Posted on 11/23/2004 4:38:34 PM PST by kcar
tick a fork in it.
Diana Duyser's ''Virgin Mary'' grilled cheese sandwich is done.
Sold, as of 8:22 p.m. Monday, for $28,000 on eBay.
The lucky winner? GoldenPalace.com, an online casino whose executives say they were willing to spend ''as much as it took'' to own the 10-year-old sandwich half with a bite taken out of it.
''It's a part of pop culture that's immediately and widely recognizable,'' GoldenPalace spokesman Monty Kerr said. ``We knew right away we wanted to have it.''
The new owners of the sandwich, which the 52-year-old Hollywood woman says bears an image of the Virgin Mary, didn't want to risk it getting lost in the mail.
Kerr and Steve Baker, CEO of GoldenPalace's management company, Cyberworld Group, flew to South Florida on Monday to meet Diana and Gregg Duyser, wine and dine them and make arrangements for a sandwich hand-over.
(Excerpt) Read more at miami.com ...
Short money for plenty of advertising on the news shows.
Pick a face; I can duplicate it with cheese and butter. $23,500 is a bargain, IMO.
Want a bridge?
So are you suggesting that this isn't really God finding incredibly ingenius ways of subtly letting his presence be known even to die-hard sceptics like me who hitherto had been holding out for this last further proof?
I just don't see the resemblance to the Virgin Mary.
To me it looks more like maybe Drew Barrymore.
I think it looks like Mary Pickford. But can you imagine what Jesus would fetch? Ha.
LOL!
Just someone very adept with a palet knife, butter and a griddle. If you look long enough into the clouds, you can see what you want to see.
LOL!
was it PT Barnum who said there's a sucker born every minute?
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