# Dairy Wars - A Milky Morning Post **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 31, 2006, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dairy-wars-a-milky-morning-post/366691 "2006-07-31T12:10:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dairy-wars-a-milky-morning-post/366691/241 "2006-08-02T18:43:05Z")
**gt,** I forgot to mention that I hope you get to feeling better. I didn’t mean to leave it out. It sucks feeling icky, it really does. Speaking of ice cream. Someone did, I know it. Anyway, I finally got to have some the ice cream I bought last night. I made my son scoop me some up, because I know that by tomorrow, there won’t be any at all. I had chocolate Moosetracks ice cream. It was yummy. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dairy-wars-a-milky-morning-post/366691/242 "2006-08-02T18:47:00Z")
I have dated both dark haired, dark eyed guys, and blonde, blue-eyed guys. It’s funny, I always thought I was more drawn to the dark haired fellas, but I ended marrying a blond, blue-eyed fella. I didn’t really notice too much difference between them personality wise. Some were jerks, some were nice, but just…not for me, and some wanted more than I was willing to give. It’s not like I dated a ton before I met my hubby. I think I dated maybe six guys before I met my husband, and only one was serious. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dairy-wars-a-milky-morning-post/366691/243 "2006-08-02T18:47:07Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby **VundieBabyBobby** -if you need me, just whistle. You know how to whistle? [/QUOTE] You put your lips together and blow… Now, you’re going to drive me crazy for the rest of the day trying to figure out the movie that line was in, and the actress who said it. I wanna say it was some Lauren Bacall-esque 50s siren in a Raymond Chandlerish detective movie, but that’s as far as I’m gonna get without help. ::Paging **Eve** to the MMP:: ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dairy-wars-a-milky-morning-post/366691/244 "2006-08-02T18:49:10Z")
[QUOTE=Taters] I had chocolate Moosetracks ice cream. It was yummy. [/QUOTE] Kroger brand (is it Private Selection?) has an Extreme Moosetracks that is _exceedingly_ yummy. I recommend its purchase to all ye Kroger shoppers. (Isn’t our dogster one?) Reading about porn set-ups reminds me of my old grudge against word problems in math. I’d get all engrossed in the story and the BAM they throw in some ridiculous problem that can only be solved by formulating some sort of … what do you call it? … _equation._ 😃 I wanted to know WHY they’re on the train. Where are they going? Is it to visit distant relatives? Meet a clandestine lover? Plot a murder? So much more interesting than _math_. Ellen, literature major. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dairy-wars-a-milky-morning-post/366691/245 "2006-08-02T18:53:34Z")
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] Kroger brand (is it Private Selection?) has an Extreme Moosetracks that is _exceedingly_ yummy. I recommend its purchase to all ye Kroger shoppers. (Isn’t our dogster one?) Reading about porn set-ups reminds me of my old grudge against word problems in math. I’d get all engrossed in the story and the BAM they throw in some ridiculous problem that can only be solved by formulating some sort of … what do you call it? … _equation._ 😃 I wanted to know WHY they’re on the train. Where are they going? Is it to visit distant relatives? Meet a clandestine lover? Plot a murder? So much more interesting than _math_. Ellen, literature major. [/QUOTE] Hee, that was my problem too. I was all about the STORY, forget about STOOPIT math. I wanted to know the backstory, everything. Not a literature major, but a book lover. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dairy-wars-a-milky-morning-post/366691/246 "2006-08-02T18:56:33Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] You put your lips together and blow… Now, you’re going to drive me crazy for the rest of the day trying to figure out the movie that line was in, and the actress who said it. I wanna say it was some Lauren Bacall-esque 50s siren in a Raymond Chandlerish detective movie, but that’s as far as I’m gonna get without help. ::Paging **Eve** to the MMP:: [/QUOTE] Well, I was close. It was Lauren Bacall, but to Bogie in _To Have And Have Not_, in 1942. The power of IMDB. A bit of trivia. Howard Hawks was the director of that film. He’s from the town where I grew up, and his brother was my next door neighbor. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dairy-wars-a-milky-morning-post/366691/247 "2006-08-02T18:58:27Z")
“You know you don’t have to act with me, Steve. You don’t have to say anything and you don’t have to do anything…not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.” – Lauren Bacall, _To Have and Have Not_ ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dairy-wars-a-milky-morning-post/366691/248 "2006-08-02T19:00:15Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] 5 exclamation points in one post and you still think you need coffee? 😃 [/QUOTE] But perhaps you need coffee. There are six. 😛 [QUOTE=VunderBob] You put your lips together and blow… [/QUOTE] You know _someone_’s going to have a field day with this. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dairy-wars-a-milky-morning-post/366691/249 "2006-08-02T19:09:00Z")
[QUOTE=chaoticbear] You know _someone_’s going to have a field day with this. [/QUOTE] Maybe, but I didn’t mention beer and cockies in the same paragraph. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dairy-wars-a-milky-morning-post/366691/250 "2006-08-02T19:10:44Z")
