# A Brief History of Ratdom - AKA the MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [May 14, 2007, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brief-history-of-ratdom-aka-the-mmp/404014 "2007-05-14T09:32:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brief-history-of-ratdom-aka-the-mmp/404014/241 "2007-05-18T08:18:49Z")
[QUOTE=HazelNutCoffee] **BooFae** , what’s a hot toddy? Must be amazing if it trumps having a hot man, twice nightly. [/QUOTE] Normally it wouldn’t trump the hottest man, however many times a night…but when you’re ill, it’s perfect. I make mine from two sachets of Beecham’s cold and flu remedy (lemon flavour) with a bit of sugar, hot water and a generous dollop of whisky. Drink it while it’s hot, retire to bed and snooze! I’m feeling better today - must be the combination of hot toddies and an early night with more than 2hrs sleep. Just as well 'cos 'im indoors will expect some amount of “celebrating” to be done later. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brief-history-of-ratdom-aka-the-mmp/404014/242 "2007-05-18T09:21:46Z")
[QUOTE=BiblioCat] Oh, please. I belong to a volunteer firehouse. You think I haven’t heard potty humor or inappropriate farts? It is to laugh! It’s like hanging out with a bunch of grown-up 12-year-olds. :smack: [/QUOTE] Your station must be exceptionally mature. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brief-history-of-ratdom-aka-the-mmp/404014/243 "2007-05-18T09:39:14Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] Your station must be exceptionally mature. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] Are you still bitter about losing the 2007 armpit fart championship? 😃 Caffeinated and off to work! ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brief-history-of-ratdom-aka-the-mmp/404014/244 "2007-05-18T10:08:54Z")
[QUOTE=dogbutler] Are you still bitter about losing the 2007 armpit fart championship? :D… [/QUOTE] Now, now, it’s not nice to gloat. 😛 I actually fell asleep fairly early AND slept all the way through. Till just after 5, which is a bit early, but I seem to be rather awake. So I guess I’ll try to get some stuff done and then toddle off to work. Hope everyone who’s ill/down is feeling better. It’s Friday!!! Yay!!! GT ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brief-history-of-ratdom-aka-the-mmp/404014/245 "2007-05-18T12:48:49Z")
:crawls out of bathroom, waves, crawls slowly back in: ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brief-history-of-ratdom-aka-the-mmp/404014/246 "2007-05-18T12:50:07Z")
**BioRosie** , you still out there? Did RosieBro ever arrive? I never entered the Armpit Fart contest, so I can’t be bummed out about losing. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brief-history-of-ratdom-aka-the-mmp/404014/247 "2007-05-18T13:06:40Z")
**IT’S FRIDAY!!** Long weekend Friday for us Canucks! Bitchin’. Armpit farts? Yeah, those were funny and all, but seriously, blowing as hard as you can against the crook of your elbow gives you much more creative latitude. Oh, uh … I guess this line of conversation isn’t helping **LiLi** much, is it? ::hands her some ginger ale and a couple of Pepto caplets:: Okay, gotta tend to bidness for a bit. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Blue-Sighted\_Shadow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@The\_Blue-Sighted\_Shadow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Blue-Sighted_Shadow)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brief-history-of-ratdom-aka-the-mmp/404014/248 "2007-05-18T13:07:44Z")
I’m up and off to do laundry. Got to have something to wear at the interview. Gulp! I hate interviews. While taking the laundry out, I noticed that the car is covered in pollen. I guess I’ll be going to the car wash, too. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brief-history-of-ratdom-aka-the-mmp/404014/249 "2007-05-18T13:29:12Z")
**gotti** , good for Moms. I’m sure you are relieved. **EMS!!!** Oh, just drop a bomb like that and expect us to just nod and such? As if!! Get us a link to that gown right now! 😉 Oh, and congrats on the upcoming closing. **li-li** , peanut butter toast, I tell ya. Happy Pre-Birfday, **taters** , you sweet young thing! 😃 Billing Hell commences today so I’m off. Tupeg ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brief-history-of-ratdom-aka-the-mmp/404014/250 "2007-05-18T13:30:42Z")
Congrats, **ems**!! When come back, bring details! Where did you meet the Mr.-ems-to-be? Is he why you moved? When’s the wedding? And post pix of the wedding gown asap! 😛 And good thoughts headed out for your dad. [QUOTE=Jahdra] **taxi** , for your yarn question… [/QUOTE] Thanks for the info. I’ll post pix of my attempt once I get started after Memorial Day. (My instructor-to-be and I decided it’d be better to wait.) Has anyone seen \*\*Drae \*\*lately? If you’re out there lurking, we hope you’re ok! :: waves back at \*\*LiLi \*\*:: Hope you’re feeling ok. Tell Mr. Lissar that he’s got to pamper you. And then snuggle with the cats. My parents are (finally) coming to visit this weekend. It’s been a year since they’ve been here which was when they helped me move. So I guess that also means it’s been a year since I moved here! :eek: And two years since I met KeithT in person! Hmm… we’ll have to ditch the parents for a while and do some “celebrating” on Sunday I think. 😉 Anyway, we’re going to go to the zoo ('cause even if we’ve been there three zillion times already, my parents haven’t), the science museum, and an art museum. And we’re going to our favorite seafood place. And then we’ll cook for them a bit since a) we like to cook, b) we don’t often have people to… I’d say “appreciate” but **swampy** ’s turned that into a dirty word… eat our food and tell us what marvelous cooks we are, and c) we actually get to use the nice-ish dishes we got for our wedding and some placemats! So it should be a fun weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brief-history-of-ratdom-aka-the-mmp/404014/251 "2007-05-18T13:36:10Z")
