Cheese Sandwich Bought for $28,000

yahoo.com ^ | 11/23/2004 | Iamaverygooddriver

[Imaverygooddriver]

And now for the latest episode of "People on crack".......

Cheese Sandwich Bought for $28,000

Tue Nov 23,10:41 AM ET

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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.

[Sofa King]

Maybe this is just me, but when I die, and want to send a message to the living, I'm not going to do it by putting a vauge likeness of myself on a grilled cheese sandwitch.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

It looks like Teresa "John is my Poodle" Heinz

I think it looks like Marlene Dietrich.

[Revolting cat!]

It's Pola, fer shore!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Dude! It's the Zig-Zag man!

[cyborg]

This is why my mom always says America is the land of milk and honey. Only in this country, can you sell a stale cheese sandwich for $28,000.

[Revolting cat!]

Pola again. A perfect match.

[Pharmboy]

Back in the day (when you were a baby or perhaps just a gleam in your folks eye) if you came up with a potato chip that looked like, say, Jimmy Durante you just sent it in to Ripley's Believe It Or Not.

[cyborg]

LOL and hoped you'd get on That's Incredible.

[Revolting cat!]

What I want to know is why is Virgin Mary sucking her thumb?

[Pharmboy]

Birth name
Barbara Apolonia Chalupiec

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Height
5' (1.52 m)

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Mini biography
Pola Negri was born in Poland and moved to Warsaw as a young child. Living in poverty with her mother, a teenage Pola auditioned and was accepted to the Imperial Ballet. Due to an illness which ended her dancing career, she soon switched to the Warsaw Imperial Academy of Dramatic Arts and became an actress. By 17, she was a star on the stage in Warsaw, but World War I would soon change the theater scene. Without the theater, Pola turned to films. With her new career in pictures and her stage success in 'Sumurun', she went to Berlin and was teamed with German Director Ernst Lubitsch. The Lubitsch-Negri combination was very successful and the roles that Pola played were earthy, exotic, strong women. One of her films, 'Madame DuBarry (1919)' was optioned and retitled as 'Passion (1919)' for exhibition in America. The film was such a success that by 1922, Pola and Lubitsch were both given contracts to work in Hollywood. While her first few films showed some success, they were overshadowed by her reported romances with such stars as Chaplin and Valentino. 'Forbidden Paradise (1924)', made with Director Lubitsch, and 'Hotel Imperial (1927)' were two of her more successful films. But three things conspired to end her career in Hollywood. The display that she put on at the funeral of Valentino in 1926, changed the public mood towards her. The Hays Office codes which would not allow filming the very traits that made her a sex-siren European star. And finally, her thick accent would not play in the sound pictures that were coming into vogue. Pola Negri returned to Europe and eventually made films for UFA, which was under Nazi management. In 1941, Pola returned to American penniless. She made the movie 'Hi Diddle Diddle' in 1943 and became an American citizen in 1951. Her next and last movie was 'The Moon-Spinners (1964)'.

[Free ThinkerNY]

The Helen Thomas Sacred Sandwich

[coconutt2000]

I wouldn't have stopped eating.

[Revolting cat!]

A few additional details:

Born Apollonia Chalupec Dec. 31, 1897(?) in Lipno, Poland. Negri attended both the Imperial Ballet School and the Academy of Dramatic Arts. She began appearing on stage in the early 'teens and made her first film appearance in "Love and Passion" in 1914. She made several films for the Polish Sphinx Company, but, in 1916, made a big hit on stage in Berlin in Sumurun.

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She stayed in Germany until the outbreak of World War II, but has been criticized over the years for shutting her eyes to what was going on and not leaving sooner. She made one film in 1943 ("Hi Diddle Diddle" with Adolphe Menjou). For the next five years, her financial situation declined rapidly. Then, in 1948, she met wealthy socialite Margaret West, and the two struck up a friendship that lasted for years. They moved from Hollywood to San Antonio, TX., in 1957, and Negri was left West's fortune when she died in 1963. Negri made one last film, "The Moonspinners," a 1964 Walt Disney film starring Hayley Mills. She published her autobiography in 1970 entitled "Memoirs of a Star." She lived comfortably, out of the eyes of the public, until Aug. 1, 1987.

[Bob]

Want fries with that?

No thanks, but how 'bout a cuppa joe? :=)

[IncPen]

No, silly!

Helen's a brown bag lunch.

[techetiger]

" Blessed are the cheesemakers "( as quoted from Monty Python's Life of Brian )

[John Valentine]

Looks like Bette Davis to me....