# A Fishin’ we will go. MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [March 27, 2006, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fishin-we-will-go-mmp/350064 "2006-03-27T10:02:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fishin-we-will-go-mmp/350064/121 "2006-03-29T15:29:10Z")
[QUOTE=swampbear] I’d be glad to send the link to the webcast to anybody that wants it. 😃 The good part about it is I’m doing it from home cause it’s quieter there. And it counts as work time cause, well, I don’t usually sit around watching/listening to webcasts on the I.D.E.A. and Section 504 of The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as Amended for fun. Somehow I think a couple of beers and this webcast would go well together. Basil is a condiment? I thought he ran a hotel in England. Know what I think is a funny condiment name? Aioli. Always makes me want to say, “Ok, we’ll see you later. Aioli to you too!” Good stuff but funny name. [/QUOTE] Ah, a Fawlty Towers reference..quite possibly the funniest show ever. Well…fuck, when’s the webcast? It could be interesting. Definitely more interesting than school. It depends, **Draelin** , are you an Overlord yet? I’ve got no qualms about being drawn to an un-oogied source, but (hushes voice) I’m workin for an OVERLORD, here! by the way, a metric shit ton is equivalent to about 4 heaping assfulls, and roughly 54.3 quantities of packed vole rectum. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fishin-we-will-go-mmp/350064/122 "2006-03-29T15:30:53Z")
By the way **Draelin** , you’ve got 6 years on me. you know…FYI and all that nonsense ---
**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:** [March 29, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fishin-we-will-go-mmp/350064/123 "2006-03-29T15:31:05Z")
**Ashes** , that really does suck. Well, I’m glad you’re feeling better, at least. **Least Original** , all is forgiven. Do you happen to live near a Trader Joe’s? I take penance-gifts in the form of Triple Ginger Snaps. Basil is a condiment? Basil is an herb! Baking bread today and then _Firefly_ tonight. I’m trying to decide how much to bake. This is fun. ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fishin-we-will-go-mmp/350064/124 "2006-03-29T15:37:39Z")
Argh! People with colds should not be allowed to come to work. We should be able to quarentine them! One woman is here today and sneezing, coughing, and hacking all over everything. GAH! Make her stop! I’ve been sick once this year - thanks to other people in my office - and I don’t want it to happen again. There need to be rules on this stuff! ---
**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:** [March 29, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fishin-we-will-go-mmp/350064/125 "2006-03-29T15:41:47Z")
**Loune’s** got mail! Hey, you asked for the link after all. **L[sup]2[/sup]** why would you bake a firefly? Must it only be done at night? They’re kinda small so wouldn’t you need like a big pan full of baked fireflies? Besides, isn’t it a little early in the year for fireflies? Or do you stock up when they’re in season for year round baking? Is baked firefly good? Am I in a silly mood? Why do you ask? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fishin-we-will-go-mmp/350064/126 "2006-03-29T15:47:34Z")
[QUOTE=Lissla Lissar] **Ashes** , that really does suck. Well, I’m glad you’re feeling better, at least. **Least Original** , all is forgiven. Do you happen to live near a Trader Joe’s? I take penance-gifts in the form of Triple Ginger Snaps. Basil is a condiment? Basil is an herb! Baking bread today and then _Firefly_ tonight. I’m trying to decide how much to bake. This is fun. [/QUOTE] the answer is more. Always bake more. [QUOTE=taxi78cab] . . . One woman is here today and sneezing, coughing, and hacking all over everything . . . [/QUOTE] ::looks around cubies for **taxi** :: I thought you were a few hundred miles away from me… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fishin-we-will-go-mmp/350064/127 "2006-03-29T16:43:59Z")
[QUOTE=swampbear] Guess what I get to do at 3 pm today? I get to listen to a webcast about updates to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Section 504 of The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended! Envy me! Wanna know the really sad thing about all of this? I’m actually looking forward to hearing what the presenters have to say. Why, no, actually I don’t have much of a life, thank you for asking. 😃 [/QUOTE] Well, I’ve got something going on today at 3 to. Talk about coincidence. Or is it like that thing when women that hang out together start having the same cycle? If you hang out too long in the MMP, your schedules start to sync? Anyway, my 3 thing is fairly important, but not something I want to say what it is until it’s all over. Think positive thoughts for me! Susan ---
**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:** [March 29, 2006, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fishin-we-will-go-mmp/350064/128 "2006-03-29T16:50:10Z")
Positive thoughts and crossed fingers (man is it ever hard to type like that!) for **s\_f**. **Loune** likes Fawlty Towers (Twatty Flowers). There’s hope for ya yet young man. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fishin-we-will-go-mmp/350064/129 "2006-03-29T16:55:57Z")
Good luck with whatever it is, **Susan**. Of course, now you realize we’re all dying to know. I’m feeling icky and pained. It seems to improve and even disappear for a while if I am not bent at the waist. I spent an hour standing (thank heavens I wore comfy shoes today), and now I’ve got my butt on the edge of the seat, slumped back in a semi-reclined position, which makes it kind of hard to work. In addition, I took a Xanax when the pain started spiking just so I wouldn’t freak out and tense up, and what with the position I’m lying in, it’s making me wicked sleepy. 🙂 I have figured out the reason, though–On Sunday, I was ouchy. Today, I’m ouchy. The only things I did in common on those days? _Shave my legs in the shower_. Or maybe it’s just the very act of wearing a skirt at all. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fishin-we-will-go-mmp/350064/130 "2006-03-29T17:24:26Z")
