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Subject: Christs' face found in potato. From: GUEST,little john cameron Date: 14 Dec 01 - 07:55 PM EXCLUSIVE by Ingrid Macpherson Local Glen Lachart farmer, Hector Young, was said to be "surprised" yesterday, after finding the face of Jesus of Nazareth - inside a potato. "It was amazin', sae it wis," said Hector, as he proudly showed off his holiest of root vegetables. "There I wis, cuttin' up some tatties for wir dinner, when all o' a sudden, somethin' in one o' the tatties caught m' eye. It was a face. The face o' Jesus Christ!" When asked how he knew the face in the potato to be that of The Son of God, Hector replied "yon beard o' his an' his long hair", before adding, "an' his halo". Another miracle eh? ljc |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: Amos Date: 14 Dec 01 - 07:57 PM WOW!! No-one ever told me the Second Coming was gonna be by UNDERGROUND roots!! That is REALLY amazing!! A |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: Crane Driver Date: 14 Dec 01 - 08:00 PM Glad he remembered the halo. Otherwise it would probably just have been Billy Connolly again. Happens all the time. |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: catspaw49 Date: 14 Dec 01 - 08:04 PM Sounds pretty "half baked" to me.....and it was exactly one of these kind of stories that inspired The Fartistic Falwell Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Date: 14 Dec 01 - 08:09 PM Except for the halo, it could be that rotten potato, bin Ladin. |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: kendall Date: 14 Dec 01 - 08:44 PM I've always been baffled by all those pictures of Jesus. No one knows what he looks like. |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: GUEST Date: 14 Dec 01 - 09:37 PM Kendall, Maybe you just don't have enough faith These things are sometimes only seen by the faithful... God seems to be getting pretty choosey these days |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: little john cameron Date: 14 Dec 01 - 09:49 PM ye bunch o' blasphemers.Get doon oan yer hunkers ask forgiveness fae the Holy Spud.Ye must hae FAITH.Three million Irishmen cannae be wrang Though the "Spud o' Christ" has been described as nothing more than a "poor caricature, crudely drawn on with black marker pen", Hector remains unswayed in his belief, and has decided to share the holy vegetable with the world, for what he claims is a "very reasonable price". BOX "I'm either goin' tae let folk see it for £10 a time, or I'm goin' tae sell it aff tae whoever'll gie me five thoosand poonds fur it," Hector told us as he returned the potato to the locked strong box which will be its home until Hector finds someone to take it off his hands. Or it rots. Response to the potato has been overwhelmingly lukewarm from local residents, despite Hector's best efforts of raising interest by shoving the potato into people's confused faces and shouting "Spud o' Christ!" in a loud, roaring voice.
PHOTOGRAPH Local religious expert, Father Woods was approached for his opinion on the phenomenon, but unfortunately suffered some form of seizure when we showed him our photograph and told him of Hector's money-making plan. We hope he makes a swift recovery, and urge all our readers to pop in and visit him in the intensive care unit of Raigmore hospital in Inverness. |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: little john cameron Date: 14 Dec 01 - 09:54 PM Get the full story here http://www.glenlachart.co.uk/TheStar/Issue2/christ.htm Photies an' aw' |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: Ebbie Date: 14 Dec 01 - 09:57 PM We live in remarkable - not to say odd- times. Eb |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: Bobert Date: 14 Dec 01 - 10:08 PM Ol Bobert sees Jesus everyday in the faces of those of FAITH. As for the potato Jesus, in the words of Jimmy Traficant, "Beam me up, Scotty." |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: Bill D Date: 14 Dec 01 - 10:37 PM can you imagine what he'd have seen if he'd sliced that spud at 90 degrees!..or even the short way....a big
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: Bill D Date: 14 Dec 01 - 10:47 PM I did find a rutabaga once that looked sorta like Zero Mostel with zits...maybe I shoulda had a Rabbi check it out...I coulda been rich! |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: Spud Murphy Date: 14 Dec 01 - 10:50 PM Oh! For Criiiisake!!! What is this blasphemy??? Spud |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: Sorcha Date: 14 Dec 01 - 10:55 PM awwwww, shit. Has anybody seen The Dagda in a spud lately? Now that would be news......or Mick? Why is it always Jesus or Maria? Why never Zoroaster, the Bhudda, Confucius,Joseph, Mohammed or even Hester Prine???? Gimme some news, here. |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: Bill D Date: 14 Dec 01 - 10:55 PM LOLOL...grow a beard, me lad, and claim to be THE Irish Spud |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: CarolC Date: 14 Dec 01 - 11:16 PM Is it just me, or does Jesus look surprised to be in that potato? |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: catspaw49 Date: 15 Dec 01 - 12:00 AM Sorch, Mick only uses spuds to stuff his thong and I think that even Jesus would be revolted at such an up close and personal look at Mick. