# GT's vacation: a confessional and challenging MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [August 25, 2008, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gts-vacation-a-confessional-and-challenging-mmp/461171 "2008-08-25T04:16:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gts-vacation-a-confessional-and-challenging-mmp/461171/181 "2008-08-27T17:43:05Z")
We went to an Oktoberfest once in West Virginia that was not only in September but was _dry_. :eek: :eek: Some people clearly don’t grasp the concept! 😃 I’m being a good girl today and working. Under protest. That is, I’m protesting to myself. But I’m working hard anyway. Even though I don’t like it. Sulk sulk whine whine. Etc. ---
**Author:** ![mmouse9799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mmouse9799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmouse9799)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gts-vacation-a-confessional-and-challenging-mmp/461171/182 "2008-08-27T17:58:42Z")
[QUOTE=Bobbio] Oktoberfest in **SEPTEMBER**? Are the organizers Polish, not German? 😉😛😃 [/QUOTE] [Quote=Mama Tigs] We went to an Oktoberfest once in West Virginia that was not only in September but was dry. [/QUOTE] Um…guys, Oktoberfest _is_ actually in September. If you go to Germany in October, it will be over. The dry thing is just screwy though. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gts-vacation-a-confessional-and-challenging-mmp/461171/183 "2008-08-27T18:00:44Z")
If it’s Oktoberfest, why is it in September? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gts-vacation-a-confessional-and-challenging-mmp/461171/184 "2008-08-27T18:05:06Z")
[QUOTE=mmouse9799] Um…guys, Oktoberfest _is_ actually in September. If you go to Germany in October, it will be over. The dry thing is just screwy though. [/QUOTE] I know that, but I won’t let a solid fact get in the way of a good snark. FWIW, the German connotation is harvest festival, not the month of October. ---
**Author:** ![mmouse9799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mmouse9799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmouse9799)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gts-vacation-a-confessional-and-challenging-mmp/461171/185 "2008-08-27T18:09:35Z")
[… it ends the first weekend in Oct.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktober_Fest) Usually by the third. So, I guess not the whole festival is in September, just most of it. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gts-vacation-a-confessional-and-challenging-mmp/461171/186 "2008-08-27T18:09:53Z")
My liver remembers Oktoberfest in Munich, it is currently begging me to never go back again. Then there was the friend I shared a room with, I had to lock her in the wardrobe to stop her wandering around the corridors nekkid in the middle of the night. See, some folks just shouldn’t be allowed to drink beer… ---
**Author:** ![mmouse9799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mmouse9799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmouse9799)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gts-vacation-a-confessional-and-challenging-mmp/461171/187 "2008-08-27T18:12:43Z")
I’d like to call your attention to [this.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=481092) What happens to the MMP? Everything posted from Sat. to Tues. is going to be lost!! Maybe Beebs will come back now. ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gts-vacation-a-confessional-and-challenging-mmp/461171/188 "2008-08-27T18:13:17Z")
Hey, we got **Moment Slayer** to show up! Welcome to the MMP. (Although I assume you’ve been lurking.) I’m not good at coming up with nicknames, but I’m sure someone will be along with a name for you soon. Until then, send chocolate to \*\*FCM \*\*and beerverages to **swampy** , **doggio** , and **bobbio**. I think lunch and some hot chocolate drastically improved my mood. Despite **Haze** ’s assurances that bitter is sexy, I think KT much prefers sunshine and flowers so I’m working my way back to that. It helps that it’s turned sunny outside too. That and all indications are that I should be out of work at 5 tonight. Yay! Now if I can just find a way to kill the next 4 hours… ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gts-vacation-a-confessional-and-challenging-mmp/461171/189 "2008-08-27T18:34:20Z")
[QUOTE=mmouse9799] I’d like to call your attention to [this.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=481092) What happens to the MMP? Everything posted from Sat. to Tues. is going to be lost!! Maybe Beebs will come back now. [/QUOTE] Holy shit! (and Meeks) > [@taxi](#): > > Hey, we got Moment Slayer to show up! Welcome to the MMP. (Although I assume you’ve been lurking.) I’m not good at coming up with nicknames, but I’m sure someone will be along with a name for you soon. Until then, send chocolate to FCM and beerverages to swampy, doggio, and bobbio. If anyone is getting alcohol and chocolates from him it better be me first. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gts-vacation-a-confessional-and-challenging-mmp/461171/190 "2008-08-27T18:55:28Z")
[QUOTE=mmouse9799] I’d like to call your attention to [this.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=481092) What happens to the MMP? Everything posted from Sat. to Tues. is going to be lost!! Maybe Beebs will come back now. [/QUOTE] TMP next week I guess? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Blue-Sighted\_Shadow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@The\_Blue-Sighted\_Shadow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Blue-Sighted_Shadow)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gts-vacation-a-confessional-and-challenging-mmp/461171/191 "2008-08-27T18:55:45Z")
The boards should be entertaining this weekend. I hope they manage to get the new server(s) up and running before, oh, **Halloween**. No, I’m not a cynic, not at all, why do you ask? We had cake for breakfast. White cake with white frosting and vanilla ice cream. We have our big meeting this afternoon, so there are 50 million people in the office today. Luckily for them, they’ve decided to go stand somewhere else besides rightnext to my desk. 😃 I finally got up the nerve to contact one of the personal organizers (people who tell you how to get organized) that I was referred to by our concierge service. Definitely a step in the right direction. Oh, and there will be adult beverages served after our meeting this afternoon. Too bad I have to leave right at 4:30 and can’t stick around for all the fun. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gts-vacation-a-confessional-and-challenging-mmp/461171/192 "2008-08-27T19:05:29Z")
