Happy Valley Photo Essay

[_Darth J]

So, basically, Fun for Family Night was/is a good book which received a good review.

Well, now you know, Simon, eh? I guess your time wasn't completely wasted in this serious research project.

[_Doctor Scratch]

The woman was eating a flippin' vegan burger, not exactly a top choice fo poh white trash. No one looks poor in that photo essay, they looked human.

Gee, do you really think so, Mr. Stak? I had always been under the impression that the "rural poor of Appalachia" were totally hooked on Tofurkey, soy lattes, and tempeh. I mean, what is a squirrel gun for, if not for hunting semi-firm tofu and wheat germ?

[_Kishkumen]

Gee, do you really think so, Mr. Stak? I had always been under the impression that the "rural poor of Appalachia" were totally hooked on Tofurkey, soy lattes, and tempeh. I mean, what is a squirrel gun for, if not for hunting semi-firm tofu and wheat germ?

I think we can forgive Dr. Peterson for not recognizing that the Shumways are a clan of hipsters.

Truth is Shumway deserves credit for making Mormons look so "edgy" and "happening."

[_MrStakhanovite]

I think we can forgive Dr. Peterson for not recognizing that the Shumways are a clan of hipsters.

Perhaps if the Shumway essay had 7,890 words, Dan would have been able to ascertain that.

[_Kishkumen]

Perhaps if the Shumway essay had 7,890 words, Dan would have been able to ascertain that.

Don't you go causing my brow to furrow as I contemplate that with the appropriate gravity.

[_Doctor Scratch]

I think we can forgive Dr. Peterson for not recognizing that the Shumways are a clan of hipsters.

Perhaps if the Shumway essay had 7,890 words, Dan would have been able to ascertain that.

He would have had to consult a Critical Guide first:

When I went into a music store to buy a recording of, say, Mahler's Ninth Symphony, I would first walk over to the bookshelf, if the store had one, to consult various guides to, or magazines on, classical recordings. Having familiarized myself with what the commentators had to say, I would put the guides back on the shelf and buy the version I had selected.

http://maxwellinstitute.BYU.edu/publica ... m=1&id=815

[_Kishkumen]

I think we can all identify with these words:

I am unabashedly proud of the Review. The late University of Utah professor and former assistant church historian Davis Bitton once told me that, in his opinion, the best writing in the church was being published in its pages. (I agree.) And another former president of the Mormon History Association took me aside many years ago at an MHA meeting to complain about the Review: whenever the newest issue arrived, he lamented, he had to put everything else down and read it from cover to cover, which absolutely destroyed his work schedule and his plans for the day.

I feel a similar swelling of pride in my chest when I think of all that I have accomplished in The Electronic Journal of Jaredite Studies.

[_MrStakhanovite]

Dr. Scratch and Reverend Kishkumen,

Excellent quotes, I toast the both of you.

[_RayAgostini]

Dan Peterson makes comments on Shumway's post, which he argued was his right (it was Time, wasn't it? Opinions allowed?). Thread confirming Dan Peterson as an "evil Mopologist", has now reached 18 pages.

Fly and sledgehammer, anyone?

[_Bond James Bond]

Gee, do you really think so, Mr. Stak? I had always been under the impression that the "rural poor of Appalachia" were totally hooked on Tofurkey, soy lattes, and tempeh. I mean, what is a squirrel gun for, if not for hunting semi-firm tofu and wheat germ?

They did until...the Great Recession. Thanks Pres. Obama Killjoy. :A