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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:03 PM
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Is there some kind of significance about receiving an apple in the mail?
Someone sent me an apple with no return address and nothing else in the package. It was sent to my business PO Box and was mailed from somewhere within Miami, according to the postal seal. Specifically downtown Miami. Other than that, I have no other clues as to who may have sent it.

It is a fresh apple, but I'm not going to eat it. Not that I'm superstitious, but maybe someone is trying to cast a spell on me or something. Or maybe it has some kind of significance that I've never heard of. What do you guys think?
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:04 PM
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1. How bizarre...
definitely don't eat it.
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smitty Donating Member (580 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:39 PM
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22. What kind of apple is it? There may be some significance if
it's a Granny Smith.
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Lance_Boyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:05 PM
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2. Is it ticking?
I'd suggest putting it in a rocket and shooting it into the Sun.
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:06 PM
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3. Unusual story...
I saw an older lady carrying an apple around the other day.

Not like lunch, more in the manner it had some significance to her.

Weird.

No, I have no ideas other than to expand the question. I'd like to
know as well.
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:24 PM
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10. I was thinking someone was trying to tell me I'm a bad apple
But the apple is fresh, so I ruled that out.
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:32 PM
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17. The apple I speak of was in good shape as well...
She was carrying in upon a handkerchief.

Maybe it was the same woman who sent it to you? Perhaps you
are in a better position to care for it?

:shrug:

This lady seemed pretty normal and she even asked me for directions.
I saw her out by a pool later and she still had the apple.

Is this a one person phenomenon... Or is it a movement?


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Tikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:13 PM
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4. Maybe, it's someone you know....
or thinks they know you....and they identify with you as like a 'teacher' of things...
...but, they are too shy to say hello.


Just guessing, here.


Tikki
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:25 PM
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12. I was thinking that teacher angle too
It's definitely someone I know or someone I've met. Someone I've handed my business card to.
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LanternWaste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:13 PM
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5. It means...
It means that Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes...

Oops, sorry. Wrong answer!
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:34 PM
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19. You *ALMOST* wasted your 1000th post with that answer.
*tsk* *tsk* ;)
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:20 PM
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6. Maybe Fiona Apple has a crush on you. n/t
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 10:56 PM
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32. Maybe Steve Jobs has a new maketing gimmick
nt
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:21 PM
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7. Here are a few apple superstitions
http://groups.msn.com/FullMoonParadise/appledivination.msnw

I honestly have no idea what your package means.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:22 PM
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8. "Luca Brasi sleeps with the fritters"
It's an old Sicilian message.
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RedStateShame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:23 PM
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9. William Tell has a new trick in the works.....
I'd stand still if I were you.
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:25 PM
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11. Take it to the police and see if they'll cut it open.
It might have something embedded in it.
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:26 PM
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13. I can do that myself
But it doesn't appear to be tampered with, no signs of razor blades pushed inside.
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:33 PM
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18. That's good.
Hercule Poirot would immediately suggest poison...:evilgrin:
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:28 PM
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14. It's just your evil stepmother trying to poison you again.
No need to worry. Besides, it's not your fault that you're the fairest maiden in the land. :silly:
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:30 PM
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15. Maybe you are the "apple of someone's eye"
A secret admirer... Oooooooooo

Umm.. I don't know. That's pretty strange.
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:31 PM
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16. Those who don't learn from history:
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:35 PM
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20. I know that apples are used in sacrificial rituals in Santeria.
And you live in Miami where Santeria is widely practiced.
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:39 PM
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21. Santeria was the first thing that came to my mind
But I never heard of apples being used in rituals. Now if I had received a chicken with its head cut off, then I would begin to worry.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:41 PM
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23. Google Santeria + fruit.
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:55 PM
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25. I found out that fruit is sometimes offered to the Santeria gods
But I didn't read anything about fruit being used to cast spells. But even if it was some of spell, I imagine I would have to bite into it for it to take effect.

Kind of like Adam did when Eve handed him the apple. Hell, maybe this has some Biblical significance.
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 04:13 PM
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27. why would you have to bite into it for a spell to take effect?
that is not how magical contagion works, if you touched it, then that's all that is needed, no one expects you to bite into an apple sent anonymously

i would just sprinkle salt on it to neutralize any spell and then toss it out and not worry abt it any more

or if you've already disposed of it, just toss salt in its general direction such as in the trash can where you tossed it
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 07:25 PM
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30. I cut it into four pieces just in case anything was inside
But it was just an apple. So I threw it away and I'm not going to worry about it. I'm sure it was just someone playing a practical joke on me.
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:41 PM
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24. There was something recently that I read
about a community that mailed "potatoes" it had some sort of community message.... I wonder if this is the same sort of thing.
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 01:57 PM
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26. Was that in Idaho?
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 04:15 PM
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28. Friendly advice: Don't listen to talking snakes.
O8)
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 11:46 PM
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35. That's what I keep telling the girl whom I suspect sent it to me
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 11:14 AM
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36. roflmao
:rofl:

You mean unless it's yours? :evilgrin:
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 06:09 PM
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29. NOT a good sign!


This is what I come up with....

Do NOT bite it!
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 07:51 PM
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31. It means you're teaching a correspondence course.
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bettyellen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-16-06 11:26 AM
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37. rofl...
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Ediacara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 11:00 PM
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33. Out of curiosity what was the variety of Apple?
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-15-06 11:45 PM
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34. Just a basic red apple
Probably from Washington
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