# Closing in on the "Unofficial Start of Summer" in the MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [May 21, 2018, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-in-on-the-unofficial-start-of-summer-in-the-mmp/814549 "2018-05-21T10:41:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-in-on-the-unofficial-start-of-summer-in-the-mmp/814549/81 "2018-05-23T18:52:04Z")
HI there, Can one of you nice Mumpers fill me in as to what N.O.S. refers to with respect to the weather? I’ve searched and guessed to no avail. Thanks in advance. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2018, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-in-on-the-unofficial-start-of-summer-in-the-mmp/814549/82 "2018-05-23T19:00:03Z")
Not Our Sunny - She’s not a weather phenomenon as far as anyone here can ascertain. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-in-on-the-unofficial-start-of-summer-in-the-mmp/814549/83 "2018-05-23T19:34:10Z")
It has something to do with a member nick named “Tater” or “Taters” and not confusing s/he with a recount of the potatoes eaten at a meal. “Not Our Taters” but some real potatoes, N.O.T. I went to my Doctor, and he gave me some pills, so I avoid using such expressions. I guess one could also make a drinking game of it, which would make the Monday Morning Post far more interesting. Oh yes, don’t lend money to Dogbutt or Spiderbutt. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-in-on-the-unofficial-start-of-summer-in-the-mmp/814549/84 "2018-05-23T20:36:38Z")
I am now edified, but not deified… ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-in-on-the-unofficial-start-of-summer-in-the-mmp/814549/85 "2018-05-23T20:48:28Z")
**Sunny** , I’m from the Milwaukee area, but I’m living in the Green Bay area now. So just up the river from Lawrence University. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2018, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-in-on-the-unofficial-start-of-summer-in-the-mmp/814549/86 "2018-05-23T20:55:33Z")
HOME!!! The rental truck has been returned. Daughter remembered to start the meatloaf and it’s smelling yummy in here. Cleo has been locked out of the kids’ rooms, so she’s taken up residence in the dining room - now we just need to get Ziva out from under the bed. \*\*FCD \*\*has a meeting Firday about what could be a metric buttload of work. The Navy wants to pull the contract from another local contractor and they specifically asked about having \*\*FCD \*\*do it. It includes both design and analysis and will mean a lot of hours - including some for me. So that was exciting news. Thus endeth my Wednesday. Huzzah!! ---
**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:** [May 23, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-in-on-the-unofficial-start-of-summer-in-the-mmp/814549/87 "2018-05-23T21:44:02Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I resemble that remark! Yes, yes you [do](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH97lImrr0Q&t=58s). > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > \*\*Juliet \*\*- I can usually throw together a good meatloaf, altho I can’t guarantee this one. I was out of BBQ sauce so I opted for ketchup and Worcestershire instead. I know of someone who gave a meatloaf glaze, from memory, as ⅓, ⅓, & a ⅓ - a cup each of water, ketchup, & Worcestershire sauce. Now we like spicy, but it was _almost_ a bit much over the top. The next time we saw this person, she handed over a tin foil wrapped package. Seems the recipe was _supposed_ to be a cup, a cup, & a **⅓** of a cup. :eek: (The tin foil package was a meatloaf that she made with the correct portions as a mea culpa.) BTW, I make it more along the lines of a cup, a cup, & a ½+ cup. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > \*\*FCD \*\*has a meeting Firday about what could be a metric buttload of work. The Navy wants to pull the contract from another local contractor and they specifically asked about having \*\*FCD \*\*do it. It includes both design and analysis and will mean a lot of hours - including some for me. So that was exciting news. Sounds pretty awesome…if only they made a [poster](https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/uncle-sam-we-want-you1-kopie_1.png). 🆒 ---
**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:** [May 23, 2018, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-in-on-the-unofficial-start-of-summer-in-the-mmp/814549/88 "2018-05-23T22:29:27Z")
> [@MonkeyMensch](#): > > HI there, > > Can one of you nice Mumpers fill me in as to what N.O.S. refers to with respect to the weather? I’ve searched and guessed to no avail. Thanks in advance. