Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

We could invent our own German/Chinese pidgin . . . My cousin and his companion used to speak to each other Chinese pig latin while he was on his mission. Apparently it was absolutely unintelligible to people because Chinese people don't think in terms of first letters--they think in terms of whole...

You want a hymn that's outside of everyone's range? Check out hymn #118, "Ye Simple Souls Who Stray." The soprano part goes from an A flat to an F. Ridiculous. The tenors only have to hit an E flat, and I think the basses only hit an A flat, but the fact that the melody is only four semito...

My bishopric has been hinting to me over the past few weeks that I pick hymns that people don't know well enough. How was I supposed to know that most people don't know "Oh, What Songs of the Heart"? It's standard in my book. Then again, so are about 250 others. I'm personally a fan of the...

I have sacrilegiously compared watching Arrested Development to reading scriptures. Every time you watch it, no matter how many times you have watched it before, there is something new that you didn't notice before. I swear, that show has more layers of humor than any other show that has ever aired ...

So I dare say that hymns were skipped because the person choosing the hymns didn't want to sing them. Who wants to sing, "How Long, O God, Most Holy and True," anyway? I'm going to go on a limb and say that I can identify about a half dozen hymns on the unplayed list that were justifably ...

I know of a number of women in the exact opposite situation--one chose not to get the temple cancellation at the exhortations of her priesthood leaders, and others chose to follow through on the cancellations and be sealed to their current husbands. Any exceptions would have to be approved under the...

I got to stop in towards the end and talked to The Black Sheep, Whistler and Waldorf for a fair while. It was fun to see board personalities applied in real-life situations! I was honestly a bit surprised that more people weren't stopping...is a solicitation to go to a website really that threatenin...

To reiterate the point--being sealed is a saving ordinance. Ideally, we would all be sealed to a spouse that we spend our whole lives with and to two parents who never were separated by death or divorce. The world isn't exactly ideal, though, but the basic truth is that being sealed is more importan...

When I first scanned the list, I thought this might simply be a case of a limited organist, but there are a few tricky ones in the sung list and some really easy ones that were skipped. I was going to justify omitting "A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief" on the grounds of degree of difficulty, ...

Bahaha, mine is rather odd. One day, I was sitting on the toilet (to quote Dave Barry: "I am not making this up"). Living in DT as a first semester freshman, I lived in a hall where the HA downstairs liked to type newsletters and hang them in the stalls so people could be entertained while...