I was browsing through an email from Meridian, and saw this advertised for a tour of "Book of Mormon lands", set for April next year:
Join Jack S. Marshall for his inspiring and humorous lectures-at-sea during this exciting testimony-building experience to Mayan ruins. Visit the fascinating ruins of Tulum AND Chichen Itza from Cozumel led by LDS guides from Mexico. Compare the vast differences of these two magnificent ruins! Swim with friendly stingrays and try snorkeling in beautiful Grand Cayman. Climb Dunn’s River Falls or swim with a dolphin in Ocho Rios. Sail with the Marshalls and the Cruise Lady LDS group and create memories to last a lifetime!
Have they ever heard of Steve Irwin? I have actually snorkeled and done spear-fishing in Grand Cayman, and it is a beautiful place. On recollection I did see a couple of stingrays, but if I went back I'll be keeping my distance.
Ray A wrote:I was browsing through an email from Meridian, and saw this advertised for a tour of "Book of Mormon lands", set for April next year:
Join Jack S. Marshall for his inspiring and humorous lectures-at-sea during this exciting testimony-building experience to Mayan ruins. Visit the fascinating ruins of Tulum AND Chichen Itza from Cozumel led by LDS guides from Mexico. Compare the vast differences of these two magnificent ruins! Swim with friendly stingrays and try snorkeling in beautiful Grand Cayman. Climb Dunn’s River Falls or swim with a dolphin in Ocho Rios. Sail with the Marshalls and the Cruise Lady LDS group and create memories to last a lifetime!
Have they ever heard of Steve Irwin? I have actually snorkeled and done spear-fishing in Grand Cayman, and it is a beautiful place. On recollection I did see a couple of stingrays, but if I went back I'll be keeping my distance.
I am sure they are wearing the old one piece Mormon masonic temple undies while snorkeling. Stingrays have no power over the magic Mormon masonic wetsuits! The only problem is they are reallly saggy when they first come out of the water....
Hey, that would make a great slamtoon... a white short sleeved, above the knee wetsuit with the V, L , and - sewn into them... hey why not?
Have you seen the brown garmies that the military TBMs wear? The symbols aren't even sewn in anymore.. they are SILKSCREENED on the INSIDE... due to "persecution" when they take their top shirt off and other soldiers ask, "Hey did you rip EVERY ONE of your brown t-shirts in the SAME three spots or are you just wearing the same brown undershirt?"... I know this FIRST HAND as I wore em back in 1987.
Polygamy Porter wrote:Have you seen the brown garmies that the military TBMs wear? The symbols aren't even sewn in anymore.. they are SILKSCREENED on the INSIDE...
Hey, that's actually not such a bad idea. You could silkscreen the insides of the regular white-collar shirts that people wear on Sundays--no need for actual garment tops!
Heck, you could also silkscreen the insides of T-shirts. Hey, where can I get a "www.JosephLied.com" T-shirt with the garment marks silkscreened on the inside? (Don't want to break my covenants, you know.)
Polygamy Porter wrote:Have you seen the brown garmies that the military TBMs wear? The symbols aren't even sewn in anymore.. they are SILKSCREENED on the INSIDE...
Hey, that's actually not such a bad idea. You could silkscreen the insides of the regular white-collar shirts that people wear on Sundays--no need for actual garment tops!
Heck, you could also silkscreen the insides of T-shirts. Hey, where can I get a "www.JosephLied.com" T-shirt with the garment marks silkscreened on the inside? (Don't want to break my covenants, you know.)
Ray A wrote:I was browsing through an email from Meridian, and saw this advertised for a tour of "Book of Mormon lands", set for April next year:
Join Jack S. Marshall for his inspiring and humorous lectures-at-sea during this exciting testimony-building experience to Mayan ruins. Visit the fascinating ruins of Tulum AND Chichen Itza from Cozumel led by LDS guides from Mexico. Compare the vast differences of these two magnificent ruins! Swim with friendly stingrays and try snorkeling in beautiful Grand Cayman. Climb Dunn’s River Falls or swim with a dolphin in Ocho Rios. Sail with the Marshalls and the Cruise Lady LDS group and create memories to last a lifetime!
Have they ever heard of Steve Irwin? I have actually snorkeled and done spear-fishing in Grand Cayman, and it is a beautiful place. On recollection I did see a couple of stingrays, but if I went back I'll be keeping my distance.
Stingrays are actually quite non-aggressive generally. I have hand fed many a stingray and once held on to the only captive albino stingray in captivity (or so we were told) as it took me for a little ride. Any shmuck can "ride" a dolphin. As for me and my house, we'll take a stingray to the other side of the tank.
Nort
The truth is a lot easier to see when you stop assuming you already have it. - Me
Stingrays are actually quite non-aggressive generally. I have hand fed many a stingray and once held on to the only captive albino stingray in captivity (or so we were told) as it took me for a little ride. Any shmuck can "ride" a dolphin. As for me and my house, we'll take a stingray to the other side of the tank.
Nort
Conjures up images from "Flipper". I know all the experts have said that the ray attacked Irwin because it probably felt cornered and intimidated, and was very unusual. I read of another attack not long after Irwin's, but the victim survived. Australia, probably like the west coast of America, is also known for shark attacks. People get paranoid about shark attack while some 3,000 people are killed in car accidents every year, and 19,000 die from tobacco-related diseases yearly. So we are sort of irrational beings, or maybe dramatic deaths affect us more. Look at all the obsession with the Titanic when we hardly blink an eyelid at 1 million Tutsi deaths. Anyone care to make a film on that?
I'm just wondering how the tour organisers know that the rays off Cayman are all "friendly". Did they interview them? I'm 100% certain no one, including Irwin, ever thought he die from a stingray attack. And Irwin would have been the first to tell everyone that all stingrays are "friendly". I thought it was a silly statement to make so close to the death of Irwin. I would have edited that out for sheer stupidity.
Stingrays are actually quite non-aggressive generally. I have hand fed many a stingray and once held on to the only captive albino stingray in captivity (or so we were told) as it took me for a little ride. Any shmuck can "ride" a dolphin. As for me and my house, we'll take a stingray to the other side of the tank.
Nort
Conjures up images from "Flipper". I know all the experts have said that the ray attacked Irwin because it probably felt cornered and intimidated, and was very unusual. I read of another attack not long after Irwin's, but the victim survived. Australia, probably like the west coast of America, is also known for shark attacks. People get paranoid about shark attack while some 3,000 people are killed in car accidents every year, and 19,000 die from tobacco-related diseases yearly. So we are sort of irrational beings, or maybe dramatic deaths affect us more. Look at all the obsession with the Titanic when we hardly blink an eyelid at 1 million Tutsi deaths. Anyone care to make a film on that?
I'm just wondering how the tour organisers know that the rays off Cayman are all "friendly". Did they interview them? I'm 100% certain no one, including Irwin, ever thought he die from a stingray attack. And Irwin would have been the first to tell everyone that all stingrays are "friendly". I thought it was a silly statement to make so close to the death of Irwin. I would have edited that out for sheer stupidity.
Speaking of Irwin, I wonder how many Aussie TBM IRwin fans have done and re done his baptism and temple work already?
After they bow their heads and say his name, do you think the proxy hears, "CRICKIE!" in their mind?