Captain_Curmudgeon

H E double-hockey sticks is the correct phrase. In primitive cultures, where hockey is unknown and table manners are likewise primitive, toothpicks replace the obviously right hockey sticks. Here's a sign from one of the websites involved: I'm surprised that they spelled judgment correctly. Of course, I'm looking forward to it. 144,000 (at least) new nudists that day, as those ascending do so without their clothes. And it will be warm enough for those of us left behind to do without them.

Don't want to be irreverent (I was drawn here by the heading) but scriptures give poor answers as to the value of pi (3) or the shape of the earth and no answers to most questions.

Yes. Because, as the DNews suggests, they all took the heading to be scriptural when it was editorial. Reminds me of a joke about Job but there is overwhelming evidence that if I told it here, no one would get it.

I've done some, but not for Fibromyalgia. I enjoy it but I wonder if it might be more fun in a group.

Want to bet some of that on the outcome of our football pool? I keep getting messages from women who have read my profile and want to marry me (or something -- they always want me to look at pictures of them), no money.

Week 17, where you don't know how to pick. Is NE going to coast, since it has nothing left to win (Indy used to do it every year)? Will the Vikes start Bret ("These Wranglers need a better fly") Favre? I assume that Cards vs 49ers will be legit: both are trying to escape the division cellar (although a couple of more wins, and they'd be competing for the division title). One game I can guarantee will be in earnest: Chi at GB. GB has a shot at the playoffs and Chi will bring it because it's the Bears and the Packers.

Whuchu taakin bout?

I'm a little amazed at what an uproar one little piece in the DNews caused here. I wonder how many contributors to the thread actually read it, since many of them seem to be merely reiterating the error that the piece points out. I can scarcely believe that the DNews is trying to lead us all away to hell. As for fixing a single date, I'd point out that if you ask the same question about Caesar Augustus, you get four different (correct) answers. One for before the Julian reform, one for after (he observed both so that he had two birthdays per year) and two more for each of these after the Gregorian reform. You don't have to go that far back to hit a problem. We say that George Washington was born on 22 Feb 1732, but if his Mom had looked at a calendar the day he was born, it would have told her that it was 11 Feb 1731. Same month, but different day and year. Give all of this a rest.

I kind of like the idea of getting it to BYU Library Special Collections.

If Fox News was the best, then KSL-TV (the Lord's Own TV Station) would be affiliated with Fox and not with NBC.

If we could give you an extra point in the football pool, we would. However,

Your original post was on 21 December, the winter solstice. I've got Seasonal Affective Disorder and the 21st is about the low point of every year. Hang on. More light is inevitable. (Cool Yule, ya'll.)

"Times change, the feeling remains the same" If you can't understand this (last bit of the video), you're just too stupid to do much other than read the standard works. Unregister from this ambiguous site and shut down your browser forever.

If I start working on it today, I just might get the Thursday pick(s) in this week.

You have a wife, pam? This explains so much.

All well and good, SJ, but maybe my ward is too easy. I like the bishop -- he lives kitty corner from me and accepts my nudism. But I haven't seen ward teachers in more than a year and this is an "old" ward. Maybe I need the challenge that a not-so-nice ward would bring. Maybe I'm sour apple picking. Just saying.

Well, it's a beginning, but really tame. Remember the old slogan: "If you want to BE the best, you've got to BEAT the best." Not roll up points against Idaho State.

Isn't it the "Glory of God"? Or is my memory playing tricks with me?

wot? no potatoes?

I can walk to about a dozen wards (I live in SLC) but I can belong to only the one I'm "in." This strikes me as a severe misfeature. If I could choose, I might find one that suits me better than the 11 others.

So, when will we get it back? Not yet (9:55 pm MST).

Christmas can wait, Utah’s Catholic bishop says By Kristen Moulton The Salt Lake Tribune Published Nov 30, 2010 09:55AM Updated 6 hours ago Updated Nov 30, 2010 12:14PM Utah’s Catholic bishop is putting the brakes on Christmas. In his first pastoral letter to Utah’s 300,000 Catholics since becoming their shepherd in 2007, Bishop John C. Wester asks that members hold off celebrating Christmas until the season actually begins Dec. 24. Catholics, Wester says, ought not have early parties in their homes or churches, light up their trees or decorate their schools with more than simple wreaths and boughs of green. The whole story.

War against Christmas? Good idea. I don't celebrate any other Masses so I don't see why I should celebrate this one. Move it, whatever it is, to April where it belongs, and give Yule (winter solstice celebration) with it's log, tree, holly, carols, gift-giving, and booze back to us pagans.

Sigh. The wild stuff in Fast and Testimony meeting was what I used to attend for. Sorry to hear that even more color has been drained from church services.

And don't miss that Salt Lake institution, Chuck-a-rama.