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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 11/04/2003 : 09:26:00
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This chick really gets around, and winds up in some of the damnedest places!
From The Anomolist:
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For weeks now, as word has spread, thousands have made the pilgrimage to a desolate corner on Hope Avenue and Madison Street, next to a Route 21 exit ramp, and many are repeat visitors. What they see precisely is unclear, but many say that in the chipped wood they discern a pattern that looks like the Madonna.
One woman said the pain in her chest stopped after she came to see the stump. A man who has visited four times said that his hair still stands on end and chills go down his spine when he shows up.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/04/nyregion/04VIRG.html
People persue the strangest things. Perhaps it is a curse that goes with sentience; the loss of critical thought where 'faith' is concerned.
Umm, the Madonna in question is not the one we all know and in some cases lust after. Thought y'all ought to know that going in.
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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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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 11/04/2003 : 14:24:56 [Permalink]
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Psssst, hey filthy. Let's meet and divy up to sell those 100 acres of swamp land. Sounds like we got'sa line full of live ones!
Let's see now, previously we've read about (pareidolia) the Virgin Mary being spotted on the side of a rusty old oil tank, a burnt tortilla, a melted ice cream cone on a sidewalk, an oak tree burl, and now a tree stump.
Wanna take bets where she'll show up next?
I'll say on a half eaten pepperoni pizza.
From the link:quote:
As he stood in the street while his fiancée videotaped the proceedings, Charles Iglody, 47, of Wayne, said that he was not sure about the stump. But, in the end, he said, it really did not matter.
"It's bringing people together," he said. "If something brings people together, there should be a reason for it."
.....yeah, must be a 'Gullible 'R Us' convention!
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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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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 11/04/2003 : 18:29:08 [Permalink]
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I'm hoping for a dried cow-pie, but it seems unlikely.
I'm gonna say.... umm..., hell, I dunno. My mind only works that way when I mix my meds. Gimmie a minute....  ...... Ahhh, much better!
How 'bout a pattern in the dirt on the side of a tractor-trailer broken down on the Penn Turnpike, the faithful backing up traffic from Pittsburg to Phillie, on both sides, as they stop to ogle.
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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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