# A little wager (& some trash talk) in the MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [January 15, 2018, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-wager-some-trash-talk-in-the-mmp/806667 "2018-01-15T05:48:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-wager-some-trash-talk-in-the-mmp/806667/101 "2018-01-18T14:33:40Z")
Ursala Kitteh has not slept with me the last 2 nights. I miss her little heft next to me, but I sure slept better without her squawking every time I moved. It’s 16F, sunny but windy, projected to get to 30F. In the 40s over the weekend. Heat wave! ---
**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:** [January 18, 2018, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-wager-some-trash-talk-in-the-mmp/806667/102 "2018-01-18T15:32:15Z")
We’re having a heat wave — like 20 degrees out there now. We may go 5 nights in a row without having to think about our pipes. This weekend, potholes or not, the Sportie may have to come out of the garage at least for a few circles around the 'hood. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-wager-some-trash-talk-in-the-mmp/806667/103 "2018-01-18T16:10:50Z")
LUNCHTIIME! That is all. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2018, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-wager-some-trash-talk-in-the-mmp/806667/104 "2018-01-18T16:21:34Z")
Took Gordie for a walk. He kept sticking his head in the snowbanks, like a fuzzy [Tony Montana](https://media.giphy.com/media/QInH0y1Ewthi8/giphy.gif).😃 It’s 23 American degrees here(wish it was 23 in foreign degrees). > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I guess this will get me ready for my grandbaby, who also doesn’t know what MS-DOS is… At this point, I don’t think he knows what Windows 10 is. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-wager-some-trash-talk-in-the-mmp/806667/105 "2018-01-18T16:30:32Z")
At this point, I don’t think said grandbaby knows what windows are, regardless of the number. But according to my daughter, the kid can kick! 😃 ---
**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:** [January 18, 2018, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-wager-some-trash-talk-in-the-mmp/806667/106 "2018-01-18T16:51:24Z")
Bright and N.O.S. out but cold with the wind chill. I rearranged the spice cabinet this mornin’. Got rid of some old stuff and it’s not as willy-nilly now as it was. That should make **doggio** happy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-wager-some-trash-talk-in-the-mmp/806667/107 "2018-01-18T18:01:53Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > The two baby engineers in the office were talking to the boss. Said the one who shares my office: “What’s MS-DOS?” > > _\_ > > I guess this will get me ready for my grandbaby, who also doesn’t know what MS-DOS is… The first computer I ran into was the first computerized ticketing system in the wild, we were told. I had standing orders that if the lights flickered, I was to dive down the stairs out of the projection booth, run to the office and type a command to restart the computer. “Boot W” No UPS, and could not start from its hard drive. No MS-DOS, it was running CPM… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-wager-some-trash-talk-in-the-mmp/806667/108 "2018-01-18T18:21:53Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > At this point, I don’t think he knows what Windows 10 is. 😉 Lucky. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-wager-some-trash-talk-in-the-mmp/806667/109 "2018-01-18T20:33:32Z")
This day is turning into a headache. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2018, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-wager-some-trash-talk-in-the-mmp/806667/110 "2018-01-18T20:37:38Z")
**{{{{Swampy}}}}** I’m so sorry for your loss. We ARE the older generation now. I have one aunt still, my dad’s sister, who’s in her 90s. My Mom and Dad are gone. Both my (younger) brothers are gone. Many of my cousins are gone. It sucks. I can’t even remember what the first computer I worked on (for actual money) was called. I do remember laying on the floor and flipping switched and pushing the ‘enter’ button to boot it up, and loading programs into it from paper tape. How far we have come. How much farther we could have come by now if it wasn’t for Microsquash. I’m being mugged by a mini-schnauzer who’s bored and wants to go outside, where it’s 46F and rainy. Later ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-wager-some-trash-talk-in-the-mmp/806667/111 "2018-01-18T20:41:46Z")
I took two short little drives yesterday. The doctor said I couldb, and by nighttime my back was yelling at me in very nasty ways. Today I am recovering, but my back is still not happy. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-wager-some-trash-talk-in-the-mmp/806667/112 "2018-01-18T21:35:36Z")
Home - helluva day! No clue what we’ll do for supper. I don’t feel like cooking and I don’t wanna go anywhere. Maybe an egg sammich? ---
**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:** [January 18, 2018, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-wager-some-trash-talk-in-the-mmp/806667/113 "2018-01-18T22:32:57Z")
We supped upon beast stew and corn bread again. 'Twas good and there’s ice cream! **MOOOOOOM** pizza! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-wager-some-trash-talk-in-the-mmp/806667/114 "2018-01-18T23:10:11Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **MOOOOOOM** pizza! There is no way that cannot be a long o. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-wager-some-trash-talk-in-the-mmp/806667/115 "2018-01-18T23:14:20Z")
My supper was a bowl of corn chex followed by crackers with almond butter. meh. I’m afghaning now. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2018, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-wager-some-trash-talk-in-the-mmp/806667/116 "2018-01-18T23:54:36Z")
**{{ Sari & Sunny}};** just cause it sounds like you could use them. Had a mid-day meal (about 3PM) at 5 Guys (my once-a-month visit) so not hungry now that dinner time is upon me; may snack something before bedtime. The temperature is back at freezing, but warmer weather is coming. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-wager-some-trash-talk-in-the-mmp/806667/117 "2018-01-19T00:28:36Z")
**swampy** , did you arrange your spice rack alphabetically? Otherwise, **doggio** could fall out with the vapors. 😃 I’m think I’m gonna like being fully staffed at irk again. I actually have the opportunity to irk on some of my ongoing projects. It got above freezing this afternoon, so we don’t have much snow left. I’m thinking the dog park this weekend to give Nelson a workout. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-wager-some-trash-talk-in-the-mmp/806667/118 "2018-01-19T01:19:32Z")
As I was walking from the driveway to the house this afternoon, a small rat leapt off the roof and bounced a couple of times on the lawn. He scampered over to the front door, and finding no admittance, fled to the West. An equaling puzzling item from last night. I was watching an episode of Wagon Train, and as Our Heroes rode down the mountain to warn the soldiers that about a million Indians had laid an ambush for them, I saw a mountain monogram. Apparently it is common to have huge concrete letters on [mountains and hills in California.](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/08/38/6e/08386e7f6ff5ae600fdd483ffe31702d.jpghttps://i.pinimg.com/originals/08/38/6e/08386e7f6ff5ae600fdd483ffe31702d.jpg) It must have been some nefarious Indian ploy. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-wager-some-trash-talk-in-the-mmp/806667/119 "2018-01-19T03:56:31Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > As I was walking from the driveway to the house this afternoon, a small rat leapt off the roof and bounced a couple of times on the lawn. He scampered over to the front door, and finding no admittance, fled to the West. Even the rats ding-dong-ditch **Flytrap**! [Ha-ha](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX7wtNOkuHo). ---
**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:** [January 19, 2018, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-wager-some-trash-talk-in-the-mmp/806667/120 "2018-01-19T04:48:25Z")
Had to go to work today. But at least the ice on the main roads melted [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-wager-some-trash-talk-in-the-mmp/806667.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-wager-some-trash-talk-in-the-mmp/806667.md?page=7)