# Guest MMP - Still missing Rue and stuff **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [November 14, 2005, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-mmp-still-missing-rue-and-stuff/330978 "2005-11-14T10:12:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-mmp-still-missing-rue-and-stuff/330978/221 "2005-11-18T01:40:57Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Not everyone can tell a vegetable joke… 😛 Punchline without the joke: “Artie chokes 3 for a dollar…” ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-mmp-still-missing-rue-and-stuff/330978/222 "2005-11-18T01:53:20Z")
Someone come help me! I’m putting flyers for transgendered day of remembrance tomorrow under the doors of everyone in the dorms, and I don’t know if I’m gonna be able to make it through all of them. ::huff puff:: ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-mmp-still-missing-rue-and-stuff/330978/223 "2005-11-18T02:03:04Z")
Took Mr. SCL to get the Volks again - still not fixed. The service manager gave him a ride home rather than risk my wrath. I went to see the Clydesdales! My oh my those are beautiful horses! Thought of something today after Mr. SCL made lagnasa the other night and took some over to our neighbor: Only in America would you have an Italian dish being made by a Native American and taken to an Indian after they had become friends helping an African American chase a German dog around the backyard. The rock wall is almost finished. If I can figure out how, I will post pictures after it’s completed. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-mmp-still-missing-rue-and-stuff/330978/224 "2005-11-18T03:30:31Z")
I’d like to thank the rest of the MMP for not watching _Lost_. I feel so much less out of it. **picunurse** , that last coughing episode sounds just awful! Seems like hubby has to be much safer in the hospital. I imagine it really is better for you, too. Prayers and good thoughts headed your way. Went to the zoo tonight to watch them turn the lights on and then walk around. That was fun, although it was cold. Seems like there were lots more little kids than last year, though, even though it was much colder this year. Last year, we ate outdoors. This year that wasn’t really an option, although we had hot cocoa towards the end outside. There’s a little lake (large pond?) as you come into the zoo, and the lights around that looked especially pretty. It was odd to come home and not see Christmas lights everywhere, though. I’m hoping to catch the cleaning virus sometime this weekend, since I’m fully booked from now until sometime late Saturday afternoon. Really need to do some laundry. Maybe a miracle will happen and I’ll get up really early tomorrow… **WileE** , is it bad that I laughed at your cats beat up dog story? How was the governor’s mansion, **taxi**? I’m sure there’s more, but I’m falling asleep…Hi everyone! GT ---
**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:** [November 18, 2005, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-mmp-still-missing-rue-and-stuff/330978/225 "2005-11-18T12:53:37Z")
How’s picuhubby today **picunurse**? For that matter how are you doing? And no I am not flirting. It is merely an inquiry as to your health. If it were a flirt the you would have been italicized, like this: _you_. Besides you already travel with a male harem. ACBG and I have been invited to sup with friends tonight. They’re makin’ corned beef and cabbage. YUM! It’s also kinda cold here so that makes it especially yum cause it’s kinda one of those cold weather things. Tomorrow, I intend to catch the cleaning virus cause I have people coming over Monday night for a cookout. Yes, a cookout. Everybody’s bringing their own steak and we’re grillin’. I got a nice covered grilling area, so even if it’s cold we can grill out. I grill all year long. Oh, and I think I might be getting a cold. I can’t tell just yet but I’m all sniffly and sneezy like. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-mmp-still-missing-rue-and-stuff/330978/226 "2005-11-18T13:06:17Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > ACBG and I have been invited to sup with friends tonight. They’re makin’ corned beef and cabbage. YUM! After dinner, are you going to post in this [thread?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=345084) ---
