# A Special Manly MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [August 23, 2010, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-special-manly-mmp/551120 "2010-08-23T01:42:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**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:** [August 24, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-special-manly-mmp/551120/101 "2010-08-24T20:02:40Z")
Sweetie is home. Dinner will be out tonight. YAY! ---
**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:** [August 24, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-special-manly-mmp/551120/102 "2010-08-24T20:47:41Z")
… or not. He changed his mind. Grilled cheese it is… ---
**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:** [August 24, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-special-manly-mmp/551120/103 "2010-08-24T20:59:34Z")
Today is my sixth anniversary at my job. They usually give out a certificate, announce it over the intercom, and give a card. I got nuthin. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-special-manly-mmp/551120/104 "2010-08-24T21:13:03Z")
I need to take a walk to reduce my roundness, but I just ain’t in the mood. I’m still getting used to the Boy In School schedule. I was going to walk home today, but he picked me up. It worked out in the end because we needed deoderant and an ironing board and I’m the only one with money right now, but dammit, my walk home is my exercise! Eh, it ain’t the end of the world. Letting Things Go is my resolution for this month. So far I’m doing pretty good. Although this does mean I’m going to miss Rifftrax Live: Reefer Madness. SpazCat’s Christmas present to herself: Rifftrax Live on DVD: Reefer Madness. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-special-manly-mmp/551120/105 "2010-08-24T22:26:20Z")
> [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](#): > > I have acquired a new bottle of almond emulsion. Tomorrow there will be cake! Huzzah! AHEM: HAPPY SIXTH ANNIVERSARY TO YOU HAPPY SIXTH ANNIVERSARY TO YOU HAPPY SIXTH ANNIVERSAY ANN HAPPY SIXTH ANNIVERSARY TO YOU ---
**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:** [August 24, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-special-manly-mmp/551120/106 "2010-08-24T22:40:33Z")
Happy Anniversary, **Annie**! And good thoughts headed out to **Saint Zero**. > [@Bumbazine](#): > > I ate part of a monkey once, in the Phillipines. Is that manly enough? See, Coyote, all kinds’a monkey topics are possible around here. Or Monkees. We watched the original series and I remember loving it. Don’t worry about being late for the MMP, **Missy**. Just jump in whenever you get here. > [@ScareyFaerie](#): > > > [@gardentraveler](#): > > > > you don’t say how to prepare the aubergine. Peeled and sliced, cubed, otherwise chopped? > > Sorry, **GT** , it wasn’t my recipe to start with and I just copied it from the Fat Club site! I cubed my aubergine but I think it would work if you just sliced it instead because it has to be layered over the pasta so it doesn’t really matter how you prepare it… Thanks for the additional info. That’ll make it easier for for people who are less familiar with aubergine to make. > [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > A skunk completely sprayed my whole yard and the house smells revolting. Have to agree with the EWWWWWWWW above. Home. Have already walked more than 10,000 steps today. Go me! Am considering what to eat. Pasta sounds good, but I might wind up just making a few quesadillas. Then I need to go get some yogurt and fruit and veggies. I’m running kinda low on them. Back after a while. 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:** [August 24, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-special-manly-mmp/551120/107 "2010-08-24T23:51:27Z")
Appropriate/inappropriate appendages crossed, prayers and good thoughts headed out **Annie**. Hope Ernie’s better soonest **Rebo**. How’s Dipsey? Dindin was teh num! I really outdid myself with that spiral cut ham. Course that means ham sammiches for a few days but that’s never a bad thing, right? 😃 ---
**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:** [August 24, 2010, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-special-manly-mmp/551120/108 "2010-08-24T23:52:25Z")
I love you guys. Thanks. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-special-manly-mmp/551120/109 "2010-08-25T01:26:33Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Nothing exciting going on. It’s just Tuesday. I never got the hang of Tuesdays… Or Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, or Thursdays for that matter… ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-special-manly-mmp/551120/110 "2010-08-25T01:55:19Z")
> [@Ann\_Onimous](#): > > Today is my sixth anniversary at my job. They usually give out a certificate, announce it over the intercom, and give a card. > > I got nuthin. ☹ Which is about what I’ll get for my 29th next month. I am, however, assured that the 30th makes up for it. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-special-manly-mmp/551120/111 "2010-08-25T02:06:26Z")
> [@Ann\_Onimous](#): > > **Saint Zero** just called: he has an enlarged lymph node. He has to go to the hospital tomorrow morning for a fine needle aspiration to see what’s causing it. > > Thanks for the prayers. Please remember us tomorrow. Will do! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-special-manly-mmp/551120/112 "2010-08-25T02:13:28Z")
I haven’t [LOL’d](http://cheezburger.com/View/3891621632) in a while, have I? Please vote for it. I might make it onto the main page. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2010, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-special-manly-mmp/551120/113 "2010-08-25T03:56:32Z")
