Comments on: Parley P. Pratt Jumps in Where John C. Fremont Didn’t Stop to Bob

By: John Mansfield

John Mansfield — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:57:44 +0000

From the Santa Fe New Mexican last month:

New Mexico Tech scientists think they've found the largest spring yet in the upper Rio Grande, a few miles south of the Colorado border near Ute Mountain. The scientists have dubbed it the Lava Tube Spring and say the spring's crater is 12 feet deep and bubbles 6,000 gallons of water a minute into the Rio Grande. [ . . .] Bauer and Johnson, his wife, floated over the large Lava Tube Spring last fall. "The river was too high to evaluate the spring," Bauer said via e-mail. "This year we returned at very low water to check it out." When they returned, the science team inserted 1.5-inch-diameter pipe into the spring's crater. A 5-gallon bucket was fixed on top of the pipe to collect spring water as it rose above the river through the pipe. "We were able to get the spring water to rise as artesian flow nearly 4 feet above the river," Bauer reported.

Now you have the place for your next pack meeting, Brother Greenwood. Just contact the Quorum of the Twelve for a volunteer and a local synagogue, and you're set.

By: John Mansfield

John Mansfield — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:36:03 +0000

In other words, those were the Waters of Anti-Mormon.

By: John Mansfield

John Mansfield — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:34:22 +0000

Or maybe it was an old Lamanite curse that none would ever be baptized in that water.

By: John Mansfield

John Mansfield — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:32:04 +0000

Sorry to have left you hanging on that point, Brother Evans. I attribute the inability to descend to upwelling of the water at a prohibitive flow rate.

By: Vader

Vader — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:25:38 +0000

Parley being able to walk on water does not surprise me so much. I can’t explain the others having the same experience.

By: Steve Evans

Steve Evans — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:45:51 +0000

Still waiting upon the savans to explain this delicious sweet bobbing water.

By: John Mansfield

John Mansfield — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:42:24 +0000

Among the other fun things, I like Carvalho’s mention of going to “Conference.” A fine tradition we’ve kept up there.

By: Adam Greenwood

Adam Greenwood — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:24:08 +0000

See, kids, you don’t need to drink to have fun!

All you need is a few friends, an Apostle, a Sephardic Jew, and a remote mountain spring with odd physical properties.

By: John Mansfield

John Mansfield — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:12:20 +0000

Or “bobbing for Mormons and a Jew.”

By: Vader

Vader — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:47:31 +0000

I feel inspiration for a Far Side-style cartoon coming on.

It would involve a couple of grizzly bears and a caption including the phrase “bobbing for Mormons”.