Comments on: Oops

By: Researcher

Researcher — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:04:37 +0000

Oh my goodness, Ardis. My hands are not entirely clean in the matter, but are you ever going to live that beer post down? It’s amusing how many times beer and “mild barley drinks” have been mentioned in the past couple of weeks in the Bloggernacle…

By: Carol

Carol — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:49:31 +0000

I’m wondering what will be said about all the beer recipes on Keepa . . .

By: Steve C.

Steve C. — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:24:23 +0000

I think this is really indicative of how our understanding and observance of the Word of Wisdom was evolving at the time.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:17:12 +0000

Yeah ... imagine the fuss that would be made today if the New Era or Church News inadvertently published such a menu. Ha! It made me snicker (or smirk, or whatever, depending on how naughty I was feeling) when I ran across it.

By: Moniker Challenged

Moniker Challenged — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:06:58 +0000

Well, everyone’s dead, so I didn’t mean to suggest it was a major crisis. Even if it was used without permission, I doubt the folks meant harm by it. Just like my grandma doesn’t mean any harm with she cuts and pastes pictures out of encyclopedias to put in the books she distributes through the county historical society. I doubt the circulation of this publication was absolutely enormous.

However, it’s interesting to consider the possibility of mismatched beverage norms among LDS, as you mentioned Ardis.

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:51:42 +0000

And it’s also possible that, even if the menu was lifted from another publication, the copyright had expired, or the publisher’s copyright did not extend to the United States.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:12:57 +0000

That isn’t clear to me, Moniker. It’s not beyond likelihood that some LDS girls, even a YLMIA class, would have served tea and coffee in 1902 and sent in a report of their activity without thinking twice. That the world of the past can be so familiar and so unfamiliar at the same time is one of the reasons history fascinates me so, and we all have to be careful not to assume that something in the past always has the same meaning it would have today.

By: Moniker Challenged

Moniker Challenged — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:04:53 +0000

So….does that mean they just lifted the article from elsewhere? I think they have more to apologize for than mentioning tea and coffee.

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:49:33 +0000

Awesome, Ardis. This is priceless.

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:29:01 +0000

This brings to mind the old story about Brother J. Golden Kimball which ended:

“But the Lord knows I ordered Postum.”