Per Mormon folklore, Martin Harris and his wife, through a series of heavenly mis-steps, managed to lose the original 116 pages of the what would have been the original BoM.

The very same seer stone that was presumably used to 'translate' those original lost 116 pages has now been dragged out its storage vault and displayed to the whole world.

Since we now know the 'prophet' doesn't needs to actually have the plates to translate them - isn't this the ideal time for old TSM to demonstrate his prophetic 'seerness' by strapping that brown egg to his head, calling forth those original plates out of the ether, and whipping out a new version of those lost 116 pages?

Just think - a THIRD witness for Christ!

Yeah! Take that Bitches!!

Kidding aside. Mark Hofmann's untimate forgery was to be the lost 116 pages which he intended to sell to the Mormon church for ten million dollars.

Apparently, the purpose of the so-called Salamander Letter supposedly written by Martin Harris was only to establish an independent sample of Harris handwriting as there is almost nothing in existence.

Yes. Imagine that. God's True Restored Church on Earth, and after all this time an entire 116 pages of its founding document are still "hidden up", while we have the Reader's Digest version of them.

C'mon god, those evil men are long dead, let's get a real uffishull translation!