Asking for a friend.

Only in summer.

OK. Follow-up question: was that a "statement beard?" If so, what was he stating?

That things for him were always hairy.

"Time after time throughout his career as a Mormon general authority, Pratt played the fall guy to Joseph Smith and Brigham Young."
https://www.mrm.org/conflict-in-the-quorum

Why would anyone care? He’s DEAD!

dirtbikr Wrote:
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> Why would anyone care? He’s DEAD!


Hold on there. Just hold the bus. Can you PROVE he's dead?

He looks a bit like Will Farrell. ;)

Oh heckin heck He DOES look a bit like Will Farrell.

Those later pics though...they should be on billboards in UT with the slogan, "Polygamy, not even once!"

and amazement whenever Joe or Briggy announced some new revelation from God.

Orson would fall backward and land on his butt, mouth wide open.

Everyone would get such a kick out of those "Pratt falls", as they liked to call those zany antics.

Then there was the time that Newell K. Whitney suggested to Orson that they create a company to manufacture engines that could be used to propel aircraft hither and thither.

Orson was intrigued and started printing up "Pratt and Whitney" business cards, but later on he became extremely depressed because he realized that no heavier than air aircraft had yet been invented, and neither he nor Newell had any workable plans for manufacturing aircraft engines.

After that, when the earliest Mormon educational institutions had been established, he once proposed implementing a program for establishing special dormitories to promote bonds of brotherhood among students. He proposed calling such special dormitories "pratt houses" and calling the residents "pratt boys." He once eagerly explained this idea to Lorenzo Snow. Lorenzo then asked him why those names would be used and Orson said that it was to celebrate the bonds of pratternalization and promote pratternity. Snow then explained that the word Orson was thinking of was "fraternity"...spelled with an "f". Orson then became deeply depressed again...and spent an entire summer wandering around in an area that he called the "Bonneville Salt Pratts" for some reason that only a native of Japan could understand.

True stories, 100%, can't be denied.

I heard Orson had this cool sled named Rosebud when he was a kid, too.

and then the Martians came and ruined everything (space ship landed right on top of the sled).

All Orson could do is dejectedly say "Oh well" over and over until someone nearby snapped and yelled at him: "Stop with all the 'oh wells' you whiny twirp, or I swear I, a senior citizen, will beat you with this cane."

Rumor has it that when Orson was born, the parents at first thought it was a girl as he was emerging from the birth canal. The midwife started saying, "I think you now have a lovely new daughter...oh what's that?...Or son...."

ALL the lord's chosen are Hot, just some in ways we don't recognize, some are 'hidden';


GOT THAT you pipsqueaks?