Posted on 04/15/2011 11:26:47 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
Shortland Street has been hailed as New Zealand's most popular soap for many years, but now there's something else being hailed at the Shortland Street studios.
Staff at South Pacific Pictures in West Auckland where the TV2 show is filmed, are gathering in awe around a coffee mug in which they say an apparition of the Virgin Mary has appeared.
Breakfast reporter Alison Pugh visited Shortland Street yesterday and was shown the mug for her opinion and told Breakfast this morning she was convinced.
"They're really buzzing out there," she said. "It blows your mind!"
Shortland Street's storyliners were sitting around talking about scripts when one of the women noticed the image at the bottom of her cup.
"She yelled out to everyone and they all had a look and all agreed it does look like the Virgin Mary," Pugh said.
Breakfast's Corin Dann was a disbeliever though - he said it didn't look anything like the Madonna.
But Damon Andrews, one of the Shortland St storyliners, told Breakfast that disbelievers have to see it first.
"Everyone has reacted the same really. People come in disbelieving - they walk over and have a look and then they are like 'oh my god, it really does look like her'," Andrews said.
He said he can 100 percent verify that the Virgin is authentic.
Pugh told Breakfast she thought the story would go "global"
"Remember the toast with the virgin," she said. "That went for $28,000."
The mug is now being auctioned on international auction site eBay with all proceeds going to the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal.
I named one the USS Obama.
Similar miricles are occurring at Dog Parks All over and even in many Cow Pastures.
I hope you flushed
LOL LOL ...see where this takes you ??? Silly superstition
Now why would you think that ???
Always assume it’s true - you never know, it might be your key to heaven.
I’m not a moron.
I'm not a Vulcan, so I'll just have to take your word for it.
Captain Kirk: Wait, Mr. Spock! We have yet to try the Vulcan mind meld, where you actually enter the alien's brain, merge with his intelligence and read his thoughts.
Mr. Spock: I entered Mr. Goodman's mind while you were talking to Dr. McCoy, Captain. It was all...all dark and empty in there. And...and there were little mice in the corners and spiders had spun this web.
Captain Kirk: Spock!
Mr. Spock: I kept bumping my head on the ceiling, and once...
Captain Kirk: Snap out of it, Spock!
Mr. Spock: [ with a shudder ] It's okay, Captain. I'm all right now.
-- from The Last Voyage Of The Starship Enterprise, Saturday Night Live, 05/29/76
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