# How I spent my Saturday – a boring MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [July 17, 2006, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-saturday-a-boring-mmp/364829 "2006-07-17T09:21:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 22
**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:** [July 20, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-saturday-a-boring-mmp/364829/421 "2006-07-20T17:04:04Z")
[QUOTE=Spatial Rift 47] Hell, I’ll take it. I have a little something I whipped up earlier that I can post. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Apparently you all missed this. ---
**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, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-saturday-a-boring-mmp/364829/422 "2006-07-20T17:06:36Z")
Did someone hear something? ---
**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:** [July 20, 2006, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-saturday-a-boring-mmp/364829/423 "2006-07-20T17:10:04Z")
[QUOTE=Exgineer] A Public Service Announcement for people visiting the Great City of Albany (like if you get lost on your way to someplace interesting, or something): While there are numerous exceptions ( **Mika** , for example), for the most part this town is inhabited by truly ugly-assed people. At least downtown during working hours. I am therefore forced to promulgate a new rule - I don’t care how hot it is. If you happen to be “aesthetically challenged” you need to put some clothes on. Ones that fit. And maybe a bag over your head. If you’re not sure if you fit into the “aesthetically challenged” category, you probably do. Lay off the spandex. [/QUOTE] I thought aesthetically challenged people only wore spandex to Wal-Mart; and dirty spandex at that. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-saturday-a-boring-mmp/364829/424 "2006-07-20T17:29:07Z")
All those in favor of \*\*VBob \*\* doing next weeks’ MMP :crickets: Okay, how about **Spatsie**? AYE!!! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-saturday-a-boring-mmp/364829/425 "2006-07-20T17:30:26Z")
rats - I wanted to code this all pretty like: All those in favor of \*\*VBob \*\* doing next weeks’ MMP **:crickets:** Okay, how about **Spatsie**? AYE!!! ---
**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, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-saturday-a-boring-mmp/364829/426 "2006-07-20T17:32:16Z")
**Spats** the MMP must be one great big pun. This ought to be good. **Sean** will plotz! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Twinkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Twinkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twinkie)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-saturday-a-boring-mmp/364829/427 "2006-07-20T17:35:57Z")
[QUOTE=Sean Factotum] **VBob** has quite the large amount of work cut out for him this weekend. If’n he can’t get everything out of the old place and into the new place on one trip, that’s another 2-1/2 or so hours round trip each time. Plus moving things around at the new place several times for each bit of furniture (you know, ladies, that it’s impossible for any of you to put a piece of furniture in only one spot on a move) at the new place, etc etc etc. He really won’t be in a position to start the MMP next week. [QUOTE] Oh, _sure._ Leap to his defense. 😉 But you’ve got a point about about that furniture thing – I’ve been in this house 5 years and still can’t decide where things go. It was worse when we first moved in; now, it only changes every few months. ---
**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, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-saturday-a-boring-mmp/364829/428 "2006-07-20T17:40:27Z")
**Twinks** try moving your sofa and recliners into the dining room and putting the dining room chairs in the living room. You’ll love the idea of lounging while dining. Trust me. I’m gay. I know this stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-saturday-a-boring-mmp/364829/429 "2006-07-20T17:48:34Z")
I’ve just spent two hours playing a stupid damn flash game. My eyes won’t focus. All of you are blurry. Someone make me want to do something else! ---
**Author:** ![Twinkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Twinkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twinkie)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-saturday-a-boring-mmp/364829/430 "2006-07-20T17:51:29Z")
[QUOTE=swampbear] **Twinks** try moving your sofa and recliners into the dining room and putting the dining room chairs in the living room. You’ll love the idea of lounging while dining. Trust me. I’m gay. I know this stuff. [/QUOTE] Well, I have no recliners. But the club chairs have been at the dining room table already, as has the settee. Trouble is, the settee is backless, and my neighbor often drinks too much. The settee doesn’t get invited to dinner anymore. The neighbor gets a club chair. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-saturday-a-boring-mmp/364829/431 "2006-07-20T18:12:56Z")
[QUOTE=swampbear] **Spats** the MMP must be one great big pun. This ought to be good. **Sean** will plotz! 😃 [/QUOTE] Don’t worry, it will be. > [@Lissla Lissar](#): > > I’ve just spent two hours playing a stupid damn flash game. My eyes won’t focus. All of you are blurry. How many fingers am I holding up? ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-saturday-a-boring-mmp/364829/432 "2006-07-20T18:25:46Z")
Five. No, eight! Twelve? ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-saturday-a-boring-mmp/364829/433 "2006-07-20T18:32:02Z")
