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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 11:45 AM
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Atheist sees image of Big Bang in Piece of Toast
For immediate release: Miracle Toast?

(ACPA-London) Excitement is growing in the Northern England town of Huddlesfield following the news that a local man saw an image of the Big-Bang in a piece of toast. Atheist Donald Chapman, 36, told local newspaper, "The Huddlesfield Express" that he was sitting down to eat breakfast when an unusual toast pattern caught his eye.

"I was just about to spread the butter when I noticed a fairly typical small hole in the bread surrounded by a burnt black ring. However the direction and splatter patterns of the crumbs as well as the changing shades emanating outwards from this black hole were very clearly similar to the chaotic-dynamic non-linear patterns that one would expect following the Big Bang". "It's the beginning of the world" he added excitedly. Images of the actual Big Bang Toast are Copywrighted by Don Chapman so we can only show this image which is a US Govt Public Domain Picture

Ever since news of the discovery made national headlines, local hoteliers have been overwhelmed by an influx of atheists from all over the country who have flocked to Huddlesfield to catch a glimpse of the scientific relic. "I have always been an atheist and to see my life choices validated on a piece of toast is truly astounding" said one guest at the Huddlesfield Arms Hotel.

To the surprise of many, the UK National Atheist Association has asked its members not to pay attention to the story despite its potential to inspire less Faith. "Given what the religious believe already, this is an easy sell" said one disgruntled activist who said he was going to Huddlesfield anyway noting that "Seeing is not believing".

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Skinner ADMIN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 11:46 AM
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1. Come to think of it, it does look kinda like how I would imagine the big bang looking.
Edited on Thu Feb-14-08 11:46 AM by Skinner
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Bright Eyes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 11:49 AM
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4. I always thought thats what god looked like.
A big piece of toast.
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 11:50 AM
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5. Everybody send Skinner more hearts LOL
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 11:51 AM
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6. I've booked my ticket to England just 13.7 ± 0.2 billion years ago
to review this piece of toast for myself and hope to purchase it
so I can put it on e-bay.
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 09:51 AM
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46. It's the dual Universe aspect that I find most fascinating.
Life may be butter on the other piece of toast!
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lumberjack_jeff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 10:56 AM
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51. Very good point. Is the universe toasted on one side or two?
Edited on Fri Feb-15-08 10:56 AM by lumberjack_jeff
Scientists on either side of the atlantic disagree.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 11:49 AM
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59. The bigger question is...
How come Jesus looks like my grilled cheese sandwich?
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gollygee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 11:47 AM
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2. hehehe
ok, that made me laugh. :D
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 11:48 AM
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3. I love it
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ProgressiveFool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 11:54 AM
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7. mmmmm Toast... mmmmm *crunch**munch*
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Dhalgren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 11:56 AM
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8. K&R! I got chills just reading about it!
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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 11:59 AM
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9. FINALLY!!! EVIDENCE!!! Unlike this...
... which explains those Jesus and Mary sightings.





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DemGa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 12:01 PM
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10. Now this is true faith! ...nt
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 12:04 PM
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11. Is it on Ebay yet? I might bid on that piece of toast.
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 12:05 PM
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12. I once saw Groucho Marx in a piece of toast...
And it looked lovely on him.
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AlbertCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 09:48 AM
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45. Shouldn't that be.....
"I once saw Groucho Marx in a piece of toast...

How he got in a piece of toast I'll never know"

(y'know that old Groucho joke: "I once shot an elephant in my pajamas... How he got in my pajamas I'll never know...." Of course you do.)

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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 11:14 AM
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55. Too derivative. I needed to be more upstanding than that...
...but I guess you didn't recognize it standing up. :evilgrin:
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demmiblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 12:06 PM
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13. OK....
I was planning on using my first post elsewhere, but this made me laugh! Thank you for the moment of levity!
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 12:09 PM
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15. Welcome to DU!
Enjoy the fun. :hi:
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demmiblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 12:24 PM
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21. Thank you, crispini!
I have been lurking here for years... yet I chose to register during the Primary season!
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 12:27 PM
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22. Ha! Well, we are certainly having a VERY interesting primary this year.
A good time to register! :thumbsup:
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tandot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 12:08 PM
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14. It was actually a very frequent sighting in the 80s:

who wouldn't remember big bangs?





