# Hey! Where ya goin' Dad? Huh? Where? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 18, 2005, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-where-ya-goin-dad-huh-where/312967 "2005-07-18T13:11:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-where-ya-goin-dad-huh-where/312967/141 "2005-07-20T19:24:09Z")
> [@merrily](#): > > **Draelin,** I think either you are making stuff up, or else Silver Blaze continues his criminal career in some other series. Which I find easy to believe…criminal geniuses are difficult to whoa! I think I did make it up. But if I did–pretty creative, eh? 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 20, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-where-ya-goin-dad-huh-where/312967/142 "2005-07-20T20:14:38Z")
> [@EllaBean](#): > > I was asleep while the president was on TV. Me too. Sweetie and I were exhausted and we hit the rack just after 8. So we had a great night’s sleep undisturbed by idiot politicians. Which was nice. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-where-ya-goin-dad-huh-where/312967/143 "2005-07-20T20:16:48Z")
I’m over my bout of naziism. Just thought I’d let everybody know. **Bobbio** I actually do own a pair of boots that are kinda sorta jackbooty like. Good luck on the interview! In addition to making sure your fly is closed, make sure your underwear is clean and doesn’t have any holes in it. I’m with **Draelin** on the practical advice thing. **Homebrew** if I need too, I can help you go all nazi on your insurance company. Just let me know. Poor baby. Mean ol’ insurance company! You know what would be funny? If we beamed all our collective thoughts at Fearless Leader and made every fourth word he said in a speech “woof.” Wouldn’t that be a hoot! "My fellow Americans, “WOOF!” EEP! It’s thunderatin’! :eek: ---
**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:** [July 20, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-where-ya-goin-dad-huh-where/312967/144 "2005-07-20T20:39:13Z")
A wet burrito is just what they call it. Just an oversized burrito with _a lot_ of sauce on it. And cheese. It’s really good, one of the only things I liked about Grand Rapids. That giving my nephews swirlies. And I second the motion to have a visual daily skirt update. It’s always good to have a second (or more) opinion of Important Matters of Skirt Security. ---
**Author:** ![EllaBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a5b964/32.png) [@EllaBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllaBean)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-where-ya-goin-dad-huh-where/312967/145 "2005-07-20T20:39:28Z")
> [@Bumbazine](#): > > **EllaBean** I did not know that about the sugar and the bones. Whodathunkit! > You don’t eat the things you cook? How do you survive? most people don’t realize these things until they actually try to cut it out of their diets. for example, did you know that gelatine is in some dry-roasted peanuts? or that some cream-filled cake desserts have beef fat in them? And I eat a few of the things I cook. I never eat my sweets, snacks, or breads. I’m in the early stages of recovery from an eating disorder and still won’t eat on my own. I know all the horrible unhealthy stuff that goes into my baked goods (chocolate, sugar, oil, margarine, etc) and I prefer to make my junk food taste good rather than be healthy. If I were eating it, it would have to be health food. The people I’m staying with now are my guinea pigs. Just now, in fact, I made them taste my cookie dough before putting it in the oven. Usually I just go by either smell/look/texture or by memory. When I make meals, I usually have to eat them. oh, and the cookie recipe: 2 c flour 3/4 c brown sugar 1/2 t baking soda 1/4 t salt 1/2 t cinnamon 1/4 t nutmeg 1/2 c applesauce 1/4 c oil 1 tbsp maple syrup 1 tbsp hazelnut extract mix dry ingredients, mix wet ingredients, mix together, roll into balls and sprinkle brown sugar over the tops. bake at 375 degrees for about 7-10 minutes or until they look done (they’re probably better with vanilla extract instead of hazelnut. we’re out of vanilla, though. and we have a big ole thing of hazelnut.) ---
