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@Just_A_Guy’s article refers to it as Rub el Hizb. Maybe that will yield results.

If the United States is willing to get involved in the Middle East because of our interest in petroleum, I think we should do some "nation building" in India to free up their untapped dairy resources.

How did you react when he was diagnosed with "being in love"?

Nibley's Temple and Cosmos (page 17): "The curious Saturn stones may refer to the unlimited glories awaiting worthy saints." No citations for it though.

If he can vote he can be POTUS

My dad said this was his feelings as we each moved out. He thought the dinner conversations had finally gotten more interesting.

5! vs 5? I figure you've got 50/50 odds of being correct. For those following along that's a sure thing.

I see what you did there.

My favorite part of the Epic of Gilgamesh is the story of the seven loaves. Many people fear death and shut their eyes to it but it’s a part of the rest we need for our mortal labors.

3 lines of 5 syllables each. That is a thing of beauty.

Probably should have read this thread before serving my charcuterie.

Double posted so I better add something of interest here. Previous discussion:

I think the seed for that has already been planted.

Don’t forget all 134 verses of Follow the Prophet

It would be the first musical based on a movie to win an award. And it would win all the awards. I think the reason Dear Evan Hansen beat out Come From Away was because everyone assumed the central suicide was a gay kid.

I think Tom Cruise is the reason why it turned out so good. Face. Smoosh.

No rush. Go ahead and finish your Taylor Swift jukebox musical first.

For a week or two (after reading a Brigham Young quote about how we'll still build houses, etc.) I got to thinking about what sort of businesses would still be needed in the Millennium. Long story short I concluded that I would be in the same line of work but very likely under new management. At that time I also got to thinking about whether the entertainment I enjoyed would still be a part of the culture. Specifically, I had the movie The Hunt for Red October* in mind. I got penny-wise on it and figured this that and the other could easily be cleaned up and then the pound-fools weighed in with the realization that the film wouldn't be relatable after a generation. The tension of "a war with no battles" and the duplicity of national leaders trying to cover their motives would be alien to the new culture. I still might be able to enjoy a VidAngel version, and my kids may humor my love of it, but my grandkids would find it foreign. * I'm still waiting for that to be converted into an opera. Naval battle ballets; patriotic blues and red; and the bass parts go to the government bureaucrats.

Not quite the same, but How many Lowe's would Rob Lowe rob if Rob Lowe would rob Lowe's?

Back in their day (Joesph F Smith) I think most men wore a beard. @Just_A_Guy, you were around back then. Any truth to that? 😜 Joseph Smith dies under clean-shaven #10 John Tyler. We've got pictures of chin-bald Brigham in his early tenure. The bearded Young dies between #18-19 tenure of bearded Grand and Hayes (note trend-setting Lincoln also a decade earlier). John Taylor is prophet while the mustachioed Arthur and Cleveland serve (perhaps the chin curtain was counter-culture?). Beards haven't fully gone out of vogue in Woodruff's time, as Harrison attests firmly sandwiched between Cleveland. Joseph F. Smith looks to be bearded in a time of transition, when the mustache was deemed a sufficient water-strainer (#26-#28, see Roosevelt and Taft). After Wilson facial hair looks to have fallen out of favor so only Heber J. Grant and George Albert Smith are men-out-of-time and you can see their mouth coifs are vastly different from previous prophets (except maybe Woodruff).

Yeah, could you you imagine how liberals would act if there was another Kennedy running for public office?

Alternate title for Trib article: Bay Area Relief Society Finally Deemed Reverent Enough to Rejoin Congregation

For those outside the US, Thanksgiving is something of a harvest festival made into a national holiday by Abraham Lincoln (yes, THAT Lincoln). Every time someone sets up Christmas decorations too early a turkey dies. After seeing how difficult it is to change American culture, Lincoln stopped fighting it and declared an annual holiday for eating dead turkey.