I'm posting a lot of these lately. I guess it's Religious Icon season or something.
Shirley McVane believes her two-year-old turtle is
developing an image of the Virgin Mary on its belly.
"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.
She has since renamed the turtle and its mate (you guessed it!) Mary and Joseph.
Is it just me, or are these getting weaker and weaker?
Cute turtle, though.
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OMG It's John Lennon again!!
Specifically, it looks like Our Lady of Guadalupe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe
As to virgin or not, well I'm not a gynecologist.
Oh, My Goodness! It's Jimmy Hoffa. Right there in that post!!!
Is my story really more absurd than a Virgin Mary made of chocolate drippings or in the burn mark on a tortilla? Could I get pilgrims to make donations to see my miracle penis?
Well, Cranky, there's really only one way to find out...
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My best guess is that they would do the story, with no shots of the actual "miracle apparition." What I wonder is whether they would treat it as a serious story about someone who "saw" a "miracle" or would it be ridiculed. On what basis could they ridicule it, though, given what they've treated seriously in the past?
"Damned, Cranky Media Guy beat me to it. I was just going to post that the vitiligo spots on my, uhm, "male organ" look like the Virgin Mary...."
Sorry about the discoloration, Dude, but in all seriousness, you sound as if you'd be the perfect person to pull this off. Oops, bad phrasing there, huh?
Seriously, if you have any acting skills, you might want to seriously consider being the guy who "finds" the "miracle" on his best friend, if you catch my drift.
Too bad you're in Europe; America seems to be the place where this kind of thing happens most often. But, hey, the Lord works in mysterious ways, right?
(And JoeDaJuggler: Shirley McVane's already said the turtle's a girl. So what do you expect to see when you look up between its legs?)
"Do it Cranky. I want to be able to point at my television and state, "I know that penis!"
If I did it, that would be MY prime motivation as well.
Grilled cheese sandwiches,turtles and ultrasound pictures...geeez. :roll:
Why not make a big statement instead,you know,a big time apparition across the sky or something?
Well,these people want attention,or want to feel chosen.Let them have it if the newspapers has nothing better to put on their front pages anyway.I guess it harms noone.
I'm usually a "show me" type of person, but in this case, I'm more than willing to take your word for it.
"Well,these people want attention,or want to feel chosen.Let them have it if the newspapers has nothing better to put on their front pages anyway.I guess it harms noone."
I sort of disagree with you on that. With two (or is it three? I forget.) wars going on, New Orleans still not recovering significantly from last year's hurricane, etc., it seems to me that there's plenty of REAL stuff to fill the daily newspapers.
These people can feel "chosen" if they want, I guess, but the press doesn't have to enable them in their delusion.
"If I found something that really looked like a religious figure where there wasn't supposed to be one, I would definitely try and sell it on eBay for $$."
I believe that you can't sell livestock on eBay.
The tendency to see familiar images in random patterns is called pareidolia. And if you want to see a real penis shaped like the VM, go to http://www.divine-interventions.com/mary.html.