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Not Our Sunny - She’s not a weather phenomenon as far as anyone here can ascertain. Not weather, celestial. 😛 😉 > [@Serenata67](#): > > **Sunny** , I’m from the Milwaukee area, but I’m living in the Green Bay area now. So just up the river from Lawrence University. Hello there, almost might-have-been neighbor! > [@MonkeyMensch](#): > > I am now edified, but not deified… Have you a nickname yet? Welcome to our little neck of the woods! Conga-rats on the new contract **Mooommm**. Today has been mostly cloudy, and in the sixties for the most part. It’s just cool enough that I have cuddly animals. 🙂 No idea what we’ll do for dinner. I suspect leftovers. Happy Wotansday. ---
**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:** [May 23, 2018, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-in-on-the-unofficial-start-of-summer-in-the-mmp/814549/89 "2018-05-23T22:46:48Z")
Howdy Y’all! I shopped for comestibles, went to FedEx and now have my meds, we et at Sonny’s and then went to Harvey’s to stock up on various Co-Cola products and get OYKW the cheeze crackers he lurves. all in all a fairly productive day. Chillage now ensues. [Cat Soup.](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/catsup) ---
**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:** [May 23, 2018, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-in-on-the-unofficial-start-of-summer-in-the-mmp/814549/90 "2018-05-23T23:23:26Z")
Salud **nettie, butters** and all of you other sneezy folk out in MMP land. **butters** , once upon a time, I owned two indentical pair of loafers with the exception of color, one pair brown, one pair black. My sweetie worked evenings, so he was still in bed when I dressed for irk, hence my not turning many lights. I showed up to the job one day with one of each pair. :smack: I got the stuff out to begin a scrapbook layout last evening. I was going to scan the pictures, since the ones in my posession are vintage and I don’t have negatives ( **Juliet, sunny** and maybe **doggio** may appreciate them, as they were pics of a family vacation to Spooner, WI when my parents were newlyweds in 1961). I couldn’t scan. I missed the setup for that part of the new fancy-schmancy printer that I bought a couple of months ago. I didn’t manage to get it set up, but have an idea of what I did wrong and will try again after supper KP. If that fails, there’s a 14 year old that I know who will give me a hand. 😛 ---
**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:** [May 24, 2018, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-in-on-the-unofficial-start-of-summer-in-the-mmp/814549/91 "2018-05-24T00:53:15Z")
Well, no re-modeler visit today, he seems to have the same bug that **Juliet’s** daughter had and will hopefully reschedule. Did get all the goals moved without to much hassle, one guy has a 15-ft trailer he tows and that can hold almost all of the goals. Rewarded myself with cheeseburgers for dinner. As for **MonkeyMensch** , how does **Honorable Ape** sound? As for shoes, I used to love Hush Puppy loafers, always had two pair, one grey, one tan…and yep, one morning I didn’t look carefully and had a perfect mis-matched set I wore to work…fortunately I could keep my feet tucked under the desk for most of the day. **FCM,** so your going to retire to work on your husband’s project? You seem to have trouble with this whole retirement concept…🆒😉 Reading and Basketball and Internetting will take up the rest of the evening. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2018, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-in-on-the-unofficial-start-of-summer-in-the-mmp/814549/92 "2018-05-24T01:21:15Z")
Howdy all. I see I am not the only one wearing mismatched shoes. Makes me feel better. No one ever even noticed. We have a tropical depression trying to form down south and this has my bones aching. I guess it’s the weather. **miss red** I love your old photos you post from time to time. Night all. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2018, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-in-on-the-unofficial-start-of-summer-in-the-mmp/814549/93 "2018-05-24T01:43:16Z")