[QUOTE=swampbear] Then I thought, those two boxes of boxes are worth $750, so maybe they’re not so dumb. Then I thought, Nah! Two boxes of boxes is just dumb. [/QUOTE] Not dumb. Just really expensive. How big are these boxes of boxes and why do they cost so much, when you can get free boxes from the Post Office? [QUOTE=swampbear] They were all “Oh Cool! Tshirts!” Made me feel good. I found one in humongous size for myself even. [/QUOTE] T-shirts in sizes, S, M, L, XL and B. For the unaware, that’s Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large and Bear. I like messing with people when they’re asking what size shirt I’d like. Extra-Medium, please! I’m happy to report that DH is happy in his new position as manager of a 100+ unit senior housing building. He’s got a TON of sorting, clean-up and fence-mending to do as the previous manager was disorganized, actively antagonistic to the residents and hid in a cluttered office behind enough bars and iron gates to make the office look like a pawn shop on the wrong side of town. He’s hoping to get all of the ugly “security” stuff taken out by the end of the week. It’s not like the office has cash or bearer bonds or even a good copier. Previous manager didn’t do much to take care of things either. There’s a broken bigscreen TV in a rec room. The resident manager of the tenants’ association tells him the TV broke three YEARS ago and nobody’s even bothered to remove the thing, let alone replace it. I need to get him a badge and ten-gallon hat so he can say “There’s a new sheriff in town!” ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dairy-wars-a-milky-morning-post/366691/251 "2006-08-02T19:13:33Z")
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] Reading about porn set-ups reminds me of my old grudge against word problems in math. I’d get all engrossed in the story and the BAM they throw in some ridiculous problem that can only be solved by formulating some sort of … what do you call it? … _equation._ 😃 I wanted to know WHY they’re on the train. Where are they going? Is it to visit distant relatives? Meet a clandestine lover? Plot a murder? So much more interesting than _math_. Ellen, literature major. [/QUOTE] Yes! And WHY did the Thompson family decide to go to Colorado for their vacation? Who cares how far it was and how long would it take them? Why there? Why not somewhere closer to home or far more exotic? I was flummoxed at age 7 and still am. Very good, **Vundie** --I like a man who can whistle. (I thought the movie was Key Largo). Never dated a Steve, though. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dairy-wars-a-milky-morning-post/366691/252 "2006-08-02T19:14:13Z")
[QUOTE=gotpasswords] I like messing with people when they’re asking what size shirt I’d like. Extra-Medium, please! [/QUOTE] When I was ginormous, I liked to mess with people by saying I wanted double-extra fat… ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dairy-wars-a-milky-morning-post/366691/253 "2006-08-02T19:17:32Z")
[QUOTE=gotpasswords] I like messing with people when they’re asking what size shirt I’d like. Extra-Medium, please! [/QUOTE] HA! That’s hilarious. It reminds me of this great joke I know: What do you call a midget psychic on the run from the law? A small medium at large. I crack myself up. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dairy-wars-a-milky-morning-post/366691/254 "2006-08-02T19:17:42Z")
[QUOTE=Taters] I figured since I was in it, I may as well scrub it too. This keeps from getting my clothes wet, and it’s easier to reach some of the places while one is IN the shower. I hate scrubbing soap scum off the shower doors though. [/QUOTE] Agreed on both counts, but you do have to watch what you’re using to clean the shower with. Some of those cleaning products sting if they hit tender skin in certain areas. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dairy-wars-a-milky-morning-post/366691/255 "2006-08-02T19:19:10Z")
[QUOTE=Spatial Rift 47] HA! That’s hilarious. It reminds me of this great joke I know: What do you call a midget psychic on the run from the law? A small medium at large. I crack myself up. 😃 [/QUOTE] For once, that one wasn’t bad. ::golf clap:: ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dairy-wars-a-milky-morning-post/366691/256 "2006-08-02T19:21:54Z")
[QUOTE=Spatial Rift 47] I crack myself up. 😃 [/QUOTE] At least somebody’s happy. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dairy-wars-a-milky-morning-post/366691/257 "2006-08-02T19:24:54Z")
Golf clap? _Golf clap_?? What’s a guy gotta do to get money thrown at him, anyways? 😛 Oh, on the subject of word problems as literature - math and literature don’t have to be separate. You could make a graph of the tension in a novel over time, or do a statistical analysis of how far into each culture a liminal character is, or find a pattern in the number of pages per chapter - maybe something that links to a plot point in the story. Who knows what other connections there could be. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dairy-wars-a-milky-morning-post/366691/258 "2006-08-02T19:30:46Z")
I don’t throw money at any boy who isn’t in front of me, shaking his assets. Come to think of it, I don’t think that’s ever actually happened. Color me deprived. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dairy-wars-a-milky-morning-post/366691/259 "2006-08-02T19:34:51Z")
[QUOTE=gotpasswords] Agreed on both counts, but you do have to watch what you’re using to clean the shower with. Some of those cleaning products sting if they hit tender skin in certain areas. :eek: [/QUOTE] Yeah, I was gonna recommend [BAM](http://www.brightideas.com.au/?e=396&p=bam) but, then again, maybe not… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dairy-wars-a-milky-morning-post/366691/260 "2006-08-02T19:42:06Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] You put your lips together and blow… Now, you’re going to drive me crazy for the rest of the day trying to figure out the movie that line was in, and the actress who said it. I wanna say it was some Lauren Bacall-esque 50s siren in a Raymond Chandlerish detective movie, but that’s as far as I’m gonna get without help. ::Paging **Eve** to the MMP:: [/QUOTE] **To Have And Have Not** Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, and bunches of other 40s Flicks regulars. Once again, against his nature, Bogart fights the good fight against the Nazis [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dairy-wars-a-milky-morning-post/366691.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dairy-wars-a-milky-morning-post/366691.md?page=14)