Virgin Mary On Grilled Cheese Sandwich Brings $29,000 On E-Bay

[shereads]

Yes.

Having discarded the joke bids for the recently famous sandwich, which ranged into the hundreds of millions, e-bay announced that the $29,000 bid was genuine.

Stories like this disgust me - with myself, for not having thought of it first. For years, people have commented on the way I grill salmon so that it resembles Abraham Lincoln. Nobody ever offered me more than $50 for a filet, and the idea of an online auction never even occurred to me. It's too late now. I've been a fool.

Edited to add: How many of you share my love of grilled cheese sandwiches, and tend to just hoover them up without really looking? I hope we haven't eaten anyone important.

 

[minsue]

Edited to add: How many of you share my love of grilled cheese sandwiches, and tend to just hoover them up without really looking? I hope we haven't eaten anyone important.

I'm pretty sure I have, based solely on the number of grilled cheese sandwiches I've consumed. Play the law of averages and I just want to weep at the money lost due to the need to devour all that melty cheese. *sigh*

I'm pretty sure I've eaten plenty of iconic tortillas, too. More riches gone.

 

[shereads]

I'm hungry right now, Min, and I'm expecting a pizza delivery. I'm afraid of what will happen if there's a priceless religious icon on that circle of tomato-y goodness. I've been out of town and there's nothing else to eat in the house but some instant oatmeal and a box of raisins.

I'm afraid I won't care if it's George Clooney's face or Pope Bonifacio XXII's. I'm starving here.

 

[shereads]

I was wrong, it sold for only $22,000

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationw...7nov17,0,1026002.story?coll=ny-nation-big-pix




Well, sure it looks like the Virgin Mary if you attach little cotton-ball angel wings! (See photo below). With some colored pencils and five minutes, I can make my belly-button look like Lake Huron.

 

[shereads]

Why do people always think "Virgin Mary" at times like this? I see Bette Davis on that sandwich.

 

[destinie21]

Re: I was wrong, it sold for only $22,000

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationw...7nov17,0,1026002.story?coll=ny-nation-big-pix




Well, sure it looks like the Virgin Mary if you attach little cotton-ball angel wings! (See photo below). With some colored pencils and five minutes, I can make my belly-button look like Lake Huron.

Awesome (btw this thread rocks. you're like an elf sent to bring holiday cheer. I love the visual.)

 

[nushu2]

I thought it looked more like Greta Garbo

 

[nushu2]

This is Greta.

 

[shereads]

Re: Re: I was wrong, it sold for only $22,000

Awesome (btw this thread rocks. you're like an elf sent to bring holiday cheer. I love the visual.)

What a sweet reply, des. I'm rarely accused of bringing cheer.

Where have you been?

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I love these culinary manifestations of divine grace. As Minsue says, they seem to be especially common on tortillas.

My favorite, though, was an image of Jesus that appeared on the side of a giant storage tank holding soy bean oil.

Some deity! If it's not a burning shrub or a scorched tortilla, it's leaking soy bean oil. Why can't he just show up like Godzilla for a change?

---dr.M.

 

[cantdog]

Yeah, the bad Bette Davis from the Sweet Charlotte poster

 

[minsue]

I thought it looked more like Greta Garbo

My thoughts exactly

 

[shereads]

I thought it looked more like Greta Garbo

My God, you're right. The bidding might have gone higher if it had been billed as Garbo. There are so many unexplained appearances of the Virgin Mary and none of Garbo!

 

[LadyJeanne]

How do you preserve such a thing? Wouldn't Mary start to spoil soon?

 

[destinie21]

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What a sweet reply, des. I'm rarely accused of bringing cheer.

Where have you been?

Me sweet? I think not.

In any case I'll forever think of you as an elf complete with curly shoes.

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

My God, you're right. The bidding might have gone higher if it had been billed as Garbo. There are so many unexplained appearances of the Virgin Mary and none of Garbo!

Yep. I'd pay thousands for a ten year old sandwich.

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

How do you preserve such a thing? Wouldn't Mary start to spoil soon?

Not if it's holy. *gag*

 

[destinie21]

How do you preserve such a thing? Wouldn't Mary start to spoil soon?

the lord works in mysterious ways

 

[minsue]

I love these culinary manifestations of divine grace. As Minsue says, they seem to be especially common on tortillas.

My favorite, though, was an image of Jesus that appeared on the side of a giant storage tank holding soy bean oil.

Some deity! If it's not a burning shrub or a scorched tortilla, it's leaking soy bean oil. Why can't he just show up like Godzilla for a change?

---dr.M.

My favorite was years ago when either Jesus or Mary (can't recall which at this point) was seen in the side of a saguaro. These poor people had fanatics filling their neighboorhood to look at the cactus.

 

[shereads]

Some deity! If it's not a burning shrub or a scorched tortilla, it's leaking soy bean oil. Why can't he just show up like Godzilla for a change?

---dr.M.

Good point. If Jesus and Mary are really trying to warn us away from eternal damnation, the subtlety is kind of mean-spirited. Take over the airwaves. Appear simultaneously on Al Jizara, the BBC and Fox News. Pre-empt reruns of Wings and Benny Hill, for god's sake, and just tell us: was Ashcroft right all along, or are You as sick of him as I am?

 

[shereads]

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Me sweet? I think not.

In any case I'll forever think of you as an elf complete with curly shoes.

No, please not the curly shoes. I just bought a pair of lipstick-red Stuart Weizman stiletto-heeled pumps that just scream, "Santa's Helper." I'd prefer to be thought of in those.

 

[destinie21]

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No, please not the curly shoes. I just bought a pair of lipstick-red Stuart Weizman stiletto-heeled pumps that just scream, "Santa's Helper." I'd prefer to be thought of in those.

Okay because you have exceptional taste I'll allow the shoes but you're still wearing the jingle bells hat missy

 

[shereads]

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Okay because you have exceptional taste I'll allow the shoes but you're still wearing the jingle bells hat missy

My best friend, a divorced mom, met her ex-husband's new bride at a Halloween party for the children. This new, improved edition of Mom, who was already a hit with the kids, arrived dressed as a ballerina. Original Mom answered the doorbell dressed as a court jester with long, curly-toed shoes and a green felt hat with dangly things and jingle bells.

Where was the Virgin Mary when my friend needed her? In the cream-cheese dip?

 

[minsue]

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My best friend, a divorced mom, met her ex-husband's new bride at a Halloween party for the children. This new, improved edition of Mom, who was already a hit with the kids, arrived dressed as a ballerina. Original Mom answered the doorbell dressed as a court jester with long, curly-toed shoes and a green felt hat with dangly things and jingle bells.

That's gotta be a metaphor for something. Too bad I'm too damned tired to figure out what.

 

[destinie21]

nothing like having the new wife seeing the old wife dressed as a fool.