**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:** [November 18, 2005, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-mmp-still-missing-rue-and-stuff/330978/227 "2005-11-18T13:24:47Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > After dinner, are you going to post in this [thread?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=345084) I live in fear! :eek: See, ACBG has this problem with green leafy veggies. I mean, I love the critter but stuff like cabbage turns him into a chemical WMD! :eek: To make matters worse, we’re likely stayin’ at this house tonight since dinner is in town and all, so it’d make more sense. This is a problem cause well, it’s his house, so I can’t make him sleep on the back porch like I could in my house. Ok, I wouldn’t really but I could open a window and make him sleep on that side of the bed. Maybe I should just go buy a case of Lysol and some nose plugs. ---
**Author:** ![GillianBoardman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc79bd/32.png) [@GillianBoardman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GillianBoardman)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-mmp-still-missing-rue-and-stuff/330978/228 "2005-11-18T13:41:21Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Maybe I should just go buy a case of Lysol and some nose plugs. Or maybe just a bottle of Beano? Does that stuff actually work? I don’t know but I think it’s worth a shot. Or would ACBG be offended? Not that I think that really matters, cause better for him to be offended than offensive, right? ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-mmp-still-missing-rue-and-stuff/330978/229 "2005-11-18T13:54:23Z")
> [@chaoticbear](#): > > Someone come help me! I’m putting flyers for transgendered day of remembrance tomorrow under the doors of everyone in the dorms, and I don’t know if I’m gonna be able to make it through all of them. > > ::huff puff:: If you just put the flyers under the door and quit trying to blow the doors down ala The Big Bad Wolf, you’d probably get them done. But it will cut into your Spanish study time, young man. **swampy** I watched the _Good Eats_ this week about making gravy. I thought it was great that Alton said to just use the cheapest all-purpose flour (flower?) you can find. I think I’m going to volunteer to make the gravy next Thursday. And I think I’m the only Irish guy to _not_ like corned beef and cabbage. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2005, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-mmp-still-missing-rue-and-stuff/330978/230 "2005-11-18T14:05:07Z")
I am getting an urge to make a New England Boiled Dinner. That would be sooooo good for a cool weekend down here. I usually get a picnic ham cause they are nice and salty and fat. Then I add taters (but not our **taters** ), onions, carrots and cabbage. 🙂 But… ::_le sigh_:: Mr. Anachi hates cooked cabbage and isn’t fond of salty ham and there would be nobody else to eat it and I’m not gonna want it to sit in the fridge what with Turkey Day coming up so I guess I won’t be making it. ☹ BTW, I never heard yea or nay iffen y’all want me to do next Mondays Guest MMP. C’mon say yea or nay! Tupug ---
**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:** [November 18, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-mmp-still-missing-rue-and-stuff/330978/231 "2005-11-18T14:09:14Z")
Ok, I believe **puggy** is up for the coming week’s MMP, right? Do we have a volunteer to regale us with tales of Thanksgiving feasts and family or leftover turkey ideas and such for the following week? I figure the MMP after Thanksgiving has all kinds of potential. **Gilly** , being a guy, ACBG is quite proud of his fart making abilities. Maybe a bottle of Bean-O[sup]TM[/sup] could mysteriously appear on his nightstand. Or is one supposed to take the stuff before consuming would be combustibles? I, myself, am much to polite and delicate to produce such emissions. It’s _always_ somebody around me that does it. Oh, and on my way to work this morning, Martha Stewart was discussing the preparation and (barf!) consumption of [del]fart blossoms[/del] brussels sprouts. Obviously prison did something bad to her because she actually thinks [del] fart blossoms[/del] brussels sprouts are good things. ICK! ICK! ICK! ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-mmp-still-missing-rue-and-stuff/330978/232 "2005-11-18T14:14:29Z")
> [@Tupug Anachi](#): > > I am getting an urge to make a New England Boiled Dinner. That would be sooooo good for a cool weekend down here. I usually get a picnic ham cause they are nice and salty and fat. Then I add taters (but not our **taters** ), onions, carrots and cabbage. 🙂 But… ::_le sigh_:: Mr. Anachi hates cooked cabbage and isn’t fond of salty ham and there would be nobody else to eat it and I’m not gonna want it to sit in the fridge what with Turkey Day coming up so I guess I won’t be making it. Ditch the picnic ham and get a corned beef brisket, and tell Mr. Anachi to drown his cabbage in malt vinegar. You really can’t put onions in an authentic boiled dinner either. The upside of going the corned beef route is that your leftover issues are solved, because you can have red flannel hash for breakfast until they’re gone. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-mmp-still-missing-rue-and-stuff/330978/233 "2005-11-18T14:28:25Z")
