pam

You Know You're From Utah When... Green jell-o with carrots mixed in doesn't seem strange. You can pronounce Tooele. The U is not just a letter - Neither is the Y. You have actually eaten funeral potatoes. You've gotten both heat and frost burns off your car's door handle in the same month. You are not surprised to hear words like "Darn, Fetch, Flip", "Oh, My Heck" and "Shoot". Your tulips get snowed on three times after they come up and twice more after they bloom. Hunting season is a school holiday. The largest liquor store is the state government. You can go skiing and play golf on the same day. 30% humidity is muggy and almost unbearable. Somewhere in your family tree is a polygamist. You know the difference between a 'Steak House' and a 'Stake House'. The elevation exceeds the population You've broken down on the highway and somebody stops to help you You can see the stars at night You have a bumper sticker that says "Families are Forever." You were an aunt or uncle before you were three. Your spouse's mother was pregnant at your wedding. You have more children than you can find biblical names for. Your family considers a trip to McDonald'd a night out.. Your first child was conceived on your honeymoon. You feel guilty when you watch Monday Night Football. Your kids believe the deer hunt is a national holiday. You drink Coke from a brown paper bag. You consider a temple recommend a credit reference. At least two of your salad bowls are at the homes of neighbors. You believe that you must be 18 or older to order coffee at a restaurant. You wonder why fire truck drivers honk when you drive 35 mph in the left lane on the freeway. There is a similarity between a ward basketball game and the L.A. riots. You think Jack Daniels is a country western singer. You negotiate prices at a garage sale. You can make Jell-O salad without the recipe. You've heard about BYU football in a testimony meeting. You have two gallons of ice cream in your freezer at all times. Your father-in-law thinks Ronald Reagan was a liberal. A member of your family wrote in Lavell Edwards for president in the last election. Cars in the slow lane are traveling the fastest; cars in the fast lane are traveling the slowest; cars in the middle lanes are always trying to exit. Sandals are the best-selling shoes. You have to ask for the uncensored version of "Titanic." Hotel rooms all have the Book of Mormon. You buy your wardrobe at the local grocery superstore. You learn about the Mormon Church by taking history in elementary school. You live in a state where Democrats always come in third place, unless a zoo animal is running. Then they come in fourth. You're on your own if you are turning left. Schools stay open, even if two feet of snow falls overnight, but close for the opening of hunting season. People wear shorts and T-shirts if the temperature rises above 32 degrees. There is a church on every corner, but they all teach the same thing. The most popular public transportation system is a ski lift. People drive to Idaho (or Arizona) to pick up a gallon of milk so they can play the lottery. In-state college football rivalries are bigger than the Super Bowl. Beer drinkers don't shop on Sunday. You don't have to breathe cigarette smoke until you walk outside a building. The cost of living rises while your salary drops. Every driveway has a minivan and a pickup truck. When you buy a new vehicle, cigarette lighters are optional equipment but gun and ski racks are standard. Every time a new family moves into your neighborhood, the local elementary school has to hire a new teacher. Your paycheck has an additional 10 percent deduction. "Temple recommends" is acceptable identification for cashing a check. More movies are filmed in your town than in Hollywood. You've never had a Mormon missionary knock on your door. Your neighbors complain about where they live, yet refuse to return to the state they moved from. You make a toast with red punch at your wedding reception. You have more raw wheat stored than some Third World countries. Your idea of a good time is playing Pictionary in the cultural hall. Your idea of a wild party is a six pack of Pepsi and a PG-13 movie. You and all your friends come to your mother for a haircut in her kitchen. You measure Kool-Aid by parts per million. You think "You're a 10 cow wife" is a compliment.

You want me to think?

Dr. Pepper isn't it? NOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Darn, I don't know why but I always think that is your drink.

Dr. Pepper isn't it?

#6 is definately me as well.

Somehow I believe that.

You didn't know that's what you were having for dinner? Or you didn't realize what you were being served for dinner was beef?

Hey a good steak is always good.

Okay a silly piece of trivia. I had to study them for a zoology class. Did you know that a giraffe is afraid of heights? That's why in most zoos there is a moat around the giraffe enclosure instead of a tall fence. A giraffe is so top heavy it is afraid to step down more than about 18 inches.

I have the same question as well though more generalized. I find it difficult at my age to even find ways of meeting or dating people. Without the "bar scene or the "internet relations." I understand where you are coming from WordFlood.

I read about this a few days ago. Horrible horrible crime. I as well can't come up with one good argument against the death penalty in something like this.

I as well as others have days or even moments when you can feel strong tugs by Satan to perhaps do or think something I know to be wrong. When these strong feelings or thoughts come and I'm in a place or situation where I can't get on my knees or pull out scriptures....I start singing the song "The Spirit of God like a fire is burning." I have done this since I was a teenager. For whatever reason this song has become my companion when feeling down or overwhelmed.

Okay let me run that word "experienced" by my teenagers now. I'm sure they will have some smart comment. lol If they don't I am sure that myself or Ben Raines will...........LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pale....SHUT UP!!!!

Born and raised in the church. My mother's side of the family go back to early years of the church. One ancestor is mentioned in the D&C. He came west to Utah and his name is on a rock at "This is the Place Monument."

You beat me to the punch. Thanks for putting it so well.

