Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

Tao (I'm pretty sure it was him, not Rating Pending) once brought an awesome one to a Board white elephant exchange. I don't remember details, but I remember it was something about a snowman. There were bowls of water, an old carrot, some coal, etc. But I remember it being more awesome than that an...

And, according to my medical training, pregnancy is considered a 'disease'. (Etymologically it makes sense, getting pregnant sure puts most expectant mothers off their ease, sooner or later.) In that light, it would be considered a STD but not a STI.

Aye, I too, struggled with that questionnaire, even some of the very first questions tripped me up. Do you read in other languages? Yes. How much official training have you had in the languages you are reading in? Uhhhh? cumulative? average per language? My first inclination was none, as my more act...

@DL:

Theory the first

Step one: catch offender.
Step two: beat offender severely.
Step three: evaluate offender for vegetative condition.
Step four: eat vegetable.



Theory the second

Worse. Much, much worse.

Heh; add my congratulations to the myriad others. It is, was, and will be well worth the wait.

Dragon Lady wrote:Also, also, did you know that Hinterlands is now out?!?!?!?!

Yea, and verily its awsomeness is measured even in the centiLJs.

And Tao, yes, we have had this discussion before, and the LDS church is far more dogmatic than most protestant religions. I guess I just don't see it. I grew up going to a Nazarene church and I'd say they at least are more likely to say "this is because we say it is, don't question it." I...

I don't know that I am able to contribute much to this conversation, as there are many aspects I'm fairly sure I'm not connecting on. One of which I seem to remember talking to Marduk about at one point, but forgive me for asking again: how do you define your usage of the word dogmatic? Because theo...

I'm reading an article about swearing for a paper. It says that in English there are three basic categories of swears, one of which includes words that are related to religion (like "damn" or "hell"). I never realized it, but "bloody" is in that category, which makes s...

Heh, this thread confused me until I had read far enough to catch on that it was in reference to Harry Potter. Man; y'all's esoterism can be extreme. Just saying.

Up top, Dare isn't pregnant.

I love the English language.

I think what I'm trying to say is that I don't swear, I watch shows and read books that often have swearing and I don't mind, I don't much care if other people swear around consenting adults, and if you think the concept of having swear words in a language is stupid and you want to change the way w...

Just a quick point of order to say I'm completely with you Rifka, except on the Nephi/Laban bit. As far as I know there was no counsel against Nephi's actions. The commandment is לֹ֥֖א תִּֿרְצָֽ֖ח literally "do no murder".

/end tangent

Dragon Lady wrote:Wait, Tao, your marriage? As in you are married? Or as in, you aren't married because you're too hung up over it?

Heh, yeah I got married back in July; we're still in the settling down phase, trying to get majors and career schedules figured out.

Heh, this seems as good a location as anywhere to post: friends of my wife run a warehouse-type business up in Lindon and they just had a couple pallets of lemon and lime juice get dumped on them. So if anyone on the message board has any desire for lemon or lime juice in bulk for cheap let us know....

I still have a hard time trying not to question their decision.... it has shown me a side of myself I was previously unaware of. ? (What's the side of yourself it's shown you?) While I'm fully aware that many can do just fine getting married just out of high school and/or without serving missions f...

But the thing is, the asker wasn't dismissing the document; he was merely asking it not be used to criticize his wife for pursuing her education. That's what makes Phaedrus' rebuke insulting. That's true. But it's a bit shortsighted to assume that anytime anyone quotes the Family Proclamation, it's...

I've not ever used one, though it looks like a swiffer on steroids, and my mom swears by them. (the mops, not the steroids) I wonder about the lack of surfactants though. Non-polar molecules simply don't stick to water, you need some sort of go-between that sticks to the polar water and any non-pola...

...she successfully did not marry anyone else... Success is so oddly defined in many of these stories, no? I've a story to tell; a good friend of my family was high school sweethearts with his wife, served his mission, she dated around and didn't find anyone who seemed to fit better than him, so he...

Also along similar lines, there are situations that can allow men as young as 17 serve a mission, one Elder on my mission was completing his second year before most people would have been leaving. (He's here at BYU now, said he has had numerous people disbelieve his insistence that yes, he did serve...