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: Spud Murphy Date: 15 Dec 01 - 12:32 AM This is DISGUSTING Murphy, Spud |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Date: 15 Dec 01 - 12:43 AM The Apostrophe Police are on the trail of the creator of this thread- all punctuation marks a'blazin'. |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: catspaw49 Date: 15 Dec 01 - 12:44 AM Sorry Spud, but if you see Big Mick comin', you better run. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: Sorcha Date: 15 Dec 01 - 01:00 AM Sorry, Spud Murphy. Didn't quite mean it that way.......Spaw, you wanna explain just why Jesus would be offended at anything relating to spuds? Aren't the Irish one of the biggest defenders of the faith? Cripes, that was rude of me, wasn't it? Sorry.....but the whole idea is still ridiculous.
We were in New Meixico when The Face appeared on a wall somewhere, I forget just where. Mora, maybe. Talk about idiocy---Mr. worked 4 24 hr. days just directing traffic.....and there was really nothing to see. Shadows caused by a street lamp......
Just as a "thought for the day" did you know that RC Latin/Hispanic Americans score almost off the MMPI scale for schizophrenia? Not an opinion, a fact from my MA (Psych) mom. MMPI--Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Test |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: Spud Murphy Date: 15 Dec 01 - 01:13 AM "Loving means you don't ever have to say your sorry." (Spud Murphy)(Or was it Ali McGraw?) |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: catspaw49 Date: 15 Dec 01 - 01:38 AM Where were you for the "Fartisic Falwell" on my garage wall Sorch? I meant that Mick uses spuds to "stuff" his thong and if the face of Jesus was down Mick's thong then.......ah hell, never mind. If ya' gotta' explain 'em, they ain't funny. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: Amergin Date: 15 Dec 01 - 01:41 AM what i want to know is what jesus' face is doing in Mick's thongs.....is there something you are not telling us, Mick? Does this mean that Jiggles (the fair one) is fair game now? |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: Clinton Hammond Date: 15 Dec 01 - 03:15 AM Seen by the faithful??? See by impressionable IDIOTS is more like it!!!! *seen on my bumper* "I found him... I have Jesus in the trunk!" |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: GUEST,Argenine Date: 15 Dec 01 - 03:21 AM "When asked how he knew the face in the potato to be that of The Son of God, Hector replied "yon beard o' his an' his long hair", before adding, 'an' his halo'." How d'ya know 'twarn't thet Hosamma Ben Laudin feller? |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: CarolC Date: 15 Dec 01 - 03:51 AM I think it's a scam. Hector probably just wants some money to buy the lads a round at the Pig & Bicycle. |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: John MacKenzie Date: 15 Dec 01 - 04:47 AM As a certain Irish folk singer used to say to the nubile young ladies in his audience. " May the lord have Murphy on you" Does this mean he was trying to convert them?*BG* Failte.......Jock |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: GUEST,John Gray / Australia Date: 15 Dec 01 - 06:05 AM Was it an Ohio Brown, a Pontiac, or a Subargo ? JG / FME |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: Polecat Date: 15 Dec 01 - 06:16 AM Feggettaboudit!!! They're mistaken the image for Bin Laden.... He's the one underground right now!! Beware of false "prophets!" |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: gnu Date: 15 Dec 01 - 06:26 AM I thought he was after false profits. |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: Devilmaster Date: 15 Dec 01 - 09:00 AM Wow Spud, sounds like a touch of jealousy. Your not the biggest tater around here anymore. :)
