Posted in Worldview on Jun 4th, 2007 19 Comments »
When I was a kid I tortured caterpillars for fun. I would hunt for them in the bushes in front of my house. Then I would put them in my dog’s water dish “for a swim.”
I would hunch over on hands and knees, eagerly monitoring every flailing wriggle, every feeble attempt […]
Posted in What is folklore? on Jun 3rd, 2007 10 Comments »
A friend of mine sent me this link to a Mormon Folklore discussion that took place over at Dave’s Mormon Inquiry last January.
The discussion was good but the comments have been closed; otherwise, I would have commented directly on Dave’s site. But there are so many things I want to say that […]
Posted in Truth on Jun 3rd, 2007 4 Comments »
Brothers and Sisters,
I just heard the most heavenly tunes ever. I would that you could hear what I hear and comment accordingly. If only there was a way…
Posted in Mormon Humor, Mormon-speak on Jun 2nd, 2007 1 Comment »
Thanks to frequent commenter Jessawhy, I have a link to a great list of funny sacrament meeting stories over on Mormon Mommy Wars. I think that this posting has a lot of relevance to Glenn’s recent posts on Mormon humor. Like any group, Mormons have their own genres (or types) of stories, that have some […]
Posted in Truth on Jun 1st, 2007 10 Comments »
Did you see how red the moon was last night? I took this picture from my neighbor’s back yard. I think you all know that one of the signs of the times is that the moon will turn to blood (and I have never seen a more blood-red moon than the one I […]
Posted in Mormon Humor on Jun 1st, 2007 1 Comment »
Through the discussion on the previous post on Mormon humor, we saw the role that incongruity plays – we laugh because something is different than we expect it to be – what “should be” is not consistent with what “is.”
The superiority theory in humor takes incongruity and raises the stakes. It says […]
