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Miracle Whip's "We Will Not Tone It Down!" Ads Trigger Scorn From Viewers Posted: 4 months ago by nateebiinature
McGarryBowen’s punk-rock campaign for Kraft’s Miracle Whip begs the question: Who is laughing at whom here? The ad is either ridiculing itself, the client, or the audience. It can’t possibly be trying to reposition Miracle Whip as the underground alternative to mayonnaise … can it?
*Video in the link
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Miracle baby may be a world first Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A Territory baby has been dubbed a miracle after she survived -- in what is believed to be a world first -- a full-term ovarian pregnancy.
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True Christmas Miracle: man can see again Posted: 3 years ago by henkspaan
44 year blindness cured by a horse...
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Introducing the gel-filled army helmet that will crush bullets as they penetrate it Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
On the face of it a layer of orange jelly may not sound the best way to protect a soldier's head from high velocity bullets and shrapnel.
But the British Army's standard-issue combat helmet is set to be upgraded with a liner made from gooey miracle gel, which responds to a sudden impact by locking instantly into a solid form - absorbing huge amounts of energy harmlessly.
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Man Falls Into Volcano, Is Hardly Hurt (video) Posted: 2 years ago by mutil8or
In what can only be described as a miracle, a man not only fell 1,500-2,000 feet into the crater of Mount St. Helens, he survived, and was almost unscathed. "It was all luck," he says.
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Miracle man walks again Posted: 2 years ago by DaftGretel
A Chinese man who was cut in half in 1995 has been fitted with a giant egg-cup type device and bionic legs.
After reading the article, I can't get this song out of my head, so everyone sing along!
I'm half the man I used to be...
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Miracle puppy hit by car at 70mph so hard he was embedded in the grill... and survived Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Few things on Earth can survive being hit by speeding cars at 70mph and left for dead.
But this puppy is clearly a special case.
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9-11 Miracle: Guide Dog Saves owner from collapsing tower Posted: 1 year ago by horsefeathers
Where the World Trade Center once stood, an obstructive fence diminishes the public’s view of Ground Zero, but for a blind man, Michael Hingson, memories of 9-11 remain within arm’s length, in his former guide dog, Roselle.
I chose this story because of the last few paragraphs which include Hingson said. "I think about the time right after 9-11, when this country was so unified. And now we are more divided than we have ever been. We don’t need to do that."
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Miracle twins or just a load of bull? Cow gives birth to different breeds Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
It's a mystery that you could say they'll be arguing about until the cows come home.
At the centre of it are these two calves - Emily and Ernie.
The farmer who owns them, Vic Phillips, says that they are twins from the same mother but claims they are completely different breeds.
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Miracle baby born clinically dead beats all the odds to come back to life Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
When baby Oscar was born without a heart beat his devastated parents and doctors feared the worst. The little boy had become so distressed in the womb that his tiny body had started to shut down. Medics began a desperate battle to save his life - but warned his mother Lucy Allen and father Stephen Rose that, even if he lived, he would probably have brain damage.
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Miracle recovery of (internally) severed head boy Posted: 3 years ago by henkspaan
You're a 12-year-old boy whose head was severed from his neck (internally) in a racing car crash -- and live to tell the tale. Bet you had no idea this was even possible!
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Airplane Miracle Baby Posted: 2 years ago by gnikgnok
Little Alfie was born at 26 weeks and 30,000 feet. I'll bet this wasn't in the Flight Attendant's job description!
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Miracle Fruit Turns Sour to Sweet Posted: 3 years ago by VooDooPeacock
A protein in this berry makes sweetness receptors on the tongue activate for sour tastes, so even straight lemon juice goes down like lemonade.
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Boy, 12, w. brain injury makes miracle recovery Posted: 2 years ago by henkspaan
His brain injury was so massive that experts at Southampton General Hospital feared he may not survive.
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The miracle berry Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Imagine an extract from a berry that would make sour things taste sweet and help you lose weight. Then imagine not being allowed to take it.
Comments: 7 Score: [-] 442 [+].
A miracle worthy of sainthood? Posted: 5 months ago by nateebiinature
The treatment for terminal cancer that Annapolis resident Mary Ellen Heibel took at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2004 and early 2005 worked beyond anyone's wildest hopes, wiping out malignant tumors in her lungs, liver, stomach and chest. Her doctor did not expect it, nor could he explain it.
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Virgin Mary's Nipples Appear on Kitchen Sponges Posted: 6 months ago by bingo
Miracle? Hoax? Absurd joke? Scam? Whatever it is, these supposed Virgin Mary nipples (how do they know they're hers?) are a bizarre and hilarious summary of the Internet.
Better hurry to eBay if you want to get them before someone steals them for the Buy It Now price of $500,000.
Comments: 5 Score: [-] 298 [+].
Mum has twins while battling heart failure Posted: 8 months ago by sharon22
A MIRACLE mum gave birth to healthy twins just minutes after she suffered massive heart failure.
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Man Falls From Statue Of Jesus Posted: 3 years ago by smarty1052
he climbed onto a statue of Jesus Christ, asking for a miracle
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BBC Backtrack on "Pixie Dust Miracle" Posted: 2 years ago by pocksucket
Not entirely unsurprisingly, it turns out that the story of the man who regrew his finger using pixie dust was hogwash.
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 238 [+].
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