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    Image of Red-headed bookworm Red-headed bookworm
    12/11/08

    In reply to Woman Sees Virgin Mary In MRI • Science Says Sugar Is Addictive
    I think the MRI kind of looks like Queen Victoria...
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    Image of Kali Mama Kali Mama
    12/11/08

    In reply to Woman Sees Virgin Mary In MRI • Science Says Sugar Is Addictive
    Pareidolia, making people filthy rich on Ebay for years.
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    Image of BluebellaElliot BluebellaElliot
    12/10/08

    In reply to Woman Sees Virgin Mary In MRI • Science Says Sugar Is Addictive
    In regards to the pain and labor thing: how would they know that what they remember is better or worse than what it actually was? Aren't they the only ones who know what it felt like? Is there something I'm missing?
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    Image of Red-headed bookworm Red-headed bookworm
    12/11/08

    @BluebellaElliot: Yeah, isn't pain kind of a subjective thing? What causes one person immense pain may only be uncomfortable to another person.
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    Image of WantToTouchtheWahine WantToTouchtheWahine
    12/10/08

    In reply to Woman Sees Virgin Mary In MRI • Science Says Sugar Is Addictive
    You know what else leads to poor sleep quality? BABIES.
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    Image of Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka
    12/10/08

    @WantToTouchtheWahine: But the making of the babies helps me sleep so sweetly (afterwards).
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    12/10/08

    In reply to Woman Sees Virgin Mary In MRI • Science Says Sugar Is Addictive
    I knew that sugar was addictive. I'm addicted. Can I get a government subsidy or something now?
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    Image of Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka
    12/10/08

    @muppetprincess: I am not working right now, but instead eating some chocolate and websurfing. Can I not get fired, please, cuz of the addiction and all?
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    Image of asterix asterix
    12/10/08

    In reply to Woman Sees Virgin Mary In MRI • Science Says Sugar Is Addictive
    I love Jezebel desperately, but I get irked every time I see something that says "Science has announced something that is incredibly obvious that we already knew! Duh!"


    It's the way science works. If I want to do research, and I KNOW that paying people to lose weight helps them to do so, I can't just say it. I have to find a study that has already shown that it is so, and then cite it. So even when it's research that reaches "Duh" level, it's research that still has to be done. Usually, that's the research that gets cited the most.


    There are exceptions - we don't need to cite that humans walk on two legs or that dogs bark. But what is basic to the general public can't just be taken as truth when publishing a scientific paper.

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    Image of Brigit Brigit
    12/10/08

    @asterix: THANK YOU. Frankly, that has been annoying me for some time. I love it here as well but sometimes how they approach science stories is absurdly reductionist.
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    Image of Kali Mama Kali Mama
    12/11/08

    @asterix: THANK YOU and I love you for saying it.
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    12/10/08

    In reply to Woman Sees Virgin Mary In MRI • Science Says Sugar Is Addictive
    my
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    12/10/08

    @Your Screenplay Sucks: ZOMG!! Wait - what's that? She's telling me to clean my bathroom! WTF, Mary - I'm not made of scrubbing Bubbles! Jeesh.
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    12/10/08

    @Your Screenplay Sucks: IT'S A MIRACLE!!!!
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    12/10/08

    @Your Screenplay Sucks: LOL
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    12/10/08

    @DontFearTheReefer: @CrossWord: Bidding on my clearly blessed Mac starts at $10,000. Pilgrimmages to my computer are by appointment & after regular business hours only. Thanks.
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    Image of tscheese tscheese
    12/10/08

    @Your Screenplay Sucks: Oh damn! Well played!
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    12/10/08

    In reply to Woman Sees Virgin Mary In MRI • Science Says Sugar Is Addictive
    i'm confused about the menopause theory, mainly because of its basis in evolution. menopause as they state, begins around age 50.


    but up until recently, how many women (or men?) lived to that age? for example, i live in new england where we've got lots of historical cemeteries from the 1600s to the 1800s. the people were always dying around or about their 40s. notable numbers died in their 30s. evolution just doesn't move that fast. unless women went into menopause younger?

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    Image of badmutha badmutha
    12/10/08

    In reply to Woman Sees Virgin Mary In MRI • Science Says Sugar Is Addictive
    I'm not seeing Mary, mother of God. I am seeing Jack's girlfriend from "The Nightmare before Christmas." What is her name? Sally?
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    Image of BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit) BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
    12/10/08

    In reply to Woman Sees Virgin Mary In MRI • Science Says Sugar Is Addictive
    Coming Soon from Jezebel Films:


    Robin Clitoral Hood


    Thirty year old Mary Hymen was a cancer patient with a dead-end job and no insurance. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in her brain scan, and consequently on a piece of toast, Hymen is convinced she must end her life of drudgery and undertake a crime spree robbing unsuspecting bar flies to give back to ailing women everywhere. Robin Clitoral Hood - she robs from the drunk to give to the wimmens!

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    Image of Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka
    12/10/08

    @BrutallyHonestBabes: Lesser known is her UK cousin Sarah Butte Hymen, who steals boxes of used vibrators from sexshop recycling bins to disperse to all the womenz not getting enough O.
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    Image of SisterMaryMartha SisterMaryMartha
    12/10/08

    In reply to Woman Sees Virgin Mary In MRI • Science Says Sugar Is Addictive
    Okay, I had to suspend all logic and stare at that image like it was one of those crazy eye things until I finally saw Mary.


    Up til this point, I just kept seeing a vagina- and more specifically the clitoris.


    But, maybe that's just me.

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    Image of Crabby Cakes Crabby Cakes
    12/10/08

    @SisterMaryMartha: Yeah, sorry crazy MRI lady- that's a big ol' Beaver on your brain.
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    12/10/08

    @SisterMaryMartha: Maybe it's not meant to be taken clitorally?
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    12/10/08

    @SisterMaryMartha: Totally what I saw as well. God/dess worshipers can be like that, though.
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    Image of Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka
    12/10/08

    @SisterMaryMartha: I see a vagina, a tongue, and .... broccoli.


    The last one prob because I just watched the broccoli-loving kitteh.

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    12/10/08

    @SisterMaryMartha: You beat me. Anywayz, great minds (and apparently dirty minds) think alike.
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    Image of tscheese tscheese
    12/10/08

    @SisterMaryMartha: Nope. First thing that leapt into my brain. CLIT. CLITTY CITY. I EXPLORE IN CLITTY CITY. I AM A CLITOURIST.


    Not that I'm, like, really into having a clit or anything.

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    12/10/08

    @sarah.of.a.lesser.god (subservient to the ovumlord): OH MY GOSH IT IS CRAZY PUN WEEK UP IN HERE. and only wednesday.
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    Image of Brigit Brigit
    12/10/08

    In reply to Woman Sees Virgin Mary In MRI • Science Says Sugar Is Addictive
    The Virgin Mary? Looks like someone giving you McD's bags through the drive-in window.
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    12/10/08

    @Brigit quiere comer pasteles!: Ha! You know, one day at work my co-worker crush said to me, "You look like you're working at a drive-thru window" and I said "may I take your order"? but I wish i'd said, in my most syrupy voice, "How may I serve you?"
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    Image of LadyNo Fondles Sweaters LadyNo Fondles Sweaters
    12/10/08

    In reply to Woman Sees Virgin Mary In MRI • Science Says Sugar Is Addictive
    one in six mothers remember it being more painful after 5 years of giving birth.


    Holy shit, what kind of baby takes five years to come out!?

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    Image of Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka
    12/10/08

    @LadyNo Fondles Sweaters: AS corny as it was, that made me lol.
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    Image of MeganGlass 就是一个å¤ä»£çš„三明治 MeganGlass 就是一个å¤ä»£çš„三明治
    12/10/08

    @LadyNo Fondles Sweaters: The kind that doesn't move out of the house until age 60.
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    Image of Snowbunny Snowbunny
    12/10/08

    @LadyNo Fondles Sweaters: I hate to say "LOL" but, fuck, it made me laugh out loud.
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    Image of badmutha badmutha
    12/10/08

    @LadyNo Fondles Sweaters: VERY FUNNY!
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    Image of Crabby Cakes Crabby Cakes
    12/10/08

    @LadyNo Fondles Sweaters: A baby being carried by Naomi Watts, cause fer Jebus' sake, it feels like she's been pregnant for 5 years.
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    Image of Jamie Sommers Jamie Sommers
    12/10/08

    @LadyNo Fondles Sweaters: Probably the kind that allows you to give a speech at a conference in Texas, have lunch and then fly back to Alaska (with stopover in Seattle) and take a car to a small hospital out in the burbs to have your kid.
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    12/10/08

    In reply to Woman Sees Virgin Mary In MRI • Science Says Sugar Is Addictive
    An 82-year-old woman in New Hampshire was lucky to have her cell phone with her when she fell down a 12 foot well on Sunday.


    I'd love to know what service provider she has, cause I can barely get service in a wide open field surrounded by cell towers.

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    Image of msAnthrope msAnthrope
    12/10/08

    @Crabby Cakes wants some Dance Biscuits.:


    i'll guarantee you she doesn't have nextel/sprint.

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    Image of badmutha badmutha
    12/10/08

    @Crabby Cakes wants some Dance Biscuits.: I dunno, if you fall down a 12 ft well at 82, you might not consider that so lucky. In fact, it probably hurt like hell.
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    12/10/08

    @badmutha: Wouldn't that suck to fall down, realize as happily as you can be that point that you have your cell, and then not have service?
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    12/10/08

    @Crabby Cakes wants some Dance Biscuits.:


    I hope she had a Jitterbug.

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    Image of Crabby Cakes Crabby Cakes
    12/10/08

    @PacoHertez: Maybe she twittered about it?


    "OMG, stuck in well. Hurt but am not dead. Pls. send halp."

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    12/10/08

    @Crabby Cakes wants some Dance Biscuits.: She had Verizon but instead of saving her the network waited around for the ambulance. Nice, just not nice enough.
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    Image of Crabby Cakes Crabby Cakes
    12/10/08

    @sportz.star: "Can you hear me now?"


    NO! I'M IN A DAMN WELL!

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    12/10/08

    @Crabby Cakes wants some Dance Biscuits.: WHERE THE HELL ARE ALL THESE WELLS PEOPLE FALL DOWN?


    Seriously, can we pass a law that puts a sign up at all wells that says "This is a well, don't fall down here."

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    Image of Crabby Cakes Crabby Cakes
    12/10/08

    @monkeyriot: Hey, that was the solution on The Simpsons, it can work IRL.


    And really, I had a well in my back yard growing up. None of us ever fell into, or came CLOSE to falling into it.

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    12/10/08

    @Crabby Cakes wants some Dance Biscuits.: Especially considering I live there and I can't get reception in like, half of my town. One half, full bars. Cross an invisible line, dead phone. Everyone knows when it's coming up and says "I have to call you back, I will lose you soon."
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    Image of Red-headed bookworm Red-headed bookworm
    12/11/08

    @Crabby Cakes wants some Dance Biscuits.: Me neither. It was really small. Plus, my aunt had a cistern in her backyard. No one ever fell in it. Aren't these things usually covered?
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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    12/10/08

    In reply to Woman Sees Virgin Mary In MRI • Science Says Sugar Is Addictive
    I guess she's had the Virgin on her mind for some time now?


    And seriously, have you noticed how all these apparitions take the same shape? Like since when did someone decide that was what Jesus and Mary looked like?

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    Image of SisterMaryMartha SisterMaryMartha
    12/10/08

    @Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: Since all those probably gay painters such as Michaelangelo and company painted endless rounds of Jeebus and Mare.
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    12/10/08

    @Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: The catholic sunday school nuns say so that's who. Disagree? I have a wooden ruler right here. Give me your knuckles.....
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    12/10/08

    @Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: It's Virgin on the ridiculous.
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    12/10/08

    @Eeva: Best. Pun. Of. The. Day.
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    12/10/08

    @Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: God, I just hope she wasn't mexican. (i'm mexican by the way(.
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    12/10/08

    @I_Love_AFI: Don't be greedy! You guys already have Guadaloopy. Oh God, I'm going to spend more time in Purgatory for that, aren't I?
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    Image of Mafalda para Presidente Mafalda para Presidente
    12/10/08

    @Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: Gua-dah-loo-peh, please. Heretic!
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    Image of VirginiaDentata VirginiaDentata
    12/11/08

    @Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: Weird. It looks like a clit and vulva to me.

    God I need to get laid.
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    12/11/08

    @Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: According to one of my college ethics professors, Jesus would have been around 4'11", 90 pounds, and look Arabic. I think it would be really fun to replace the pictures of 6'4" white jesus with 4'11" Arabic Jesus in churches, the south, and elsewhere.
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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    12/12/08

    @mechanics: Well Jesus was a Semite, so he was most definitely not white. How did they figure out the 4'11" bit? At 90lbs, that kind of makes him the same size as an adolescent girl?
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