# Virgin Mary image in Chicago underpass **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 19, 2005, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-mary-image-in-chicago-underpass/299998 "2005-04-19T03:46:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-mary-image-in-chicago-underpass/299998/21 "2005-04-19T14:13:23Z")
Yep, looks more like a vagina (as opposed to virgina), complete with clitoris, to me… ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-mary-image-in-chicago-underpass/299998/22 "2005-04-19T14:27:47Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > Hey folks! It’s in Chicago! > > Now who is the icon of the Windy City, if not the world? > > Sheesh! Get with the program! > > 😃 Richard Daley? Great, just what we need is more traffic congestion on 94. Fuckers. And yeah, looks like one of them [DAMN YONIS!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=310394&highlight=yoni) Or a [penis split down the shaft by an anti-rape device.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=311831) Oh dear. Does this mean GOD’S a DOPER? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-mary-image-in-chicago-underpass/299998/23 "2005-04-19T14:32:49Z")
These people studying it, are they the “Road Scholars” I hear about occasionally? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-mary-image-in-chicago-underpass/299998/24 "2005-04-19T14:33:54Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > These people studying it, are they the “Road Scholars” I hear about occasionally? They are the salt of the Earth. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-mary-image-in-chicago-underpass/299998/25 "2005-04-19T14:58:33Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Oh dear. Does this mean GOD’S a DOPER? :eek: I’ve had my suspicions about Zotti for a long time now… ---
**Author:** ![TwoTrouts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@TwoTrouts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoTrouts)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-mary-image-in-chicago-underpass/299998/26 "2005-04-19T15:10:45Z")
So, why couldn’t it be the vulva of Mary? Wouldn’t you think that the birth canal of the Crist child would be the “Holiest of Holes”? ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-mary-image-in-chicago-underpass/299998/27 "2005-04-19T15:22:32Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > I was just wondering what other SDMB folks thought about this. There’s a sucker born every minute. (attributed to P. T. Barnum) ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Norse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/big_norse/32/9954_2.png) [@Big\_Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Norse)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-mary-image-in-chicago-underpass/299998/28 "2005-04-19T16:59:50Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > **Gazpacho** > _There was a thread a while back about an auction on ebay for a shower door with a soap scum stain in the likeness of Jesus._ > … and _nobody_ told me about that auction? Damn!!! _That’s_ the kind of thing I’d want to bid on. ::Harumph:: > > Guess I’ll just have to be happy with my Virgin Mary image on toast. I was browsing through the “Weird Stuff” category on eBay, and was frankly amazed at the number of these miraculous signs from the heavens that are for sale: [Virgin Mary on Slice of 150 year old Maple Tree Branch](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1468&item=5574523101&rd=1) [Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus Cheerio! not pretzel](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1469&item=5574309827&rd=1) [VIRGIN MARY PAPER JAM IMAGE](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1469&item=5574258982&rd=1) [BURNT TOAST W/ VIRGIN MARY ICON IMAGE ??MIRACLE?? RARE](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1469&item=5574085497&rd=1) [Virgin Mary’s Breasts- the Real Thing! (In a water stained book)](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1468&item=5573767984&rd=1) [HOLY VIRGIN MARY DORITO one of a kind](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1467&item=5573696873&rd=1) [Virgin Mary Rock! Holy Rock](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1468&item=5573684643&rd=1) [Virgin Mary Found in My Sunflower Seeds](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1469&item=5573103057&rd=1) With all these miracles, don’t you think the world should be doing a little better? Or is this the sign of the End Times? I think I’m starting to BELIEVE! ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-mary-image-in-chicago-underpass/299998/29 "2005-04-19T17:05:47Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > However, if there are “higher powers”, I sure hope they would be doing better things than appearing in underpasses or in rust stains on water tanks in New Jersey. Yeah, everybody knows a 2000-year-old Jewish woman is going to go to [Florida](http://www.revelation13.net/Mary.html)… (joke stolen from ‘The Daily Show’) ---
