# An Unlabored MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [September 7, 2015, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unlabored-mmp/730232 "2015-09-07T04:08:36Z")\ **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:** [September 8, 2015, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unlabored-mmp/730232/101 "2015-09-08T23:11:25Z")
Time to crochet and recline. _ **MWAH!** _ ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unlabored-mmp/730232/102 "2015-09-09T00:14:07Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] Obligatorey drnken psot. If I’m making beer butt chicken, and you are supposed to shove a half-full can of beer up the chicken’s ass, you don’t expect me to pour the excess down the sink, do you? BBQing while buzzed is quite the experience, lemme tell ya… [/QUOTE] Buzzed o n a half can? Oh wait, you had a Roux-en-Y, didn’t you? How do you survive the bubbles? My oldest brother’s BBQ chicken recipe was “Three Beer Chicken” - toss the chicken on the grill, have three beers, chicken’s done. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unlabored-mmp/730232/103 "2015-09-09T00:33:49Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Dindin was muy bueno. **MOOOOOOM** I was one course short of a minor in Spanish in undergrad. Impressive ain’t it! 😃 > > [Emily Litella} Why are some of you advocatin’ more violins. Do we not have enough violins in the world already! We do not need more violins! If anything we need less violins! A lot less violins! [/Emily Litella] I heard that PBS cancelled its jazz and classical music programming. Too much sax and violins. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unlabored-mmp/730232/104 "2015-09-09T01:05:50Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > I heard that PBS cancelled its jazz and classical music programming. Too much sax and violins. BA_DUM_BISH 😃 On that note 'tis now time to go snuggle down in the bed. Dos osos be sleepy. Nitey Nite Y’all! ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unlabored-mmp/730232/105 "2015-09-09T01:06:44Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > He branched out from vampires? It was clearly (to me) a cheap badly thought out followup to the not very bad at all vampire one. It had its moments (especially how they worked a very young Teddy Roosevelt into it) so I don’t feel I want my part of my life returned to me. But it wasn’t as good as the other. > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Probably something to do with changing from Whig to Republican. With the current crop of presidential hopefuls from both sides, I have the feeling that “zombie” may be the more common disease anyway. 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unlabored-mmp/730232/106 "2015-09-09T01:13:19Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > BA_DUM_BISH 😃 > > On that note 'tis now time to go snuggle down in the bed. Dos osos be sleepy. > > Nitey Nite Y’all! I just this minute figured out oso = bear. I have no excuse. There’s a Spanish-English dictionary on the shelf behind me. Time for go to bed, obviously. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unlabored-mmp/730232/107 "2015-09-09T01:27:53Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Made it in to work. have four on-line classes to complete by 30 Spetember to keep my bosses happy. Oh joy. **MetalMouse** I hear ya on this one. I keep getting notices. I’m sure I have about 4 to get done this month too. The one I got this morning made me laugh. It’s about how we can avoid getting phished and other security tips. _pause for effect_ I work at a security software company. If the employees don’t already know everything in that class, we have a problem. Today I worked from home. Yay! The kids figured out how to take off the pool cover on their own. Another plus. Racking them up. 🙂 Other than that I have made the executive decision to take the 1400+ unread emails in my inbox and “file” them. I get 200 or so a day and sometimes I just have to sweep the box clean and start over. Happy Twosday. -Dawn ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unlabored-mmp/730232/108 "2015-09-09T01:39:05Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > Buzzed o n a half can? Oh wait, you had a Roux-en-Y, didn’t you? How do you survive the bubbles? > > My oldest brother’s BBQ chicken recipe was “Three Beer Chicken” - toss the chicken on the grill, have three beers, chicken’s done. My cans yesterday were 24 ozers, and I drank the equivalent of 3 regular cans. I picked the biguns hoping they’d be more stable on the grill. Didn’t count on me being trashed… ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unlabored-mmp/730232/109 "2015-09-09T01:48:25Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > My cans yesterday were 24 ozers, and I drank the equivalent of 3 regular cans. I picked the biguns hoping they’d be more stable on the grill. Didn’t count on me being trashed… I assure you that I do not count upon you at all. Sleep well, and dream of Vunder women. :dubious: ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unlabored-mmp/730232/110 "2015-09-09T01:58:13Z")
