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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I heard this on the news tonight and had to see for myself. Unbelievable! :eek:
Virgin Mary Holding Baby Jesus Pretzel |
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Location: chattanooga tn | gonna have to rip open a bag of mr. salties and see if I can find moses parting the sea |
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Location: Powder Springs, Ga. | It looks to me like a treble clef. When are these people going to stop seeking signs and worship God in truth?
Acts 17:28-30 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
“Therefore since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone –an image made by man's design and skill. In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. |
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Location: Midland, MI | I can see why some might say it looks like that, but I can also see...
That abstract painting of John Lennon...you know the one I mean..glasses, sort of looked like it was done with chalks or maybe watercolors
A treble cleff as Bentman observed (the power of suggestion at work?)
A turtle (rotate it 90deg clockwise)
Mount Fuji with the sun coming up (or going down) to the left (rotate it 90deg counter-clockwise)
The last, poorly wrapped bean burrito (no red sauce) that I had from Taco Hell..er, Bell.
The human mind is very adept at 'recognizing' patterns. Even when there is no pattern to recognize.
And lastly, I find it entertaining that the high bidder is 'Golden Palace Casino,' an online gambling emporium (and one of the biggest). Does anyone else find it ironic that a gambling concern would purchase a 'religious relic?' (not that I think it is a religious relic)
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Geez, makes me feel a whole lot better about spending 5grand on a guitar...
That's just insane. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | A scam if I ever heard of one. Give me a freaking break. This stuff just cracks me up. What's the other one I heard of, jesus face on a piece of burned toast? people are so desperate to believe in something, anything, that they see all kinds of illusions. The only miracle here is that someone would be stupid enough to pay 10 ger for a freaking pretzel. You want to do some good in this world? How about spending time with your children and teach them right from wrong. Stop beating your wife. Stop hating people because they look different then you do. |
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Location: Powder Springs, Ga. | One other point. If you can't afford to buy a horse for your daughter you can't afford to the upkeep to own a horse. I'd sure like to see a follow-up after she gets her money.
I'm off today and have the real desire to do some baking.
If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything. |
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Location: SE Michigan | Nature is random and magnificant. Objects such as this have deep mystic meaning. One morning as I was walking to my garage, I saw it, a glorious organic obelisk thrusting upward towards the sky....
It seems my dog Barney, while relieving himself, had deposited a perfect 6-inch turd that landed precisely on-end, there it stood nobly, plumb and true, frozen in the morning frost, reaching up towards the dawn sun, casting a long westward shadow, a true icon of the randomness of nature. Sadly the heat of the day later claimed it, and it collapsed back to mother earth, but I am forever awed and changed. Anything is now possible. |
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Location: Snellville, GA | I give right straight up. |
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Location: Powder Springs, Ga. | Thanks BrainT for sharing such a beautiful and personal story. If you had only thought to take a few pictures there'd be no telling the wealth you would be enjoying right now. |
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Location: Back in the Valley of the Sun Mesa Az. | Hey, I formed.... I mean I found a spagetti noodle shaped perfectlylike a 1537!!! Other than some surface checks, and the "usual" crack from the b string to the base, it's in excellent condition.
Opening bids at $300.00. Please bid soon...no gaurantee that it will be around much longer after noon!
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Location: Las Vegas | Originally posted by Bentman:
It looks to me like a treble clef. When are these people going to stop seeking signs and worship God in truth? Bentman, the people buying this stuff aren't "true believers"... they're a Chinese casino looking for wacky things to get publicity!
And the people selling this crap aren't "true believers" either; they're scammers looking to rip off places like Chinese casinos.
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Location: Upper Left USA | Today I will try my best to listen to real people and what they have to say. I will try to talk to someone I usually don't. I will pray my thanks for the beauty around me.
I will try hard not to focus on gay lion tamers, butchered Pop idols or their overexposed sick-as-mine family members. If I go through the grocery check out line I will not look to the left or right to see who is sleeping with who, large women in bikinis or what the cats on Europa might look like.
But I might pick up a bag of pretzels. It looked tasty! |
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| Brian are you sure it wasn't just Barney's way of telling you to take the food out of the can for him?
And I will only stop beating my wife when she improves her forehand.
I find it difficult to belive that the Good Lord would turn up in anything as unhealthy as a pretzel. |
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Location: NJ | Brian;
By any chance did Barney's turd have a striking resemblance to St. Francis of Assisi (Patron Saint of Animals)? Now. . . THAT woulda' been SOMETHING!!
I once found a potato chip that was perfectly shaped like the Virgin Mary. It was delicious.
I'm off now to scrounge up a plastic squeeze bottle and some pretzel batter . . . .