**Author:** ![5que](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/3bc359/32.png) [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-mary-image-in-chicago-underpass/299998/30 "2005-04-19T17:17:22Z")
This just in… Golden [Palace.Com](http://Palace.Com) to buy the Kennedy Expressway… ---
**Author:** ![twelvericepaddies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@twelvericepaddies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twelvericepaddies)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-mary-image-in-chicago-underpass/299998/31 "2005-04-19T17:19:42Z")
I am in Toronto, and driving by the new Jewish Students’ union building today, I noticed the windows are dirty and there was a highly visible, and I would say indisputable image of the VM there. How could she? I mean, what will happen when they find out? ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-mary-image-in-chicago-underpass/299998/32 "2005-04-19T17:26:21Z")
One of my favorite episodes of the John Larroquette show involved an image of the Virgin Mary. After everyone had spilled their guts and prayed and so on, it was revealed to be an old poster of Willie Nelson, showing through the paint. No word on whether St. Willie answers prayers. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-mary-image-in-chicago-underpass/299998/33 "2005-04-19T17:44:35Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > No word on whether St. Willie answers prayers. He does, but only if you use the special incense… ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-mary-image-in-chicago-underpass/299998/34 "2005-04-19T18:23:23Z")
Great. [IPASS](http://www.illinoistollway.com/portal/page?_pageid=53,34586,53_34743&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL) is gonna start collecting tolls on the Kennedy and advertise this as another “benefit” available only to their users. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-mary-image-in-chicago-underpass/299998/35 "2005-04-19T18:49:29Z")
All hail the holy vulva! ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-mary-image-in-chicago-underpass/299998/36 "2005-04-19T19:18:08Z")
This story caused me to laugh aloud on the bus this morning. I guess it was a slow news day yesterday, since the Sun-Times also had a couple columns on Ronnie “Woo Woo” getting hit by a car. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-mary-image-in-chicago-underpass/299998/37 "2005-04-19T21:09:37Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Richard Daley? > > Great, just what we need is more traffic congestion on 94. Fuckers. > > And yeah, looks like one of them [DAMN YONIS!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=310394&highlight=yoni) > > Or a [penis split down the shaft by an anti-rape device.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=311831) > > Oh dear. Does this mean GOD’S a DOPER? :eek: Hmm. It sure doesn’t look like Jordan. I heard a woman on the radio yesterday and I honestly can’t say if she was serious or not, but she sounded serious when she said she was trying to figure out why the Virgin was inside the wall and what her message was to the people. I’m sorry, but there’s a limit to how far out ones beliefs should go. This is just stupid. ---
**Author:** ![5que](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/3bc359/32.png) [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-mary-image-in-chicago-underpass/299998/38 "2005-04-19T21:12:23Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > the Sun-Times also had a couple columns on Ronnie “Woo Woo” getting hit by a car. **That’s** the true sign of divine intervention… ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-mary-image-in-chicago-underpass/299998/39 "2005-04-20T00:15:33Z")
Isn’t it shocking how the Dopers here are making fun of this holy vision of the Blessed Mother of Our Saviour ? 😃 This reminds me of an episode of “Newhart” in which one of the patrons believes he sees an image of Paul Anka in a pancake. As the episode progresses, the pancake starts to attain the sanctity of a certain underpass in the Windy City. ---
**Author:** ![pantom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/34f0e0/32.png) [@pantom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantom)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-mary-image-in-chicago-underpass/299998/40 "2005-04-20T01:08:22Z")
> [@twelvericepaddies](#): > > I am in Toronto, and driving by the new Jewish Students’ union building today, I noticed the windows are dirty and there was a highly visible, and I would say indisputable image of the VM there. How could she? I mean, what will happen when they find out? Well, she was Jewish, when she was alive. Doubtless a good Catholic now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-mary-image-in-chicago-underpass/299998.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virgin-mary-image-in-chicago-underpass/299998.md?page=3)