Comments on: Pageant Watch: The Gentile Pageant

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Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:37:54 +0000

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By: a random John

a random John — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:09:42 +0000

Orwell,

Yeah, I spent a while there. I wrote the word processor that they use to write the documentation for building and inspecting solid rocket boosters. Unfortunately I lived in Salt Lake at the time, so it was quite a commute. Occasionally I’d stay overnight in Brigham City and eat at Maddox.

By: Megan

Megan — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:08:44 +0000

Perry. My grandparents spend their summers there and I’m going to visit them.

I make no promises, but I have a good friend in Ogden who I think would get a kick out of this as well, and we could probably come up with a report .

By: Hunter

Hunter — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:14:36 +0000

I concur; Megan, you have to go: it is your duty.

By: Orwell

Orwell — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:46:52 +0000

You worked at Thiokol, arJ? Growing up, probably about 65% of my friends’ dads worked there. (There, it’s out, I grew up in that area.) It’s funny you thought I had made this up, as I admit it is the sort of thing I might make up… but that is why I just had to write a post about it.

Megan: Perry? Willard? Yes, you must return and report.

As a matter of fact, today’s Box Elder News Journal had an article on the pageant. There weren’t really any more details of interest to the bloggernacle at large other than those I’ve already given here. They did mention, however, that they’ve revised the script for this year – but they didn’t credit anyone new so it must have been Diana Jeppesen again.

By: Tagore

Tagore — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:31:54 +0000

Megan, you MUST go and return and report!

By: Megan

Megan — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:15:10 +0000

Wow, I’m actually going to be visiting family just south of Brigham City for the next couple of weeks. I could actually go to this (not sure I will, but I could).

By: a random John

a random John — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:02:11 +0000

I was quite sure that this entire post was simply an invention of dear brother Orwell until I clicked on the link.

Wow.

I’ve been through Corrine a lot. As a child my grandfather had part ownership in a horse ranch out on Promontory Point so I’d go up there with him when he went.

Later I was on a contract at Thiokol for 18 months, so I drove through several times a week. They should really have tried to coordinate the pageant with a test firing at the plant. There is one coming up in August which should be good as it is an Ares booster.

By: ESO

ESO — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:30:14 +0000

That sounds like much more fun than any Mormon pageant I have ever heard of. Way to go, Corrine; The Gentile City!

(The semicolon hurts my head, but I do appreciate attempts at humor.)

By: Orwell

Orwell — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:43:02 +0000

In all fairness, I also saw a flyer with a comma; (!) though, as you can see, their official site uses the semicolon. So, Tagore, by this I think we can infer that there was little cohesion or orthodoxy about how best to punctuate the borders between gentile self and Mormon other. There are comma gentiles, semicolon gentiles, colon gentiles, and even the occasional exclamation point gentile. I think your analysis of the semicolon gentile psyche is fascinating, though.

Hunter, I would also love to see someone write a review.