Holy Pretzel!

[ASH]

Holy Cat Butts Batman......ROTFLMAO!!!!
Maybe we should take up an offering and buy that pretzel so we can keep it to ourselves here in SOWAL. Seems like a good price for what you get, right. LOL!
Seen the dock Elgordo speaks of. Wonder how long until they will need to rebuild it because the old one rots out. Should be able to throw in a fishin' line and walk around to "troll" for some fish. Just don't fall in or else.
Seems like a good place for a cat to dip their butt in the water to cool things off as well.

 

[Rudyjohn]

I thought it was a skinny python.

 

[seagrovegirl]

Johnrudy...we're on the same track snake wise...I thought it was a local oak snake...same color and kinda skinny. What happened to that pretzel????!!

 

[Mango]

Pardon me...you tar looks like something that came out of a holy cat butt.

:funn: People really buy this crap?

 

[NoHall]

Reminds me of a sad story...

Monday, 12/26/05

Nun Bun stolen, owner reports

Cinnamon sacrilege on Christmas morn

By TRENT SEIBERT
Staff Writer


Something crummy happened in Nashville on Christmas morning.

The Nun Bun was stolen, its owner said ? and he fears the globally renowned cinnamon roll, famous for its resemblance to Mother Teresa, has been ripped apart and thrown away.

"My gut feeling is that it's destroyed," said Bob Bernstein, the owner of Bongo Java coffee shop, where the bun had been on display for nearly 10 years. "Someone took it, destroyed it and it's the last we'll hear of it."

Someone broke into the Belmont Boulevard coffeehouse yesterday morning, apparently with the sole purpose of stealing the pious pastry. Bills and loose change in charity-donation containers near the bun's glass display case were untouched, Bernstein said.

"They went right for the bun," he said. "What the heck they are going to do with it, I can't imagine. It's sure not something anyone would eat. I hope they do eat it. It will teach them a lesson."

Store managers were alerted to someone breaking into the coffee shop yesterday at 6 a.m., Bernstein said. He called police immediately, he said. The theft is under investigation, Metro Capt. Ben Dicke said last night.

The Nun Bun became the object of international attention in 1996 ? less than a year before Mother Teresa's death ? after Bongo Java employees noticed its uncanny resemblance to the world-famous Catholic missionary.

"It may not be a miracle, but it's close enough for Nashville," singer-songwriter Sand Sheff said at the time.

To preserve it and the image it bore, the bun was coated with shellac.

The bun was controversial, too. Bernstein stopped marketing T-shirts and mugs featuring it after Mother Teresa, then 86, wrote him asking him to stop.

"She didn't mind the bun itself, but she didn't want us making money off her name or image," Bernstein wrote in his history of the Nun Bun posted on Bongo Java's Web site, www.bongojava.com.

The curious confection enjoyed some renewed publicity last year after a Florida woman made $28,000 on e-Bay by selling a partially eaten grilled cheese sandwich she said featured the image of the Virgin Mary.

The Nun Bun often is listed among such notable foods-as-religious-icons that occasionally capture Americans' attention as the "Fish Stick Jesus" and the piece of popcorn whose owner said it bore the likeness of the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus.

Closer to home, many Tennesseans also remember accounts of "Freezer Jesus," an image of Christ that appeared on a chest freezer in Estill Springs, Tenn., in the late 1980s.

As for what anyone could do with the Nun Bun while it's "hot" ? while it's stolen merchandise ? that wasn't clear yesterday. There were no listings on e-Bay last night for a "nun bun."

Bernstein said he does not know the bun's worth. He tried at one point to find an insurer for the bun, "but no one would touch it."

Metro?s police report on the theft estimated the bun?s value at $25. It said the ?Mother Theresa Cinnamon Bun? was the only item taken. As stolen goods, the bun was classified in property category No. 77, for ?other.?

Bongo Java was closed yesterday for Christmas and was due to be closed today, but Bernstein said he will open the shop so people can come to discuss the bun, or, perhaps, provide information they might have about who stole it.

"It's weird," Bernstein said. "You laugh about it a little bit, but it's an empty feeling. It's like the end of an era."

Mr. Bongo Java, Bob Bernstein, the sorrowful owner of the bun.

 

[hnooe]

I think it looks like the Madonna with child...

I would like to sell it on E Bay!

I am so embarrased --but I "got it" at least.

 

[Matt J]

Any of ya'll ever get far enough west to see the poor house located nearest 30a on Stallworth Lake? The dock is way under and the house must surely be flooding on the bottom level by now. It has been almost flooding for weeks. I look at it daily and want to build a sandbag wall.

It's approximately a foot from the house. They'll probably be out all night digging on the beach to get the lake to bust thru.

I am so embarrased --but I "got it" at least.

You didn't buy it did you?

 

[Biff]

WE NEED PICS!!!!

Any of ya'll ever get far enough west to see the poor house located nearest 30a on Stallworth Lake? The dock is way under and the house must surely be flooding on the bottom level by now. It has been almost flooding for weeks. I look at it daily and want to build a sandbag wall.

 

[Teresa]

I thought your tar looked like something that came out of a cat butt.

Careful with the sacrilege, that's the virgin mary pretzel.

this thread is so dam funny.

now, let me show you what jdarg gave me for christmas one year...



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[Biff]

this thread is so dam funny.

now, let me show you what jdarg gave me for christmas one year...



Holy Toast: I don't know about you, but I'm starting to lose faith that the Virgin Mary's image has actually appeared on doors, trees, mortar and potato chips. Enough already! Now if you want the real image you can make her appear on your toast in your very own kitchen. Simply stamp the bread, toast it, and behold a miracle!
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