# A Crafty MMP, no frankenpuppies allowed! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [July 5, 2010, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-crafty-mmp-no-frankenpuppies-allowed/545584 "2010-07-05T03:47:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**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:** [July 9, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-crafty-mmp-no-frankenpuppies-allowed/545584/161 "2010-07-09T18:49:16Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > He is demanding a dozen jars of homemade salsa as payment for his services. I think that’s more than fair. At least it wasn’t [Redd Foxx](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redd_Foxx). ---
**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:** [July 9, 2010, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-crafty-mmp-no-frankenpuppies-allowed/545584/162 "2010-07-09T19:47:39Z")
Home from lunch with my friend. We had a nice visit. She told me about the plans for her son’s first birthday party. She and her mother are carving and painting refrigerator boxes to make a “western town” for all the little ones to play in. Complete with saloon and jail! I think it’s such a fun idea! She has about 60 people coming, with probably 25-35 kids. :eek: I bought him a present - its a train made of stackable wooden blocks that rolls. Very cute! Poor Mr Rebo had a flat tire on his route today. Set him back 2-1/2 hours on an already long trip. He’ll be late tonight. It’s my last day of vacation. Boo! It’s been nice and relaxing, though. My house is clean, too! Hugs, gropes and butt pinches as needed - pass 'em around! ---
**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:** [July 9, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-crafty-mmp-no-frankenpuppies-allowed/545584/163 "2010-07-09T19:58:19Z")
So let me tell you about my shitty afternoon. My grandparents were supposed to pick up the dogs from the groomer once I called them to let them know the dogs were done. So, I called the house. No answer. I called the cellphone. No answer. Repeat 5x. I called my dad and he left work (he was much closer to home) and came home to look for them. They weren’t here. He went and picked up the dogs and brought them home and went back to work. Upon his suggestion, I called my grandma’s hairdresser and there they were. They had left their cellphone in the truck. We were very lucky how this turned out, but I am fearful of what is yet to come. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-crafty-mmp-no-frankenpuppies-allowed/545584/164 "2010-07-09T20:13:42Z")
Oy, **Sticky**. I feel your pain. I really do. On a happier note, off to see Despicable Me! Can’t wait. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-crafty-mmp-no-frankenpuppies-allowed/545584/165 "2010-07-09T21:50:11Z")
Yay! Got an actual update up on my website. And finally uploaded the stuff to my mom’s site that I was supposed to. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-crafty-mmp-no-frankenpuppies-allowed/545584/166 "2010-07-09T23:17:02Z")
Finally home from the eye doctor. The only thing that changed was the reading portion of my bifocals, which is good. I have so many other potential issues that a small adjustment to a lens prescription is nuthin. BTW, on the trek home, **Swampus** gave me a dingaling \, and said a phone cable near his house was cut, so he has no land line or Intarwebs for the moment. He also wanted me to say he’s not sitting by his pool, putting on high-falutin’ airs, and snubbing y’all. Yeah, right. I got a toll bridge for sale, too. 😃 ETA: Took a look at the fox. He’s a little ripe to be doing anything but turning into worm or buzzard food. I think I’ll be taking it for a one-way ride in my pickup down a very long logging path… ---
**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:** [July 10, 2010, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-crafty-mmp-no-frankenpuppies-allowed/545584/167 "2010-07-10T00:15:29Z")
What? **swampy** without internet? That’s too awful to ponder. I am trying to print something from the iBook and it doesn’t want to. Grrrr. Gotta switch laptops to print, I guess. Back later with further scintillating reports. GT ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-crafty-mmp-no-frankenpuppies-allowed/545584/168 "2010-07-10T01:26:29Z")
I’ve been hiding from the heat and humiditity - but I’m back, and I brought a [LOL](http://cheezburger.com/View/3736257024) ---
