wherein smiley is tempted to be an SC

[smileyeagle1021]

I may have to borrow that... simply beause Saydrah recommends it... oh, speaking of thursday, I just thought of another person we could invite... even if he doesn't post often and he *gasp* doesn't like Astro Burger...

ETA, Saydrah, when you say it's more religious here... you have no idea... I have before heard a weather forcast along the lines of "and it looks like it will be a beuatiful weekend coming up, I say this in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen"... seriously, the first time I heard that I was like did he just say the weather forecast in the name of Jesus
I've also heard people give speaking assignments in class in the name of Christ... hell I admit that I've before wished someone to have a "blessed day" before...

[Saydrah]

Doesn't like ASTRO BURGER?! *gasp*

Wait, I have no idea what Astro Burger is. But that still sounds shocking.

[Fenrus]

Astro burger = big awesome burgers with pastrami on top, and the best steak fries ever. ^_^

[Fenrus]

On another note, you've been to South Jordan? Wow.. the city boundary of west jordan and south jordan is a couple blocks from my house... so you've prolly been near me! Weird!!

[smileyeagle1021]

Astro burger = big awesome burgers with pastrami on top, and the best steak fries ever. ^_^

you forgot to mention best fry sauce in the city... can't forget the fry sauce.

Oh and Fenrus, I too have been to South Jordan... and West Jordan (fancy that )

[smileyeagle1021]

And yeah, Latter Days is probably the one you're thinking of, Smiley, and no, they probably don't stock it there. I'm sure you can watch it online, though. It's adorable. My best friend Siris and I always watch that as our "We're sad and boys suck but this at least has a cute ending" movie, with a box of tissues and lots of cookies. Or when I can't go over to his house we both watch it online at the same time and talk on IM about it. We're such dorks.

well, Saydrah, you'll be happy to know that not only did I add Latter Days to my blockbuster queue and moved it to the 7th place in queue, right behind the final season of Star Trek Enterprise.

[Gilgamesh]

We have municipal elections coming up, which amazingly I'm allowed to vote in (I'm officially resident). So it's quite interesting to see how the Finns do this kind of thing. ---

I don't really know how it's done in Helsinki, but generally speaking there's very little harassing (just MHO) going on. More typically either a candidate or some party people set up their tents on a square and offer coffee etc. trying to get the people come to them. I hate the idea of someone coming to my door to "convert" me. In addition, continuing the campaign on the election day is strictly forbidden. As much as I hate politics in this country at times, the campaign system is great.

Edit: So it's really the norm in the States to have these political door-to-door "salesmen"? The mind boggles.

[smileyeagle1021]

Edit: So it's really the norm in the States to have these political door-to-door "salesmen"? The mind boggles.

oh yes, it is quite normal... also normal for missionaries and actual salesmen...

[Fenrus]

And strange people just coming up to your door to say Hi.

I remember when I first moved out on my own, I had like.. 5 different people come to my house to "Welcome me to the neighborhood" and "Which ward do you go to?" (church thing, I guess) so... yeah... strange, strange people.

[smileyeagle1021]

"Which ward do you go to?" (church thing, I guess) so... yeah... strange, strange people.

yup, church thing... my guess would be that if you were LDS you would be going to either River Oaks 7th Ward, or Park Pointe Ward... kinda like if I were active I'd be in the Winder 14th Ward.

Am I the only one that finds it interesting that someone who has added Latter Days to their blockbuster queue can guess what ward someone would be in? (I am a somewhat self proclaimed Jack Mormon... that doesn't mean that I don't still remember anything from the church).

[Gilgamesh]

oh yes, it is quite normal... also normal for missionaries and actual salesmen...

Hmmm... Scary. The missionaries I understand, we get enough of them here. Why, just a little while ago there were these two mormons... Nice guys, really, but bad at taking clues - maybe it was the language barrier. It's quite impressive that they really learn a new language in order to go on a mission (they were obviously American).

The number of actual salesmen seems to have dwidled for some reason. I guess they've evolved into phone solicitors.

