Comments on: The Return of the Great and Terrible Mormon Culture Tournament – Round 1 Part 4 http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/19/the-return-of-the-great-and-terrible-mormon-culture-tournament-round-1-part-4/ A Mormon Blog Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:36:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Larry Jortner http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/19/the-return-of-the-great-and-terrible-mormon-culture-tournament-round-1-part-4/#comment-110159 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:15:28 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/the-return-of-the-great-and-terrible-mormon-culture-tournament-round-1-part-4/#comment-110159 That was fun for an LDS convert from Brooklyn who was never in on any of this stuff until his 27th year. Putting Gladys Knight up against the Cultural Hall was hard. She could probably do well in any other match-up, except for the Angel Moroni.

]]> By: JA Benson http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/19/the-return-of-the-great-and-terrible-mormon-culture-tournament-round-1-part-4/#comment-110158 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:19:35 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/the-return-of-the-great-and-terrible-mormon-culture-tournament-round-1-part-4/#comment-110158 I had to vote for HBLL Hawaii Five-0.
Back in the day (early 80”s) It was DH Mike’s job to close down several buildings at BYU for the night. I remember the fun it was after studying to accompany him as he turned on the music and shut down the HBLL.
Thanks for the fun memory.

]]> By: AC http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/19/the-return-of-the-great-and-terrible-mormon-culture-tournament-round-1-part-4/#comment-110157 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:18:38 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/the-return-of-the-great-and-terrible-mormon-culture-tournament-round-1-part-4/#comment-110157 You can’t escape BYU. Everywhere we’ve gone its alumni have been in the ward. Your resistance to BYU’s perpetuation of utah culture is futile. you will be assimilated, mu-hahahahaha. ;)

]]> By: HP/JDC http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/19/the-return-of-the-great-and-terrible-mormon-culture-tournament-round-1-part-4/#comment-110156 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:26:44 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/the-return-of-the-great-and-terrible-mormon-culture-tournament-round-1-part-4/#comment-110156 LF,
Did you see the bit where I said that I was a Braves fan growing up?

]]> By: Ann http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/19/the-return-of-the-great-and-terrible-mormon-culture-tournament-round-1-part-4/#comment-110155 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:11:40 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/the-return-of-the-great-and-terrible-mormon-culture-tournament-round-1-part-4/#comment-110155 Clues/scavenger hunts beating Ken is a fine example of the Utah/BYU centric audience of this blog. Outside of the corridor, NOBODY does that stuff. It’s pathetic.

]]> By: Left Field http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/19/the-return-of-the-great-and-terrible-mormon-culture-tournament-round-1-part-4/#comment-110154 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:59:39 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/the-return-of-the-great-and-terrible-mormon-culture-tournament-round-1-part-4/#comment-110154 I don’t necessarily have a consistent criterion for voting, but generally, I’ll vote against cultural phenomena that I dislike, am not familiar with, or have not participated in.

Martenelli’s? Never heard of it.

Michael McClean? The name sounds vaguely familiar. Didn’t he sing American Pie? Jello wins by default, though I seldom partake.

I was always happy to leave elaborate courtship rituals to bowerbirds. I’ve heard of such things, but never knew anyone who actually did it. Go Ken.

Did they do the Hawaii Five-O thing back in the Oaks-Holland administrations? I was a commuter student; maybe I was always home by closing time.

Cultural hall? No big deal. Despite my extensive ignorance of popular music, I liked Gladys even back in the ’70s when she was still a Gentile.

For some reason, the handcart thing rubs me wrong. Maybe it’s the odd expression “going on trek.” What is there, a shortage of indefinite articles?

I never went to dances if I could get out of it. So I was always at least a full set of the Journal of Discourses apart. Lock your Heart was in my mission handbook, so at least I’ve read it.

Why Dale Murphy, and not Harmon Killebrew, Vernon Law, Vance Law, Cory Snyder, Wally Joyner, Alan Ashby, Barry Bonnell, Bruce Hurst, or somebody named Iorg? Still, it’s good to have a ballplayer, and I avoided a Dear John letter by just not having a girlfriend before my mission.

]]> By: Norbert http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/19/the-return-of-the-great-and-terrible-mormon-culture-tournament-round-1-part-4/#comment-110153 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 07:25:59 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/the-return-of-the-great-and-terrible-mormon-culture-tournament-round-1-part-4/#comment-110153 Matinelli’s won’t win, but it is classic.

A friend of mine here in Finland moved with his wife to California, and the RS pres. got their new apartment all set up, including getting them some food for the first few days. They found two plastic champagne ‘glasses’ withh this bottle of sparkling cider — which of course in Europe means alcohol. He said to his wife, ‘Wow, these California Mormons are pretty liberal.’

]]> By: meems http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/19/the-return-of-the-great-and-terrible-mormon-culture-tournament-round-1-part-4/#comment-110152 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 04:56:54 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/the-return-of-the-great-and-terrible-mormon-culture-tournament-round-1-part-4/#comment-110152 My picks were:
Angel Moroni
Green Jello
Ken Jennings – not being from Utah, I’ve never heard of the scavenger hunt/date thing
Harry Anderson
The Cultural Hall
3 Nephites
Dancing BoM length apart (of course, our leaders said “triple combination” length apart!!!)
Dear Johns

On the Cultural Hall issue, when I was growing up, it was not just a gym – it was an actual place of “cultural” activities — like etiquette dinners for YW, Road Shows, ward theater, dinners. etc. The gym aspect was just one small part of it.

]]> By: Phouchg http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/19/the-return-of-the-great-and-terrible-mormon-culture-tournament-round-1-part-4/#comment-110151 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 04:35:31 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/the-return-of-the-great-and-terrible-mormon-culture-tournament-round-1-part-4/#comment-110151 Harry Anderson? Loved him in “Night Court”…

]]> By: Ardis Parshall http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/19/the-return-of-the-great-and-terrible-mormon-culture-tournament-round-1-part-4/#comment-110150 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:45:46 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/the-return-of-the-great-and-terrible-mormon-culture-tournament-round-1-part-4/#comment-110150 Steve, I don’t see how. I’m using my laptop, and am the onliest one who lives here.

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