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      CommentAuthorgeek4life
    • CommentTimeDec 6th 2005
     

    23 is a great age.

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeDec 6th 2005
     

    95 and a half

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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeDec 7th 2005
     
    geek4life:

    23 is a great age.

    yeah. that.

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      CommentAuthorSpecialK
    • CommentTimeDec 7th 2005
     

    You're right, I think I'll stay 23 unitl I get married.

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      CommentAuthorBuzz
    • CommentTimeDec 7th 2005
     
    SpecialK:

    You're right, I think I'll stay 23 unitl I get married.

    Wow, it looks like I'm going to be 23 a VERY, VERY LONG time.

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      CommentAuthorgeek4life
    • CommentTimeDec 7th 2005
     

    geek4life=23

    Buzz=23

    Bug=23

    popthebag=23

    I know Brittania, Michelle, Evans and Miranda are also 23. Year 1982 rocks!!

    So who here isn't 23?

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      CommentAuthorcalifornia
    • CommentTimeDec 7th 2005
     

    Me. I'm 14.

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      CommentAuthorElChuy
    • CommentTimeDec 8th 2005
     

    21

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    bobthecow:
    geek4life:

    23 is a great age.

    yeah. that.

    well said.

    - popthebag

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      CommentAuthorash
    • CommentTimeJan 7th 2006
     

    27 but some people think I'm 19

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      CommentAuthorBuzz
    • CommentTimeJan 7th 2006
     

    I am no longer 23... sad day.

    I have now left the glory days of 23 and have moved on to the adjective-yet-to-be-determined days of 24.

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      CommentAuthorgeek4life
    • CommentTimeJan 7th 2006
     
    Buzz:

    I am no longer 23... sad day.

    I have now left the glory days of 23 and have moved on to the adjective-yet-to-be-determined days of 24.

    old fart.

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      CommentAuthorBen
    • CommentTimeJan 8th 2006
     

    The saddest day is almost yet to come my dear brother Buzz, Because in a year you will be a Menace to society!!!

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      CommentAuthorBuzz
    • CommentTimeJan 9th 2006
     
    Ben:

    The saddest day is almost yet to come my dear brother Buzz, Because in a year you will be a Menace to society!!!

    This is true.

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2006
     
    Buzz:

    I am no longer 23... sad day.

    I have now left the glory days of 23 and have moved on to the adjective-yet-to-be-determined days of 24.

    Doooood. Was your birthday on Saturday? Cause mine was Sunday and I turned 24 too. They should have a birthday dance at ULX just for me and you (and anyone else who had a birthday recently)

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      CommentAuthorBuzz
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2006
     

    Nope. My birthday was last Saturday, January 3.

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2006
     

    well...fine. happy birthday then

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      CommentAuthorBuzz
    • CommentTimeJan 11th 2006
     

    You too!

    • CommentAuthorBrouge
    • CommentTimeJan 26th 2006
     

    19. bahahahahaha!

    (I haven't even reached my half birthday yet)

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    ?????

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      CommentAuthorBuzz
    • CommentTimeJan 26th 2006
     
    Boogaloo:

    ?????

    41?

  3.  

    That's pretty close... whoever guesses it right get's a surprise

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      CommentAuthorash
    • CommentTimeFeb 7th 2006
     

    32?

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      CommentAuthorSpecialK
    • CommentTimeFeb 7th 2006
     

    35?

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      CommentAuthorElChuy
    • CommentTimeFeb 7th 2006
     

    53!

  4.  

    Ding! ding!Ding!.. we have a winner!!

    • CommentAuthorMesreth
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2006
     

    I've been repeatedly told I'm a rock, but actually it's 31. And I believe Ron is 35.

    I thought you became a menace at 27.

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      CommentAuthorElChuy
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2006
     
    Mesreth:

    I've been repeatedly told I'm a rock, but actually it's 31. And I believe Ron is 35.

    I thought you became a menace at 27.

    No, the menace is supposedly at 25.... though hotly debated.

    • CommentAuthorMesreth
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2006
     

    Hmmmm, well it was 27 back when I was when I was that age. [Emoticon not found]

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      CommentAuthorSpecialK
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2006
     

    The Menace bit falls under Mormon myths until someone can find it recorded in a publication before 1900. I suppose a transcription of records before then might also count, but they would need to be mildly authoritative.

    Oh, and it's 26.

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      CommentAuthorBuzz
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2006
     

    SpecialK is right in that it is a myth. It was supposedly Brigham Young who said it, but nobody seems to be able to find it recorded (sounds like Vaporware to me)

    And ElChuy is right in that it's 25. For confirmation, just go watch Single's Ward. It says it in there.

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      CommentAuthorElChuy
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2006
     
    Buzz:

    SpecialK is right in that it is a myth. It was supposedly Brigham Young who said it, but nobody seems to be able to find it recorded (sounds like Vaporware to me)

    And ElChuy is right in that it's 25. For confirmation, just go watch Single's Ward. It says it in there.

    Vindicated! Bwahaha!

