The Virgin Mary Sandwich

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

Bidding currently at $16,000 on e-bay.






Do I spot a family resemblance here, to our face on Mars?

[Dr Dave]

I'm...lost in the stars.

[Enforcer]

That's Shirley Temple.

[Underhound]

I went camping with an old girlfriend long ago one Fourth of July weekend. We were camped by a river and on the night of the fourth people across the river were shooting up fireworks. My girlfriend decided to try to take pictures of the fireworks with her Polaroid camera, using the flash. All the pictures came out indistinguishable blurs. As she looked them over she insisted that the image of the Virgin Mary was visible in one of the shots. Since I'm a non-religious skeptic type and she was sort of a looney, I didn't think much of it.
But the next day I checked it out.

Whoa!

The white light was arranged in such a way to depict a side view of a veiled woman crouching down facing right with her left arm extended out. The creases and shadowing on the veil and and robe was eerily realistic-exactly how such a garment would be draped over a body. The face was not visible.
Pretty spooky. Makes ya think. Oooo eee oooooh.


We celebrated our Virgin Mary sighting that night by doing it in the tent.

[Enforcer]

Originally Posted by Underhound

We celebrated our Virgin Mary sighting that night by doing it in the tent.

My kind of guy. Amen.

[Underhound]

Update.
The Virgin Mary grilled cheese is currently going for $69K
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...535890757&rd=1

The sandwich is 10 years old. My donut (see avatar) is 18 years old and unadorned with graven imagery. What do you think I could get for it?

[Underhound]

And why not have some ham with your cheese?


And of course the Virgin Mary-Kate and Ashley grilled cheese.

[Pete C]

I thought this was a new triple decker at the Stage deli.

[john williams]

I can see the face of the angel Gabriel in my Axminster.

[Monte Smith]

What ever happened to the Constitutional separation of church and lunch?

I mean, I know that's not in the actual Constitution, but neither is anything except that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

But this is the 21st century.

[Sergio Zamora]

Originally Posted by Underhound

The white light was arranged in such a way to depict a side view of a veiled woman crouching down facing right with her left arm extended out. The creases and shadowing on the veil and and robe was eerily realistic-exactly how such a garment would be draped over a body. The face was not visible.
Pretty spooky. Makes ya think. Oooo eee oooooh.

The steeple of the cathedral from my home town has a similar effect. Late at night, from the plaza below, the moonlight creates a pretty creepy image of a woman in a veil. It's part of the local folklore, and legend has it that it's a nun. I mean, it helps to be a little drunk, but I can imagine a couple hundred years ago, it would have scared the hell out of passers-by.

[hornplayer]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..... I have some Shroud of Turin bedsheets I'll sell you!

[groover]

I don't think it's Shirley Temple. I'm thinking Myrna Loy, but I could still be a little off...



If it's the Virgin Mary, she's from the Cecil B. Demille casted version, for sure!

[Pete C]

Originally Posted by Squaredancecalling Steve

Maybe it's a Bernadette Peters sandwich.



Bernadette has definitely gotten better looking with age.

[groover]

Originally Posted by Pete C

Maybe it's a Bernadette Peters sandwich.

Bernadette has definitely gotten better looking with age.

Now that's making me salivate, and I'm not thinking of grilled cheese!
Whomever it is, I doubt she was virgin for very long!

[Enforcer]

Claudette Colbert?

[Gentle Giant]

I have a knish with the image of Betty Friedan on it. Start your bidding!

[groover]

Originally Posted by Larry Nagel

Claudette Colbert?

Definitely getting very close, Larry!



From the All-Movie Guide:

Director Cecil B. DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures for this typically epic production, which became his first box office hit after the close of the silent era. Fredric March stars as Roman Prefect Marcus Superbus, a noble military leader of the year 64 A.D. Emperor Nero (Charles Laughton) has just burned down the city and blamed the conflagration on Christians, which has exacerbated anti-Christian sentiment. Marcus encounters a beautiful young Christian woman, Mercia (Elissa Landi), pleading with soldiers over the arrest of her beloved stepfather Titus (Arthur Hohl). The Prefect intervenes on her behalf, hoping for romance. Mercia rebuffs him, however, so Marcus attempts to humiliate her by sentencing her to live with a lesbian (Joyzelle Joiner), who has even less luck seducing the chaste Mercia. The Empress Poppaea (Claudette Colbert) desires Marcus for her own bed and becomes jealous of Mercia. When Nero orders that Christians are to be fed to the lions in the arena, Poppaea seizes the opportunity to get rid of her romantic rival, though Marcus pleads in vain with Nero to spare her life. — Karl Williams

[steve(thelil)]

How come any image that coincidently looks like a woman is determined to be the Virgin Mary?

Not that I'm doubting images of real and/or famous people do appear in the weirdest places. As I've mentioned before, once when there was lightening outside at night, it lit the clouds into the spitting image of Liberace's palimony plaintiff Scott Thornson.

[steve(thelil)]

Originally Posted by Gentle Giant

I have a knish with the image of Betty Friedan on it. Start your bidding!

I bid one Burger King Sponge Bob Square Pants watch and a picture of Gloria Steinem eating a gherkin.

[Pete C]

Originally Posted by steve(thelil)

How come any image that coincidently looks like a woman is determined to be the Virgin Mary?

You're forgetting the Mother Theresa cinnamon bun.

[Gentle Giant]

Originally Posted by steve(thelil)

I bid one Burger King Sponge Bob Square Pants watch and a picture of Gloria Steinem eating a gherkin.

Done! Oh wait, you said eating a gherkin. Never mind.

[groover]

Originally Posted by steve(thelil)

How come any image that coincidently looks like a woman is determined to be the Virgin Mary?

Because if the image wasn't created by man, it had to be God, and the Virgin's the only babe we know He really had the Hots for!

[steve(thelil)]

Originally Posted by Pete C

You're forgetting the Mother Theresa cinnamon bun.

Wow. I've found religion.

Any woman who is of cinnamon bun origin must be holy.