Sethbag wrote:Mitt's pretty much got the Mormon vote wrapped up. So who's he marketing himself to? The non-Mormons who are skeptical of him. And most of these people will be glad to see him eat some coffee ice cream. They've probably heard that Mormons are kind of wierd about these things, and this will knock one tiny little chunk of that wierdness away.
And the Mormons will go "tee-hee" to themselves and think Mitt's being really naughty, but in a cool sort of way. Maybe the really arch-TBMs will frown, but then hold their nose and vote for him anyway.
By the way, I guess the seeds of my apostasy were sown far earlier than I have previously thought, since back in the 90s I'd sometimes stop by Arby's and get their coffee-flavored shake. For a shake that one is pretty damn good.
Could be that the feedback in Mitt's receiver cause him to simply mistake the handler saying, "toffee ice cream" and repeat the mistake as coffee ice cream.
moksha wrote:Could be that the feedback in Mitt's receiver cause him to simply mistake the handler saying, "toffee ice cream" and repeat the mistake as coffee ice cream.
This?
by the way Toffifee, known in the United States as Toffifay, because on the product manager's PC the spell checker was switched off, the secretary was on holiday and no European partners were within rifle range.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
moksha wrote:Could be that the feedback in Mitt's receiver cause him to simply mistake the handler saying, "toffee ice cream" and repeat the mistake as coffee ice cream.
You'd think they'd correct it if that were all.
Tangentially-- this made me crave banoffee pie. I miss Scotland and its national obsession with sticky toffee.
I totally forgot that Juliann is a big fan of arguing that if pregnant women are told not to do something, that means it must be unhealthy and should be avoided. That's one of her goto arguments against coffee/alcohol.
Of course, there are lots of things that might be dangerous to a developing fetus that are not to adults. It doesn't follow from the fact that pregnant women aren't allowed to handle propecia that it is totally unsafe for men to use as a treatment for male pattern baldness. Really, this argument is profoundly ignorant.
And if you point this out to Juliann, she tends to fly off the handle. And if you are on her board, you'll get censored.
EAllusion wrote:I totally forgot that Juliann is a big fan of arguing that if pregnant women are told not to do something, that means it must be unhealthy and should be avoided. That's one of her goto arguments against coffee/alcohol.
Of course, there are lots of things that might be dangerous to a developing fetus that are not to adults. It doesn't follow from the fact that pregnant women aren't allowed to handle propecia that it is totally unsafe for men to use as a treatment for male pattern baldness. Really, this argument is profoundly ignorant.
And if you point this out to Juliann, she tends to fly off the handle. And if you are on her board, you'll get censored.
Yeah, since, you know, sushi is so unhealthy. Japan is practically a wasteland of obesity, disease, and early death.
"[I]f, while hoping that everybody else will be honest and so forth, I can personally prosper through unethical and immoral acts without being detected and without risk, why should I not?." --Daniel Peterson, 6/4/14
EAllusion wrote:I totally forgot that Juliann is a big fan of arguing that if pregnant women are told not to do something, that means it must be unhealthy and should be avoided. That's one of her goto arguments against coffee/alcohol.
Of course, there are lots of things that might be dangerous to a developing fetus that are not to adults. It doesn't follow from the fact that pregnant women aren't allowed to handle propecia that it is totally unsafe for men to use as a treatment for male pattern baldness. Really, this argument is profoundly ignorant.
And if you point this out to Juliann, she tends to fly off the handle. And if you are on her board, you'll get censored.
Maybe the new Mormon motto ought to be, "Serving pablum to all--dietary and intellectual--since April 6, 1830."
Sethbag wrote:Mitt's pretty much got the Mormon vote wrapped up. So who's he marketing himself to? The non-Mormons who are skeptical of him.
That's my guess, he's trying to be a good old boy without drinking beer. That Mormon favorite, ice cream, was the best he could do, so he made it coffee flavored. What a wild man.
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"As former Utah Gov. Olene Walker, a Mormon, once told comedian Bill Cosby: “Caffeine is fine as long as it’s cold.”
Apparently, more than a few Mormons are also confused about what is forbidden.
“I'm a practicing Mormon and I have my vices. I drink Dr Pepper,” Von Fugal told The Salt Lake Tribune's Mike Gorrell on Monday. “I know I need to look at that.”
Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction -Pope Benedict XVI