Good morning one and all! \*\*Susan, \*\* best of luck to you on your three o’clock thingy. **Ashes!** I’m so glad you stopped in. I’m sorry to hear about your new car. I hope the insurance and all related issues work out. I swear, whenever one gets a new car, it’s like there’s a big target or big sign on it, that states, “Hit me! I’m new!”. That’s what happened to me six months after I got my Explorer. Oh, on the “sickies” in the office issue. I have been listening to a guy snuffle, snort, make LOUD wiping his wrist or the back of his hand across his nose and snort at the same time, and all manner of such noises since OCTOBER. It is driving me batshit! You’d THINK he’d find out what the hell is wrong with him, but NOOOOOOOO, he doesn’t. Aaaaagh! It’s gross. I loved _Fawlty Towers_ . Basil was a complete crack up. **Drae,** I hope you get to feeling better soon, and you too **FCM.** I wonder if our beloved \*\*Bumba \*\* is going to drop in and say hello… ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fishin-we-will-go-mmp/350064/131 "2006-03-29T17:25:36Z")
SO I finally got the inventory finished, up, and I got an excellent compliment from my boss. She said: “This is wrong. You don’t put the surplussed equipment on the same sheet as the lost equipment.” I know that doesn’t sound like a compliment, but when you’ve got a boss who will criticize your font choices, only one bitchy complaint is actually a compliment. Nothing can bug me now anyway, it’s my birthday tomorrow, so I’m talking the day off. I figure that if I gotta get older, I might as well do it in style. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fishin-we-will-go-mmp/350064/132 "2006-03-29T17:30:28Z")
[QUOTE=welby] SO I finally got the inventory finished, up, and I got an excellent compliment from my boss. She said: “This is wrong. You don’t put the surplussed equipment on the same sheet as the lost equipment.” I know that doesn’t sound like a compliment, but when you’ve got a boss who will criticize your font choices, only one bitchy complaint is actually a compliment. Nothing can bug me now anyway, it’s my birthday tomorrow, so I’m talking the day off. I figure that if I gotta get older, I might as well do it in style. [/QUOTE] Well, let me be the first to say, early even: HAPPY BIRTHDAY! ---
**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:** [March 29, 2006, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fishin-we-will-go-mmp/350064/133 "2006-03-29T18:26:33Z")
\ Clearing Throat \ \*\* HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!! HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!! HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY DEEAAARRR WEEELLLBBBYYY!!! HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!! \*\* ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fishin-we-will-go-mmp/350064/134 "2006-03-29T18:28:50Z")
ok - guess I’ll be second **Happy Birthday Welby** ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fishin-we-will-go-mmp/350064/135 "2006-03-29T18:30:15Z")
rats. 3rd. Oh, and, re my niece-in-law, they went back to the hospital last night around 11pm, and as of 12:30 today she’s had her epidural; the baby should be here in the next few hours. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fishin-we-will-go-mmp/350064/136 "2006-03-29T19:25:05Z")
Heh. Look at me, wandering into the MMP on _Wednesday_, fer cryin’ out loud. Hope everyone’s goin’ great! ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fishin-we-will-go-mmp/350064/137 "2006-03-29T19:25:54Z")
[QUOTE=Lissla Lissar] **Ashes** , that really does suck. Well, I’m glad you’re feeling better, at least. **Least Original** , all is forgiven. Do you happen to live near a Trader Joe’s? I take penance-gifts in the form of Triple Ginger Snaps. Basil is a condiment? Basil is an herb! Baking bread today and then _Firefly_ tonight. I’m trying to decide how much to bake. This is fun. [/QUOTE] You’re in Toronto, I’m in school in Buffalo. I SUPPOSE I’d be close, but I couldn’t, for the life of me, tell you where one might be. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fishin-we-will-go-mmp/350064/138 "2006-03-29T19:32:06Z")
_SmithWife_ & I took _Cinderella_ and _Bam Bam_ to the Museum on Saturday, and visited the butterfly room. I was trying to coax a butterfly onto my hand so my son could take a closer look, but the _attendant_ intervened: _“Excuse me, sir. Please **do no touch** the butterflies.”_ To which I replied \*“Sorry about that. I was just going to catch it and feed it to my son. Circle of life. You know?” 😃 \* He was not amused, but I thought it was pretty funny. Um, _SmithWife_ didn’t think it was all that witty, either. Oh well. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fishin-we-will-go-mmp/350064/139 "2006-03-29T19:37:14Z")
[QUOTE=Taters] I wonder if our beloved \*\*Bumba \*\* is going to drop in and say hello… [/QUOTE] Beloved? Aw shucks Ma’am. 😊 I love you too. In a platonic kind of way. (wouldn’t want **Mr. Taters** mad at me.) I haven’t been feeling too cheerful lately. See, one of our very good friends died of lung cancer last week. This has been happening altogether too much in the last few years and I want it to stop! Right Now! I’m also still having trouble with my new meds, so all-in-all, I’m a tad peckish. Not good company. Sorry. Happy Birthday, Welby!!! ---
**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:** [March 29, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fishin-we-will-go-mmp/350064/140 "2006-03-29T19:43:43Z")
Hey, I can shout across the lake at you! That’s cool. No one else in the MMP lives remotely near me. Foccacia, whole wheat, oatmeal and honey, a big pan of baked fireflies, and egg bread. I think it’ll add up to six or seven loaves at least. Tonight I’ll make more danish dough and fill it with strawbery jam and bake it on Friday. I can just imagine how happy Mr. Lissar would be if I melted our precious _Firefly_ dvds. I would be in big, big trouble. I should tidy the linen-closet-shelves, but I don’t feel like it. Maybe I’ll go through my closet instead. Or maybe I’ll read until the bread is done rising. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fishin-we-will-go-mmp/350064.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-fishin-we-will-go-mmp/350064.md?page=8)