Shades of the smiling grape! A woman in Texas found the Virgin Mary in a grape. I’ll admit, the grape does bear a resemblance to the general iconic version of the VM.
The good news is that the woman, a Baptist, makes fun of people who see religious figures in stains and such:
“I thought this stuff just happened to Catholics?” she said. “Mom and I had a laugh about it at first, seeing as how we’re Baptists and all and we generally don’t expect to see holy people popping up in our foodstuffs.”
“I haven’t made a shrine to it, nor prayed to it, nor done much of anything except e-mail the picture to a few friends and roll it around in the bowl in the fridge,” Ginn said.
Heh. Well, God bless her heart.
But I have to admit getting more of a laugh out of this than usual, due to the ad placement on the story’s page. There’s a Lane Bryant ad right next to the grape picture, and the layout… well, judge for yourself:
I’m not positive, but I doubt that’s the sort of image Lane Bryant — or the Church, for that matter — wants to convey.
September 5th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
I don’t know…. Looks more like Emporer Palpatine to me. That grape is strong with the dark side of the Force.
September 5th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Sorry but the Lane Bryant comment is totally incomprehensible to me – who is she anyway?
And from that small pic of the grape, it does indeed look like a human figure of some sort, but not of anyone in particular, living, dead or imagined.
September 5th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
So, she rolls the grape around in the bowl? Hmmmm, a real “Holy Roller.”
September 5th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
@ Elwood Herring
Lane Bryant is a women’s plus size designer…
and yes the virgin Mary has shrunk to about 3/4 of an inch… become hot enough to burn her way into the skin of a grape, only to be consumed by an overweight woman who is laughing at her… Maybe she was hopping to get the attention of the migrant workers who picked the grapes???
September 5th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Elwood, Lane Bryant is an American clothing store focussing on “plus” size women.
September 5th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
So, you could say this is an example of bad gastronomy, yes?
September 5th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Rotate 180 degrees, and you might see Queen Victoria.
September 5th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
The figure looks like it’s holding the sorting hat from Harry Potter.
September 5th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Sorry Phil, I’m just not seeing it. Not a bad Virgin Mary though.
September 5th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
No, it isn’t, it’s Obi-Wan–Complete with light saber!
September 5th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Weird…I see a giant Dune worm wearing the Matterhorn as a hat.
September 5th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
I see Pocahontas serving Winnie the Pooh’s head on a platter.
September 5th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
I see some really gnarly fingernail polish.
September 5th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Looks like a grape.
September 5th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I can’t tell…it’s either Gandalf or the zig-zag man.
September 5th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
I see Mary playing the guitar.
September 5th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Is it something to do with her sitting with legs apart?
September 5th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
@ Fluffy,
Oh no you didn’t
September 5th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
I see Mary packing a 12 Gauge.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
We say it looks like “she” is playing the violin.
September 6th, 2008 at 12:41 am
I see a Krayt Dragon… oh, no wait… it’s just an old man! He startled me! Return in greater numbers!
September 6th, 2008 at 1:57 am
Gandalf, Mary and Obi-Wan are secretly the same person. Here portrayed in grape. Just like modern cars; you first pick the model, then you choose the brand.
September 6th, 2008 at 2:36 am
Send that dude a copy of your book, Phil. That’s pure WIN.
September 6th, 2008 at 7:26 am
I’m with King Aardvark. I don’t see any humor or irony in the juxtaposition of the two images. I guess there is an odd sort of symmetry to the two postures, but I don’t see anyone “conveying an image”. Is the Lane Bryant company perticularly religious or anti-religious, or am I just supposed to be amused by the proximity of a rubenesque woman to a food item?
September 6th, 2008 at 8:30 am
When I went to the page, instead of Lane Bryant it had an ad for Wholly Guacamole. Targeted advertising?
September 6th, 2008 at 8:49 am
Speaking of seeing shapes where there are none, get a load of this BS:
http://www.wsmv.com/video/17405222/index.html
http://www.wsmv.com/news/17405066/detail.html#-
September 6th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Completely OT but Rosetta has sent back some great shots of asteroid Steins including anaglyphs and a flyby animation. To to ESA portal or the Rosetta blog for more
September 6th, 2008 at 9:26 am
it does look like v.m. i also have a( naturally occurring)v.m. it happened right before my eyes! i have pictures and would love to share them. i dont know how to post them here,but can e-mail them. contact me for the picts, and short story at rfbinlv@hotmail.com subject virgin mary thanks rob
September 6th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Looks like Ted Nugent to me!
September 6th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Hooray for The Onion:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/evolutionists_flock_to_darwin
September 6th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Perhaps this symbolizes the reuniting of Christianity and the pagan g0ds
Mary and Bacchus together again after 2000 years.
September 6th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Perhaps this symbolizes the reuniting of Christianity and the pagan g0ds.
Mary and Bacchus, together again after 2000 years.
September 6th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Take a gander at this!
http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?img=/3/9/6/f_JesusDogButm_69f5e6c.jpg&srv=img26
September 6th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Is there something wrong with me, or is that the Sun-Maid raisin lady on there?
September 6th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Please wake me up when someone sees the prophet mohammed on a pork chop.
September 7th, 2008 at 7:30 am
It looks like Mary is holding a rifle or one of those insect sprayers from Tom and Jerry cartoons… or a vacuum cleaner if she knows what’s good for her.
September 7th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
“Nonbelievers! Heretics! LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO MY LI’L FRIEND!”
…or it could be Scarface wearing a dress.
Though I think it looks like a woman in a 15th-century Florentine dress carrying a baked ham on a serving board.
September 7th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Why can’t I find stuff like this? I’d make a fortune on eBay! You know what they say about fools and money, and the types that go for this surely are fools!
September 7th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Old stuff. I remember Father Guido Sarducci running the “Find the Pope in the Pizza” series some years ago.