Comments on: My Hope for the Bloggernacle http://www.mormonmentality.org/2009/04/09/my-hope-for-the-bloggernacle.htm Thoughts and Asides by Peculiar People Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:12:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: MCQ http://www.mormonmentality.org/2009/04/09/my-hope-for-the-bloggernacle.htm/comment-page-3#comment-105079 MCQ Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:38:23 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=1518#comment-105079 "In Utah, I hear it’s Diet Pepsi." Clearly, you know nothing about Utah. If Diet Coke came in IVs, it would be selling out at the mini-marts. “In Utah, I hear it’s Diet Pepsi.”

Clearly, you know nothing about Utah. If Diet Coke came in IVs, it would be selling out at the mini-marts.

]]> By: Bookslinger http://www.mormonmentality.org/2009/04/09/my-hope-for-the-bloggernacle.htm/comment-page-3#comment-105077 Bookslinger Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:18:25 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=1518#comment-105077 I tried lime diet coke. It took me (mentally) back to my days of drinking Cuba Libres (rum and Coke with a twist of lime). Not wanting to revisit that mind-set, I had to scratch that flavor off the list. Cherry Diet Coke, now that's good. Especially if you can find it in 2-liter bottles. I visited my Mom's Methodist church with her last year. They had coffee brewing in the Sunday School classroom. That was an interesting juxtaposition. Fortunately, it wasn't real good coffee. Being someplace that brews really good-smelling coffee can drive me nuts. I tried lime diet coke. It took me (mentally) back to my days of drinking Cuba Libres (rum and Coke with a twist of lime). Not wanting to revisit that mind-set, I had to scratch that flavor off the list. Cherry Diet Coke, now that’s good. Especially if you can find it in 2-liter bottles.

I visited my Mom’s Methodist church with her last year. They had coffee brewing in the Sunday School classroom. That was an interesting juxtaposition. Fortunately, it wasn’t real good coffee. Being someplace that brews really good-smelling coffee can drive me nuts.

]]> By: Jota G http://www.mormonmentality.org/2009/04/09/my-hope-for-the-bloggernacle.htm/comment-page-3#comment-105064 Jota G Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:49:07 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=1518#comment-105064 And so it begins. :) And so it begins.

:)

]]> By: DKL http://www.mormonmentality.org/2009/04/09/my-hope-for-the-bloggernacle.htm/comment-page-3#comment-105061 DKL Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:49:14 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=1518#comment-105061 I love the terms that use imagery from Jim Jone's People's Temple. It's an important reminder of how dangerous left-wing fanatics are. I love the terms that use imagery from Jim Jone’s People’s Temple. It’s an important reminder of how dangerous left-wing fanatics are.

]]> By: Bridget Jack Meyers http://www.mormonmentality.org/2009/04/09/my-hope-for-the-bloggernacle.htm/comment-page-3#comment-105044 Bridget Jack Meyers Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:42:46 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=1518#comment-105044 Dunno, Bookslinger. Right now the drink I have at my side is RC Cola, though I don't think it's Mormon RC Cola. I'm visiting my father and it's all he's got. I had a professor at BYU who really loved Lime Diet Coke. You could seriously suck up to him if you dropped off a Lime Diet Coke at his office, and I am not above that level of sucking up. Last night BrianJ and I visited an evangelical mega-church in Seattle that had a coffee shop in it, with tables and booths and a screen showing the service. So you could sit at a booth and drink coffee or tea while you watched the service. It was a little weird, even for me. Dunno, Bookslinger. Right now the drink I have at my side is RC Cola, though I don’t think it’s Mormon RC Cola. I’m visiting my father and it’s all he’s got.

I had a professor at BYU who really loved Lime Diet Coke. You could seriously suck up to him if you dropped off a Lime Diet Coke at his office, and I am not above that level of sucking up.

Last night BrianJ and I visited an evangelical mega-church in Seattle that had a coffee shop in it, with tables and booths and a screen showing the service. So you could sit at a booth and drink coffee or tea while you watched the service.

It was a little weird, even for me.

