Comments on: Mormon Culture Tournament – Round 1 Part 2

By: Mark IV

Mark IV — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:59:22 +0000

I take a back seat to no one in my admiration of sister Teichert’s work. We have two of her framed prints in our home, and rumor has it that Santa might bring a third. But this is not about what I like, but what I think my brethren and sistren like, and right now through two rounds I AM STILL UNDEFEATED BAY-BEE!!! Do I know my mo’? Yes, I do.

By: paula

paula — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:53:07 +0000

fMh Lisa– what resolution is your monitor set on? When I use our one monitor set to 800 X600, I get the same problem, but since that’s on the dinosaur computer, I rarely use it.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:48:45 +0000

Steve Young (’cause I played UNO at my heathen UU youth camp (where they played Metallica and the entire Forrest Gump soundtrack over the loudspeakers between meals,) and was taught it by my lapsed Catholic stepmother, and I’ve still never played it with Mormons.)

Gentiles (which I hear all the time, and I’m in Ohio! I don’t vote for names I don’t recognize, even if I do recognize the art — sorry.)

CTR rings (because plenty of people other than us like long shorts.)

Pioneer Day (we don’t move our holidays off Sunday around here, that I can see anyway — unless, of course, the city moves an official celebration to some other date, in which case Mormons join everyone else in relentlessly mocking it, e.g. official Trick or Treating took place on the 28th this year.)

Missions (maybe this is because I’m in Primary, but I never hear conspiracy theories from church members.)

Scripture Marking (I don’t do it, but I’m pretty sure we’re one of the very few large churches that openly instructs children to mark their scriptures – I’ve seen it at least a few times in the Primary manuals.)

Home Teaching (all the non-members I know think it’s creepy, and Sacred Not Secret just isn’t a tagline we use much anymore, I think.)

Trunk or Treat (a bad pick from a bad set; RULDS2 is stupid and a short-lived fad from the late 1990s, and Trunk or Treat isn’t particularly Mormon)

By: FHL

FHL — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:56:11 +0000

Re: RULDS2

I recently saw a vanity plate “OHMYHEK” here in Orem.

Hmm, why didn’t that phrase make the list?

By: fMhLisa

fMhLisa — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:53:41 +0000

see, I can’t see what I’m writing on these comments because my comment box is still overflowing in the the gry o fthe sidebar. No one else has the problem? Really?

By: fMhLisa

fMhLisa — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:52:20 +0000

I have to admit, I just didn’t feel the passion with my pick this round that I felt last round. Overall a sweak round I believe.

By: bbell

bbell — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:29:25 +0000

#46:

My wife and I once ID’d a young Mormon couple at a truck stop in rural east Texas by her shorts. It was confirmed when they started talking about Visit Teaching within earshot.

Back to Minerva. Sorry guys. Not enough concern about art and artists amongst the rank and file Mormons.

Gentile may be old school but the phrase can be found with regularity in the Wilford Woodruff manual.

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:51:05 +0000

Kevin,

Try as you might, you’ll never convince any of us that you are a youth–that’s a “yout” for us here in Brooklyn–so you’re exempt from appearing at the yout fireside on New Years Eve.

Party on!

By: Clayton

Clayton — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:43:16 +0000

I think it is a conspiracy that missions is beating conspiracy theories by a whopping 92% – 8%.

It must be rigged. Let’s have a recount and include hanging mouseclicks, pregnant mouseclicks and the like.

By: Russell Arben Fox

Russell Arben Fox — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:54:45 +0000

It looks like all but one of my predictions are going to come out on top. The “Gentiles” things is truly weird; I just don’t get it. Everything else is pretty straightforward though. Though Dan’s complaint that a couple of Mormon culture heavyweights are being forced to knock each other out too early in the game is probably accurate.