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'tis only the point which vanishes, when you're done using it - hence, Vanishing Point.

I thought it led to Shambala!

Congrats, @RickBulow1974! Glad you've joined us, and neat to see you pursuing priesthood blessings and a calling.

Ah, yes, this is one of my favorites. And 177, never, ever, the 176 version.

C'mon. You really expect us to believe this person sets the tempo? Everyone knows it's really the organist who does that.

Actually, this would be nice a lot of the time - some pianists/organists play hymns at their slowest tempo, which is almost always too slow! Time to play them at their fastest tempo - keep folks awake!

Sometime between today and 08 January 2019.

I've never seen or experienced that. 70min Sacrament 10 min break 40 min Sunday School 10 min break 50 min RS / Priesthood Handbook 2, if they haven't changed it already, shows the above schedule: 70-10-40-10-50.

Yes, it's very wrong. I suppose somewhere in the US there are good pretzels, but I've never found anything like what we had in Vienna.

Hmm. That's an interesting question. One could just as easily ask why we have anything other than the sacrament hymn and passing of the sacrament. While I couldn't explain why any given element was added to our sacrament meeting, I could easily find many good reasons for all the existing elements to exist - but those would be my after-the-fact explanations, not the original reasons.

Welcome, @Madam_Mim! Please eat a pretzel for me! One of those big, soft kind. I haven't had a good pretzel since I was in Vienna way back in the early 1990s.

Given that they're cutting the opening prayer and all hymns from the second hour, apparently the music part is being downplayed. Perhaps this does indeed mean that choirs and/or special musical numbers will either fade or be used more rarely, maybe even only as a special music-oriented meeting. You can fit two speakers in there, they just can't take 15 minutes each. Ways to free up more time for the talks and/or music: No announcements - or the only announcement is "please see the bulletin for announcements" - I know this will be painful for a lot of people, but only until we adjust. Shorter talks (some will be greatly improved by this; some words of instruction about stand-up comedy or family introductions may be in order when folks are invited to speak). More young men passing the sacrament - in my ward, they could easily add 2 more people and thereby speed things up and it would actually be more reverent (and better able to handle fluctuations in attendance) - I can't for the life of me figure out why they don't, unless we don't have enough worthy young men and they don't want adults to do it. (This does not mean I'm in a rush to hurry through this portion of the meeting, just that logistically, it could be done and still be reverent.) Some callings and releases are being moved from Sacrament meeting to the 2nd hour. Don't know that this will save much time for the Sacrament meeting, but minutes are made up of seconds...

Not sure why they couldn't, on occasion, still do a special musical number and ask the speakers to speak for less time (or drop the youth speaker, or however it is the bishop wants to arrange things). OK. I guess I don't understand what "individual musical pieces" means.

Sorry, couldn't tell you what it's rated - it's been years and years since I read it, I just remember liking all the Evan Tanner books I read. This is the first.

But really, we need a photo of pupechka.

Dogs hear hard consonants more easily than soft. Thus, a name which starts and ends with a hard consonant and is one or two syllables long is easiest for a dog to hear / distinguish from other sounds. Thus, I'll have to vote for the second.

I refer you back to the Wonder Woman thread - wherever that was. We're justified in our gawking and horror.

Boys aren't the only ones prescribed drugs for no good reason. Not that the feminists aren't part of the problem, but I think the "everyone must learn the same things in the same ways at the same ages in the same schools" fad that's been getting stronger for the past couple hundred years is to blame: (Should start at 15:14, but the whole video discusses the concept further.) https://www.youtube.com/embed/iG9CE55wbtY?start=914

Apparently so! Just look at these four, running about without a stitch on! (And no, the bells don't count!)