It stormed, then I worked all day(day before school=:eek:) More tomorrow, including waiting for VP. [color=red[rosie[/color], I LOLed then I voted. Prayers sent, [n]Ann\*\*. I hit 8 years at my Job on Sunday, and 22 years in retail. Eight more years, and I’ll be legally insane. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2010, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-special-manly-mmp/551120/114 "2010-08-25T09:28:34Z")
I am at work and half the morning has gone already without me really noticing it. That’s how productive I’ve been! Had a mixed evening, I gained half a pound at Fat Club which wasn’t unexpected given the week I’ve had, but I’m still within my target range so that’s ok. I heard that my friend (remember the one having a sordid affair with a married man at work?) has been dumped and was wallowing in misery and red wine last night. I sent her a couple of sympathetic messages but it’s hard to do that when you have that “I told you so” thought in your mind all the time. Nothing else really, it’s pub night tonight so there will be beerverages! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-special-manly-mmp/551120/115 "2010-08-25T09:54:26Z")
Expressions of happiness and merriment regarding your time of stay at work, along with best wishes for the healthy state of **Religiously Approved Null Entity** , Ms. Ominous. What? Sometimes I like letting my inner gnome out. One of my coworkers just announced that next Saturday is supposed to get the highest temperatures of the year. I think I’ll set several bottles of water to freeze so I’ll have cold water if the light goes out (most people are back from vacation, so the A/Cs will be on in a lot more houses than a couple weeks ago). Almost done with the dissertation. Looking over the informational packages again, I discovered that I had more time than I thought, too. What I’m doing is so different from The Usual Fare that most of the advice in the packages doesn’t really seem applicable; the whole process is designed for studies based on bibliographical work, mine is experimental; cites are expected to be in the Author (Date) format, but most of my sources can’t fit there (corporate materials with no Author and no Date; ISO Standards) so I’ve had to use a different format and of course I explain so and why in the Introduction… worst case scenario they’ll give me a “rewrite this thing, young lady, and find a few more scholarly sources while you’re at it” grade. The word length thing is really bugging me. First, that way of measuring length and, ehm, gravitas of work is an English-language thing and one centered mostly in the humanities, so it feels real strange to me: none of us foreigners (over 75% of the students) had encountered it before. Second, we’re given a word count. OK, although word count can vary as much as 10% (seriously!) depending on what program you use. Then we’re given a maximum we can’t surpass (which is equivalent to going 25% over), but not a minimum: do you people familiar with English-language Academia know whether being below the target count will produce fits? I wouldn’t want to send any of my professors to the hospital, poor babies have better things to do with their time than have fits. I don’t know whether the reason a minimum is not given is that being below the target is unacceptable or that it is so unusual that they haven’t consireded it; a lot of the recommendations are about how to _shorten_ your work, which makes me think that overlong papers may have been a problem. **BooFae** , I’m sorry for your friend in the sense of being sad that she’s sad, but happy that she can now move on. Anything has to be better than that loser. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2010, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-special-manly-mmp/551120/116 "2010-08-25T10:02:07Z")
**Nava** - being below the target word count shouldn’t cause too much in the way of academic fits provided you aren’t significantly below it. F’rex, we have a project that has a 5,000 word limit and allow students to be 10% above that without penalty but there’s no penalty for being below the limit. However, one project submitted on that course had a word count of about 2,500 so that was pulled up immediately as being a serious shortfall. Although we may not apply penalties against the marks, you would have to produce an outstanding piece of work to get good marks with only half the available word count used. Not surprisingly, that project failed. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-special-manly-mmp/551120/117 "2010-08-25T10:05:21Z")
Right now I’m at 20% below but still need to add required fillers, so I expect I should be able to make it thereabouts of 10% below without needing to inflate the text… that’s with MSWord 2010 wordcounts, previous versions give lower counts. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2010, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-special-manly-mmp/551120/118 "2010-08-25T10:08:20Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. I have an interview at 8:30 about a job I’m not too sure about. Sounds excitatin’ don’t it. **BooFae** you’re nicer than me. I’d be all, of course he dumped you, what’d you expect would be the outcome of this! I’m not very sympathetic in these kinds of situations. Happy Wednesday Y’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:** [August 25, 2010, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-special-manly-mmp/551120/119 "2010-08-25T11:01:15Z")
Up, caffeinated, off to irk. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2010, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-special-manly-mmp/551120/120 "2010-08-25T11:07:18Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > Up, caffeinated, off to irk. Up, not caffeinated, not off to irk yet. I’ve got a lunch for 8 people today. Hardly motivational. But, with any luck today I’ll make some pound cake, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-special-manly-mmp/551120.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-special-manly-mmp/551120.md?page=7)