try this wacky 'virgin mary sighting' gag on your friends!!

[mopaul]

...this is a patented gag, so, if you actually do it, you owe me $50 and credits.

just find some thing that you can secretly and quickly apply a vague, but qualifying image of what might be the virgin mary, if you squint your eyes, say an oil tank, or a wall in an alley, or even right on the street. but it has to look like a miracle, not an artists rendering, you know, a hooded figure, head downcast, but sort of a stain, resembling a chance sighting of the holy virgin.

then sit back, wait a few days, and watch the fun begin! be sure to take photos of yourself doing it, and holding a newspaper from that day to prove the date, and keep it for later, after flocks of misguided believers have spotted it, and turned it into a makeshift shrine, with flowers, and little stuffed animals, and pinwheels.

then, when things have reached a fever pitch and the whole town is practiallly shut down from the legions of devotees, you go public with the pics of you making it.

it's crazy! it's wacky! it's blasphemous and cruel, and guaranteed to generate laughs for years and years! send off for your virgin mary sighting hoax kit today!! only 6 payments of $364.58 to:

Mo Paul
1473 E.27th Ave.
Theatre of Cruelty, MD
66649

[NNadir]

1. I think you don't get out enough.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. Wow. good to see ya here Mopaul, welcome back.

and I would do this, but we have about 8 of these a week in NYC, so it would just be another HoHum.... oh, the Virgin sighted again?.... what's for dinner--- kind of thing.

[gulfcoastliberal]

3. The Scary Part Is,

it would probably work like a charm here in NW Florida. MY GF is the artistic one; I'll see if she's up for it. heh heh

[AZCat]

4. Ahhh, shades of Carl Hiaasen n/t

[truthbetold]

5. Well.

Do clouds count?

[mopaul]

6. no, clouds do not count

they are way too temporary and subject to interpretation.
unless......you can capture the 'hooded figure' on a photo.
then you got something miraculous

[truthspeaker]

7. your plan has a fatal flaw

You do not include a way to exploit it for cash. Charge for parking or sell souveniers.

[mopaul]

8. this will be your department

i want 50 bucks, and a small licensing fee for the concept. then you and i can BOTH be thrown out of the temple

[baldguy]

9. Well mopaul, I know Mary . . .

and she's no virgin. :evilgrin: