Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Virgin Mary Visits Hamburger Mary

     It took ten days but the first religious Resemblance of 2012 has shown up in Tampa, Florida.  Ybor City is a historic part of town with a hamburger joint by the name of Hamburger Mary's Bar & Grille.  It is here that, over the past weekend, a couple of customers Recognized a stainless steel plate on the wall near the kitchen had a Resemblance on it - one of the Virgin Mary.  And while this Resemblance is more a Similar than a Replica, it makes the grade for the Replica Report as it has been covered by Christopher Collette of News 10 WTSP.  This Resemblance appears on a Type II Matrix - man made but inadvertant or unintentional.
     Pareidolia is a word often used when reporting on such stories.  The word was first used by Goldstein in 1994 despite other vocabulary words existing such as apophenia synchronicity & simulacra and is limited in scope when discussing Resemblances.

 Title: Virgin Mary Visits Hamburger Mary
 Resemblance: Virgin Mary
 Extractionist: Customers of Hamburger Mary's
 Matrix: Stainless Steel Plate (Type II)
 Location: Ybor City - Tampa, Florida
 Date: 10 Jan 2012