# Don't tell me I'm the MMP starter! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [September 23, 2013, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-me-im-the-mmp-starter/669500 "2013-09-23T10:17:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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 23, 2013, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-me-im-the-mmp-starter/669500/21 "2013-09-23T19:27:50Z")
Howdy Y’all! Irk is over for the day. YAY! Ok, I need to log in to take care of a few things in a while but that won’t take too long. It has been drizzly, then really rainy, then drizzly, then really rainy, lather, rinse, repeat, all day long today. Also the temp is _ONLY_ 74 Amurrkin out as I post. Why that’s positively frigid for this time of year. Dindin shall be grilled ham steaks, green beans, scalloped N.O.T. and rolls. I actually did the beans and N.O.T. last night so they just need to be heated up. Easy yet yummy dindin. > [@VunderBob](#): > > **Swampy** , you’re a dude. Ain’t no way the juvenilities are ever out of the way. 😛 Word! 😃 ---
**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 23, 2013, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-me-im-the-mmp-starter/669500/22 "2013-09-23T21:46:47Z")
> [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](#): > > This week MUST be an improvement over last week. It cannot possibly, short of Armageddon, be any worse. Quit! You tempt the Gods of Chaos!:eek: > [@sahirrnee](#): > > I think I will take a short nap since I had weird ass dreams again last night, I was part of a scientific expedition studying yetis, and I can’t out run a hungry yeti. He wouldn’t eat you, he’d just love you and hug you, and call you George!😃 Another Monday. ---
**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 23, 2013, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-me-im-the-mmp-starter/669500/23 "2013-09-23T21:48:22Z")
Not a very chatty Moanday, is it? I had a pretty good day at work with minimal interaction with Missy Prissy, so yay for that! \*\*FCD \*\*called and said he wanted N.O.T. soup for supper, so I had to stop for a sack of the main ingredient, and I got a few other things as well. The soup was yummerrific, and later we’ll be having a carrot cake that mysteriously found its way into my cart. 😃 It was also a good day because the check that we thought got lost finally showed up in our account, so yay for that! I’m watering my plants, and after I read the comics and Dear Abby, I’m going to finish my Amish towels - I kinda didn’t to them yesterday as I’d intended. So this way, I can drop them off on my way home. Oh, and the geezers among us will get a kick out of this. I think I mentioned that there’s a box of disks on the floor in the hall outside my office area. It’s got both 3.5" and 5.25" disks. Well, I heard a very young female’s voice in the hall expressing amazement at the larger disks. :eek: She’d never seen such a thing!! She’d have probably peed herself if she’d seen the even more vintage 8" floppy - the kind I used when I met my first word processor in the early 80s - a Wang. Can’t imagine who she’d react to seeing a stack of punch cards. 😃 Danged young 'uns!!! 😃 \*\*QuickSilver \*\*- how can you not feel the vibrancy and excitement and airborne electricity that is the MMP?? After all, we are the cool kids - legends in our own minds!! 😉 ---
**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 23, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-me-im-the-mmp-starter/669500/24 "2013-09-23T21:54:30Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Fourth! > > **Swampy** , you’re a dude. Ain’t no way the juvenilities are ever out of the way. 😛 Well, you know what they say… “You’re only young once, but you can be immature forever.” 😉 (Not that I’m implying that **swampy** or anyone else here is immature all the time. I just thought it was a funny saying. 🙂 ) ---
**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 23, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-me-im-the-mmp-starter/669500/25 "2013-09-23T21:57:49Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Well, you know what they say… “You’re only young once, but you can be immature forever.” 😉 > > (Not that I’m implying that **swampy** or anyone else here is immature all the time. I just thought it was a funny saying. 🙂 ) You’d be a doo doo head if you did call any of us immature. 😛 ---
**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 23, 2013, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-me-im-the-mmp-starter/669500/26 "2013-09-23T21:58:59Z")
**MOOOOOOM** you should totally tell her you an eight inch floppy Wang in the early 80s. 😃 **Midget** I point to the first sentence in this post as proof of my eternal immaturity. Dindin turned out nummy just as I predicted. I have some more ham that needs to be used and drawin’ on **MOOOOOOM’s** mention of N.O.T. soup, I shall shortly peel some N.O.T.s and make some ham 'n N.O.T. soup. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-me-im-the-mmp-starter/669500/27 "2013-09-23T22:23:13Z")
[This picture](http://cheezburger.com/2014823680) sums it up for me. Gotta get it in gear to try to get that bad memory module exchanged, must make breakfast bready stuff for the week, and need to at least start a defilthification campaign around here. Also gotta get both of us to put out some job applications. ---
**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 23, 2013, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-me-im-the-mmp-starter/669500/28 "2013-09-23T22:29:10Z")
Soup is simmerin’ away. Should make for a nummy dindin tomorrow. I have a start on tomorrow’s dindin. I feel so efficient! ---
