# A Cemetery Walkin' MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [October 25, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cemetery-walkin-mmp/558237 "2010-10-25T02:35:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cemetery-walkin-mmp/558237/101 "2010-10-28T14:18:08Z")
**{{{Ellen}}}** Cars just seem to know when you have extra money. As do grown kids. 😉 I’m looking forward to the Renaissance this Saturday. It will be my birthday outing. My husband is so silly! He’s been singing Happy Birthday to my voicemail every day. I love him. _::zooms off - back to work::_ ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cemetery-walkin-mmp/558237/102 "2010-10-28T14:20:05Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > OK Ann, now I’m starting to wonder if _I know you_. I, too, am 47. Where did you go to college? I graduated from HS in '81. > > Everyone else: I’m having trouble upon trouble in my life! I’m not a big message-board expounder (despite having lived here at the Dope for the last 11 years) … but there’s been a lot of strife, illness, and tragedy lately, both in my family and the families of my friends. Sigh! Any good wishes or prayers you all would like to throw my way would be sincerely appreciated. ☹ Now that I have you handy, are the jackboots cherry-colored? I just happen to think bright red jackboots would be so cool they’d freeze. And good wishes sent your way, of course. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cemetery-walkin-mmp/558237/103 "2010-10-28T16:33:37Z")
Purple and black are my default colors, but cherry-red does make sense. Now I’m imagining those thigh-high vinyl numbers from the '60s. I’m not sure I could still pull that off. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cemetery-walkin-mmp/558237/104 "2010-10-28T16:40:26Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Purple and black are my default colors, but cherry-red does make sense. Now I’m imagining those thigh-high vinyl numbers from the '60s. I’m not sure I could still pull that off. pulling them off is infinitely easier than putting them on 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cemetery-walkin-mmp/558237/105 "2010-10-28T16:55:20Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > **{{{Ellen}}}** > > Cars just seem to know when you have extra money. As do grown kids. 😉 > > I’m looking forward to the Renaissance this Saturday. It will be my birthday outing. My husband is so silly! He’s been singing Happy Birthday to my voicemail every day. I love him. > > _::zooms off - back to work::_ AW - I didn’t notice I was first on 3! Damn. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cemetery-walkin-mmp/558237/106 "2010-10-28T17:00:14Z")
{{{ **Ellen** }}} prayers and good thoughts headed your way from south Jawja. It rained durin’ the night and has off and on all day so far. YAY! We need rain. Of course the rain will make the grass grow and in about a week it’ll need mowin’ but such is life. Yes, mow in November. Heck, I’ve been known to mow in December! ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cemetery-walkin-mmp/558237/107 "2010-10-28T17:15:29Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > OK Ann, now I’m starting to wonder if _I know you_. I, too, am 47. Where did you go to college? I graduated from HS in '81. > > Everyone else: I’m having trouble upon trouble in my life! I’m not a big message-board expounder (despite having lived here at the Dope for the last 11 years) … but there’s been a lot of strife, illness, and tragedy lately, both in my family and the families of my friends. Sigh! Any good wishes or prayers you all would like to throw my way would be sincerely appreciated. ☹ Most importantly, prayers and good thoughts are being sent your way. Second: **NS** said he was almost 47. I’ll be 47 next June - graduated HS in 82. Went to Campbellsville University, except it was a College back then. I’ve lived in Lexington and Louisville as well. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cemetery-walkin-mmp/558237/108 "2010-10-28T17:53:46Z")
Me too. Except for the Campbellsville part. I went to Bellarmine, then a college now a university as well. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cemetery-walkin-mmp/558237/109 "2010-10-28T18:15:48Z")
> [@Ann\_Onimous](#): > > Most importantly, prayers and good thoughts are being sent your way. > > Second: **NS** said he was almost 47. I’ll be 47 next June - graduated HS in 82. Went to Campbellsville University, except it was a College back then. I’ve lived in Lexington and Louisville as well. Wait, you’re only going to turn 47 **next year**? Get off my lawn, whippersnapper! 😛 😃 {{{ **Ellen** }}} More good thoughts going your way. Now, how about some pics of you showing off those knee-high Cherry-red boots…? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cemetery-walkin-mmp/558237/110 "2010-10-28T18:18:28Z")
