I think it’s good practice not mixing politics and religion, so I won’t. Yet, I have no qualms mixing politics, religion, and humor. If done in good taste, these are the perfect ingredients for some great comedy, particularly when the bulls eye is on you.

Right now there’s a frenzy of fun over at twitter on just how Mormon Mitt Romney really is. Many people believe Brother Romney is a died in the wool, true blue Latter-day Saint, and there are hundreds of tweets showing how right this notion may be.

You can get the political background on this new Internet fad over at Religion Dispatches. Joanna Brooks has done a great article on this ongoing Mormon meme.

Basically, many people are throwing in their two cents on Mitt’s un/orthodox beliefs. Of course, we here at LDSFriends.com normally have more than two cents to offer by creating our famous fun posters (which we have decided to call funovators, playing off of the popular demotivators you see all over the web).

We did this with the Smiling Guy at General Conference and it was amazing how far and wide our funovators went (rumor has it that people at Church Headquarters were passing them along). Who knows whether this will happens for good ol’ Mitt, but in any event we had a blast creating them.

Like last time, feel free to share your creative additions in the comments and we will make them into funovators. Also, at the end of the article is a long list of our favorite sayings that are being shared on twitter. Hope you enjoy them as much as we did!

MORE OF OUR FAVORITES

• Mitt is so Mormon, he will add the phrases “every fiber of my being” and “beyond a shadow of a doubt” to the presidential oath of office.
• Mitt is so Mormon he’d do an ad for the LDS Church: “I’m a husband, father, and leader of the free world. And I’m a Mormon.”
• Mitt is so Mormon he’d ask the Chief Justice to use a quad at his inauguration.
• Mitt is so Mormon he’ll make the income tax a flat 10% and collect fast offerings to fund Medicaid.
• Mitt is so Mormon that his campaign “oppo” team has done all the other candidates’ genealogy.
• Mitt is so Mormon he’s organizing his precinct walkers in pairs to knock doors with a very special message.
• Mitt is so Mormon he’d make the Book of Mormon required reading at the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
• Mitt is so Mormon he’ll start the State of the Union with the words: “I wasn’t going to get up, but the Spirit just carried me up here.”
• Mitt is so Mormon that his first act will be to make July 24th a national holiday.
• Mitt is so Mormon, he asks donors to stack chairs after fundraising dinners.
• Mitt is so Mormon he’ll award Ty Detmer, Steve Young, and Jimmer Fredette Congressional Medal of Honor.
• Mitt is so Mormon he refers to expatriates as “apostates” and non-U.S. citizens as “Gentiles.”
• Mitt is so Mormon that his campaign slogan is “What do you know about Mitt Romney? Would you like to know more?”
• Mitt is so Mormon he’ll rename the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms the Word of Wisdom squad.
• Mitt is so Mormon he’ll assign a friend to every new member of Congress.
• Mitt is so Mormon he’s already picked out a room in the White House for his year’s supply of wheat and beans.
• Mitt is so Mormon that he’ll change the name of “Cabinet Meeting” to “Correlation Meeting.”
• Mitt is so Mormon that late last night he snuck out to put 5000 plastic forks in the lawn of Jon Huntsman. And after that, he heart attacked Rick Perry.
• Mitt is so Mormon that he’s going to rename the 101st Airborne as “The Stripling Warriors.”
• Mitt is so Mormon, he won’t deport illegal aliens, he’ll just disfellowship them.
• Mitt is so Mormon that if elected he’ll require every state to have an Official Casserole.
• Mitt is so Mormon that the Marine Band will play “Praise to the Man” when he enters a room.
• Mitt is so Mormon that he’ll appoint Lavell Edwards head of the Department of Defense.
• Mitt is so Mormon he has volunteers combing through old G.O.P. voter rolls for less actives he can reactivate.
• Mitt is so Mormon he’d commission a Mod Bod undershirt to be engraved under the sleeveless dress of the Statue of Liberty.

I wish I could take credit for writing this, but the original creator is unknown. So, to not have this masterpiece lost in obscurity I offer it here for your enjoyment Ü.

Nephi:
Of goodly parents I was born
I’ve never drunk, I’ve never sworn
This is Lehi, he’s my dad
Laman, Lemuel, they are bad
And who is this? Why this is Sam.

Sam:
Yes, this is Sam; Sam I am

Laman:
That Sam I am, that Sam I am
I do not like that Sam I am

Sam:
In a tent, my father dwelt

Laman:
And it’s so hot, I think I’ll melt

Lemuel:
Our father’s brain is out of whack

Laman:
Yeah, it’s too hot, I’m going back

Lehi:
Then go and get the plates, my dear

Laman:
On second thought, I’m staying here

Nephi:
You said you’d leave and go away
Now all you want to do is stay?

Lemuel:
That Nephi always gets his way

Laman:
Here we are in this damp cave

Sam:
We would not be here if you’d behave

Nephi:
I will go and I will do
There’s the angel, that’s my cue
Laban’s had too much to drink
Now he’ll lose his head, I think

Nephi:
Look what I found, a brother from the quorum

Sam:
We will take him home, we will call him Zoram

Laman:
Our gold and silver we have spent
I do not like it in this tent

Lemuel:
I cannot read the Liahona
I must have drunk too much Corona

Laman:
We hate it here, we have no lives

Lehi:
Then go back to the city and get some wives

Lehi:
A tree, a tree, I see a tree!
The fruit is white, the fruit is free!
A floating building, could it be?
Why do they laugh and stare at me?
Laman, Lemuel, come and see!

