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'Virgin Mary' sandwich sells on eBay for $28,000
CNN ^
| November 23rd, 2004
Posted on 11/23/2004 6:58:20 AM PST by missyme
HOLLYWOOD, Florida (AP) -- A woman who said her 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich bore the image of the Virgin Mary will be getting a lot more bread after the item sold for $28,000 on eBay.
GoldenPalace.com, an online casino, confirmed that it placed the winning bid, and company executives said they were willing to spend "as much as it took" to own the 10-year-old half-sandwich with a bite out of it.
"It's a part of pop culture that's immediately and widely recognizable," spokesman Monty Kerr told The Miami Herald. "We knew right away we wanted to have it."
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: chrisdodds; eatme; tedkennedy
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posted on
11/23/2004 6:58:20 AM PST
by
missyme
To: All
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posted on
11/23/2004 6:59:08 AM PST
by
missyme
To: missyme
Bizarre
To: missyme; All
I bet they are gonna use it to market their online bingo games! LOL
To: missyme; dubyaismypresident
It is a Greta Garbo sandwich. I have 10 of them!
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posted on
11/23/2004 7:00:27 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Kevin Sites is a coward and a terrorist sympathizer.)
To: missyme
What?! LOL that's ridiculous.
You could put a butter pattern down on the grill to make that!!!
To: missyme
that's not the Virgin Mary. it's Myrna Loy.
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posted on
11/23/2004 7:01:20 AM PST
by
heartwood
To: Josh in PA
But can you make 28K with your butter :)
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posted on
11/23/2004 7:01:55 AM PST
by
missyme
To: missyme
I made one the other day with all the Village People on it.
Any bidders?
To: missyme
Looks like she's wearing something awfully low cut to be the Virgin Mary.
$28,000??? For a ten year old grilled chesse sandwich? With a bite taken out of it?
Amazing.
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posted on
11/23/2004 7:02:10 AM PST
by
Allegra
(I'm Still Standing....)
To: missyme
Not bad. . . for amatuers!
Can you imagine what a guy like P.T. Barnum could have done with the Internet???
"A sucker is indeed born every minute."
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posted on
11/23/2004 7:02:16 AM PST
by
Logic n' Reason
(Don't piss down my back and tell me it's rainin')
To: heartwood
I see the face where's the bread?
12
posted on
11/23/2004 7:02:59 AM PST
by
missyme
To: heartwood
Looks like Deborah Harry
13
posted on
11/23/2004 7:04:02 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: William Wallace; Dad was my hero
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posted on
11/23/2004 7:04:51 AM PST
by
Rippin
To: Logic n' Reason
Can you imagine what a guy like P.T. Barnum could have done with the Internet??? "A sucker is indeed born every minute." He'd have pulled in a billion or so just from DUh alone.
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posted on
11/23/2004 7:05:45 AM PST
by
TheBigB
(<----still tired and red-eyed from this weekend's BAYWATCH marathon on TV Land.)
To: missyme
There is no question that it’s Marlena Dietrich:
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posted on
11/23/2004 7:05:48 AM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: missyme
Looks kind of like Bernadette Peters to me.
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posted on
11/23/2004 7:06:07 AM PST
by
Allegra
(I'm Still Standing....)
To: missyme
looks more like Madonna than The Madonna
To: missyme
"I tawt I thaw a puddy-cat."
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posted on
11/23/2004 7:06:46 AM PST
by
kinsman redeemer
(the real enemy seeks to devour what is good)
To: missyme
At that price, it had better come with a kosher pickle!
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posted on
11/23/2004 7:07:42 AM PST
by
headsonpikes
(Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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