**Author:** ![DogMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@DogMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DogMom)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-where-ya-goin-dad-huh-where/312967/146 "2005-07-20T20:43:11Z")
> [@Bumbazine](#): > > BTW, was he on TV last night? I was watching re-runs of NCIS and House. I’d missed the first part of that particular NCIS, and I didn’t discover House until the end of the season, so I’m watching it for the first time. \ How did you watch the first part of NCIS without getting Himself on your TV? HE pre-empted the first 5 minutes or so of _my_ broadcast of NCIS. I dunno what for. Not like I care or anything. I was too busy yelling at the talking heads and Himself to SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUTUP and informing them that I wanted to watch NCIS so they should get off my TV _right **now** _ to actually listen to what HE was saying. Humf. Fortunately it was one I’d seen before, but I didn’t know that at the time. Hm. **Rue** , you may have something there, though - how many MMPers were collectively wishing Himself would shut up and get off your TV so you could watch your show (whatever it was) last night? Because if a bunch of us were, then _obviously_ **Rue** is right and this collective-MMP-wishing thing really works. I’ve never seen such a short speech by a President before. Ah, **Bumbazine** , I just figured it out. You’re in a different time zone than I am, obviously. NCIS comes on at 8pm local time. Hah. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2005, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-where-ya-goin-dad-huh-where/312967/147 "2005-07-20T20:45:03Z")
Oh yeah, and I forgot to sing my song about **MagicEyes** and her guinea pigs: \*Have you seen the little piggies Munching on Magic’s lawn From the porch you see those guineas Mowing all day long They always have fresh grass To get big and strong!\* I’m working on a second verse that covers them rising up and overthrowing their oppressors, but it’s not ready yet. I’m having trouble finding a suitable word that rhymes with “Marxist”, and I want to make sure I’ve captured perfectly the image of them ripping out the eyes of everyone that’s been watching them work. Why yes, I have some unresolved aggression in me right now. Why do you ask? ---
**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:** [July 20, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-where-ya-goin-dad-huh-where/312967/148 "2005-07-20T21:21:04Z")
Today was a sorta sad day. A coworker asked me to store a couple of boxes for her. I thought she meant in my office, but she meant personal stuff at my house. I was confused. Then she told me she was getting ready to divorce her husband. She wants me to hold two small boxes (copier paper boxes) with some family heirlooms (her family, not his) and what looks to be a large picture or portrait. I don’t know a whole lot about her marriage. I know she kept her name and I know they don’t have kids. Beyond that, she never said a lot. I hate that marriages end. I know some _should_ end, but it’s still sad. One less “happily ever after”… Yeah, guess I’m a bit of a romantic. But today I’m a sad romantic. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-where-ya-goin-dad-huh-where/312967/149 "2005-07-20T21:49:50Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **donkey** congrats on the MickeyD thing. You seem to be happy over it so I’m guessing it’s a good thing. You still doin’ the Wally World thing too? You think I’m the coolest person ever? AWWW… that’s sweet. I’m all blushy. See? :o Or, since I’m so cool, maybe I should blush like this: 🆒 Yes, I’m sort of happy, mainly because I get to boss my little brother around. I also get the following benefits: Flexible scheduling, as in I say what I want to work, and that’s what I work. Right now, I’m looking at about 12 hours a week, except when I’m in school, where it’ll be one day a month. Competitive pay, because it’s hard to pay me less than what I’m making, and a Great Benefits package, which means that I get one free meal for each day I work, and get paid holidays starting in Jan 2007. Other than that, it’s really not much more prestige than I had before, where I was a crew trainer who treated everyone as if he were their manager. And they accepted it too. Still doing Wal-Mart, yes. And I didn’t say that you were cooler than me. I said that I was the coolest person in the world, next to you. So that means that you could be slightly less cool than me, and you’d still be next to me in the Big Coolness Hierarchy. Also, if the person interviewing **Bobbio** has reason at his/her underwear, then the job’s either already sealed, or there’s a big lawsuit anyways if he/she doesn’t get the job. I want a wet burrito. We have a restaurant here that offers “Rice bowls”. The first question they ask is “What kind of tortilla”, and then the second? “Would you like rice in that?” I asked them, and they actually have to ask if I want rice in my “Rice bowl”. I’m waiting for “Would you like okra in your fried okra?”. ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-where-ya-goin-dad-huh-where/312967/150 "2005-07-20T22:14:40Z")