**butters** , I inherited most of the old family photos and do a lot of heritage scrapbooking. I post them to FB to share them with family, but like that my friends enjoy them too. 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 24, 2018, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-in-on-the-unofficial-start-of-summer-in-the-mmp/814549/94 "2018-05-24T03:52:26Z")
> [@MonkeyMensch](#): > > I am now edified, but not deified… O **MonkeyMensch** , please don’t burn us. Don’t grill or toast Your flock. Don’t put us on the barbecue Or simmer us in stock. Don’t braise or bake or boil us Or stir-fry us in a wok. Oh, please don’t lightly poach us Or baste us with hot fat. Don’t fricassee or roast us Or boil us in a vat, And please don’t stick Thy servants, **MonkeyMensch** , In a Rotissomat. OK — now you been both ------ let the naming begin! 😃 On other news for at least the next 12 hours I cannot accuse the OW of being full of sh--------------- never mind. You get the drift I am sure. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2018, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-in-on-the-unofficial-start-of-summer-in-the-mmp/814549/95 "2018-05-24T04:26:16Z")
**Ruble** I think you should lend your lovely wife one of your new t-shirts to wear tomorrow. 😛 ---
**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:** [May 24, 2018, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-in-on-the-unofficial-start-of-summer-in-the-mmp/814549/96 "2018-05-24T05:50:00Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > **Ruble** I think you should lend your lovely wife one of your new t-shirts to wear tomorrow. 😛 The thought had occurred to me. Oh — and while my brain is at it, to be sure **MonkeyMensch** is properly deified my I suggest **Holy Ape!!!**? ---
**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:** [May 24, 2018, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-in-on-the-unofficial-start-of-summer-in-the-mmp/814549/97 "2018-05-24T10:30:47Z")
Up ,caffeinated ,and sheveled. Off to work. > [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > :dubious: I think your cats are broken. It’s OK, Gordie thinks he’s a cow sometimes. > [@kopek](#): > > The thought had occurred to me. > > Oh — and while my brain is at it, to be sure **MonkeyMensch** is properly deified my I suggest **Holy Ape!!!**? That works. And I already have a [del]human sacrifice altar[/del]shrine we can beseech him with. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2018, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-in-on-the-unofficial-start-of-summer-in-the-mmp/814549/98 "2018-05-24T10:34:50Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. _YAWN_ ‘Tis 70 Amurrkin out and cloudy (unto gloomy even) with a predicted high of 85 and rain/tstorms/apocalypse predicted for the day. We shall see. All kinds of red, green, and yellow radar stuff to the north and west so who knows. No real big plans for the day which is fine by me. Netflix feels I have been neglectin’ it so I might have to remedy the situation. 😃 We shall sup upon grilled poke chops and whatever side matter I decide upon. Oh I do have to go over to the church house around four to assist with makin’ sure there’s oil in the candles. How’s that for excitatement! I too have been sniffly and sneezey the past couple of days. Dang seasonal allergies! Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, onward into the day. Rah. Happy Thursday Y’all! ---
**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:** [May 24, 2018, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-in-on-the-unofficial-start-of-summer-in-the-mmp/814549/99 "2018-05-24T10:35:16Z")
**Holy Ape** is lots easier to type than Honorable Ape - sorry, **MetalMouse**! I had baby-feeding duty last evening while the kids ate. I had dinner ready and I told them when to get home, but they showed up after \*\*FCD \*\*and I had finished and boxed up the leftovers. So they were chowing down and I held a bottle in Roxy’s face, then changed her and plopped her into her swing. LOVE that swing! 😃 Then she started crying at 2AM… I didn’t have to get up with her, but she still woke me. Fortunately, I fell back to sleep fairly fast. I may make it thru the day… Happy Thursday!! ---
**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:** [May 24, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-in-on-the-unofficial-start-of-summer-in-the-mmp/814549/100 "2018-05-24T13:00:50Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Oh — and while my brain is at it, to be sure **MonkeyMensch** is properly deified my I suggest **Holy Ape!!!**? > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > **Holy Ape** is lots easier to type than Honorable Ape - sorry, **MetalMouse**! Concur…fewer syllables is always a good thing. Let it be so. Beat the garbageman to the curb, so my major Thursday work is done. 72F heading for 90F and no rain until tomorrow. Probalby should mow the lawn, but 90F… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-in-on-the-unofficial-start-of-summer-in-the-mmp/814549.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-in-on-the-unofficial-start-of-summer-in-the-mmp/814549.md?page=6)