Comments on: Minnesota has its quirks https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/06/minnesota-has-its-quirks/ Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:17:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Coturnix https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/06/minnesota-has-its-quirks/#comment-550392 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:17:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/06/minnesota-has-its-quirks/#comment-550392 Yup, sorry, Ministry of Silly Walks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp2ZhhTBnKM

]]> By: Dunc https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/06/minnesota-has-its-quirks/#comment-550391 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:47:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/06/minnesota-has-its-quirks/#comment-550391 Hang on a minute… There was a series of books back the 80s that spun-off from the “Dark Future” tabletop game from Games Workshop, in which a suspiciously Mormon-esque cult was trying to summon suspiciously Cthulu-esque entities to destroy the world. One aspect of the summoning was to spill a heck of a lot of blood along a particular highway, which the cult leaders accomplished by convincing their followers that they had to make a holy pilgrimage along it and then letting the suspiciously Road Warrior-esque gang-cults massacre them along the way.

OK, so it didn’t score great points for originality (although there were some nice touches to the alternate history involved), but all the same… Is life imitating pulp sci-fi these days? 😉

]]> By: Lassi Hippeläinen https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/06/minnesota-has-its-quirks/#comment-550390 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:45:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/06/minnesota-has-its-quirks/#comment-550390 “Are they approved by the Ministry of Funny Walks?”

Actually, it was the Ministry of Silly Walks. I remembered it as Ministry of Odd Walks, which IMHO would have been even better…

]]> By: Chris H https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/06/minnesota-has-its-quirks/#comment-550389 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:49:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/06/minnesota-has-its-quirks/#comment-550389 I’m not even going to dignify the comments made about Representative Elison with a response. This, however: “I don’t usually send what the Lord is downloading to me, however this is very timely and significant I believe” confused the hell out of me.

It starts out with a gross lack of communication skills, progresses into a paradoxical understanding of technology, and the happy ending, I suppose, is the religious catch all “I believe.”

“what the Lord is downloading to me.” There has got to be a bumper sticker in here somewhere…

]]> By: Tony P https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/06/minnesota-has-its-quirks/#comment-550388 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:09:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/06/minnesota-has-its-quirks/#comment-550388 I saw the video and I got hopping made about it because of their so called conversion of the gay guy.

Friend of ours decided that the gay life was too torturous etc. so went the religious route. They had him shacked up with a former lesbian, etc. Now mind you, I found his m4m site profile and he shows himself as “bottom” so that must have been interesting.

About six months later he decides the reparative therapy isn’t making him happy so now he’s gay again. But he’s a total basket case.

]]> By: Sandra Porter https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/06/minnesota-has-its-quirks/#comment-550387 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:58:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/06/minnesota-has-its-quirks/#comment-550387 How do explain it falling down?

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/06/minnesota-has-its-quirks/#comment-550386 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:44:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/06/minnesota-has-its-quirks/#comment-550386 Yeah, and if it is such a way of holiness how come what should be a 25 minute drive took me an hour and a half this morning and an hour and 20 minutes this afternoon….. (do you suppose all those bumps I went over were praying people? )

]]> By: Groucho https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/06/minnesota-has-its-quirks/#comment-550385 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:15:23 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/06/minnesota-has-its-quirks/#comment-550385 If I could walk that way, I wouldn’t need the cornstarch.

]]> By: John McKay https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/06/minnesota-has-its-quirks/#comment-550384 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:48:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/06/minnesota-has-its-quirks/#comment-550384 If it’s the Way of Holiness shouldn’t they be out walking on it and trying to keep the wicked from using their road instead of hanging around gay bars annoying the paying patrons.

]]> By: Coturnix https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/06/minnesota-has-its-quirks/#comment-550383 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:21:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/06/minnesota-has-its-quirks/#comment-550383 “…those who walk in that Way…”? Are they approved by the Ministry of Funny Walks? Or is it a wink-wink that Way?

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