[Vision2020] 11-122-04 LMT: Image on sandwich gets a grilling on eBay

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UP FRONT/COMMENTARY: Kathy Hedberg... Image on sandwich gets a grilling on eBay


Hedberg may be contacted at khedberg at lmtribune.com

When we hear somebody bid $11,000 for a toasted cheese sandwich that purportedly 
bears the image of the Virgin Mary -- which actually happened on eBay last 
week -- that's a sign of a really good sandwich or some people just have way 
more money than they know what to do with.

I am not saying paying $11,000 for a Virgin Mary sandwich wouldn't be worth it, 
if it really were the stamp of the Virgin herself on that toasted bread.

But I saw a picture of the sandwich on TV and I was skeptical. How did the woman 
selling the sandwich know it was the Virgin Mary? It looked like Marilyn Monroe 
to me.

I know people can get a little carried away sometimes seeing things that seem to 
be there but really aren't. A friend of mine told me he was taking a bubble bath 
once and looked down at the bubbles and there was the perfect outline of Elvis.

He was amazed and called his wife into the bathroom.

"Look there!" he said, pointing to the tub. "What do you see?"

She studied for a moment and then answered, "It's the King!"

I asked my friend, "How do you know she was talking about the bubbles?"

"Because," he said, red-faced, "if she had been talking about something else she 
would have called it the Prince!"

Even if the claims about the sandwich were authentic, it seems strange the 
Blessed Mother would choose to communicate to the human race through a toasted 
cheese sandwich.

It's perfectly reasonable to think she might have something to say to us. My 
guess is she would say something like: "Stop hitting your brother!" "You kids 
stop quarreling or I'm going to come down there and make you wish I hadn't!"

But if the Virgin Mary were going to say something like that to us, you'd think 
she'd choose a more reliable medium of communication.

It's probably sheer coincidence the woman who made the sandwich realized there 
was an image on the bread and was quick-thinking enough to advertise it on eBay, 
the logical place for a religious relic. What if the Virgin Mary had been trying 
to say something really important to the world through that sandwich and the 
woman had served it to her husband for lunch?

Or what if she'd left it out on the countertop and her dog grabbed it? The key 
to world peace would now be inside a nasty pile in the back yard.

I'm inclined to think if the Virgin Mary had something to say, she would let us 
know in a way that couldn't be mistaken.

She wouldn't say it on a sandwich, on a billboard, in a snow bank or in window 
condensation.

She would buy an ad in the Lewiston Tribune.
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