Perhaps you'd better find this potato with Jesus, and look him eye to eye to eye to eye to eye to eye to eye to eye to eye........ |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: GUEST,Genie Date: 15 Dec 01 - 09:09 AM Sorcha, You mention that "... RC Latin/Hispanic Americans score almost off the MMPI scale for schizophrenia... ." Unless the test has been re-standardized using that populaton, that fact is rather meaningless. The validity of the MMPI (or any such test ) as a diagnostic instrument has to be determined empirically for whatever population is being tested. I'm not up to date on the more recent validity studies of the MMPI, but at the time the test was originally designed, there were few Hispanics included in the standardization samples. Answers that may distinguish schizophrenics from non-psychotic folks in a population of protestants, Jews, atheists, etc., may not distinguish between them in a population of Roman Catholic Hispanic Americans. |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: kendall Date: 15 Dec 01 - 10:31 AM No amount of belief can create a fact. |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: catspaw49 Date: 15 Dec 01 - 10:48 AM And often, no amount of facts can shake a belief. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: JedMarum Date: 15 Dec 01 - 11:22 AM LOL Kendall and Spaw! So what was this guy going to make with that potato; crists? |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: Devilmaster Date: 15 Dec 01 - 11:23 AM well its kinda hard to fritter away a belief....... |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: Jeri Date: 15 Dec 01 - 11:41 AM No, no - bake the potato, add a nice cheddar sauce, and hum "What a Friend We Have In Cheeses." |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: little john cameron Date: 15 Dec 01 - 12:24 PM Weel ah never thocht mah wee post wid cause aw' this consternation.As far as the remark aboot "apostrophies",obviously the poster has nae understaunin o' Scots writin.As there is nae "ing" in Scots we hae tae pit the wee buggers somewhere. It amazes me that ye guys'll talk aboot jist aboot oneythin.Great stuff,like ah said afore"The Mudcat is awa' oot in front o' the pack" ljc |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: catspaw49 Date: 15 Dec 01 - 12:32 PM Now that we've beat this one to death, let's all go talk about the 4 and 20 blackbirds in the pie. Spaw--Yep LJ, we'll talk about anything! |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: SINSULL Date: 15 Dec 01 - 12:41 PM And to think I avoided this thinking it was the start of a flaming war. |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: Spud Murphy Date: 15 Dec 01 - 01:01 PM I like the sound of Giok's post on the matter of the nubile young ladies. Can someone help me out on that? Advise me of the location of the pub, maybe? Spud |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: little john cameron Date: 15 Dec 01 - 01:04 PM The addy for the site already there spud. ljc |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: catspaw49 Date: 15 Dec 01 - 01:16 PM AS Sorcha said, "Why is it always Jesus?".....or Mary or something like that. I think it's the same thing that drives many people in their reincarnation beliefs. While it may be true and real or totally false and not real, there are a lot of folks who believe in reincarnation. What always strikes me is that they were once very interesting and often famous people in some past life. I never see any saying, "I was a poor, filthy, little syphilitic scrounger who died at age 18 in a sewer." Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 15 Dec 01 - 01:27 PM He recognized it by the beard and long hair? Very early Christian paintings picturing Jesus showed him clean-shaven, and I would suppose they'd be in a better position to know. I don't remember how they showed his hair. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: Amergin Date: 15 Dec 01 - 01:30 PM Well...spaw...I was marie antoinette..... Actually...I think that those who say things like that...do not truly believe in it....or are trying to make themselves sound more interesting than they actually are....me, well I doubt I was ever anyone famous...or if I ever was, the fame has been forgotten through the centuries... Have you ever met some one who you have felt comfortable with, instantly and took an immediate like to them? Or the opposite...meet some one and took an immediate dislike...for no apparent reason? |
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Subject: RE: Christs' face found in potato. From: little john cameron Date: 15 Dec 01 - 01:36 PM Are ye guys kiddin or whit?Here it is again.Ah pit a clickie oan this time.clickhere |
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Subject: RE: BS: Christs' face found in potato. From: Lonesome EJ Date: 15 Dec 01 - 03:34 PM Blessed are the Fries of the Lord! LEJ (still trying to forget about "what a friend we have in cheeses") |
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Subject: RE: BS: Christs' face found in potato. From: CarolC Date: 15 Dec 01 - 06:28 PM I like the sound of Giok's post on the matter of the nubile young ladies. Can someone help me out on that? Advise me of the location of the pub, maybe?
Here you go, Spud... While you're there, how about buying the lads a round? They look pretty thirsty.
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