]]> By: Bookslinger http://www.mormonmentality.org/2009/04/09/my-hope-for-the-bloggernacle.htm/comment-page-3#comment-105042 Bookslinger Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:38:14 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=1518#comment-105042 mfranti, sorry for the memory jolt. "drinking the Kool-Aid" has entered into the popular lexicon, and thankfully with a slightly different than Jonestown meaning. It kind of means joining the club, or subscribing to the beliefs of the group. I recently read it, I think in one of Margaret Young's comments, that Helen Whitney was accused of "drinking the Mormon Kool-Aid" because her PBS piece "The Mormons" wasn't controversial or negative enough. In the same sense Patty Hearst "drank the SLA Kool-Aid" when she threw in with them during her kidnapping ordeal. (Not that I put any blame on her for doing so.) Jack, In these parts, it's Diet Coke. In Utah, I hear it's Diet Pepsi. In your neck of the woods, is it really full-leaded (ie, w/sugar) Coke? mfranti, sorry for the memory jolt. “drinking the Kool-Aid” has entered into the popular lexicon, and thankfully with a slightly different than Jonestown meaning. It kind of means joining the club, or subscribing to the beliefs of the group. I recently read it, I think in one of Margaret Young’s comments, that Helen Whitney was accused of “drinking the Mormon Kool-Aid” because her PBS piece “The Mormons” wasn’t controversial or negative enough.

In the same sense Patty Hearst “drank the SLA Kool-Aid” when she threw in with them during her kidnapping ordeal. (Not that I put any blame on her for doing so.)

Jack, In these parts, it’s Diet Coke. In Utah, I hear it’s Diet Pepsi. In your neck of the woods, is it really full-leaded (ie, w/sugar) Coke?

]]> By: Jota G http://www.mormonmentality.org/2009/04/09/my-hope-for-the-bloggernacle.htm/comment-page-3#comment-105040 Jota G Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:53:58 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=1518#comment-105040 Jack, I don't think you can cross it off your list so soon. I'm a big fan of DKL's fights and this exchange doesn't qualify. Keep trying though, I could use the distraction. Jack,

I don’t think you can cross it off your list so soon. I’m a big fan of DKL’s fights and this exchange doesn’t qualify.

Keep trying though, I could use the distraction.

]]> By: Jota G http://www.mormonmentality.org/2009/04/09/my-hope-for-the-bloggernacle.htm/comment-page-3#comment-105039 Jota G Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:50:18 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=1518#comment-105039 106. I once saw a one-man performance of Macbeth done entirely in the voices of various Simpsons characters. It was brilliant. 106.

I once saw a one-man performance of Macbeth done entirely in the voices of various Simpsons characters. It was brilliant.

]]> By: Johnna http://www.mormonmentality.org/2009/04/09/my-hope-for-the-bloggernacle.htm/comment-page-3#comment-105031 Johnna Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:32:50 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=1518#comment-105031 Next time, google with quotation marks to keep the words together: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Just+sit+down%2C+I’m+embarrassed+for+both+of+us.%22&btnG=Search" rel="nofollow">"Just sit down, I'm embarrassed for both of us."</a> It's famous if the Simpsons qualify. Amy Tan and Lisa. Next time, google with quotation marks to keep the words together:
“Just sit down, I’m embarrassed for both of us.”

It’s famous if the Simpsons qualify. Amy Tan and Lisa.

]]> By: Geoff J http://www.mormonmentality.org/2009/04/09/my-hope-for-the-bloggernacle.htm/comment-page-3#comment-105028 Geoff J Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:05:46 +0000 http://www.mormonmentality.org/?p=1518#comment-105028 Nate W, I just Googled <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=2su&q=Just+sit+down%2C+I%E2%80%99m+embarrassed+for+both+of+us.&btnG=Search" rel="nofollow">Just sit down, I’m embarrassed for both of us</a>. Not seeing it as a famous quote... Maybe you accidentally quoted yourself and you forgot you aren't famous or something? Nate W,

I just Googled Just sit down, I’m embarrassed for both of us. Not seeing it as a famous quote… Maybe you accidentally quoted yourself and you forgot you aren’t famous or something?

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