**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:** [July 10, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-crafty-mmp-no-frankenpuppies-allowed/545584/169 "2010-07-10T03:12:41Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > On a happier note, off to see Despicable Me! Can’t wait. You’ll have to share how it is! We’d like to go see it too. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2010, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-crafty-mmp-no-frankenpuppies-allowed/545584/170 "2010-07-10T03:36:02Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > BTW, on the trek home, **Swampus** gave me a dingaling \, and said a phone cable near his house was cut, so he has no land line or Intarwebs for the moment. He also wanted me to say he’s not sitting by his pool, putting on high-falutin’ airs, and snubbing y’all. Yeah, right. I got a toll bridge for sale, too. 😃 Quick - lets all post **SWAMPY** jokes and then bury the thread with 50 posts each so he never catches on! 😃 ---
**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:** [July 10, 2010, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-crafty-mmp-no-frankenpuppies-allowed/545584/171 "2010-07-10T04:24:03Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Quick - lets all post **SWAMPY** jokes and then bury the thread with 50 posts each so he never catches on! 😃 You know why **Swampy** ’s internet really stopped working? He filled the pool with beer, got in, and tried to post. Drownded the poor computer. 😃 ---
**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:** [July 10, 2010, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-crafty-mmp-no-frankenpuppies-allowed/545584/172 "2010-07-10T11:56:35Z")
How come nobody else is awake on here yet?? We’re already up and at a hamfest in Pennsylvania. There’s not much going on here but my breakfast of sausage gravy and biscuits with a diet coke was only $1.50!! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2010, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-crafty-mmp-no-frankenpuppies-allowed/545584/173 "2010-07-10T12:36:58Z")
your breakfast reminds me of what, in college, we called “the dieter’s lunch”: fries, cheesecake, and a diet soda. 😃 ---
**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:** [July 10, 2010, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-crafty-mmp-no-frankenpuppies-allowed/545584/174 "2010-07-10T13:01:00Z")
> [@Juliana](#): > > You know why **Swampy** ’s internet really stopped working? > > He filled the pool with beer, got in, and tried to post. Drownded the poor computer. 😃 I try that _one_ time and it gets all over the intertoobz! 😃 Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ and gots my intranetz back! Like **BBBobbio** said a major cable, actually two of ‘em, got cut yesterday mornin’ and I was sans intranetz and home phone until about eight this mornin’. That’s when I got a call from att lettin’ me know everything was workin’. And yes I did lounge at the pool. When it’s a hunnert and three degrees out that’s the place to be! ---
**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:** [July 10, 2010, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-crafty-mmp-no-frankenpuppies-allowed/545584/175 "2010-07-10T13:38:09Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > your breakfast reminds me of what, in college, we called “the dieter’s lunch”: fries, cheesecake, and a diet soda. 😃 Perfect! This has got to be the most boring hamfest ever. And that is definitely saying something! 😃 ---
**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:** [July 10, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-crafty-mmp-no-frankenpuppies-allowed/545584/176 "2010-07-10T13:52:05Z")
Yay for restored internetz!!! Sorry it’s boring, **Sticky**. Hope it gets better. I didn’t sleep very well, but I’m awake now and have lots to do. I’ve got a shower to go to tonight, so I need to wrap the presents and find a card. It occurred to me yesterday that I should have thought to knit a blanket. Baby is supposed to be here in August, so I still have some time. Off to contemplate the day…and caffeinate. GT ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2010, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-crafty-mmp-no-frankenpuppies-allowed/545584/177 "2010-07-10T15:20:58Z")
> [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](#): > > This has got to be the most boring hamfest ever. And that is definitely saying something! 😃 You catering folk are weird, paying money to stand around looking at smoked meat. I’d be bored, 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:** [July 10, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-crafty-mmp-no-frankenpuppies-allowed/545584/178 "2010-07-10T15:55:04Z")
I am puzzled over how festin’ on ham could be borin’. I mean, it’s _ham_! I am lazy today. Haven’t really done anything except clean myself up. Yeah, I’m all that excitin’! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-crafty-mmp-no-frankenpuppies-allowed/545584/179 "2010-07-10T17:19:51Z")
I’ve been productive! bought an a/c, a printer, and a case of Trident Layers. Later, I’m going out to _Despicable Me_ and dinner. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2010, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-crafty-mmp-no-frankenpuppies-allowed/545584/180 "2010-07-10T17:23:57Z")
It’s been a fantastic morning for Clan Havoc. (That’s our family.) My BIL has LEFT THE BUILDING!!! Yes, the unproductive, noncontributing thorn in my side is gone. Our son is moving over into his old room, so our two FINALLY get their own rooms again. We don’t have a pool, so we’ll just go to the store. 😃 **Swampy** , glad to see you’re fixed. I mean, back. Your line is fixed. Aw, hell. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-crafty-mmp-no-frankenpuppies-allowed/545584.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-crafty-mmp-no-frankenpuppies-allowed/545584.md?page=10)