Anyone who has spent much time at all on the Bloggernacle knows T&S is the big senescent blog and the BCC is the young upstart blog trying to eclipse it. The thing is, they are morphing into odd caricatures of one another where their identities are being defined more as "not that other blog" than anything else. Any doubt of that was laid to rest today as the two of them mirror imaged each other in utterly strange ways. One careens into absurd unmoderated contention which drives the thread to be shut down, while the other graciously accepts all comers (perhaps silently deleting or editing anything inappropriate) and is pretty much contention free.

Not quite opposites, more like complimentary inverses. Take for example JMS's entirely too typical self-righteous rants and pouting contrasted with Evans' gratuitous empathy and pathos-filled apologies. If the two of them were in the same room, would their energies annihilate one another? Anyone want to contribute to get Julie a plane ticket to the Seattle Bloggersnacker and find out if the Nacle is summarily destroyed? I'll put up the first $20.

Steve Evans tells us he's converting to Scientology, since that's where all the really famous people are. And hey, Evans even has experience "acting".

Evans: SCIENTOLOGY!! HIGH FIVE JOHN TRAVOLTA!!!! WOOO!!!

Oops, looks like Travolta left Steve hanging... Amri's got this dance, Steve:

Amri: Stayin' alive with Scientology!

HT: Prime Snarker

Team SnarkerNacle has obtained, through great personal sacrifice and grave danger, copies of BCC's GoogleTalk IM chats, to discover the reason Ronan has been entirely unseen not only on BCC, but also on the Nacle in general. Excerpt follows:

Ronan is Online

Steve Evans: Ronan, its about time you got online! You are shirking your responsability to keep BCC's content superior to T&S's by not posting in your alloted time schedule and making pithy comments to other's posts!

Ronan Head: BUGGER OFF!
[translated: Leave me alone]

Steve: Ronan, as a contributing member you are expected to contribute!

Ronan: Sha oop ya blooee gawb!!!
[translated: be quiet you irritating jerk]

Steve: Ronan, come on, this is a team effort and we all need to bear the weight of overthrowing T&S and showing the Bloggernacle we are eminently superior to them in every respect! That includes you.

Ronan: BOLLOCKS! Footie on the telly! Een GUH LUND!!!
[translated: so what? soccer is on the television, and I am rooting for my home team]

Steve: Ronan, we have an image to maintain, and you know Americans don't care about Soccer and ...

Ronan is Offline

Steve: sigh

Intended recipient is offline and probably has not recieved your message.

*Translation of Angry Footballer Hooligan Britspeak to American English provided by FreeTranslation.com

Sunday was Fathers' Day around the bloggernacle. Except on FMH, where we are reminded that, in the big scheme of things, fathers really ain't got nothin on their wives.

And while we're at it, if you chumps aren't going to take the trash out and get the car fixed, why don't you just go to your room while we women handle it.

And dear, don't forget what they tell you every Fathers' Day, during Sacrament Meeting about D&C 121:39. You'd better just watch it buster!

Yes honey. We know. Do I at least get a card?

Kage's bags are packed, she's ready to go,
She's standin' outside the kids' door,
She hates to wake them up and drag them along...

But the clock is tickin', it's time to go,
Gate check the stroller and small bags stow,
Already she's so tired... she could die.
(oh, she could die!)


(chorus)

So be-have and smile for mom,
Don't make jokes about a bomb,
No juice now so you won't "have to go"...

'Cause Kage's leaving on a jet plane,
I don't know when she'll be sane again.
Oh, Kage, we feel your pain...


Curb check the bags, don't forget the tip,
Most airlines charge 2 bucks--a rip,
Skycaps get stiffed and your bags go to Rome.

Every place she goes, there in Utah,
She'll pack carseats to obey the law,
When she comes back she'll never leave her home...
(oh, ne'er leave home..)


(chorus)

So be-have and smile for mom,
Don't make jokes about a bomb,
No juice now so you won't "have to go"...

'Cause Kage's leaving--on a jet plane!
I don't know when she'll be sane again.
Oh, Kage... we feel your pain...

As the T&S Permabore crowd has returned to the seemingly endless debate on the Word of Wisdom, I came upon a super-secret sealed portion of the Church Handbook of Instructions. Skillfully removing the sealing band with my new and improved Leatherman tool, I came across a shocking addendum to the Word of Wisdom.

After a number of years, Bishops may come to find the afternoon sessions with members seeking confessional, counsel, or simply a sounding board upon which to unload their troubles and opinions to be quite unbearable. It is with this in mind that an exception to the Word of Wisdom has been made.

Bishops may, at their discretion, prior to the first of the aforementioned afternoon sessions, imbibe a maximum of two "shots" of any of the below listed spirits:

• Jack Daniels

• Johnny Walker (Red or Black Label)

• Jim Beam

It is hoped this exception will enable Bishops to more effectively endure the burdens of their office.

Wow. You learn something new every day.

Fathers’ Day is this Sunday, and we're wondering where the bloggernacle fathers are. So what if the scriptures and our prophets tell us that children and family life are pretty much the main reasons why we’re here on this earth, it is pretty obvious most men bloggers don't think one iota about their kids.

Perhaps these are some reasons for the relative silence on the subject:

1. My life is all about me, I blog about me, I am important, my children are ontologically irrelevant.

2. Your children do not make interesting subjects for blogging.

3. My wife blogs about the children, I don’t have anything to add.

4. I don’t have children...yet.

5. I do blog about my children, but nobody reads my blog, so its the same as not blogging on my children.