I figure in about a week and a half I should be able to manage a perfect rendition of Jesus playing a SlotHead . . .
. . . that custom-made USA doubleneck may be possible after all . . . . |
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Location: Waurika OK | As we used to say, "This takes the cake"! I read this earlier and have come back to read the posts. I agree, this was, is, will continue to be a scam. I would not be surprised if these folks "find" another "miraculous sign".
It makes perfect sense for a casino to buy it, because this sort of thing is all about superstition, not spirituallity. Gamblers are among the most superstitious people on earth and this will draw them by droves.
By the way, I think it looks like my daughter-in-law and my grandson. I know what they look like, no one knows what Mary, Jesus, Moses or any other bible person looked like.
Silliness gone to seed. |
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Location: NJ | I was under the assumption that all of the people in the Bible looked like Charleton Heston . . . |
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Location: Waurika OK | I have been reading some of the questions (more like comments) on that auction site (77 of them). I don't think we would be very popular there. |
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Location: NJ | funny I thought they all looked like cliff |
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| just don't start with the burning bush jokes. |
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Location: NJ | I'll leave that up to you Euros whenever W comes to visit . . . |
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Location: Snellville, GA | Originally posted by cliff:
I was under the assumption that all of the people in the Bible looked like Charleton Heston . . . No no, Judas looks like Rip Torn. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I have had my own ephiphany! The only question is whether to do these in abalone or Mother of Pearl?
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Location: NJ | How about cake icing? |
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Location: Minnesota | Man, I just about perfected my grilled cheese with the Virgin Mary imprint, and now it's already out of style! Think I'll skip pretzel making and try my luck with egg noodles |
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Location: Converse, Texas | I'd go with mother of pearl... |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | I'm rather partial to this one:
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Location: NJ | $39.95 each.
(Glow-In-The-Dark) $59.95
ORDER NOW!!
Operators are standing by.
NO PayPal!!!
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Location: Omaha | I used to pastor a church about 45 minutes from St. Paul, NE where this pretzel came from; I've driven through the community a number of times, and know several people who have lived their (as ministers and teachers)...
...I actually find it both humorous and gratifying (yes, I'm smiling :) ) that some of this casino's money might actually go to do some good in a couple small rural communities - these communities have struggled a great deal with our changing economy; if this gives them a boost, all the better. (This is, of course, assuming better of the sellers and their motives than most of you are...)
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by cliff:
I was under the assumption that all of the people in the Bible looked like Charleton Heston . . . Even the wimmin? |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by alpep:
funny I thought they all looked like cliff Even the wimmin? |
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Location: NJ | If the women had ANY remote resemblance to me, it'd explain why Mary was a virgin . . . |
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| cliff
when I mentioned the burning bush I wasn't thinking about dubya - my expectations of you were much lower.
I'm disappointed. |
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Location: NJ | ". . I'm disappointed . ."
Take a number and get in line . . . |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I don't care if it rains or freezes
long as I got my plastic jesus
riding on the dash board of my car
I can go about a million miles an hour
As long as I got that almighty power
Right up there next my pair of fuzzy dice
Now you can dangle the Madonna, fantastic ... |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | You beat me to it ..I was going to put the first line of that crazy song..you did better than that.
Is rather appropriate, don't you think? :) |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | How long will it be until they come with the Ko-reehan knock offs? |
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Location: Snellville, GA | That's cold. |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Cold but true! :D |
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| I still don't get it why a casino would spend a ton of money for a catholic pretzel?...more money than brains, I guess...
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Steve:
a catholic pretzel? Ah yes, brings back thoughts of Jenny Marie ;) |
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Location: Minnesota | It's called good PR, $10,000 is peanuts for a casino to spend! Maybe they're hoping to increase their Catholic patronage. I'd be more concerned that the money goes to a good cause! Course I wouldn't mind having a pony, kids would love it! |
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Location: NJ | Is it an ACTUAL Casino?
I hear them advertise on Stern every once in a while, and I was always under the assumption that they were like an online gaming site . . .
(Not being a gambler, I wouldn't know). |
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Location: Tennessee | They do it, and spend big bucks buying other oddball things on eBay (check out their feedback) because they get huge media promotion. $10,000 for exposure on all the major networks, morning talk shows, nearly every radio station in the land, all the web news services, etc., is cheap! The firm probably thinks their ad/marketing person is a genius -- they'd have to spend millions to get the same levels of exposure. |
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Location: East Tennessee | How about a toasted cheese sandwich with the likeness of Elvis on one side and Underdog on the other?
Personally I like what MWoody had to say. |
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OT: Too stunned for words