Would you rather go to General Conference or the Cannes Film Festival?
 

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La mer . . . . . qu'on voit danser le long des golfes clairs . . . .

This poll is like choosing between spending the night with a beautiful woman at the Ritz Carlton, and spending the night with Nacho Libre in the back of a pickup truck in Tijuana.

I saw Michael Jackson through a hotel window at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997 (he was in his hotel, waving to the crowd).

Can someone explain to me what the allure of the Cannes Film Festival is? If I'm going to go to the trouble of going to Europe, I'd do something more useful than watching movies with a bunch of underarm pit hair women.

I'd rather be in the same room with a prophet of God than in the same room with a bunch of celebrities I don't care about.

For me, it's not the celebrities, it's the beach and the sun. I'd spend the day in the sand, maybe pop up to Grasse to beat the heat, and probably stay in Antibes to avoid the crowds. Of course, I'd try to catch a film or two.

Beats the hell out of wearing a tie and listening to church talk.

LOL. I'm trying to figure out if Gordon Hinckley qualifies as the beautiful woman or Nacho Libre. Either way, it's not good. :)

If you want the beach, the north shore of Sicily, just outside the small pituresque town of Cefalù makes the south of France look like a landfill.

Besides, the seats in the conference center are very comfortable and you can sleep like a baby there.

General Conference. This question is so easy it's not even funny!!!!

Been there, done that.

There are much better beaches that are a lot less crowded and not in France.

IPU makes a good suggestion. I can think of a lot more.

Hey, I'm not saying France beaches are my favorite. I am saying that it beats sitting in church.

Seriously, I'd rather go to the dentist than go to General Conference.

Ouch.

OK, since you're a playing a game my kids love:

root canal, no Novocain, dentist is blind

or

gc?

I'm a wimp; I need the Novocain. As long as I'm numb, I can put up will all types of poking and humiliation. Oh yeah - and it has to be an American (USA - not Canadian or Mexican) dentist.

So, GC is looking better.

And, come to think of it, Salt Lake is beautiful in October and April.

Antibes is a nice beach, the only sand beach I can think of in France.

GC is so much better on the internet. You can speed read, not have to wait in line, fall asleep because you're too hot, and can actually see it visually. I'm better at written comprehension than listening to oral presentations.

And the south of France does not have the hairy armpits for the most part, it's in the interior farm girls whom you wouldn't look at no matter what.

I'm likely to see more boobies at Cannes then at GC.

Cannes, because if Johnny Drama can get laid there, anyone can get laid there.

Except for this year's Ensign Swimsuit Issue.

Obviously you've never won the RC Willey hot tub tickets, where you get to sit in the bubbler with the sister missionaries.

Which goes to show that beached whales will wash ashore anywhere.

When I first read this, I thought you posted that "you get to sit in the blubber with the sister missionaries" and wondered what the hell you were talking about.

Then I read Rocky's post and it all made sense.

Cannes has got a sandy beach directly behind the conference center where the films are shown. Clearly you can't get good french pastries and french bread in Utah so you have to go with the festival.

Albertsons has some great french bread and at a very reasonable price.

It is more than twice the price of french bread in France. Look the trip pays for itself. And you can see tons of nude German octogenarians (notice that I did not limit it to women? That was purposeful.)

Growing up in Bountiful with an old man who worked for the church I've been to conference more times than I've been to Lagoon (local amusement park for those who are unfamiliar.

Cannes would be killer.

I'm not thrilled with either choice. I've been to GC once. I went with my fhe group my freshman year. There was a looooooong line and those benches that we sat in in the balcony just killed me. The rest of my group sat in the middle of the row but I had to sit on the end with my legs in the aisle because they absolutely would not fit between the benches. Besides, I can watch it at home and/or buy the whole thing on dvd for $12(or thereabouts).

Cannes - Hmmm...I can't say that I would hate the idea of going, if presented with the possibility of a free trip, but I would rather sight see and experience France on my own schedule. But then again, it might be worth it just to see all of the stars there.

No benches in the Conference Center. Nothing but nice, soft chairs.

Yeah, this was in the Tabernacle. I understand that they moved the benches further apart when they did the remodel.