I am the queen of nasty emissions. I know most people would not admit to this, but I think I am the absolute worst. I run myself out of the room on many occasions. My hubby is so nice to put up with me. In my opinion, Beano doesn’t do much. Sorry, **Swampy.** You are supposed to put 5-6 drops on your “fart blossoms” (hee!) before you eat them. But I have IBS, and YMMV. Or ACBG’s MMV. I love me some corned beef and cabbage! Pee-you! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-mmp-still-missing-rue-and-stuff/330978/234 "2005-11-18T14:32:39Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Oh, and on my way to work this morning, Martha Stewart was discussing the preparation and (barf!) consumption of [del]fart blossoms[/del] brussels sprouts. Obviously prison did something bad to her because she actually thinks [del] fart blossoms[/del] brussels sprouts are good things. ICK! ICK! ICK! I heard that too. At least the beginning of it. I actually switched stations off of NPR on the way to work for the first time in years. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-mmp-still-missing-rue-and-stuff/330978/235 "2005-11-18T14:46:03Z")
> [@gardentraveler](#): > > I’d like to thank the rest of the MMP for not watching _Lost_. I feel so much less out of it. I watch _Lost_, but I promise not to talk about it here. 🙂 I’ll also volunteer for the Post-Thanksgiving wrap-up, if nobody else wants it. Maybe there will be another Twice-Baked-Potatoes-Gate at Grandma’s. My second cousin almost took a plastic fork to the kidney when he exceeded his ration last year. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2005, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-mmp-still-missing-rue-and-stuff/330978/236 "2005-11-18T14:57:22Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > Ditch the picnic ham and get a corned beef brisket, and tell Mr. Anachi to drown his cabbage in malt vinegar. You really can’t put onions in an authentic boiled dinner either. > > The upside of going the corned beef route is that your leftover issues are solved, because you can have red flannel hash for breakfast until they’re gone. I Googled NBD and apparently there are myriad variations but it do seem that when you use brisket, ix-nay on the onions-ay. The thing is, see, Mr. Anachi is very stubborn and a picky eater to boot. But as **swampy** says, I love the critter (my critter, not his critter) so I put up with him. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2005, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-mmp-still-missing-rue-and-stuff/330978/237 "2005-11-18T15:04:48Z")
I am so cool. Another of my nominated threads made Threadspotting. Behold my name upon the Straight Dope front page! My husband LOVES Brussels sprouts. I actually make them for him. I am a Good Wife. This weekend is the Big Getting Ready for Thanksgiving at the Cherry Household weekend. Should I make a big turkey? 15 or so pounds? Or should I make two breasts? (Ha! Two turkey breasts.) Husband thinks no one likes dark meat, and turkey breast alone would be the way to go. My survey of one sister-in-law has elicited the response: “I like either.” So, I put it to you, the MMP’ers: **If you were coming to Thanksgiving at my house** _and you know you are all invited_ **would you want to partake of a whole bird, or merely turkey breast**? I await your responses. ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-mmp-still-missing-rue-and-stuff/330978/238 "2005-11-18T15:05:09Z")
> [@gardentraveler](#): > > How was the governor’s mansion, **taxi**? It was great. Interesting building, good food, kinda long talk from the school president but what’re you going to do? There is interesting stuff going on at the school, but an hour-long speech on it in an overheated room was a little much. But overall a good time. And very cool to see the mansion. The school’s concert choir is coming to my church to sing in December. And somehow I got put in charge of refreshments. How’d I get talked into that again…? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-mmp-still-missing-rue-and-stuff/330978/239 "2005-11-18T15:09:06Z")
> [@Ellen Cherry](#): > > **If you were coming to Thanksgiving at my house** _and you know you are all invited_ **would you want to partake of a whole bird, or merely turkey breast**? After sixty years of Thanksgiving turkeys, last year my Grandma gave up and just cooked breasts. She said it was like doing no work at all, and nobody missed the wishbone. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2005, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-mmp-still-missing-rue-and-stuff/330978/240 "2005-11-18T15:11:45Z")
Ok, everybody settle down. \ It’s time to vote. All in favor of **Puggy** doing this Monday’s MMP and **Drae** doing the post-Thanksgiving MMP say “Aye”. \*\* AYE!!! \*\* All those opposed signify by saying “Nay”. \*\* \ \*\* It’s unanimous then, **puggy** shall post this Monday’s MMP and **Drae** shall post the post-Thanksgiving MMP. Speaking of Thanksgiving, the only reason we celebrate this day is gravy. It’s all about the gravy. If the giblet gravy ain’t right, we might as well throw it all out and go home. Always remember that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-mmp-still-missing-rue-and-stuff/330978.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-mmp-still-missing-rue-and-stuff/330978.md?page=13)