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Kazak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 12:09 PM
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16. Touche, douche!
:thumbsup:
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O.M.B.inOhio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 12:11 PM
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17. I once saw the Virgin Mary on a slice of toast...
... and on the other side an image of Elvis sodomizing a sheep. The Toaster works in mysterious ways. So I'm not sure which religion not to belong to.
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 11:55 PM
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37. the religion doesn't matter--it's the hallucinogens that make all the difference in the world. n/t
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 12:11 PM
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18. Great! Now just have the image show up on a tortilla and a slice of potato
...and we'll have the Trifecta!

Then there would be no doubt about it! :woohoo:
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immoderate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 12:11 PM
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19. Smokin'!
--IMM
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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 12:23 PM
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20. I love Donald. I love his wit. super
nt
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jmondine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 12:37 PM
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23. Even more miraculous...
... he then sighted the image of life beginning in the primal ooze within his strawberry jam!
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SIMPLYB1980 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 01:02 PM
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24. LOL!
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sloppyjoe25s Donating Member (664 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 01:29 PM
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25. Hard to see this as anything BUT critical evidence of the truth
mmmmmm...... i love toast.
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Jeffersons Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 01:31 PM
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26. K&R too funny for words!
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Miss Chybil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 06:23 PM
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27. ROFL! nt
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 07:17 PM
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28. A pilgrimage is in order. nm
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 07:19 PM
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29. I had a big bang once back in college. Damn that was good times. nm
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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 08:34 PM
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30. Only one?
So sorry.
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 08:39 PM
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31. It's ok, I deserved that. lol. nm
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 09:51 PM
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32. Kick for the evening crowd who might need some humor
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 09:54 PM
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33. Fall down funny
:rofl:
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varkam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 10:05 PM
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34. Aha! We now have teh proofz!
:rofl:
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 11:49 PM
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35. That's going out in a few emails tonight!
K/R
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-14-08 11:54 PM
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36. Thanks, this guy is a great english humorist
so pay attention to his writings.
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D23MIURG23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 12:48 AM
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38. Brilliant!
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spoony Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 07:22 AM
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39. Ironically, for many years atheists argued there was no beginning
Then Rev. Lemaître comes along with the Big Bang and now atheists think they can use it to ridicule the religious, when it's actually what we've been saying all along. It's not like theists aren't used to such antics, though.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 10:39 AM
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47. When evidence for a beginning was available, most skeptics accepted it.
It is only by chance that Judaism chose to believe in a beginning. It had nothing to do with the evidence.
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RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 09:33 AM
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40. Best Satire Ever.
thank you so much, because I've had another sort of miracle on my toast that I didn't know how to mention... so, okay.


here-


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TacticalPeek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 09:34 AM
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41. Mayo Buddha or Miracle


Whip?






:)

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BB1 Donating Member (671 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 09:37 AM
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42. whahahaha! Hopping on the train now!
I want a piece of that toast!!!

It'll go nicely with my collection of alien artefacts and perpetuem mobiles.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 09:43 AM
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43. It's a Festivus miracle!
Praise random chance!

:applause:
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AlertLurker Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 09:47 AM
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44. It's a SIGN - "We're all TOAST!"
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 10:40 AM
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48. This is absolute proof of the existence of toast.
No one can ever seriously question that toasted bread is real.
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TacticalPeek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 10:45 AM
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49. Easy to mistake for Shrub's place in history.

Maybe it was sent by future historians?

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Auggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 10:54 AM
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50. Well then that proves it
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lumberjack_jeff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 11:05 AM
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52. I don't know about that - but I did accidentally leave a grilled cheese sandwich in my fridge once
while I was away on vacation.

I tried to drum up interest in my evolutionary epiphany; my profound, nay nearly religious demonstration of entropy, but I was rebuffed. I think it was the smell.

Had I had left it there for a few million years, I'm quite confident that it would have formed its own ecosystem, surrounded by a gorgeous collection of stromatolites.

Sadly, I needed someplace to put the milk. Oh well.
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Snotcicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 11:08 AM
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53. Business opportunity : Dashboard Toasters. nt
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 11:11 AM
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54. I belieeeeeeeeeve!!!
That's my kind of miracle! :woohoo:
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CGowen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 11:35 AM
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56. At first I was thinking of Big Ben.....n/t
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delt664 Donating Member (139 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 11:39 AM
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57. Its a Miracle! (tm)
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Raejeanowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 11:47 AM
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58. I'm An English Muffin Adherent Myself n/t
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whatchamacallit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 11:51 AM
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60. Ha, awesome! n/t
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