[mharbourgirl]

We live in a somewhat rural region of the province, so we don't get a lot of door-to-door anything given that walking isn't exactly feasible. We USED to get a few JWs pretty regularly, they kept coming back because my father-in-law loved to argue with them. That stopped the day my husband answered the door. He has... opinions on religion, and you had better be prepared to argue your case with facts that you can back up or he will stomp a figurative mudhole in your proselytizing.

Which just isn't as much fun as the MO of a guy I worked with many years ago. He was a serious herpephile (is that what you call it?), at the time he had two iguanas and a 12-foot boa. He used to get a LOT of JWs and Mormons banging on his door, almost every day, and he finally got tired of it. If the doorbell rang, he'd peek out a window to see who it was. If it was 'missionaries' of any sort, he'd answer the door...buck nekkid with the sleepy snake hanging around his shoulders and a really disturbing grin on his face. That's pretty much all it took. Things got quieter in his neighborhood after a while.

[Kogarashi]

Hmmm... Scary. The missionaries I understand, we get enough of them here. Why, just a little while ago there were these two mormons... Nice guys, really, but bad at taking clues - maybe it was the language barrier. It's quite impressive that they really learn a new language in order to go on a mission (they were obviously American).

Probably was the language barrier. And the fact that the average Mormon missionary is 20.

Speaking of the languages, I find it quite impressive too. A lot of the languages at the training center are covered in a 2-week course, after which they're sent off to their mission to learn the rest. The more difficult languages (such as Chinese and Japanese) get six weeks, maybe three months.

Funny story I overheard at my parents' house this weekend. Relative's friend's son was at the training center learning Spanish for a mission to a South American country. He went to his teacher and complained that he'd never be able to learn Spanish quickly enough, and the teacher went to the guy in charge and relayed this complaint. The guy in charge simply replied, "Send him to the Japanese class." A few days later, the son was willingly studying Spanish.

[Lace Neil Singer]

My favorite is when I had brought home the skull of the model skeleton from my bone lab to use for some homework assignments. Some Jehovah's Witnesses wouldn't leave, even after I told them I wasn't interested, and wished them a good day, but they kept insisting they had a message to share. I asked if they'd be willing to share it with both me and George. They said yes. I brought out the skull and introduced them to George. (that IS is name, actually. Our lab supervisor named him George, and so I had George's head at home with me) It was fun after that!!

I have a life size, very realistic ornament of a human skull; you have now given me evil ideas next time I get the god squad knocking on my door.

I did once aim a gun at some JWs; this was back at my parents' house when I still lived at home. Said parents had gone away for the weekend and I and my brothers and a few friends were sitting in the living room smoking, watching TV and downing a few drinks when there came a knock at the door. I got up to answer it.

Now, to fully explain the gun. It's not a gun, per se; it's actually a very realistic representation of a cowboy style gun in the form of a cigarette lighter. I bought it in a tube station off a guy selling them on a blanket, many many years ago and long before all the gun hysteria. My brothers used to love it and I'd hide it in my knicker drawer to stop them stealing it. xD I had it in my hand when I answered the door.

For some reason, the JWs didn't even give their pitch; I jokingly aimed the gun at them, due to several vodkas floating around in my system, but there's no way they could have been hurt. Not even burned; it had run out of gas. They didn't run, or anything undignified, just hurriedly walked away. XD

Seeing as the last time JWs had come to the door, my dad had told them to leave or he'd set the dog on them, I expect they chalked our house up as a house of nuts seeing as they never showed up round there again. XD

[smileyeagle1021]

Hehe.. I believe we'll see to that on thursday, now won't we?

Though I have a few ideas of things I could do that even your naked hotel adventures wouldn't prepare you for.

you know... after all the talk of doing something that would put my naked hotel adventures to shame... I'm rather dissapointed... hell, I don't even think there was a sagger in the restaurant much less something that competes with skinny dippers running around the pool or streaking through the hotel.

And I was looking forward to it almost...