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NOT A HOAX! There's already T-shirts and action figures based on this thing. 5 days to go and bidding's up to $3 million.
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I really hate this trend of see the virgin mary in everything. Don't people have better things to do with their lives?
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This is in Florida? Why am I not surprised?
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Because Florida is the new holy land.
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Newsday.com Expert explains grilled cheese "miracle" November 17, 2004, 3:53 PM EST By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press Writer BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Brace yourself. There may be a less-than-miraculous explanation for that image of the Virgin Mary a Florida woman says appeared in her grilled cheese sandwich.
Professional skeptic Joe Nickell says it's the same phenomenon that lets people see ships in the clouds, butterflies in ink blots and the man on the moon.
Remember that elderly lady who showed Johnny Carson her collection of potato chips with celebrity faces? (And how Carson munched on a chip, letting her think for a moment it was one of hers?)
"It's just the human ability to make images out of randomness," said Nickell, investigative columnist for Skeptical Inquirer magazine and senior research fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.
"The images are called simulacra, from the root word meaning similar. And the mental habit that causes us to see such things is called pareidolia," he said.
Nickell has studied and written about such things for 30 years. He is among the thousands who have visited Maria Rubio's 1977 "holy tortilla" in New Mexico, the "Milton Madonna" on a Massachusetts hospital window pane, and the "Clearwater Virgin" on a building in Florida.
Diana Duyser of Miami put her grilled cheese sandwich up for sale on eBay last week. She said she took a bite after making it 10 years ago and saw a face staring back. Into a clear plastic box it went and has remained on her night stand, she said.
Nickell explained that pareidolia is the process by which the human brain interprets essentially random patterns into recognizable images.
"It doesn't take much to make a face. Three or four dots or marks and you've got something that looks like a face," he said.
Many simulacra are of religious images, he said, and "perhaps most often associated with Catholic or Orthodox tradition, wherein there is a special emphasis on icons or other holy images."
Most, he concluded, are the result of natural processes, such as weathering or the buildup of chemical residues.
"Theologians and clerics are usually quick to dismiss such images, one priest wisely attributing them to `pious imagination,"' Nickell said. "However, they remain intensely popular among the superstitious faithful."
Nickell added that the Easter Bunny exists in the wood grain of his office door.
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Hurm. It had said 3 mil before. And it had a total of 22 bids, but now it's down to 16. 
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The real miracle is how much money this woman is getting for a half eaten sammich. I'll tell you one thing wich is I'm gonna be looking for the Virgin Mary in EVERYTHING I own make or find. This is gonna be the new lottery baby!
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Looks like Kathleen Turner more like.
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That's not the Virgin Mary, that's Edna Puverance or Marilyn Monroe.
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Current bid: US $69,107.69
Hurm. It had said 3 mil before. And it had a total of 22 bids, but now it's down to 16.
And now it's down to $18,750 and 9 bids.
I'm reminded of the Simpsons episode where Bart bid a million bucks for something, then when asked to pay he ran out laughing. The auctioneer then went to the next highest bidder, who did the same thing. Finally he asks "did anybody make a serious bid on this item?" and everybody shakes their head.
And that's terrible.
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That's not the Virgin Mary, that's Edna Puverance or Marilyn Monroe.
I thought Marylin Monroe as well when i saw the actual picture, or Mary with some surgery done.
And couldn't this person just have purposely burnt it in that shape?
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how come every time there's a face on something it has to be the Virgin Mary?  Pola Negri  Grilled Cheese Sammich My conclusion? Silent film stars possess sammiches!
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Gotta disagree. That's neither the Virgin Mary, nor is it Pola Negri. It's Cinzia Monreale...from the horror classic, The Beyond. Sandwich  Cinzia Monreale The resemblence is uncanny!!! Both are creepy and scary. Both are probably delicious.
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one of her nostrils is bigger than the other. she probably has a booger in there.
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And now it's down to $18,750 and 9 bids.
$7,600 and 6 bids.
This is really not the way auctions are intended to progress...
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It probably just jumped up briefly due to its being mentioned on Leno earlier this week.
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Yahoo! News Oddly Enough - Reuters Cheese Sandwich Bought for $28,000 2 hours, 22 minutes ago MIAMI (Reuters) - An online casino won the eBay bidding for a decade-old cheese sandwich bearing what some people consider a likeness of the Virgin Mary and immediately began hawking Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese T-shirts.
GoldenPalace.com's bid of $28,000 was the highest offer for the sandwich when bidding closed late on Monday, the Internet casino's Web site said.
The seller, Fort Lauderdale, Florida resident Diana Duyser, says she made the cheese sandwich 10 years ago and after taking a bite, saw "the Virgin Mary staring back at me."
In her eBay ad, Duyser said the sandwich has been kept in a plastic case for a decade and has developed no mold or bacteria. "It is like a miracle," she said.
"I would like all people to know that I do believe that this is the Virgin Mary Mother Of God," the ad said. "That is my solemn belief, but you are free to believe that she is whomever you like, I am not scamming anyone."
GoldenPalace.com said on its Web site that the "sacred sandwich" had received more than 1.7 million hits since being posted on eBay. The company's chief executive, Richard Rowe, said the sandwich would be used to raise money for charity.
The T-shirts, in various styles bearing a picture of the sandwich and a GoldenPalace.com logo, sell for $19.99.
"We believe that everyone should be able to see it and learn of its mystical power for themselves," Rowe said.
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It's reminiscent of a face.
How anyone believes it's Mary, I do not know.
We all wear a green carnation.
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don't you know JJ? every time there is something that looks like a face on an object it's just Virgin Mary being an attention whore again.
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I just saw the woman selling it on TV. I really hope she gets some dental care with the money.
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That's what you get for taking a bite out of THE VIRGIN MOTHER!!
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