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Virgin Mary pebble provokes holy online bidding war

Anonymous Coward

Looks like 

someone wearing a collared shirt, no tie and a jacket to me. Didn't know Mary was into "smart casual"... Thought she was more "robes and veils".

Ooo look! A publicity stunt.

Lewa

What she looks like? 

Stop

I presume she wouldn't look like a frumpy faceless collection of squiggles. Just throwing the idea out there.

Anonymous Coward

Is it real though? 

Happy

How do we know it's real? It could just be a celebrity look a-like ;-)

Steve

Le Chat 

Happy

I'm afraid it looks more like Phillipe Geluck's Le Chat

http://www.geluck.com/

=;-)

Trevor Watt

Virgin Mary? 

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Looks more like Father Abraham of the Smurfs to me!

Martin Harrower

Looks more like...... 

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Miss Marple to me

Matt Bucknall

Right, that's it.... 

I'm gonna spend the rest of the day trying to make Jesus toast......

Steve Sutton

Nah, it's a copper.... 

IT Angle

....who's had his helmet mashed down over his head, all the way down to his neck

Richard Neill

Penguin 

Clearly, it's Tux.

Nick Pettefar

Was she 

stoned?!

Now, where did I leave my coat?

PS Pebble+felt tips=NZ$50K?

William Donelson

A (religious) fool and his/her money are soon parted 

Stop

Jeez! (so to speak)

There's cash to be made from religious nuts!

Although, it looks like SANTA CLAUS to me: button nose, big moustache, white pointy beard, but with a shirt collar and fat necktie.

I suppose you could claim that anything is the Virgin Mary and someone, somehwere would believe you! For Cash !

Kane

Nope, it's a Marvel villain... 

Paris Hilton

Mysterio, in a suit. On his way to a job interview.

Paris Hilton angle?

Ed Jackson

Looks more like.. 

Boffin

http://pbfcomics.com/archive/0PBF61009BC-Weeaboo.jpg to me.

Sean Ellis

Pareidolia 

Stop

Pure and simple.

Dan Salter

I'm thinking... 

Happy

Paddington Bear.

pctechxp

Anyone told GoldenPalace.com? 

Stop

This is the sort of crap they buy isn't it?

TeeCee

It looks like.... 

Coat

....someone's dressed their knob in a shirt and taken a photo.

Presumably when the Church pointed out that we don't know what the Virgin Mary looks like (I'm betting sort of dried up and decomposed meself) the word "dickhead" wasn't on their minds.......

Bert Ragnarok

Looks like... 

Boffin

...she's read 'Lucky You', by Carl Hiaasens.

Ferry Boat

Exceptional Quality in a Fairer World 

Church woman - "The church's approach [to purported Virgin Mary simulacra] is always very cautious because no one has ever seen Mary, so how would they know what she looks like?"

Don't stop them put statues up of her all over the place does it? Monkeys.

Blubster

VM? 

My Arse.

That's Father Christmas come early (if you'll pardon the expression). Mind you, he only does come once a year, and that's down a chimney. Poor bastard.

Anonymous Coward

Virgin maybe, Mary definitely not... 

Paris Hilton

It's a clit!

Well, it certainly resembles the top end of one of those illustrations of the female external genitalia from old 70s sex-ed manuals. Wonder what's on the other side?

anthony bingham

Mary lives next door but one and is never stoned! 

What ever happened to simple " common sense" in trying to touch the Supernatural >>> why not get a pebble of your choice and paint it with a lady-like picture ( indelible of course} then flog it on ebay for big bucks or part exchange for a fibre optic Xmas tree ( only 8 weeks-ish to go ) a phalic alternative maybe ?

Anonymous Coward

Title 

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It's just a fricking ROCK! Big deal.

Colin Sharples

Catholic Church admits Lourdes was a hoax 

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NZ's Catholic church. Spokeswoman Lindsay Freer said: "The church's approach [to purported Virgin Mary simulacra] is always very cautious because no one has ever seen Mary, so how would they know what she looks like?"

No one has ever seen Mary, huh? So, the Catholic church will be shutting down the grotto at Lourdes any day now, yes? Not to mention Fatima and all the other places. In fact, wikipedia lists 12 people who have "church approved Marian visions".

So does Lindsay Freer just not know what she's talking about, or is the Catholic church finally admitted what the rest of us have known all along, that all these visions of Mary/Jesus/Brian are just a load of old cobblers?

John A Blackley

Oh yes I do! 

"The church's approach [to purported Virgin Mary simulacra] is always very cautious because no one has ever seen Mary, so how would they know what she looks like?"

I dated Virgin Mary for a while. This looks nothing like her. What? Oh THAT Virgin Mary. Sorry.

Dave Edmondston

Is it just me... 

Happy

...or does she look like she's flicking the bird?

Andy Harris

To those on the make 

Jobs Halo

just get yourselves one of these!

http://www.thisnext.com/item/C9BAF23A/Holy-Toast-Maker

paul

It's all a croc ! 

Pirate

"no one has ever seen Mary, so how would they know what she looks like?"....if NOONE has ever seen her,therefore she never existed....proving this whole religion thing is a barrell of SHITE