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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
1191 Posts |
 Posted - 08/26/2006 : 12:04:40
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That little publicity slut, the Virgin (yeah, right) Mary is at it again. This time she's on the belly of a turtle!
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Shirley McVane of south suburban Burbank has had two pet turtles for about a year. But it was only recently that she noticed something different about one of them. McVane says a turtle began to develop what she believes is an image of the Virgin Mary on its shell.
"I told some of my friends, you know, 'I got a turtle,' and I said it has the image of the Virgin Mary on it, and I said it's getting plainer and plainer, and they said 'Yeah, Shirley, you're 81 years old. You think we believe that?' I said it's the truth, so now they all believe it," said McVane.
McVane has since renamed the turtle "Mary" and its tank mate "Joseph."
Hard to say it's the silhouette of the VM. I say it's the Grim Reaper.
My pareidolia is as good as Shirley's.
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The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley
The Cattle Prod of Enlightened Compassion
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2006 : 13:35:33 [Permalink]
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Are you sure that second photo isn't Michael Chertoff? (At the FEMA Hollween Party?)
As for the Mary-turtle-belly, I think there are also some Samurai crabs off the coast of Japan who are fans of movie star Toshiro Mifune!  |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 08/26/2006 : 14:06:04 [Permalink]
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Good old Skeletor! Isn't it wonderful to have a man who looks like Death Incarnate to head Homeland Security?
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Cookie Parker
New Member
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Posted - 08/27/2006 : 05:49:36 [Permalink]
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| Okay now, I'm lost. Are the "sightings" and the ones who see them destined for sainthood? What is the prize for convincing others you have found the VM on old cheese sandwiches, etc? |
Blaise Pascal:
To deny, to believe, and to doubt absolutely -- this is for man what running is for a horse. |
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
2998 Posts |
Posted - 08/27/2006 : 06:41:32 [Permalink]
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| St. Mary the Turtle. Has a certain ring to it. |
by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 08/27/2006 : 15:31:39 [Permalink]
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A good deal of my (and anyone else's) turtles probably do like a bit like the virgin Mary. I don't feel like taking any pictures of them, though. And if I did, no one would want to watch them. Yuck.
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METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
4826 Posts |
Posted - 08/28/2006 : 05:31:01 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by pleco
St. Mary the Turtle. Has a certain ring to it.
St. Mary the turtle soup has a tastier ring to it.
Aw, c'mon..... you were thinking it, too.
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Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 08/28/2006 : 07:52:40 [Permalink]
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I could be wrong here, but I think the turtle is a Painted and that is a very common marking found on the plastrons of several species of sliders. Of course, they vary a bit from one individual to another.
The name's ok, though. It's a female.
That little chippy sure do get around, don't she? 
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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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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
2998 Posts |
Posted - 08/28/2006 : 07:58:04 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Valiant Dancer
St. Mary the turtle soup has a tastier ring to it.
Aw, c'mon..... you were thinking it, too.
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by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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