Posted in Mormon Humor, Mormon-speak on Jun 10th, 2007 10 Comments »
I am a huge fan of John Dehlin’s Mormonstories Podcasts. He has a new series up now on “Women in the LDS Church.” I haven’t listened to them yet (I’m saving them for my flight to Tokyo tomorrow) but I was thinking about the idea of it during sacrament meeting today, and at […]
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 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 […]
Posted in Mormon Humor on May 29th, 2007 15 Comments »
This site has been up and running for about a month now and there is a lot of joking that goes on here. I enjoy it and I can see that several others of you do as well. But I also worry about it sometimes. It raises questions and often perplexes me. […]
Posted in Mormon Humor, Missionary Folklore on May 28th, 2007 6 Comments »
While we often talk about stereotypes as a bad thing and are encouraged to get rid of them, as a folklorist I find stereotypes fascinating. They encode a lot of cultural knowledge that is useful (either practically, or for purposes of understanding culture). If one take the evolutionary position of memetics, these stereotypes persist because […]
Posted in Mormon Humor on May 25th, 2007 3 Comments »
Several years ago I was introduced to the gourmet culinary art known as “cooking your own wings” and “chowing down.” A group of friends and I religiously perfected the ritual of wing-eating and developed some very clear do’s-and-dont’s.
And while I do not know how many of you know much about the […]
Posted in Mormon Humor, Worldview, Language Blunders, Mormon-speak, Hoaxes on May 18th, 2007 5 Comments »
My mom sent me this sound-byte by email. From all the “from and to” email addresses I could see it had changed hands a few times. Anyone else heard this? Is it for real, or a hoax?
Posted in Mormon Humor, Worldview on May 16th, 2007 8 Comments »
I had a seminary teacher my last two years in high school who really took me under his wing and made me feel special. He was a really good guy who took a personal interest in his students and was able to see past my hot-shot cockiness to recognize the sincere desire I had […]
Posted in Mormon Humor, Missionary Folklore, Language Blunders on May 11th, 2007 4 Comments »
Some of the most popular missionary stories are the ones that deal with language blunders – either our own or someone else’s. Here are a few of the ones I collected over the years. To view more examples, click here. And of course, if you would like to add your own, please […]
Posted in Mormon Humor on Apr 30th, 2007 3 Comments »
I expect that most, if not all of you are familiar with Richard Dutcher’s departing words regarding his decision to leave the Church. He describes his situation by drawing the following metaphor:
Buddha once compared his teaching to a boat that helps us cross a river.
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