Any interesting trivia etc you have learned recently? I've always loved trivia and trivia contests. I never knew that Julia Louis-Dreyfuss (Seinfeld) is an heiress. Her father is a French billionaire worth 3.5 billion. I would never have guessed that.

Okay let me run that word "experienced" by my teenagers now. I'm sure they will have some smart comment. lol

This one made me feel old. My son who was probably about 8 at the time asked me. Mom...when are you going to dye your hair brown? I responded. My hair is brown. No mom it's grey. I was at the hair salon two days later getting it dyed..."brown"

"if it was terrorist that were responsible" I find that line the most idiotic thing written. What is more of a terrorist act than flying plane loads of people into buildings and into the ground than what happened 9/11. So what if they were "residing" withing the US. For one thing they weren't permanent residents. But that is beside the point . It was still a terrorist act. So just because they lived on US soil we don't have rights to defend or protect ourselves from attack? Oh please. Maybe the second most idiotic thing Pam, you've just taken first place. So terrorists residing within the US, oh, sorry, non-permanent residents residing within the US, carry out a criminal act of terrorism within the US, albeit on a huge scale, and so the US has the right to attack or defend itself. Eh? Defend itself from who exactly? Everybody! Cos a terrorist can be anybody! That would be stopping anyone even slightly suspicious from coming into the US. It wouldn't stop those already residing there. Attack who exactly? The towns or cities where they were residing? That would be the US! Maybe their home towns in Saudi? Remember, the US didn't say: we're going to attack what we believe are the terrorist training camps. There are training camps all over the globe. Quite possibly within the US too. A training camp can be a tent in the Syrian desert or an apartment in Los Angeles. Anywhere. We know the US were shocked by 9/11. That this could happen on their sacred home turf. But the fact is nobody declared war on the US. No foreign nation attacked the US. This wasn't war. It was crime. I don't think the US could survive an attack by a foreign nation. You've proven that. You would go into meltdown. It would be like War of the Worlds with you guys leaping off buildings and stuff. Lets hope it never happens eh? For decades the IRA carried out terrorist acts on the UK mainland. It was known that much of the money that paid for the guns and nail bombs that killed and maimed hundreds of innocent British people, was obtained from Irish-American sympathisers. Should the UK have launched a missile attack on New York or Boston where most of these sympathisers reside? Yeh Pam, first prize baby! You missed my point but that is okay. And that you for the prize. That was quite sweet of you. Oh did I miss YOUR point? hahahaha My apologies...that was thank you. Darn keyboard again.

"if it was terrorist that were responsible" I find that line the most idiotic thing written. What is more of a terrorist act than flying plane loads of people into buildings and into the ground than what happened 9/11. So what if they were "residing" withing the US. For one thing they weren't permanent residents. But that is beside the point . It was still a terrorist act. So just because they lived on US soil we don't have rights to defend or protect ourselves from attack? Oh please. Maybe the second most idiotic thing Pam, you've just taken first place. So terrorists residing within the US, oh, sorry, non-permanent residents residing within the US, carry out a criminal act of terrorism within the US, albeit on a huge scale, and so the US has the right to attack or defend itself. Eh? Defend itself from who exactly? Everybody! Cos a terrorist can be anybody! That would be stopping anyone even slightly suspicious from coming into the US. It wouldn't stop those already residing there. Attack who exactly? The towns or cities where they were residing? That would be the US! Maybe their home towns in Saudi? Remember, the US didn't say: we're going to attack what we believe are the terrorist training camps. There are training camps all over the globe. Quite possibly within the US too. A training camp can be a tent in the Syrian desert or an apartment in Los Angeles. Anywhere. We know the US were shocked by 9/11. That this could happen on their sacred home turf. But the fact is nobody declared war on the US. No foreign nation attacked the US. This wasn't war. It was crime. I don't think the US could survive an attack by a foreign nation. You've proven that. You would go into meltdown. It would be like War of the Worlds with you guys leaping off buildings and stuff. Lets hope it never happens eh? For decades the IRA carried out terrorist acts on the UK mainland. It was known that much of the money that paid for the guns and nail bombs that killed and maimed hundreds of innocent British people, was obtained from Irish-American sympathisers. Should the UK have launched a missile attack on New York or Boston where most of these sympathisers reside? Yeh Pam, first prize baby! You missed my point but that is okay. And that you for the prize. That was quite sweet of you. Oh did I miss YOUR point? hahahaha

You know. I really appreciate the offer but I'm *sneeze* *sneeze* *sniff* allergic to cats. I found that out JUST today.

My daughter would die if she knew I told this story. She was about 4 years old. We were driving to the store and she had passed gas. She informed me..."Mom...I just burped in my bottom." I about died laughing. Had never heard it put quite that way before.

Seriously in your line of work....where you have sworn (okay maybe you didn't) to help those in need (okay so it's a kitty)...do you REALLY think you could just let it be on it's own? Come on now seriously. Okay I'm back to the Dr. Pepper name.

I wish I could do that with teenagers sometimes.

Thanks for sharing that Pam. Some very close friends of ours had a son who took his life several years ago. I believe the council they recieved from our Stake President was along the same lines possibly based on that talk. We all need to remember that God is a loving God. Exactly Pale. As his talk states, nothing about this subject is cut and dry. Families should not feel complete despair. All aspects are weighed by a Father in Heaven who is just and merciful and extremely loving.