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PAMD · Senior Member

Amish Mafia renewed for a second season, Hollywoodite.com

rumple · Senior Member

Remember when Discovery was science, Egyptian tombs and once a year their big blow-out was a couple of shows about sharks? Now it's gone from being about people with interesting jobs (including building choppers) to stupid soap operas about cults.

If we hurry we can come up with our own reality show, based on "recreations" of events that never occurred.

"Amish Loan Shark Week" would feature ex-CitiGroup executives dressed in fake beards and suspenders, who charge exorbitant prices for seed corn, "Tea Room Hitmen," about a group of angry, violent, heavily-armed grannies who never existed springs to mind, or "Cheer Squad Diggers," a group of peppy, upbeat teens who perform intricate maneuvers with metal detectors (following "Amish Mafia's" lead, we can cast anybody younger than twenty years old who bothers to show up for the audition).

Obviously, some people will watch anything, so let's get on this pronto, okay?

Ideas?

PAMD · Senior Member

Last evening, I did my monthly "bulk" grocery shopping in Myerstown, which is approximately five miles from "Lebanon Levi's" deck and siding business. I am fairly certain that I saw "Alvin Lantz" with a woman who could possibly have been his mother. He was not wearing Amish garb, his clothing selection for yesterday was similar to grey colored Dickies work clothing, with a high dollar pair of Red Wing boots. I did not see their method of conveyance to the store, as I left before they did.

There were no black Caddy's, nor black pickup trucks or SUV's in the parking area.

-- Edited by PAMD on Friday 15th of March 2013 12:47:34 AM

1Moparsick0 · Guru

Wow!!! I am really asshocked an amazed at this one.

rumple · Senior Member

1Moparsick0 wrote:
Wow!!! I am really asshocked ....

CLEAR!!!

Maribegood · Senior Member

I watched a documentary, an actually legitimate documentary on the Amish on Sunday night on the Destination America channel. For the life of me I can't think of the title right now, and I had wanted to post about it here. It essentially followed 2 Amish men in Lancaster and their families who had been shunned. They were shunned because they began reading the Bible in English, which is the language they could actually understand the text in, and asking questions about the church's doctrine based on what they read. It is a little sinister, because they were essentially targeted by evangelical Protestants for "conversion". Evangelical Protestants are apparently setting up "missions" next to Amish communities to convert the Amish to "their" brand of Christianity.

One thing that really stands out in the documentaries- Their extended families would not be interviewed or go on camera, because that kind of offense earns an immediate excommunication in the Old Order Amish community in Lancaster. So dear Esther on Amish Mafia? Yeah, the chick is definitely playing dress up. She may have been Amish at one point, as was probably Alvin, but being on camera would have them both expelled from the community.

I hope that documentary is rerun so I can post the title.

-- Edited by Maribegood on Tuesday 19th of March 2013 11:26:56 AM

1Moparsick0 · Guru

PAMD wrote:
Last evening, I did my monthly "bulk" grocery shopping in Myerstown, which is approximately five miles from "Lebanon Levi's" deck and siding business. I am fairly certain that I saw "Alvin Lantz" with a woman who could possibly have been his mother. He was not wearing Amish garb, his clothing selection for yesterday was similar to grey colored Dickies work clothing, with a high dollar pair of Red Wing boots. I did not see their method of conveyance to the store, as I left before they did.
There were no black Caddy's, nor black pickup trucks or SUV's in the parking area.

-- Edited by PAMD on Friday 15th of March 2013 12:47:34 AM

I still wonder how they are going to write back in Alan's part. I thought he had got sent up here on charges about the evading an eluding the police force though my hometown of Duncannon only to decide to try to find the nearest way out of Duncannon by driving in the northern bound lanes of 11/15 until he crashed after trying to cause choas with his southernly travels in the northbound lanes causing nearly quite a few motorists to evade hiting each other head on with his Jeep. He was found with herbal(green corn) and other medication such as muscle rexalants, an anxiety medication.

Now I am sure those sweet ole'boys in PCP would like to get better aquianted with certain parts of that fine young gentlemen. But as to yet I have not found that he might

be bedding with some of my Perry County Brethern. But I sure would like to know how this effects this seasons filming.

http://www.georgesheldon.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Alan_Lee_Beiler.jpg He does have a purrttiee mouth....

AnitaLaLouise · Senior Member

Totally off topic, but when you have a chance watch this one too:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/23/film-exposes-link-between-u-s-evangelicals-and-antigay-ugandan-movement/

Also brought to you by the loving "Christian" evangelicals.

rumple · Senior Member

1Moparsick0 wrote:
... though my hometown of Duncannon ...

Hey! There's a mecca there I have vowed to visit for years, the next time I go to get royally scrooooed for wood and guitar parts at the Martin Guitar factory in Nazareth. It's called the "Old Sled Works," a working old-fashioned wooden sled factory along with a gigantic museum/antique shop. (Here's a full episode of VH1's antiques show "For What It's Worth" with a segment about the place.)

I love that they have a huge assortment of the original non-electric, non-mechanical pinball machines that they actually let people play, and a working old-fashioned soda fountain where you can get sundaes or milkshakes. I can't wait.

Unfortunately, we can't make this year's "Sled Fest" on April 27th (one of the best hot rod shows around, from what I've heard), but we did order a sampler from Seltzer's, thanks to your recommendation. (Don't care for sweet baloney, though. Aquired taste, I'm sure.) Sorry we won't get a chance to chew that fat this year, Mope. Maybe later.

I didn't mean to disrupt this riveting conversation, so back to the discussion of fake-Amish felons and whatnot. Reader discretion advised.

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