:: Leaps through the thread powered by her AWESOME THIGHS :: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brief-history-of-ratdom-aka-the-mmp/404014/252 "2007-05-18T13:41:30Z")
I _love_ my mother. She just phoned to ask if there’s anything she can do, and she’ll be coming down to pick up our laundry, and drop off groceries. Bless her. Yes, it is Victoria Day weekend, isn’t it? That means I get paid obscene amounts of money for working on Monday. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brief-history-of-ratdom-aka-the-mmp/404014/253 "2007-05-18T13:51:40Z")
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] :: Leaps through the thread powered by her AWESOME THIGHS :: [/QUOTE] You gonna run through it nekkid, too? ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brief-history-of-ratdom-aka-the-mmp/404014/254 "2007-05-18T13:57:35Z")
**ems** congrats on the house/nuptials. I’ll keep dad in my thoughts and prayers. Just think though… when he gets his new hip he’ll be **BionicDad**! Did you go to Davis Bridal and look at their $99 gowns. Everytime I see that commercial on the teevee it makes me want to know what a $99 bridal gown looks like since most of them are like gazillions of dollars. **BioTigs** JoeDawg is just sufferin’ so!!! He’s already had to endure treats, couch time, lap time and snugglin’ up under blankie. Poor Thing! Good luck on the interview **Jah**! **taxi** trust me, if your folks mention that they appreciate your home cookin’ it’ll be ok. It does not mean “special” apppreciation. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brief-history-of-ratdom-aka-the-mmp/404014/255 "2007-05-18T14:00:34Z")
Armpit farts? I never could do those, but at a hockey party a friend of mine taught me how to stick a straw into your armpit and blow…amazing results. We ended up with about half a dozen women sitting around with straws in their 'pits, and a couple of husbands/boyfriends looking suitably disgusted. Unfortunately one of the other attendees at said party had brought along a very small video camera and now we have to be really, really nice to him or we’ll all wind up on YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brief-history-of-ratdom-aka-the-mmp/404014/256 "2007-05-18T14:12:58Z")
No nudity; look I’m a 43-year-old frumpy mom, OK? 😛 **ems** I agree – let’s see that wedding dress! I’m in a wedding dry spell as of late; no one in my family has tied the knot in a while and my sisters aren’t showing many symptoms of it. Maybe next year for one sister. Anyway, it’s been quite some time for the squeeing and the purchasing of teddies and wiping away a tear as the little girl walks down the aisle _cue “Sunrise, Sunset”_. Anyway, congratulations! **Rosie** how are things? Hope you’re feeling better! We’re thinking of you! **Gotti** , so glad to hear the good news about your mother. I haven’t heard of that treatment before, but it sound somewhat similar to what they’re doing in prostate cancer treatment. I hope everything is successful for her! **swampy** give lil Joe Dawg some ear scritches for me. He sounds like such a cutie. Speaking of cuties, I was thinking the other day you should show us a pic of you and **ACBG**! He’s practically an MMP’er! I know what he’s eaten for approximately the last 2,345 meals, and I know his Appreciation Schedule™ without consulting my calendar (any more).\* And we’ve seen your mom. So anyway, you should introduce us. It’s only polite. - Heh ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brief-history-of-ratdom-aka-the-mmp/404014/257 "2007-05-18T14:15:59Z")
Yes. Pics of wedding dress, **ems**. And congratulations! 😃 **Ellen** , you’re not frumpy. I’ve seen pictures. You’re pretty! ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brief-history-of-ratdom-aka-the-mmp/404014/258 "2007-05-18T14:16:03Z")
I’mhereI’mjustoverwhelmedtodaywithgettingthingsfinishedbeforeIgoseethecrazypeopledoctorearlythisafternoonandIdon’twanttotakeanythinghometodobecauseIhavetospendtheweekendtakingthings offwallsandputtingknickknacksawayforthepainterstocomebyonMonday. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brief-history-of-ratdom-aka-the-mmp/404014/259 "2007-05-18T14:59:00Z")
Morning, all. Man, this thread is turning _weird_ this week. I like that. 😃 It’s cool and grey and damp here today. I’m sitting here getting a couple short rush things done for noon. I love the internet; they upload the sound file and a PDF of any paperwork, I download it, print as needed, and turn the sound file into boring words on paper and email it back in. It sure beats all the FedExing we normally have to do. This here technology is definitely Seriously Cool sometimes. But anyway, if I just sit here and talk about it I won’t get it done. So hugs/pats/ awws/whatevers as appropriate, and I’ll be back eventually. If I live that long. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brief-history-of-ratdom-aka-the-mmp/404014/260 "2007-05-18T15:10:20Z")
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] No nudity; look I’m a 43-year-old frumpy mom, OK? 😛 [/QUOTE] I don’t remember the guy’s name, but his MO was to run naked through a thread. I was making a reference to him; poking you in the ribs was a bonus. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brief-history-of-ratdom-aka-the-mmp/404014.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-brief-history-of-ratdom-aka-the-mmp/404014.md?page=14)