    • CommentAuthorMesreth
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2006
     

    Sorry to disappoint -- 27, according to this interview. http://www.lds-mormon.com/60min.shtml

    The idea of 25 came about after the release of Singles Ward. [Emoticon not found] (at least that is what I think, I have seen no record of 25 previous to the time of that movie.)

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      CommentAuthorFinrod
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2006
     

    The whole menace to society thing isn't a myth and I suppose it was one of those comments that drew a laugh in general conference. The idea that Brigham Young would say something like that and mean it is ridiculous.

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      CommentAuthorBuzz
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2006
     

    I would like to see a link to it somewhere to solve my long quest. If anybody has found a reliable source where President Young said that, please post it!

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      CommentAuthorSpecialK
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2006
     

    Maybe you missed my first post Fin. Don't spread it as fact until you can verify a reference. So far no one has been able to show me or anybody I've asked.

    Same with the quote attributed to several apostles about how people from previous dispensations will fall down at our feet in awe over people in our dispensation with President Hinckley etc.

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      CommentAuthorFinrod
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2006
     

    Study logic... absence of proof is not proof of absence. You're putting forth a logical fallacy as a rational arguement. You cannot prove that Brigham Young didn't say it. It's like saying there's no proof that God exists therefore God cannot exist. Unfortunately, logic does't work that way.

    It's not documented anywhere that Brigham Young actually said, "Every single man over 25 is a menace to society.", but it's so engrained in LDS culture (the saying has been around since before you or I was born) that it's hard to believe that he didn't say it.

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      CommentAuthort_roach
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2006
     
    Mesreth:

    Sorry to disappoint -- 27, according to this interview. http://www.lds-mormon.com/60min.shtml

    The idea of 25 came about after the release of Singles Ward. [Emoticon not found] (at least that is what I think, I have seen no record of 25 previous to the time of that movie.)

    Steve Young:

    Do you wanna talk about the pressure I feel? Brigham Young once said, right here on these grounds, that anyone over 27 years of age that's not married is a menace to society. So here's my grandfather telling me to get with it. You don't think that I feel the pressure? I guarantee it.

    I'd call Steve a pretty decent source. Whether he said it amongst family members or as President isn't clear though.

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      CommentAuthorElChuy
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2006
     
    SpecialK:

    Same with the quote attributed to several apostles about how people from previous dispensations will fall down at our feet in awe over people in our dispensation with President Hinckley etc.

    This quote has been specifically refuted by Boyd K. Packer- he said that he never said it, nor any of his brethren..... just FYI.

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      CommentAuthorElChuy
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2006
     
    Mesreth:

    Sorry to disappoint -- 27, according to this interview. http://www.lds-mormon.com/60min.shtml

    The idea of 25 came about after the release of Singles Ward. [Emoticon not found] (at least that is what I think, I have seen no record of 25 previous to the time of that movie.)

    Just a thought Jared, but maybe a transcript found on a anti website isn't the most reliable source.....

    • CommentAuthorMesreth
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2006
     

    I should probably also put out there that I don't believe that it was actually said as so many people believe (at least not in the manor that people use it now). I just wanted to clarify that the myth was 27. [Emoticon not found]

    I believe the whole thing came from a discussion about how men don't have an excuse for not getting married, as it was at that time their responsibility to do the asking.

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      CommentAuthorElChuy
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2006
     
    Mesreth:

    I believe the whole thing came from a discussion about how men don't have an excuse for not getting married, as it was at that time their responsibility to do the asking.

    At that time..... like.... now?

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      CommentAuthorbobthecow
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2006
     

    i think i'll change the title:

    how old are you? (a.k.a. why aren't you married, you menace to society)

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      CommentAuthorgeek4life
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2006
     
    bobthecow:

    i think i'll change the title:

    how old are you? (a.k.a. why aren't you married, you menace to society)

    Only in Utah.

    • CommentAuthorMesreth
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2006
     

    Not my fault, I did everything I was suppose to do. [Emoticon not found]

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      CommentAuthorElChuy
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2006
     
    Mesreth:

    Not my fault, I did everything I was suppose to do. [Emoticon not found]

    I have felt like that....

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    What do you mean when you say you did evrything you were supposed to do.. I am a little unfamiliar with that aspect of the LDS culture.. school me please

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      CommentAuthorElChuy
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2006
     

    Well I just meant that I have felt many times like I have done everything I could- treated the girl right, been respectful, yadda yadda yadda, and the relationship still goes to pot... oh well, that is just what happens sometimes.. heh

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      CommentAuthorBuzz
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2006
     

    I must agree with Finrod's statement in that absence of proof is not proof of abscence.

    HOWEVER... abscence of proof is abscence of proof, and I believe that Brigham Young should not be attributed that saying until it can be shown that he actually said it. The prophets and apostles have been attributed many sayings that they did not actually say. I personally don't believe that Brigham Young would have said that, but that's just me.

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      CommentAuthorElChuy
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2006
     

    I think it's possible he might have said it.. but only in a tongue in cheek sort of way...