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H. Humbert
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"Everybody was blowing some balloons and we noticed that this image came from the balloon," said Fuentes. "And everybody was agreeing that it looked like the Virgin Mary."
On closer inspection, Fuentes says he noted that the image was more than just a possible defect on a balloon.
"That's what I thought in the beginning and I tried to erase it and I couldn't. I even tried to put some saliva on it and it didn't go away."
http://www.team4news.com/Global/story.asp?S=2242527&nav=0w0vQRHe
See, this can't be anything short of a miracle. The image has withstood saliva.
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"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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Edited by - H. Humbert on 09/03/2004 13:53:47
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Randy
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Posted - 09/03/2004 : 15:59:51 [Permalink]
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Yeah, geewhiz - it survived the spit test. It really must be the Virgin Mary! |
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Dude
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Posted - 09/03/2004 : 22:55:58 [Permalink]
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These twits that see the virgin Mary all over the place are so resisant to reality that it's impossible to convince them there is nothing supernatural going on.
This: http://www.tampabayskeptics.org/v9n4rpt.html was "discovered" on a building not to far from my house.
I caused traffic on one of the USA's most dangerous roads to be worse than usual for months. |
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
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Skyhawk
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Posted - 09/03/2004 : 23:32:50 [Permalink]
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| Im having a hard time seeing if something looks remotely human on that balloon. WTF? What image? |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 09/04/2004 : 02:13:34 [Permalink]
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All balloons are not created equally. In some few, the thickness of the skin will vary slightly in spots, causing irregular 'images' to appear when it is blown up. From the picture, I don't see anything that looks even vaguly like a woman. I guess ya hadda be there.
The question now is; what's to be done with the sacred decoration and the holy wind within it? Seems a shame somehow, to hang it out with the vulgarian, plain ones.
I know! Let's pop it and put an end to this nonsense, for a little while, anyway. 
I wonder exactly how many images of VM have turned up over the years. They've been spotted in everything except a cowpie and all but been worshiped by the more hysterical of the believers. There must have been thousands. Toss in weeping paintings and statues, and phony stigmata, and the number goes up like a bottle rocket. Some place in Australia has just recently gotten over a sniveling statue. Or at least I think they're over it.
Note to self: Virgin Mary in cowpie as April Fool's gag?
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"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
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beskeptigal
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Posted - 09/04/2004 : 02:44:26 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
All balloons are not created equally. In some few, the thickness of the skin will vary slightly in spots, causing irregular 'images' to appear when it is blown up.
Did you think we needed an explanation? 
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I wonder exactly how many images of VM have turned up over the years. They've been spotted in everything except a cowpie and all but been worshiped by the more hysterical of the believers. There must have been thousands. Toss in weeping paintings and statues, and phony stigmata, and the number goes up like a bottle rocket. Some place in Australia has just recently gotten over a sniveling statue. Or at least I think they're over it.
Note to self: Virgin Mary in cowpie as April Fool's gag?
We went to see the Virgin Mary on a tortilla in New Mexico on a trip to get dark skies to see the great Leonids meteor storm. The famous tortilla was listed in a chamber of commerce pamphlet. But, alas, it was no longer there. And the towns people we asked didn't even know it had ever been there. |
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filthy
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Posted - 09/04/2004 : 03:22:03 [Permalink]
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Did you think we needed an explanation?
Obviously somebody does, notably the perhaps otherwise sensible folks making a big deal of it. I live to serve.
I recall reading about the tortilla, but don't remember the exact details. I wonder what the 'shelf life' for something like that might be. You'd think it'd go moldy after a while, unless preserved, and maybe that's why you didn't get to see it. Or maybe somebody wraped it around some fixin's and ate it.
Mmmmm, Virgin Mary burrito with green chili. 
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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,
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 09/04/2004 : 08:32:29 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Skyhawk
Im having a hard time seeing if something looks remotely human on that balloon. WTF? What image?
Personally, I think it looks more like the Virgin Mary's private parts than anything else.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie |
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R.Wreck
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Posted - 09/04/2004 : 09:33:28 [Permalink]
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Im having a hard time seeing if something looks remotely human on that balloon. WTF? What image?
After tens of seconds of intense scrutiny, I have concluded that the image is actually the fetus of "Barney", the large annoying guy in a purple dinosaur suit. The evil balloon must be destoyed in fire, then the ashes sealed in a titanium container, then buried in the deepest hole we can dig. |
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.
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Renae
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Posted - 09/04/2004 : 11:26:50 [Permalink]
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OMG, H. Humbert, that's exactly what I saw first!
True story: When I was in college, I baked my mom some egg custard with cinnamon and nutmeg in a layer on top. As it baked, the cinnamon/nutmeg layer separated and started to look a little (a LITTLE!) like a face. Being a consummate smartaleck, I looked in the oven and started screaming, "It's JESUS! It's Jesus in the custard! Mom, come quick!"
She nearly peed her pants laughing. What can I say? We're a twisted family. |
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ktesibios
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Posted - 09/04/2004 : 16:01:35 [Permalink]
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| The fourth picture from the top on the team4news page (the closeup of the "image") looks to me like one of the troll dolls that were popular back when I was in grade school. |
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Maverick
Skeptic Friend
Sweden
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Posted - 09/06/2004 : 03:44:50 [Permalink]
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| Hmm, yes, to hell with Ockham's razor, this is clearly not a defect in the balloon, as would be the most likely answer. No, this is obviously irrefutable proof of The One True God and the Bible. Oh, and Noah's Ark, too. Seriously this is like an Onion story, isn't it? |
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Ricky
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Tim
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Posted - 09/07/2004 : 06:08:28 [Permalink]
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Nah, I gotta agree with Mr. Humbert.
I showed it to my wife. I said, "Bebe', you come see, yeah. What's dat look like in dat balloon?"
She didn't even think about it. My little Cajun sweetie said "Well, dat be a minou, cher. What you tink? You forget already?" |
"We got an issue in America. Too many good docs are gettin' out of business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their -- their love with women all across this country." Dubya in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, 9/6/2004
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furshur
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Posted - 09/07/2004 : 13:42:04 [Permalink]
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"That's what I thought in the beginning and I tried to erase it and I couldn't. I even tried to put some saliva on it and it didn't go away."
The guy spit on the Holy Mother? Jesus is going to kick his as straight to hell when he shows up at the pearly gates.
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Dave W.
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