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Leroy Jenkins at General Conference


[This guy's name is allegedly Dan Smith, visiting from Melbourne, Australia.]

I can only imagine what went through Dan's head when he decided to commandeer the last four seconds of General Conference:

[Pre-show] "oh my gosh.  we are sitting right in front of this huge camera.  If i stood up right now, I would totally be filmed!"

[After Conference started airing, but 30-seconds before it actually began] "oh! How inconvenient that someone is walking past me to find their seat.  It would be impolite to not stand up and incidentally take up half of the screen for 14 million LDS viewers...SHOULD I TURN AROUND?  No.  Not the right time.

[All throughout the session] "Must find an excuse to stand up as up again when possible."  [As he repeated this mantra to himself, he never stopped to think why? or should he?]

[Just before the end] "After the closing prayer, I'll be casually standing.  When the red light goes on I'll have my mate tap me on the leg indicating for me to turn around.  THIS IS GOING TO WORK!"

[After the final AMEN]  "LeEROY Jen-KINS!" [For those of you who don't get the World Of Warcraft allusion, do yourself a favor and DO NOT look it up. Basically, I'm trying to say that Dan wasn't thinking.  He just thought it would be cool to be famous, regardless of the consequences.]

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  1. yeah I totally noticed him and was just happy that all he did was smile and nothing more exaggerated. I didn't get the allusion though.

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