So the traffic jams started just after my exits, coming and going to work. I got my Canes season tickets in the mail. I got a puck and a team signed poster from the NC State hockey team(a thank you gift for donationg to their locker room GoFundMe drive). All in all a great day.🙂 > [@Seanette](#): > > Kids in part of Connecticut are getting out of school early because it’s going to be too hot for the poor babies, with projected highs in the low 90s? Where I live, we’re looking at at least four days over 100. I don’t know whether to think it’s “adorable” that people in CT can’t handle temperatures ten degrees lower than I’ll be facing, or groan at how overprotected the poor babies are. In N.C., they wouldn’t send us home from our unairconditioned schools until it hit 100. > [@Buttercup\_Smith](#): > > Well I did a little apple research and there are over 7500 varieties :eek: There is no chance I will ever try them all. The new Envy I tried was pretty good but I still like the Ambrosia and Honeycrisp better. An apple a day…😃 I really need to make [Jack Daniels apples](http://angelastastybytes.blogspot.com/2010/10/miss-mary-bobos-lynchburg-candied.html), they’re da bomb! ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unlabored-mmp/730232/111 "2015-09-09T02:42:44Z")
We lost power for about 2 hours this evening This is the difference between Baltimore and Hagerstown. In Baltimore when the power goes out you call BG&E, get a recording telling you they are aware the power is out, they are working on it, and when they expect to have it restored. In Hagerstown you get a busy signal. It would be nice to know if they know but I figured the busy signal meant everybody in town was calling. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unlabored-mmp/730232/112 "2015-09-09T02:53:10Z")
Entergy, formerly Arkansas Power and Light, has a web site where one may log on and see outages on a map. Good Lord, Arkansas has something better than Maryland. :dubious: ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unlabored-mmp/730232/113 "2015-09-09T03:34:39Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Entergy, formerly Arkansas Power and Light, has a web site where one may log on and see outages on a map. > Good Lord, Arkansas has something better than Maryland. > :dubious: Of course, w/o 'lectricity neither the 'puter or the wifi work. :smack: Do they have a dedicated smartphone app or do you just pull up the regular website on a small screen on your phone? ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unlabored-mmp/730232/114 "2015-09-09T03:46:13Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Of course, w/o 'lectricity neither the 'puter or the wifi work. :smack: > > Do they have a dedicated smartphone app or do you just pull up the regular website on a small screen on your phone? Shhhh! they just tell him that so he won’t call to complain about the lack of power ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unlabored-mmp/730232/115 "2015-09-09T03:57:11Z")
Well how will you know it if you see it again? I even found out about the Bultitude Apple Scale and how to grow apples. There are some good Apple sites out there. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unlabored-mmp/730232/116 "2015-09-09T09:21:35Z")
Blurf. 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:** [September 9, 2015, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unlabored-mmp/730232/117 "2015-09-09T09:38:03Z")
Up, caffeinated, off to work. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unlabored-mmp/730232/118 "2015-09-09T09:56:43Z")
One thing I learned from filling out the various forms from my employer - I can be fired if I engage in human trafficking. Good to know… 😛 There was also some stuff about ethics. And other crap I can’t remember. One of the most annoying things - even if you picked “No” to a question like “Have you ever been convicted of a felony? If yes - explain below.” you’d still have to go below and insert N/A in all the blanks. How hard would it be to add a little code that automatically inserts N/A for every no? No biggie - I’m done for now. I’m just hoping they’ll let \*\*FCD \*\*pick up my offer package - otherwise, I won’t be able to get it till tomorrow. I just want this done! Trash and recycling will be disposed today - I was going to put it off till tomorrow, but we’re promised rain tomorrow. So today it is. The center opens at 9:30 - I’ll try to get there about that time. Meanwhile, I’ve got the dishwasher running, so between that and making **FCD** ’s lunch, I’ve had a productive morning. Go me! 😃 Not bad for waking at freekin’ 2AM again for no reason!! Stoopit internal clock. Happy Wednesday anyway. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unlabored-mmp/730232/119 "2015-09-09T10:10:48Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up, purtified, and caffeinated so no _YAWN_. ‘Tis 74 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 92 for the day and sunny. Hopefully the humidity will be lower as it has been the past few days. We’re goin’ to the Cookie Shoppe for brekkie as soon as OYKW is ready to go which will be in a couple minutes. YAY! I’s hongry. Then, I shall head down to the south forty to complete the rest of the monitorin’ reports. I shall be done with that for the next six months. OK, I hear rumblin’s from the bedroom so I reckon we’re about to head out. Happy Hump Day Y’all! ---
**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:** [September 9, 2015, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unlabored-mmp/730232/120 "2015-09-09T12:21:12Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > Shhhh! they just tell him that so he won’t call to complain about the lack of power It is a special device, flat and red with two control knobs. To update, you turn it upside down and [shake it.](http://www.etrviewoutage.com/external/ar.aspx) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unlabored-mmp/730232.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unlabored-mmp/730232.md?page=7)