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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_%28pastry%29#John_F._Kennedy_urban_legend wrote:

[b][color=#8E4585][size=150]Berliner Pfannkuchen with plum jam filling[/size][/color][/b]

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<<John F. Kennedy's words "Ich bin ein Berliner" are standard German for "I am a Berliner". Mentioned in Len Deighton's 1983 novel Berlin Game, an urban legend has it that due to his use of the indefinite article ein, Berliner is translated as "jelly doughnut", and that the population of Berlin was amused by the supposed mistake. The normal convention when stating a nationality or, for instance, saying one is from Berlin, would be to leave out the indefinite article ein.

However, Kennedy used the indefinite article here correctly to emphasize his relation to Berlin. Additionally, the word Berliner is not used in Berlin to refer to the Berliner Pfannkuchen. These are simply called Pfannkuchen there and therefore no one from Berlin would mistake Berliner for a pastry.>>

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JohnD wrote:... Because, Watson, once you have eliminated all the possible explanations .........

cat bus wrote:"Suddenly appeared*? It is right there in the first picture, just under different angle and conditions.

Nitpicker wrote:I too am curious about the extra bit of white stuff mentioned by Beyond, which I've circled in yellow, below.

But I also went looking for clues as to the path the rock(s) must have taken to get to where they are. I've drawn green rectangles around a spot that could possibly have been disturbed by moving rock(s). On second look, the area just above and to the right of the green rectangles in the images, also looks to have been disturbed.

Pinnacle_Island.jpg

An optimist sees the doughnut, a pessimist sees the hole.

Tszabeau wrote:It is Interesting how the object is, roughly, the same size and shape of the underlying triangle of cracks... sort of like it emerged from the cracks although, I doubt that it did. I also find the little hook shaped rock, which appears in both images but is most clear just above the 0 in the "after", to be interesting. It appears, to my eyes, to also be a bit "doughnut-ish".

Chirag wrote:Why can't it just be debris from space?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical_joke wrote:
<<While living in Paris in the 1920s, Waldo Peirce "made a gift of a very big turtle to the woman who was the concierge of his building". The woman doted on the turtle and lavished care on it. A few days later Peirce substituted a somewhat larger turtle for the original one. This continued for some time, with larger and larger turtles being surreptitiously introduced into the woman's apartment. The concierge was beside herself with happiness and displayed her miraculous turtle to the entire neighborhood. Peirce then began to sneak in and replace the turtle with smaller and smaller ones, to her bewildered distress. This was the storyline behind Esio Trot, by Roald Dahl.>>

Roland wrote:I favor the space the space debris idea. The composition is different than the surrounding materials. Meteors can easily shatter on impact and bounce away from the point of impact with the newly exposed surface not showing signs of atmospheric entry. Another possibility is that a larger rock exploded after going through repeated thermal cycles. I have seen this happen in the desert where I live.

Chris Peterson wrote:

Chirag wrote:Why can't it just be debris from space?

Fresh meteorites have an entirely different surface and different color characteristics. In fact, meteorites have been found on the surface by the rovers. But this isn't one of them.