My, how far we’ve wandered. Let’s see, **CD** has a McJob, **Swampy’s** a nazi (only not so much anymore), **FCM** is melancholy and romantic (it suits her), **Bobbio** needs clean undies and **Ella** has filled the recipe requirement of this week’s MMP. Save something for next week, **Ella** , honey. Now you’ve volunteered, we’re going to expect you in here weekly with treats. We’re especially fond of pie (hint, hint). Let’s see, Skirt Alert is at…um, green? Teal? I’m wearing a skirt, but it’s waltz length, so I’d have to throw it over my head to be indecent. Not that I couldn’t be bribed to do that little thing for you, but I think some drinking would have to be involved (namely, you, after I threw my skirt over my head :D). Blouse is demure, too. I love this skirt, though, it’s a two layers of georgette and is floaty and feminine. I have three of them now, four if you count the reversible one twice. Today is the black and white one. Shoes aren’t as cute as they could be, but the cute pair’s toes are so pointed that they hurt my feet; I should have gotten a size larger. I don’t know what I was thinking; I know better. Underwear is white cotton, for you fetishists out there. Missed the president; didn’t even know he was on. Since I had to do some errands after work, I got home too late to see _NCIS_, so I just turned on _Excel Saga_. It takes me a long time to get through each episode, because I like to have the ADV Notes turned on (because I haven’t watched enough old-school anime to get all the references), so I have to rewind a lot to keep up with both the notes and the subtitles. Discovered that I get AZN TV! Yay, JPop videos! But they are running _Now & Then, Here & There_ at 10:30p, so of course I stay up watching it instead of going to bed on time. I may have to add the series to one of my DVD rental queues so I can get some sleep. Guinea pigs!! I love guinea pigs. We raised them for a while. I know, I know, what animal did we _not_ have as kids? Hmmm…well, we didn’t have any llamas. Or geese, although we had a duck for a while. No cattle, either, and nothing exotic. I think that covers it. Off to Happy Hour with some colleagues. I’ll raise a glass (or two) for you all. Horses are NOT evil! 😛 Ok, maybe sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-where-ya-goin-dad-huh-where/312967/151 "2005-07-20T22:38:23Z")
> [@EllaBean](#): > > why does “jake” mean “good?” Because it _does_. Sheesh. > [@susan\_foster](#): > > Today’s short-skirt-alert-level is: > > Yellow - Back into a skirt, after consecutive pants days (we can’t have that, can we!). Skirt is at age-appropriate length, as defined by What Not to Wear. Minimal chance of embarrassment when walking up stairs, but thighs displayed when seated. Skirt is white, which would almost automatically qualify it to be an Orange day, but this is a rare piece of white clothing that is not semi-sheer. If you give a more in-depth report there **Suze** , you’ll make me sweat. Just sayin’. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > …we hit the rack just after 8… Ha ha! **Snickers** said “rack”. NCIS comes on at 8 here. I watched the end of that, but I saw the ep before, so I didn’t watch it all that hard. Then at 9 House comes on. (On another station.) So I turned over to that and… you know. Man! That irked me. From the write-up I read in the paper I thought it was a House I missed. If _He_ was going to yap on and on like a ritalin-needin’ Pomeranian at a cat show and I’d miss House… Oooo, it made me mad! But (unexpectedly) FOX ran the whole House ep and I didn’t miss nothin’. So that was good. But halfway through I realized I had already seen it. But it was still good TV. ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-where-ya-goin-dad-huh-where/312967/152 "2005-07-20T22:53:42Z")
> [@Bumbazine](#): > > I think **Susan** should just post pictures of herself every day so that we can judge the skirt length for ourselves. I’m just sayin’ [You asked for it…](http://photobucket.com/albums/b155/sunfastrose/?action=view¤t=Wow-knees.jpg) Susan ---