**MBG** Been there, done that, got custody of half the T-shirt. I have no useful advice, but like everyone else here, I’m pullin’ for ya’. **Taters** , I have no advice about teenaged girls either, except that they often pretend to be much more grown-up and in control than they really are. Good on ya’ for setting the rules. 'Sides, I’d be pretty suspicious of a 20 yr-old guy who went on a road trip, or plane trip, or whatever, to visit a 16yo girl. **Lissla**! Look! Shiney! ---
**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:** [July 20, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-saturday-a-boring-mmp/364829/434 "2006-07-20T18:39:16Z")
OMG!!! The morning from hell. **taters** , I know you know the real meaning of FUBAR so that’s what it’s been. Good thing the video monitoring service we use is alla way down in Miami cause they’s on the shite list big time. That’s all I’m sayin. BTW, **taters** not that my opinion would be a deal breaker for ya, but what **kai** and everybody else said. With any luck Mr. Twenty will have post nasal drip and snort a lot or laugh like a jackass and **taterling** will think he’s a dork. 🙂 **mbg** , maybe the counseling needs a refresher course. I’m just sayin is all. **ex** , now, now. It won’t be that long before everyone in Albany’s covered up with goose down again. **li-li** , that woman got some bodacious body! :eek: **swampy** , clueless runner-up just reinforces my theory that the human race really really needs a natural predator. The gene pool lifeguards have left the building and the chlorine ain’t workin no more. Back to work. ::sigh:: ---
**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:** [July 20, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-saturday-a-boring-mmp/364829/435 "2006-07-20T18:47:58Z")
[QUOTE=Tupug Anachi] **swampy** , clueless runner-up just reinforces my theory that the human race really really needs a natural predator. The gene pool lifeguards have left the building and the chlorine ain’t workin no more. [/QUOTE] Hmm, a natural predator you say? Well, these humans are a hardy bunch. They can fend off larger animals without too much effort. Maybe something smaller … bugs are good, but these humans have chemical weapons. Smaller still - a virus! Yes, the humans seem vulnerable to viruses. A whole suite of them, perhaps. And the thing about viruses is they’re always changing, always developing new strains. That makes them much harder to eliminate. Perhaps the first one could target their immune system, making them open to all sorts of other infections. And transmitted sexually, to make them a little reluctant to engage in the act of reproduction. A Human Immunodeficiency Virus, that’s the ticket. Sounds like a plan. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-saturday-a-boring-mmp/364829/436 "2006-07-20T18:50:15Z")
[QUOTE=Exgineer] While there are numerous exceptions ( **Mika** , for example), for the most part this town is inhabited by truly ugly-assed people. At least downtown during working hours. [/QUOTE] Aww…thanks. But plenty of ugly people reign upstate, too. And those with poor fashion sense. Like the guy I saw the other day, wearing lily white shorts and lily white shirt and knee-length bright red socks. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-saturday-a-boring-mmp/364829/437 "2006-07-20T18:52:48Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] Aww…thanks. But plenty of ugly people reign upstate, too. And those with poor fashion sense. Like the guy I saw the other day, wearing lily white shorts and lily white shirt and knee-length bright red socks. [/QUOTE] ::stands up, checks self in mirror…breathes sigh of relief…:: ---
**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:** [July 20, 2006, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-saturday-a-boring-mmp/364829/438 "2006-07-20T18:53:08Z")
[QUOTE=Spatial Rift 47] Hmm, a natural predator you say? Well, these humans are a hardy bunch. They can fend off larger animals without too much effort. Maybe something smaller … bugs are good, but these humans have chemical weapons. Smaller still - a virus! Yes, the humans seem vulnerable to viruses. A whole suite of them, perhaps. And the thing about viruses is they’re always changing, always developing new strains. That makes them much harder to eliminate. Perhaps the first one could target their immune system, making them open to all sorts of other infections. And transmitted sexually, to make them a little reluctant to engage in the act of reproduction. A Human Immunodeficiency Virus, that’s the ticket. Sounds like a plan. [/QUOTE] Don’t think I haven’t been thinking about this since 1969 but it’s taking too long. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-saturday-a-boring-mmp/364829/439 "2006-07-20T18:57:16Z")
Don’t forget the Earth operates on a geological time scale. Fifty thousand years is but a blink in the planet’s history. We’ve got a good long while before something will kill us dead. ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-saturday-a-boring-mmp/364829/440 "2006-07-20T19:01:45Z")
[QUOTE=Spatial Rift 47] Don’t forget the Earth operates on a geological time scale. Fifty thousand years is but a blink in the planet’s history. We’ve got a good long while before something will kill us dead. [/QUOTE] Yeah, but we don’t want something that will kill ALL of us. Just the stupid ones. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-saturday-a-boring-mmp/364829.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-saturday-a-boring-mmp/364829.md?page=23)