Summertime...? Without--video games?!

"In my day, we didn't have video-games! We just sat around and watched a potata' bake!"

Elder Borge was Elder Weyland's greenie in Falkirk, Scotland when I first heard someone mimic Dana Carvey's Grumpy Old Man. I thank Elder Borge for bringing me one of the bright spots of my mission. I may have a picture around here some where of the skit us missionaries did for the Falkirk branch. Hmm, let me check.

But you know, I'll continue with my thought while I'm looking, that was the way it was, when I was a kid. We had to think up silly things to do to occupy our time. Some were harmless, some were potentially life threatening, either for ourselves or for others. Fortunately, only the bugs really suffered anything fatal. And, we had a blast!














Knighton, Borge, Weyland, Allen

This is an awesome picture. We are performing our Grumpy Old High Priests routine at the Falkirk Branch Talent Night. Elder Allen kept falling a sleep while giving his own lesson, while the three of us would argue about who's lived the longest, and who's life had been the toughest. Allen would wake up and interrupt us intermittently. Everyone thought it was a hoot. Really, it was more like Monty Python than Dana Carvey, but Dana was the one who spurred us on.

Oh, the carnage!

Working on the second floor of the Vantage Building can be down right nerfarious. Note that the purchasing people are completely composed and fairly oblivious to what's going on around them.


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Motion Picture Madness

There was a time when all I did was watch movies, and Fox News, but movies were my true escape from reality. Some would argue Fox News is an escape from reality in and of itself, but perception is so very difficult to quantify I won't even engage the subject here.

So, on the topic of movies, then--I've seen very few movies, actually. Coming to grips with this realization makes thinking of a movie I could safely watch until the eyes fell out of my head, simple. Spaceballs.

That's right, Spaceballs. It has everything I need in an hour, forty minute package. It has every type of humor known to man, from satire to shtick to potty to physical to parody, and it's a love story... No! It's a Sci-fi love story.

It has gun play, and sword fights, and a pretty princess acting both dainty, stuck-up and butch all in the same scene, for crying out loud! The Princess Bride, my second choice, simply pales in comparison.

It has Mel Brooks, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, John Candy, Joan Rivers, Dick Van Patten & John Hurt. John Hurt played the guy in Alien who spawned the Alien. He returned to Spaceballs to do it again! Aauuww! You can't escape the surprises in this movie.

One more insight into Spaceballs. If you've seen Blazing Saddles, my third choice, you will remember the big brawl at the end of the movie where they move off set and run right into Dom DeLuise directing his "gay" song and dance production. That's Dom's minute, thirty in Blazing Saddles. Well, in Spaceballs, Dom's minute, thirty is as the voice of Pizza the Hut, the mob boss/kingpin, and Star Wars' Jabba the Hutt parody, who later in the movie gets trapped in his car and ends up eating himself to death. Oh, if only I was made of pizza, would I not share the same fate one day? But, Dom DeLuise! Who doesn't love Dom DeLuise?!

Spaceballs, all the way... 100%.

What to eat--what to eat--what to eat...?

I do not try to hide the fact that I love pizza. In fact, I think pizza is nature's perfect food, or at least man's best attempt to make up for what nature has simply chosen not to grow on trees for our immediate consumption. And, I can't think of a time in my life when I've been hungry, and looking for a snack or a meal, that if pizza were available I would have said, "No thanks." So, I'm certain that if I had to eat pizza, and nothing else, for the rest of my life, I think I would enjoy it tremendously. Although, I'm with Lucas when he pointed out that topping choices matter a great deal in this scenario.