{"id":2722,"date":"2004-11-17T22:34:35","date_gmt":"2004-11-18T02:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/11\/17\/dowbrigade-discovers-miracle-cheese\/"},"modified":"2004-11-17T22:34:35","modified_gmt":"2004-11-18T02:34:35","slug":"dowbrigade-discovers-miracle-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/11\/17\/dowbrigade-discovers-miracle-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"Dowbrigade Discovers Miracle Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4183'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/virgsand.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"233\" align=\"left\">The<br \/>\n        bidding is fast and furious over on eBay as we write, for the 10-year<br \/>\n        old half-eaten cheese sandwich with the unmistakable image of the virgin<br \/>\n        Mary on its surface.<\/p>\n<p>At last count, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/story\/world\/national\/2004\/11\/17\/grilled-cheese-mary-0471117.html\">the<br \/>\n          bidding was up to $70,000<\/a> and still rising, after<br \/>\n        eBay temporarily called a halt to the auction while they checked on the<br \/>\n        authenticity of the item. Obviously, it passed mustard. Thank God that<br \/>\n        woman noticed that there was a miraculous apparition on her sandwich<br \/>\n        before she popped the other half into her mouth! Let it be a lesson to<br \/>\n        us all to look more closely at our food before we blindly cram it into<br \/>\n        our indiscriminating maws.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, this American morality play inspired the Dowbrigade to go digging<br \/>\n        through the detritus in his own refrigerator, Diana Duyser of Miami isn&#8217;t<br \/>\n        the only one with access to 10-year-old sandwiches! As we raced to the<br \/>\n        kitchen we were filled with an inspirational premonition; our Lord was<br \/>\n        about to speak through our discarded dairy products!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/charcheese.jpg\" width=\"216\" height=\"266\" align=\"right\">We didn&#8217;t find any sandwiches, but wouldn&#8217;t you know it, we found something<br \/>\n      even better! On an old wedge of Cheddar what did we find but a clear image<br \/>\n        of The Big Cheese himself! Yes ladies and gents, there it was, clear<br \/>\n        as day, the full face of Our Lord etched on our cheese, looking slightly<br \/>\n        jaundiced due to the yellowish tint of the underlying medium.<\/p>\n<p>If a fuzzy image of the Virgin Mary on a cheese sandwich is worth $70,000,<br \/>\n        what must a much clearer image of God himself etched directly on the<br \/>\n        cheese be worth? Not being of the Christian persuasion, and feeling somewhat<br \/>\n        uncomfortable with<br \/>\n        so<br \/>\n        valuable<br \/>\n        a religious<br \/>\n        relic<br \/>\n        on<br \/>\n        the premises,<br \/>\n        we<br \/>\n        have reached the<br \/>\n        difficult decision that we are willing to part with the Our Lord Cheese<br \/>\n        Wedge, for the right price.&nbsp; As a dedicated Blogger, we have further<br \/>\n        decided to offer it first, and for a limited time, on the Dowbrigade<br \/>\n        News site before exposing it to the world on eBay.<\/p>\n<p>So if you want to consecrate your home with a living icon of divine<br \/>\n        dairy intervention, send us your bid now. We personally guarantee that<br \/>\n        the image on the cheese is actually the Lord Almighty, or at least the Permanent President<br \/>\n        of the NRA, which to millions of gun-toting Americans is pretty much<br \/>\n        the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>story from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/story\/world\/national\/2004\/11\/17\/grilled-cheese-mary-0471117.html\">CBC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bidding is fast and furious over on eBay as we write, for the 10-year old half-eaten cheese sandwich with the unmistakable image of the virgin Mary on its surface. At last count, the bidding was up to $70,000 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/11\/17\/dowbrigade-discovers-miracle-cheese\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}