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The menacing shark prowled the waters below BCC.

The fearless Steve "Fonzie" Evans defies death by jumping the shark! Could this mean the end is near?

The anxious Nacle crowd looks on, from afar.

He hits the ramp, he's in the air! Will he make it? Will our fearless Nacle stalwart make it to blog another day?

Find out, after these messages!

Ken Jennings, star champion of ABC's "Jeopardy!" drinks IBC root beer. Shouldn't you? IBC: The Beverage of Champions!

He's in the air! Will he make it?!

*SPLASH* It seems that the Nacle's recent lack of substantive content and posting has cushioned Evans' fall! He made it!

Whew, close one!

Admin caution: Keep the "Whack/No Whack" talk over on BCC... please... for the sake of the children.

You know its getting bad when Rusty beats us to the punch in snarking Kaimi for serving up stale horseburgers.

But, never fear intrepid Naclers! Team SnarkerNacle is here to help you avoid all of this nonsense by creating a new logo that all permabores must use from now on whenever they are posting on some tired old subject (like the nth permutation on homosexual something or other for example). Other boring bloggers must use it too! We, the tired readers with flame war weary eyes insist!

As long as you permabores use it on your post, we, the esteemed members of Team SnarkerNacle, promise not to snark that post, no matter how much of a retread it is. However, if you refuse to use it, we will include you in the weekly Baniku Burger roundup, and heap infamy on your head. Come on, this is a win-win situation (we even wrote it in Latin so Nate can read it!), you permabores self-label your gratuitous blogging floggings, and we the readers are spared reading your tired faltering blatherings. Yay!

So use it, or be trampled by the Four My Little Ponies of the Apocalypse!

File under: Ugly infighting

...to be scourged by faggots.

Adam Greenwood, pillar of exalted virtues, is not content to castigate the Nacle in general and his fellow permabores in specific with attempts to corral them with his righteous platitudes. No. He also has to point out to everyone that while he may be mean, critical, and hurtful to people’s feelings, so was Abinadi, so that makes it OK.

Some take him to task for his rather self-serving likening of the scriptures unto himself, but he ignores this based on the lack of ontological differences between God, prophets and himself. Anger is OK for Adam too, even though it really isn't. I don't know about you, but I have a tough time seeing GBH (or any other ancient or modern prophet) yelling at someone, frothing at the mouth the way Adam surely does. I guess that isn't an "ontological difference".

And, so, gentle readers, it looks like some behind the scenes contention there at T&S has resulted in Adam discovering he is cut from the same cloth as Abinadi and has spilled out into the public side of the Nacle with KHH and Kaimi kicking him in the shins over it (if anyone has any inside dirt, send it to snarkernacle@yahoo.ca). Shouldn't be too long before the other permabores roast Abinadam on the bonfire of their virtual vanities and then start in on each other.

Marshmallows anyone?

Let's get stoned, man! tmiLisa will be there, too! Here's a synopsis of her panel discussion:

The appearance of a "popular" new blog, “Feminist Mormon Housewives,” signals the rise of a new wave of feminism within sidestream online Mormonism as another generation of Mormon women confronts the problems of dirty diapers and frequency of sexual relations among married Church members.

How is blogging—-with its capacity to reach large numbers of people without requiring anything of them but donations to pay the bills and keep your blog operating--affecting the possibilities of feminism within the LDS Church?

Will pay-as-you-read Internet sex-talk forums help Mormon women be more aware of the problems of gender inequity in the Church and enable them to meet these challenges without being forced to choose between Mormonism and online exhibitionism?

Don't miss this event, folks. It's sure to be a humdinger!

as sung by Kiskillilli, JWL, with background vocals by Leahhona

I love to flee the temple
I'll never go again
Filled with the spirit of contention
You must listen to what I say
For it is filled with a right-wing agenda
A place of patriarchal oppression
I'll do all I can
To keep others out
This is my feminist duty.

You too must flee the temple
You shouldn't go someday
If you can't cov'nant with your Mother
What's the point of going?
Focus only on the Eternal Marriage, and
Forget we can be sealed together
As a daughter of Goddess
We've learned this truth:
I'll ne'er hearken to my husband.

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