Ho-hum. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cemetery-walkin-mmp/558237/111 "2010-10-28T18:31:46Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > Wait, you’re only going to turn 47 **next year**? > Get off my lawn, whippersnapper! 😛 😃 It’s not my fault my birthday isn’t until June! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cemetery-walkin-mmp/558237/112 "2010-10-28T19:23:59Z")
Hummph! Puppies, the lot of ye! ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cemetery-walkin-mmp/558237/113 "2010-10-28T19:25:04Z")
> [@Bumbazine](#): > > Hummph! Puppies, the lot of ye! Not me; I’m definitely a kitten! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cemetery-walkin-mmp/558237/114 "2010-10-28T20:24:27Z")
You young 'uns jest hesh up now! 😛 Today is the last of our warm. It’s supposed to drop to the 30s tonight. Mixed feelings - 80 was too hot, but getting below about 45… meh. {{{ **Ellen** }}} Poke tenderloin for supper - it’s in the rotisserie waiting to be turned on. Plus fried up N.O.T.-n-onions, and maybe some carrots? That’s all I’ve planned for today. I need to veg. A certain feline decided he wanted to play at 3 this morning. Apparently “Fling Kitteh Across the Room” was a fun game for him. It was after 4 before I dozed off again, but I get up at 5. So I’s tahred. Stoopit cat. \*\*FCD \*\*is taking tomorrow off. Not me, tho. Most of today was wasted at work. First when we got in, the network was dead - apparently the air handler for the server room died and it wasn’t back up and running till about 9:30. Then at 11:30, we did a retirement thing for one of the old guys at work, followed by cake. By that time, who wanted to work?? Plus the one program I needed was still kerflooey. Not a good day. But it brings me one day closer to Jon Stewart, my secret boyfriend, after Mark Harmon. 😃 Time to feed the doggies and start supper. So you kids better behave yourselfs while I’m busy. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cemetery-walkin-mmp/558237/115 "2010-10-28T22:14:14Z")
> [@Ann\_Onimous](#): > > It’s not my fault my birthday isn’t until June! 😃 > [@Noone\_Special](#): > > Wait, you’re only going to turn 47 **next year**? > Get off my lawn, whippersnapper! 😛 😃 > [@Bumbazine](#): > > Hummph! Puppies, the lot of ye! > [@Noone\_Special](#): > > Not me; I’m definitely a kitten! > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > You young 'uns jest hesh up now! pshhhhhhh - all y’all are a bunch of babes in he woods! ---
**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:** [October 28, 2010, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cemetery-walkin-mmp/558237/116 "2010-10-28T22:29:15Z")
Haven’t we had this discussion before, **FCM**? They’re both MY secret boyfriends. So, there! 😛 Hugs for **Ellen**. Hope things smooth out and get less stressful for you. Sorry about the flying feline,\*\* FCM\*\*. I am ageless. 🙂 Glad the car is better, **Germy**. I’m home, eating multigrain chips. (They’re from Whole Foods so they must be good for me, right?) Should seek dinner. Back later. Hugs. GT ---
**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:** [October 28, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cemetery-walkin-mmp/558237/117 "2010-10-28T22:53:32Z")
URF! We went to the [del]hog trough[/del] all you can eat buffet place for dindin. I should not ever eat a fried poke chop and a buncha fried chicken livers. Tummy is in revolt. URF! ---
**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:** [October 28, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cemetery-walkin-mmp/558237/118 "2010-10-28T23:31:54Z")
Home, and feasting on discount food from Kroger. I love markdown day! {{{{{Ellen}}}}} And I’m 39. : does horrific and unspeakable things to to old Mumpers’ lawns : 😛 ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cemetery-walkin-mmp/558237/119 "2010-10-28T23:38:55Z")
**doggio** - GET OFF MY LAWN! I got 3rd place in the costume contest. $20 Target gift card, which more than pays for my costume. Plus, a co-worker’s dog decided to turn up his nose at Nutro Venison and Brown Rice dog food. She gave me 3 30lb bags, which normally cost about $46 each. Score! StG ---
**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:** [October 28, 2010, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cemetery-walkin-mmp/558237/120 "2010-10-28T23:44:00Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > **doggio** - GET OFF MY LAWN! > > I got 3rd place in the costume contest. $20 Target gift card, which more than pays for my costume. Plus, a co-worker’s dog decided to turn up his nose at Nutro Venison and Brown Rice dog food. She gave me 3 30lb bags, which normally cost about $46 each. Score! > > StG :eek: : flees : Yay! Woohoo! on third place, and the Nutro(I tried that for my last dog’s ear infection.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cemetery-walkin-mmp/558237.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-cemetery-walkin-mmp/558237.md?page=7)