# A virtual house warming for Rue de Day **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 9, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-virtual-house-warming-for-rue-de-day/180669 "2003-06-09T16:56:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-virtual-house-warming-for-rue-de-day/180669/21 "2003-06-10T10:38:26Z")
Ah! The love, the loot, the Jell-O! You people are the best. It makes me all misty. So if you’re ever in the neighborhood, feel free to drop in! The address is 6 ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-virtual-house-warming-for-rue-de-day/180669/22 "2003-06-10T10:39:53Z")
Well, that was weird! The address showed up in “Preview”. Let me try again. 6 Ohio ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-virtual-house-warming-for-rue-de-day/180669/23 "2003-06-10T11:09:56Z")
Congratulations on the new place. 🙂 Here, have some chocolate cake. I made it myself 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-virtual-house-warming-for-rue-de-day/180669/24 "2003-06-10T11:12:02Z")
Since this is virtual, **Rue de Day** , here’s a box of homemade chocolate truffles for now and a handknit afghan for later. If you don’t like chocolate, use them for bribing moderators. CJ ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-virtual-house-warming-for-rue-de-day/180669/25 "2003-06-10T11:57:38Z")
Well, heck, Ray seems like a 12 pak in a box kinda guy, so I brought over a box of Schmidt Light cans for ya. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-virtual-house-warming-for-rue-de-day/180669/26 "2003-06-10T12:09:17Z")
I can’t promise much, but I’ll bring my kids over to help unpack and play in the boxes. And I really can do this if you want, in a very non-cyber way. ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-virtual-house-warming-for-rue-de-day/180669/27 "2003-06-10T13:03:57Z")
Rats! I hope I’m not too late! (Or would I be too early, since it’s 9 in the morning?) I bestow upon **Rancho de Day** : 1. A new [grill](http://www.grillstogo.com/patio--grill-open.jpg) so you can cook out. No tools required! 2. A [hammock](http://www.pawleys.com/graphics/newsreleases/PAWLEYS-SCENIC_lg.jpg) from Pawley’s Island, South Carolina, so you’ll always have a place to rest while dreaming of Monday Morning Posts. (They make the best hammocks in the world in Pawley’s Island.) 3. A lovely [light fixture](http://elokin.homestead.com/files/disco-ball.jpg) for your next gala celebration. 😃 4. A [Hong Kong Phooey Bobblehead](http://us.st8.yimg.com/store4.yimg.com/I/wickedcoolstuff_1741_10038444) to watch over the family. (It was either this or the Bobblehead Jesus, and I didn’t know if you were of a particular religious persuasion.) 5. And, last but not least, a couple of bottles of [Bearguard](http://www.guardianproducts.com/images/BEARGUARD.gif), to keep away those pesky basement bears. Just make sure not to use it when **swampbear’s** around! Happy housewarming! ---
**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:** [June 10, 2003, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-virtual-house-warming-for-rue-de-day/180669/28 "2003-06-10T13:13:45Z")
**Skerri** - that’s eerie! I was going to gift **Rue** with a disco ball but the mental image of him in a powder blue leisure suit and platform shoes was just too much for me to take! ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-virtual-house-warming-for-rue-de-day/180669/29 "2003-06-10T13:38:40Z")
Hee hee! Great minds think alike! ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-virtual-house-warming-for-rue-de-day/180669/30 "2003-06-10T15:16:54Z")
Hey! I look just smashing in my powder blue leisure suit. How do you think I lured the Little Woman into my clutches? Thanks for the non-virtual offer **Shibb**. But now we’re to the stage where the Little Woman has to decide where things go and I can’t move them anywhere until she does. So the heavy lifting portion of the move is on hiatus. Thanks though. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-virtual-house-warming-for-rue-de-day/180669/31 "2003-06-10T16:05:39Z")
Let’s be clear on this, **Rue** : I wasn’t offering to do any heavy lifting. I was offering to have my progeny jump up and down on your stuff. Sort of like Thing 1 and Thing 2 in “The Cat in the Hat”. Now I’m sure that Soupo and Katcha can accomplish this quite nicely on they’re own, but thing of the destructive power of four under the age of 8! If the Pentagon could only tap that sort of power we could Rule the WORLD!! Mwah-ha-ha… Oh, wait, we pretty much already rule the World with our diabolical forces. No need to unleash the Power of Four (for now). Mwah-ha-ha!!! Bwah-hah-ha-ha-ha!! Mwah… _cough_… _sputter_… _GASP_ ---
**Author:** ![stargazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@stargazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stargazer)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-virtual-house-warming-for-rue-de-day/180669/32 "2003-06-10T19:46:08Z")
Congrats! I’ll come over and help unpack stuff, once I’m done unpacking from my own move. I’m almost done, really. And I’ll bring cake! ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-virtual-house-warming-for-rue-de-day/180669/33 "2003-06-10T20:59:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ShibbOleth \* > \*\*Let’s be clear on this, **Rue** : I wasn’t offering to do any heavy lifting. I was offering to have my progeny jump up and down on your stuff. Sort of like Thing 1 and Thing 2 in “The Cat in the Hat”. Now I’m sure that Soupo and Katcha can accomplish this quite nicely on they’re own, but thing of the destructive power of four under the age of 8! If the Pentagon could only tap that sort of power we could Rule the WORLD!! Mwah-ha-ha… Oh, wait, we pretty much already rule the World with our diabolical forces. No need to unleash the Power of Four (for now). > > Mwah-ha-ha!!! Bwah-hah-ha-ha-ha!! Mwah… _cough_… _sputter_… _GASP_ \*\* Oh, god, **ShibbOleth** , I have tears in my eyes from the effort of not laughing out loud (I’m at work). “…have my progeny jump up and down on your stuff…” I’m dyin’, here! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-virtual-house-warming-for-rue-de-day/180669.md?page=1)