**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:** [July 20, 2005, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-where-ya-goin-dad-huh-where/312967/153 "2005-07-20T23:24:28Z")
**s\_f** what apparently large and very hairy thing sat on you just before you took that pic? 😃 Sometimes a large and very hairy thing sits on me but he doesn’t shed like whatever sat on you does. Did sasquatch attack you? ---
**Author:** ![EllaBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a5b964/32.png) [@EllaBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllaBean)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-where-ya-goin-dad-huh-where/312967/154 "2005-07-20T23:27:42Z")
nice skirt, **Susan!** and nice knees! **Wintermute,** there are plenty plenty more where those came from. I’ve only got just under two weeks left here, so I’d have to post like 28 recipes a day before running out. plus I bake all the time… I sell some, give some away as gifts, and keep some. **Mama Bean** and **Papa Bean** expect a steady flow of treats as well. **donkey** , maybe the rice people are trying to be low-carb sensitive. Sort of like the bunless hamburgers… now they have riceless rice. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-where-ya-goin-dad-huh-where/312967/155 "2005-07-21T00:20:48Z")
**Ella** : Well, then, explain to me the huge tortilla shell!? :dubious: **swampy** : IME with large hairy creatures (albeit limited), I’ve found that sometimes they shed in unfortunate places like my mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-where-ya-goin-dad-huh-where/312967/156 "2005-07-21T00:38:08Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **s\_f** what apparently large and very hairy thing sat on you just before you took that pic? 😃 Sometimes a large and very hairy thing sits on me but he doesn’t shed like whatever sat on you does. Did sasquatch attack you? OMG. This was funny enough, and I had to try and explain to my SO, but then I read this: > [@chaoticdonkey](#): > > swampy: IME with large hairy creatures (albeit limited), I’ve found that sometimes they shed in unfortunate places like my mouth. went and made me incapable of speech. BWAHAHAHAHA! ---
**Author:** ![EllaBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a5b964/32.png) [@EllaBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllaBean)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-where-ya-goin-dad-huh-where/312967/157 "2005-07-21T00:55:59Z")
> [@chaoticdonkey](#): > > **Ella** : Well, then, explain to me the huge tortilla shell!? :dubious: crunchy carbs aren’t real carbs! This is why potato chips, onion rings, and french fries are okay while bread, certain fruits, and pasta are not okay, that was weak. I’ll try to come up with something better later. ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-where-ya-goin-dad-huh-where/312967/158 "2005-07-21T01:07:35Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **s\_f** what apparently large and very hairy thing sat on you just before you took that pic? 😃 Sometimes a large and very hairy thing sits on me but he doesn’t shed like whatever sat on you does. Did sasquatch attack you? Well, I think it might have something to do with the picture posted up thread. Susan ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-where-ya-goin-dad-huh-where/312967/159 "2005-07-21T01:57:03Z")
> [@EllaBean](#): > > crunchy carbs aren’t real carbs! This is why potato chips, onion rings, and french fries are okay while bread, certain fruits, and pasta are not > > okay, that was weak. I’ll try to come up with something better later. But these aren’t even crunchy! They’re warmed-up tortillas which are put into a real bowl. They’re basically huge-ass open-faced burritos. I think I know what I’m eating tomorrow for lunch. 😃 Today’s food was… interesting. Apparently, I love fruit. Breakfast: Some pineapple, cantaloupe, and a yogurt of some kind. Lunch: Turkey sammich, pineapple (shut up, I bought a pineapple the other day, and I lurve fresh [and canned for that matter {which is fortunate, since fresh is usually expensive}] pineapple), and a McFruitandyogurtparfait, then my after-work snack was a fruit and walnut salad. I didn’t eat something that wasn’t fruit until an hour ago or so, where I had some tuna salad with wheat thins. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-where-ya-goin-dad-huh-where/312967/160 "2005-07-21T01:59:12Z")
> [@susan\_foster](#): > > Well, I think it might have something to do with the picture posted up thread. > > Susan Ok, will you consolidate all of this into one post? I can’t find this other picture, and now, having looked at your skirt, can’t figure out what’s so wrong with it. I’m sorry that I’m slow. OMG!!! Good eats is on! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-where-ya-goin-dad-huh-where/312967.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-where-ya-goin-dad-huh-where/312967.md?page=9)