# Come on in, the water's warMMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2018, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675 "2018-01-01T05:25:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**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 7, 2018, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675/241 "2018-01-07T20:47:35Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > I’ve left something to **flytrap** in my will, too…all of my debts. > I bought my car new. Thanks a lot. Nothing wrong with pre-owned, as any salesman of such cars will tell you. > [@Spiderman](#): > > During yesterday’s drive, on which it rolled past 130,000, I leart something new. The heater just can’t keep up in single digits. I wonder if the heat and A/C on autos are sized for the climate in which they are sold. Mrs. Plant’s (v.2.0) car from New Hampshire would produce more from the heater than any car I’v ridden in, but the A/C was always run at the maximum. ---
**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 7, 2018, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675/242 "2018-01-07T20:56:20Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > \*\*FCD \*\*has declared he wants to keep the pictures but he has yet to offer a suggestion as to where to keep them. We’ve pretty much run out of storage spots in the house, and photos probably wouldn’t fare well in the attic. If we de-frame them there’s probably enough space to slip them into hanging folders in the file cabinet, but no way we can store all those frames too. So, TBD. Perhaps you can file the pictures and donate or yard sale the frames. ---
**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 7, 2018, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675/243 "2018-01-07T21:16:43Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > 77 degrees at 10:35am. We’re expecting to get into the 80s today, same as every day this time of year really. I believe that we should make some exceptions in the Death Pool rules. > [@SDMB Death Pool](#): > > Valid picks CANNOT be: > e. a registered member of the SDMB > > If you kill anyone on your list to try to get ahead or cheat, then you’re automatically disqualified. Just sayin’. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675/244 "2018-01-07T21:35:08Z")
Our kitty is sick so hubby took her to the emergency vet. She has an infection of some sort. They are giving fluids and antibiotics. Probably several hundred dollars. Always something. Poor Scooter. ---
**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 7, 2018, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675/245 "2018-01-07T21:37:04Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I have a whole bunch of framed family photos. We no longer have the space to hang them all like we did in our last house. Frankly, I don’t want them - I want to take the frames to the thrift store and toss the pictures. Except it feels wrong to throw away a photo of a long-dead grandmother. I’m thinking I’ll just find an envelope or something for the pictures, get rid of the frames, and let my daughter deal with them all when I’m dead. > > Is that cruel?? You can have them scanned into digital images. There are services that offer this. You can add whatever notes you wish to the files, and offer the files to the entire family. The paper version can go live in the country with the frames. They’ll be much happier that way. My husband and his brother did this and it worked out well. Happy Sunday all. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675/246 "2018-01-07T21:44:11Z")
{{ **Scooter** }} Skool starts again tomorrow, with an exam. I’m supposed to be revising. It’s… not going well. I’m now very frustrated, and quite cross about the lecturer. I should probably give up for the night and do something fun instead. ---
**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 7, 2018, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675/247 "2018-01-07T21:48:38Z")
Ursala Kitteh sends Scooter Kitteh get well skritches and hugs. ---
**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 7, 2018, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675/248 "2018-01-07T21:56:18Z")
Howdy Y’all! We’ve been busy today. Deheathenization plus Baptisms, Sunday brunch, Sam’s for gas and then to the sto’, followed by drivin’ up to Dawson to see Miss Becky. Now we’re in for good and tahrd. I also hauled the biiiiiiiiiiiiig trash can down to the road for pickup tomorrow. **MOOOOOOM** my family digitalized a bunch of old pics a few years back. Sis, my bros, various cousins and I have copies. Might want to think about that. The originals still exist and I have a couple of 'em even. Kinda nice to look at the pics every once in a while just so I can see great uncle/aunt so and so. ---
**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 7, 2018, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675/249 "2018-01-07T22:40:22Z")
Dinner will be lasagna and I am positive it will be great once its totally done. Just the smell alone is worth it. ---
**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 7, 2018, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675/250 "2018-01-07T23:11:50Z")
Kopeck, can you explain to me the meaning of the phrase “used meat?” You said you went to Sam’s to buy used meat. I confuzzled. ---
**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 7, 2018, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675/251 "2018-01-07T23:51:55Z")
You know it’s cold when Gordie only wants to go out 3 times on my day off. Making 'que style poke chops(marinated with apple cider vinegar, hot pepper flakes, liquid smoke, salt and garlic) with sweet \*\*N.O.T.\*\*s and garlic pepper broccoli. {{{ **Scooter** }}} **WetOne** , “used meat” is meat marked down for quick sale. ---