It looks like we picked the right weekend to take a long computer-free weekend out of town. I guess anything memorable that’s posted during Amnesia Weekend will need to be saved and reposted afterwards. Mmm, cake for breakfast. For a delightful 5 minutes of standup comedy on cake and cakelike edibles for breakfast, hie thee over to the [Cake Wrecks](http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/) blog, which is possibly the funniest blog on the internet, and scroll down to the Aug. 21 entry for some G-rated but hilarious entertainment. And then be prepared to spend the rest of the day reading the whole blog and laughing till you choke. I still think the Aug. 12 “Olympic Rings” entry is my favorite on the entire blog, although it’s hard to choose just one! ---
**Author:** ![Moment\_Slayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Moment\_Slayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moment_Slayer)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gts-vacation-a-confessional-and-challenging-mmp/461171/193 "2008-08-27T19:54:43Z")
[QUOTE=taxi78cab] Hey, we got **Moment Slayer** to show up! Welcome to the MMP. (Although I assume you’ve been lurking.) I’m not good at coming up with nicknames, but I’m sure someone will be along with a name for you soon. Until then, send chocolate to \*\*FCM \*\*and beerverages to **swampy** , **doggio** , and **bobbio**. I think lunch and some hot chocolate drastically improved my mood. Despite **Haze** ’s assurances that bitter is sexy, I think KT much prefers sunshine and flowers so I’m working my way back to that. It helps that it’s turned sunny outside too. That and all indications are that I should be out of work at 5 tonight. Yay! Now if I can just find a way to kill the next 4 hours… [/QUOTE] Thanks **Taxi**! I lurk and MMP vicariously through **IvoryTower**. Unfortunately my work place blocks SDMB so I can only post in the late evenings or, like today, when I am working from home. Beers all around…for the hot cocoa fans a little peppermint schnapps goes nicely. For **Prof Soapy** during the steamy summer days its Sangria and for the chilly fall days its apple cider with butterscotch schnapps…Chocolate we don’t need …we still have M&Ms from the June festivities… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Moment\_Slayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Moment\_Slayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moment_Slayer)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gts-vacation-a-confessional-and-challenging-mmp/461171/194 "2008-08-27T19:59:47Z")
[QUOTE=ScareyFaerie] My liver remembers Oktoberfest in Munich, it is currently begging me to never go back again. Then there was the friend I shared a room with, I had to lock her in the wardrobe to stop her wandering around the corridors nekkid in the middle of the night. See, some folks just shouldn’t be allowed to drink beer… [/QUOTE] If this holds true for Columbus, Ohio then we should see some good pics from GT… And for all y’all snarkers…I don’t make the news (or calenders in this case) I just report it (or post links as it were) … so there 😛 ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gts-vacation-a-confessional-and-challenging-mmp/461171/195 "2008-08-27T20:09:17Z")
I am drunk and have stubble burn from making out with cute Irish co-worker. But you guys are not. going. to believe this. I just got a text from another co-worker and cute Irish co-worker has a girlfriend. Seriously, what is it about me? I attract only taken guys, I swear. It’s absolutely ridiculous. I mean, in one way I don’t care, because the last thing I want is a relationship right now. And I think he’s in a long-distance thing (not sure though). But the irony is scalding. Anyway. Off to bed for me. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gts-vacation-a-confessional-and-challenging-mmp/461171/196 "2008-08-27T20:15:26Z")
[QUOTE=Haze] Seriously, what is it about me? I attract only taken guys, I swear. It’s absolutely ridiculous. [/QUOTE] You attract **all** guys, my dear lady 🙂 Including the taken ones. Well, except for Swampy. 😃 Maybe… ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gts-vacation-a-confessional-and-challenging-mmp/461171/197 "2008-08-27T20:38:59Z")
Oh, **haze**! That’s… kind of ironic, kind of sad, kind of funny, and kind of… I don’t know. Hope it was fun while it lasted at least. And it’s good you found out right away. But still… {{ **haze** }} ---
**Author:** ![mmouse9799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mmouse9799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmouse9799)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gts-vacation-a-confessional-and-challenging-mmp/461171/198 "2008-08-27T20:46:40Z")
((( **Haze** ))) ---
**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:** [August 27, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gts-vacation-a-confessional-and-challenging-mmp/461171/199 "2008-08-27T20:54:10Z")
[QUOTE=gotpasswords] Dunno about him, but I sense these things as well, and have the appropriate wardrobe. 🆒 [/QUOTE] WOOF! How _you_ doin’! :eek: I flirted with a married man! I’m such a skank! 😃 I’m through work for today. Yay. I’s hongry too. Ol’ y’all know who is on his way. YAY!!! ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2008, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gts-vacation-a-confessional-and-challenging-mmp/461171/200 "2008-08-27T21:18:10Z")
[QUOTE=mmouse9799] I’d like to call your attention to [this.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=481092) What happens to the MMP? Everything posted from Sat. to Tues. is going to be lost!! [/QUOTE] It’ll be the Labor Day of Our Missed Content. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gts-vacation-a-confessional-and-challenging-mmp/461171.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gts-vacation-a-confessional-and-challenging-mmp/461171.md?page=11)