!
She stops traffic everywere she goes, and now she's responsible for an illegal work slow-down at the pogey-bait factory. If she needs attention so badly, she should just become a porn star and have done with it!
Yeesh!
The Virgin Pornstar, now THAT would be interesting!
Perhaps its just me but that looks more like poop than a mary. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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pleco
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Posted - 08/18/2006 : 12:22:30 [Permalink]
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| One man's crap is another man's religion. |
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Chippewa
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Posted - 08/18/2006 : 12:31:28 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Cuneiformist
Good call, Chippewa! I have one question, though: how does that fit into the holy family?!?
Somewhere in the story it's stated that the Maltese Falcon was a gift (to or from) the King of Malta and involved somehow with knights returning from the crusades for the Holy Grail, which in turn was connected to the holy family. So I guess that's a tenuous connection as good as any other. However, to me it just looks more like the Maltese Falcon from the prop department.
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 08/18/2006 : 13:33:32 [Permalink]
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| I see an EBay windfall coming! |
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Randy
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Posted - 08/18/2006 : 15:21:59 [Permalink]
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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Posted - 08/18/2006 : 17:20:18 [Permalink]
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So Richard Dreyfus is the Virgin Mary?!?!  |
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Randy
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Posted - 08/18/2006 : 17:55:41 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Cuneiformist
So Richard Dreyfus is the Virgin Mary?!?!
No! No!...he had a vision....
(crude, but what the heck - Friday night, couple of beers, and SFN)
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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Ricky
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 08/18/2006 : 18:14:05 [Permalink]
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The woman who let her imagination run away "discovered" the chocolate icon said she carries a prayer card with an image of the Virgin Mary with her everywhere she goes. Can you say "confirmation bias?"
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