i heard about this and i think it's pretty well been thrashed by that dern rascal "science".
What's really happening is that teaspoons of milk are being absorbed; it's called capillary action. A small amount of milk touched to the mouth of a plaster figure, according to the press, just "disappeared." I think not. The milk didn't "disappear"; it was simply soaked up by the plaster.
Note that, as Reuters reported, the whole thing started as a "rumor" -- the media is now gleefully promoting it, and now
that the Canadian media are snapping it up, I'm sure that every statue in the Dominion will be trotted out to the wonderment of the naive.
I believe that a plaster statue of Lyndon Johnson will do exactly the same thing, perhaps with a pint of beer -- now, is that, too, a miracle? Maybe in Texas....
I'm a very practical soul, so I propose a test of this wondrous curiosity: offer the statue a teaspoonful of ink. If that, too, is "slurped up," Hindu gods are either incredibly stupid, or have poorly-developed taste buds. No one will do such a test, of course, because we have here a perfectly good and attractive farce going full-steam, and enough naive people to meet our most ambitious needs.
this doesn't touch on any incident's of paper pictures enjoying milk, but i've never heard that before. but seeing as it was one person experiencing a non-repeatable event under the assumption that he had just previously witnessed a miracle...i don't know. sounds just a bit fishy.