Laman:
We will not eat your precious fruit

Lemuel:
We will not wear a tie and suit

Laman:
We will not help you build your boat

Lemuel:
We do not think that it will float

Laman:
No not this boat, it will not float
Not even in a shallow moat
I do not care what Nephi wrote

Lemuel:
We will not eat your fruit I say

Laman:
We will not eat it on a tray

Lemuel:
And we won’t eat it in a tent
Not even if your clothes you rent

Laman:
We’d rather have a can of spam

L&L:
We will not eat it, Sam I am

Sam:
You do not like it, so you say
Try it, try it, and you may
Try it and you may I say

Laman:
Sam, if you will let us be,
We will try it, you will see

L&L:
Say, we like this fruit of life
Sorry that we caused such strife
You’ve saved us from an awful jam
Thank you, thank you, Sam I am!

Recently we had the opportunity to interview Dan Smith, a.k.a. the guy smiling into the camera at General Conference in the below video. Dan offers more insight into the whole event. To watch the video interview please visit our April 15th post.

You may have picked up from our previous post about the smiling guy at General Conference. Well, in case you missed it or cannot find it online (the Church did edit it out of their footage about 15 minutes after it happened) we have the four second clip for your viewing below. It doesn’t seem that big of deal when you see it, but if you weren’t prepared for it, than you can image the entertainment it brought. Not to mention that this little stunt was done in front of millions of people. ~Paul W.

Recently we had the opportunity to interview Dan Smith, a.k.a. the guy smiling into the camera at General Conference. Dan offers more insight into the whole event. To watch the video interview please visit our April 15th post.

So, if you watched General Conference this afternoon you saw some kid pull the ultimate prank on international television. He simply stood up in front of the camera turned around and gave the LDS global community a goofy smile. My wife and I laughed and laughed. Something so simple, but truly pure genius. High five kid!

We thought we would honor this anonymous person by extending his few seconds of fame and create what the Internet calls Demotivators. Personally, I don’t think Demotivators is quite the title we wanted for this little project, so we are simply calling them General Conference Posters. Please know this is all in the name of fun and nothing more. ~Paul W.

P.S. Download a blank version of our General Conference Poster to create your own or put a saying in the comments area and we will create it for you.

P.P.S. View the clip that spawned all these posters.

“Hello Ladies…” A friend sent this recent viral video for the BYU Howard B Lee Library over and I was amazed at how good it was. The video was based on the current Old Spice commercials, “Man Your Man Could Smell Like”. Amazingly, the BYU spoof video garnered over 1.2 million views in four days. If you haven’t seen it, you are in for a treat!

Recently, General David Petraeus, the commanding general of the U.S. Central Command and not a member of the Church, began his remarks at BYU by reading the below list. His light-hearted top 10 list was welcomed with laughter and applauses from the BYU students. The list proves just how good the general is at recon with an unfamiliar religious group =).

General Petraeus laughing with BYU President Cecil O. Samuelson. Image Credit: Jason Olson

General Petraeus’ Top 10 reasons BYU grads make good soldiers:

10 — They have already been on many a mission.

9 — Army chow is no problem for folks accustomed to eating green Jell-o and shredded carrots.

8 — It’s not a problem if they don’t know what rank someone is, they just refer to them as Brother or Sister so-and-so.

7 — They never go AWOL. They just call it being less active.

6 — They will seize any objective swiftly if you tell them refreshments will be served.

5 — They know how to make things happen. In fact if you ever need a base built quickly in a barren wasteland, stride out to where you want them to start, plant your walking stick down and say in a loud voice, “This is the place.”

4 — They have innovative ideas for handling insurgents — like assigning them home teachers.

3 — They always have a years’ supply of provisions on hand.

2 — They are the world’s most reliable designated drivers.

1 — They understand how far Iraq has come over the last seven years, and they think that Iraq’s old spot in the “Axis of Evil” can now be filled by the University of Utah.

Source: Deseret News

So, I know Christmas is waaay over but this video was too good not to share. Conan O’Brien did a parady song on us and it really is funny.

I read some of the comments on NBC’s site and a few people felt it was attacking our beliefs. I think often we Mormons are overly sensative when anybody gives us attention—good, bad, or funny. Believe me, if I felt the video was bashing I wouldn’t post it. We, as a people, need to understand we truly are peculiar, and that if we don’t laugh at our uniqueness somebody else will. Anyway, I hope you found this as enjoyable as I did.

If you are having trouble viewing the video go here.

Today a friend sent me the below video. It is a LDS dating spoof off of the movie Twilight. It is particularly funny to me since my wife and I are 11 years apart. I was 30 and she was in 19 when we got married. In my defense I had no idea she was that young until our second date. Yet, now two years later with an eight month little girl I realize the Lord has a path for each of us, and sometimes it isn’t exactly what we planned—but it is always better!