**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 23, 2013, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-me-im-the-mmp-starter/669500/29 "2013-09-23T22:39:23Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Oh, and the geezers among us will get a kick out of this. I think I mentioned that there’s a box of disks on the floor in the hall outside my office area. It’s got both 3.5" and 5.25" disks. Well, I heard a very young female’s voice in the hall expressing amazement at the larger disks. :eek: She’d never seen such a thing!! She’d have probably peed herself if she’d seen the even more vintage 8" floppy - the kind I used when I met my first word processor in the early 80s - a Wang. Can’t imagine who she’d react to seeing a stack of punch cards. 😃 Danged young 'uns!!! 😃 I remember using 5 1/4" floppies in elementary school. Now I have a terabyte drive because I’m living in The Future. I’ve not seen the 8" disks, but I have seen ENIAC’s “floppy disk.” That thing takes up an entire wall. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-me-im-the-mmp-starter/669500/30 "2013-09-23T22:50:42Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Oh, and the geezers among us will get a kick out of this. I think I mentioned that there’s a box of disks on the floor in the hall outside my office area. It’s got both 3.5" and 5.25" disks. Well, I heard a very young female’s voice in the hall expressing amazement at the larger disks. :eek: She’d never seen such a thing!! She’d have probably peed herself if she’d seen the even more vintage 8" floppy - the kind I used when I met my first word processor in the early 80s - a Wang. Can’t imagine who she’d react to seeing a stack of punch cards. 😃 Danged young 'uns!!! 😃 > > \*\*QuickSilver \*\*- how can you not feel the vibrancy and excitement and airborne electricity that is the MMP?? After all, we are the cool kids - legends in our own minds!! 😉 > [@SpazCat](#): > > I remember using 5 1/4" floppies in elementary school. Now I have a terabyte drive because I’m living in The Future. > > I’ve not seen the 8" disks, but I have seen ENIAC’s “floppy disk.” That thing takes up an entire wall. I learned how to use magnetic tape _before_ I learned punch cards. ---
**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 23, 2013, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-me-im-the-mmp-starter/669500/31 "2013-09-23T23:07:27Z")
I used to use the big floppy thingies for DOS games. There was that old Jeopardy dos game that took forever to play, and the one where you pretended you were driving a car and I thought the object of the game was to crush all the pilons instead of driving around them. :rolleyes: Ah yes, the days of floppies, 16 colours, and 8-letter filenames… ---
**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 23, 2013, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-me-im-the-mmp-starter/669500/32 "2013-09-23T23:08:38Z")
Magnetic tape?? _pfffffft_ - I used to run an office machine that read punched paper tapes! OK, it wasn’t exactly like a computer, but it was tape. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-me-im-the-mmp-starter/669500/33 "2013-09-23T23:21:37Z")
uphill, both ways, barefoot, in the snow ---
**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 23, 2013, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-me-im-the-mmp-starter/669500/34 "2013-09-23T23:22:20Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > and the one where you pretended you were driving a car and I thought the object of the game was to crush all the pilons instead of driving around them I like the way you think! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-me-im-the-mmp-starter/669500/35 "2013-09-23T23:29:18Z")
Well now, I have proof that at least some here are my elders. I have never programmed anything with a punch card. 😃 I have a serious decision to make and I need Mumper help Gloss Black or Pearl White? Happy Moanday all Cheers **Jim** ---
**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 23, 2013, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-me-im-the-mmp-starter/669500/36 "2013-09-23T23:32:26Z")
Fuck. Night Audit Lady has been “asked” not to work out her notice. At least she can work for her husband’s shop, but she clearly got thrown under the bus for something that wasn’t her fault. And since I’m the officially decreed work wife for Big Boss, I’m not sure what I’m going to hear tomorrow. Thing is, I was there when the situation she was not-really-fired for came to light and I’ve noticed a lot of backpedaling on the part of TPTB. Yeah, I’m going to talk to Irish Storyteller on Saturday. I’m going to meet up with him for his birthday and since he’s the HR guy where he works I’m going to ask him to review my resumé. I don’t like the way the winds are blowing. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-me-im-the-mmp-starter/669500/37 "2013-09-23T23:57:25Z")
Word from my quack: no gallstones found. I’m to see a gastroenterologist for more tests. I know Og won’t give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn’t think I’m such a bad ass. ---
**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 24, 2013, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-me-im-the-mmp-starter/669500/38 "2013-09-24T00:02:34Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > I remember using 5 1/4" floppies in elementary school. Now I have a terabyte drive because I’m living in The Future. > > I’ve not seen the 8" disks, but I have seen ENIAC’s “floppy disk.” That thing takes up an entire wall. I had a computer teacher who kept one. I still have some Apple II 5 1/4" flppoies. > [@anyrose](#): > > uphill, both ways, barefoot, in the snow Fighting off bears and indians! > [@Capt\_Kirk](#): > > Well now, I have proof that at least some here are my elders. I have never programmed anything with a punch card. 😃 > > I have a serious decision to make and I need Mumper help > > Gloss Black or Pearl White? > > Happy Moanday all > > Cheers > > **Jim** Gloss black burgers were good. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-me-im-the-mmp-starter/669500/39 "2013-09-24T00:04:13Z")
> [@Capt\_Kirk](#): > > Well now, I have proof that at least some here are my elders. I have never programmed anything with a punch card. 😃 > > I have a serious decision to make and I need Mumper help > > Gloss Black or Pearl White? > > Happy Moanday all > > Cheers > > **Jim** Definitely black. It’s after Labor Day. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2013, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-me-im-the-mmp-starter/669500/40 "2013-09-24T00:55:35Z")
I will be wearing it all year, at night, on stage If that changes any votes so far… **Jim** ETA I usually wear black from head to toe [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-me-im-the-mmp-starter/669500.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-tell-me-im-the-mmp-starter/669500.md?page=3)