Answers I liked

[Katya]

What would happen if [she] converts to Mormonism?

Are a writer's works included that were written before they were a member?

That would depend on the curator, but I'm guessing that most of them wouldn't buy her earlier works unless they somehow dealt with Mormonism or unless she had been closely associated with Mormon culture before. (Of course, at this point, E. L. James has only published three novels, so it wouldn't be a huge cost to acquire her entire back catalog.)

I guess the closest parallel of someone who had major success before she joined the Church would be Gladys Knight. I'll have to ask one of our music librarians if we purchased Gladys Knight's pre-Mormon recordings after she converted.

What happens if they leave the church? Would works written post-membership still be included, or would the whole collection be discarded?

That's easier to answer: We'd keep the ones we'd already collected and continue to collect the works written post-membership. (We already do that with a number of authors.)

[Portia]

That's interesting.

[S.A.M.]

https://theboard.byu.edu/questions/75533/

Q:
How do you know if a girl is into you after only the second date?

-Unsure but hopeful


A:
Dear unsure,

By asking her on a third date.

-yayfulness

Great response, yayfulness. Classic board answer. Short, relevant, funny, with a twist of lemon.

[Katya]

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/75515/

I'm about as liberal as Haleakalā is conservative, but I thought his liberal click bait examples were hilarious. (As well as his conservative ones and, of course, Yay's answer.)

[Katya]

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/75435/

Even without canonization, I should point out that Laser Jock is already an SI unit: http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/46311/

[S.A.M.]

Perhaps they could make him the board patronus, or board spirit totem, or the board's ghost in the machine instead of canonizing him...

[Dragon Lady]

Hmm... LJ is our feel good medicine. But should be followed with chocolate. I could maybe get behind this.

[Portia]

Yayfulness's(s)(sss ...) hurricane answer was freaking amazing. I love when I learn something new from reading the board.

A hurricane must develop at least 350 miles (five degrees of latitude) away from the equator. The storm's rotation depends on the Coriolis effect, which is nonexistent at the equator. If there's no Coriolis effect, there's no rotation, and if there's no rotation, there's no hurricane.

So cool! I'm glad he referenced Randall Munroe's "What If" blog, because that's exactly what this response reminded me of.

[Owlet]

I agree, that answer was AWESOME. I loved the conclusion: a very special underwater volcano. I really want it to happen now.

[yayfulness]

Yayfulness's(s)(sss ...) hurricane answer was freaking amazing. I love when I learn something new from reading the board.

A hurricane must develop at least 350 miles (five degrees of latitude) away from the equator. The storm's rotation depends on the Coriolis effect, which is nonexistent at the equator. If there's no Coriolis effect, there's no rotation, and if there's no rotation, there's no hurricane.

So cool! I'm glad he referenced Randall Munroe's "What If" blog, because that's exactly what this response reminded me of.

It's possible that I held it 24 hours longer than necessary because I really wanted to illustrate it in the style of XKCD What If, but knew deep down that I could never actually make it happen.

[Genuine Article]

Perhaps they could make him the board patronus, or board spirit totem, or the board's ghost in the machine instead of canonizing him...

I think he should be sainted, but to qualify we'd need proof of three miracles.

[Tally M.]

Perhaps they could make him the board patronus, or board spirit totem, or the board's ghost in the machine instead of canonizing him...

I think he should be sainted, but to qualify we'd need proof of three miracles.

What were Katya's three?

[Dead Cat]

Here's one.

[Digit]

"Gilgamesh" makes me think of Darmok and Gilad at Tenagra

[mic0]

Concorde, you did the right thing.

[Concorde]

Concorde, you did the right thing.

It still hurts though, you know? Where did I go wrong as a parent?

[mic0]

You can't blame yourself, you did all you could, providing for her all those... weeks.

[Portia]

Concorde, I forgive you for the countless wrongs you have committed against me. You need to take some time to recover emotionally.

(Seriously, I gasped.)

[Concorde]

Concorde, I forgive you for the countless wrongs you have committed against me. You need to take some time to recover emotionally.

(Seriously, I gasped.)

So did my roommate. She walked into the apartment just in time to see me stabbing a squash with lipstick and eyeliner on it on the living room carpet. If she didn't already think I was nuts, she thinks so now.

[Genuine Article]

Perhaps they could make him the board patronus, or board spirit totem, or the board's ghost in the machine instead of canonizing him...

I think he should be sainted, but to qualify we'd need proof of three miracles.

What were Katya's three?

It's up for debate, but I'd say going back and numbering all the old Board questions is one, categorizing them is another, and answering as many questions as she did is the third.