**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 8, 2018, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675/252 "2018-01-08T00:09:44Z")
Beef ‘n veggie soup and grilled cheese sammich for suppage was good! OYKW is takin’ a soak in the tub. Life is good. I yanked a poke roast outta da freezer for tomorrow. **Butters** hope Scooter is feelin’ better soonest, poor thing! ---
**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 8, 2018, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675/253 "2018-01-08T00:34:49Z")
I take credit for the term “used meat” - it is, in fact, what we always called the marked-down-for-quick-sale meats and when I shared the term here it caught on. You’re welcome. 😃 \*\*FCD \*\*took a nap and I watched \*Annie \*On Demand - it’s a fun musical. I’ve been noshing on cookies but I really should eat real food. I just don’t feel like preparing any. Mebbe a sammich? Tonight’s low was forecast to be 15. It’s already 11. Weather sites lie lie lie!!! And so my weekend winds down. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2018, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675/254 "2018-01-08T00:40:03Z")
Scooter is pitiful. She had shots of about three different kinds of antibiotics and some fluids. She is just hunkered down now on the foot of the bed. I hope she is improved in the morning. At least I am not as worried about dehydration as I was. Poor animals not being able to tell what ails them is a handicap. Blood tests showed elevated white blood count but the rest of the blood was good so says hubby. If she is not a little improved by tomorrow afternoon I will haul her to her regular vet. Thanks for the other Kitty hugs. ---
**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 8, 2018, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675/255 "2018-01-08T00:51:56Z")
**Moooom** , count me among the ones who suggest digitizing your photos. I inherited most of the old family pics (from daguerretypes on) and am in the process of identifying and digitizing them. Try to include as much info as you can with the files. Unfortunately, if your family is like mine, some of them aren’t IDed on the back, so I’ve had to become a detective. Whatever platform that you put them on, make sure that pertinent family members have the password to access them. Also make sure that the logiin and password for editing is among your list in the case of your demise/senility/sudden onset of amnesia. I went to a neighboring suburb for lunch with a friend today, then popped into Tuesday Morning for some poo bags and walked out with a new headset for irk as well. On to Joan’s Crafts for glue dots and walked out with rubber stamps and cardstock that was on sale. Supper was oven fried wings, fried cabbage and spinach mushroom quinoa. ---
**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 8, 2018, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675/256 "2018-01-08T00:52:58Z")
**{{{Scooter}}}** ---
**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 8, 2018, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675/257 "2018-01-08T01:45:30Z")
> [@peedin](#): > > Kopeck, can you explain to me the meaning of the phrase “used meat?” You said you went to Sam’s to buy used meat. I confuzzled. That is stuff that the store will turn into hamburger meat tomorrow if they don’t sell it at a reduced price today. The only way that I can afford tenderloin. ---
**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 8, 2018, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675/258 "2018-01-08T02:29:57Z")
We ran some errands, came home, and the kids got into an epic fight. Well, they’re kids, so the epic fight had to do with who was going to use the yellow container for the dog food and who was going to use the green. Why? Because kids. :rolleyes: ---
**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 8, 2018, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675/259 "2018-01-08T02:41:19Z")
**{{Scooter}}** Did my refereeing chores and have dined at the Golden Corral, so am stuffed and tired. Bedtime will not be too late this evening, I figure. Catch all y’all in the mornin’. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675/260 "2018-01-08T02:49:14Z")
I was required to sign back up with Facebook because some of the organizations I belong to have decided that that is how they wish to communicate. So far between 45 to 65% of the stuff that has appeared is either “Share this and win a car(or house or some other ridiculously expensive prize)”, or some scare/kidnap/fake news crap that Snopes has has already disproved. Today, I just posted this on my Facebook page: > [@](#): > > I would like to sell my Facebook page, and I need to deceive my friends ,family and acquaintances into "like"ing me and/or sharing this post to increase the value of my page. When the time comes I’ll just strip out this message and any posts that say anything more than like and sell this baby off. Let’s just pretend I said you could win something incredible, like a car or a house, or that I am a kid or an old person who needs a billion “likes” to win a life-saving operation, o.k.? You get to feel better about “doing” something without any effort, and I get the cash! Please share this now…like all the other glurge you pass along without thinking. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-on-in-the-waters-warmmp/805675.md?page=14)