# Hunting for a Bar - A Transatlantic MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [October 5, 2009, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunting-for-a-bar-a-transatlantic-mmp/512647 "2009-10-05T08:46:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**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:** [October 8, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunting-for-a-bar-a-transatlantic-mmp/512647/121 "2009-10-08T20:32:15Z")
I’m finally starting to feel normal. I must have had food poisoning or something. Thankfully I wasn’t puking, but OMG! I won’t gross you out with the details. I’m just glad it doesn’t hurt (much) any more. And I have a bit of energy. I’ve missed 2-1/2 days of work this week - but tomorrow is my day off. I should be 100% by Monday, I should think. I feel like eating too! We’ll be having panko-breaded boneless poke chops, with a pineapple salsa, parsley potatoes and steamed speargrass. ---
**Author:** ![ems](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunting-for-a-bar-a-transatlantic-mmp/512647/122 "2009-10-08T20:44:06Z")
Got home after 9PM for the fourth day in a row - I am exhausted. I had eleven yes eleven straight hours of conference calls today ☹ The anti-malaria pills are killing me as well - thankfully only one more day of those! Next week I got to Tunisia for location visit then I get to run a training seminar at a 5 star hotel in Tunisia the following week (there has to be a perk to this jkob somewhere…) then I go straight to Algeria. I will be gone 2 weeks. I am tired already. In other news 5 weeks tomorrow til I see **Mr ems** again :D:D:D ---
**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:** [October 8, 2009, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunting-for-a-bar-a-transatlantic-mmp/512647/123 "2009-10-08T21:01:17Z")
Howdy Y’all! Three down and two to go til the weekstart. YAY!!! I don’t know what possessed me, but I came home from work and made deviled aigs. I just had to have me some. Ol’ y’all know who likes 'em too, so I’ll share cause I’m all unselfish like that. Dindin shall be poke tenderloin, green beans, squash, smashed **N.O.T.** , gravy, rolls and deviled aigs. Ice cream for dessert. MMMMMMMM… I have a small beast roast in slow cooker also. I think I shall turn it into my version of Philly cheesesteaks bein’ as I bought hoagie rolls and all. Ok, gotta go cook rolls cause OYKW shall be here shortly. Later Y’all! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunting-for-a-bar-a-transatlantic-mmp/512647/124 "2009-10-08T21:34:56Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > I don’t know what possessed me, but I came home from work and made deviled aigs. I just had to have me some. Is din-din Deviled Aigs with a side of Brussels Sprouts? :dubious: ---
**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:** [October 8, 2009, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunting-for-a-bar-a-transatlantic-mmp/512647/125 "2009-10-08T21:49:05Z")
> [@Tupug\_Anachi](#): > > …Am I still on for Monday?.. Why, yes; yes, you are! Yay for yarn, **Muppet**! I’m looking forward to seeing your shrug. > [@Dottygumdrop](#): > > **gt** , if you think you have a virus/malware problem, I can highly recommend [this](http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407) as a starting point! The initial self-help process is laborious, but it does give you all the data you need to then get the Major Geeks to help you if you still have problems!.. Thanks for the link, **Dotty**. It looks really useful. I’m pretty certain it’s not virus or malware. I keep everything updated and reduce my risk by blocking ads and flash, but you never know. It feels more like it might be an OS problem, but I think I have to rule out virus/malware first. I’d love to take it to the 'puter guy around the corner, but I really don’t want to spend the money if I don’t have to. I was really really really tired all of a sudden at work (I suspect hormones), so I called it a day (it was 5:00). Exhausting day regardless. Gotta find food, then it’s more 'puter cleaning and maybe some knitting and other stuff. 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:** [October 8, 2009, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunting-for-a-bar-a-transatlantic-mmp/512647/126 "2009-10-08T22:41:19Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Is din-din Deviled Aigs with a side of Brussels Sprouts? :dubious: **Bobbio** [del]Fart Blossoms[/del] Brussels Sprouts never grace the dindin table at da cave. You ought to know that! 😛 You got sump’n against deviled aigs? Speakin’ of dindin, if’n I do say so myself, it was tres nummy! I done good! I even got told I done good. 😃 **Puggy** what a silly question! Once you [del]are drafted[/del] volunteer, the MMP is all yours to start off. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunting-for-a-bar-a-transatlantic-mmp/512647/127 "2009-10-08T23:05:09Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **Bobbio** [del]Fart Blossoms[/del] Brussels Sprouts never grace the dindin table at da cave. You ought to know that! 😛 You got sump’n against deviled aigs? Just that deviled aigs make me fart durn near as bad as brussels sprouts. You could add wheat germ for the trifecta, and have your ass declared a chemical weapon… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunting-for-a-bar-a-transatlantic-mmp/512647/128 "2009-10-08T23:18:08Z")
OK, I didn’t kill anybody today, so that’s good. But I make no promises about tomorrow. Three minutes after I left the office yesterday, the project lead sent out an email telling us all we needed to stay till 5. Too late - I was in the parking lot when she hit Send. But it turns out as a result of our super-good meetings on Tuesday, the project was, in fact, hosed up and we had a lot to do. Plus the deadline got moved to NEXT Friday. Do you recall me saying I was going to take off next week? Yeah, that’s up in the air now… What really pisses me off - we should have had this meeting within the first week of the project - after all, it was about gathering information! _grrrrrrrrr_ I did get all my slides updated and I helped determine which of a list of facilities should be further studied and which can go away. Honest-to-goodness, I don’t know what I’d be needed for next week, especially since I covered this week myself while my coworker was in San Diego. He can deal himself next week, fercryinoutloud! Plus if they really really needed me, I could get there within an hour of getting a phone call. I am not a happy camper. Someone will be hurt… :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunting-for-a-bar-a-transatlantic-mmp/512647/129 "2009-10-08T23:24:54Z")
Gah. Grumpy/tired sort of day, isn’t it? ---
**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:** [October 9, 2009, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunting-for-a-bar-a-transatlantic-mmp/512647/130 "2009-10-09T00:39:35Z")
It was my day off today, so I got to leave work at 5:45 instead of 6. Bachelor Food is cooking, and I’m drinking beer and watching hockey to avoid doing the Booster Club minutes(lots of discussion, I don’t think I could do **Mama Tigs** ’s job.) **swampy** , can you email me some deviled aigs? I love 'em. **mmmmmmm** , I do gin and tonics to avoid malaria around here. It must work, I don’t have it.😃 **gott** , don’t you miss the old days, when the wolves culled the stupid? **FCM** , if you need help with the bodies, PM me. 😉 {{{{{Pie and **rigs** }}}[sub][sub][sub][sub]grope[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub]} ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunting-for-a-bar-a-transatlantic-mmp/512647/131 "2009-10-09T01:01:43Z")
Why am I being hugged? (and if you grope me, you WILL lose an appendage-note I do not specify which one!) I am home (finally) from RN work. My patients today were all very nice people. I am off tomorrow due to the issue with the computerized charting rollout–turns out it is not on the hospital’s end; it’s a software bug of some kind (the system crashes when our census is high–this is a problem!). But, I have 2 pts already in the frame for Saturday, so there goes my weekend. I hope to home by #2 son’s soccer game at noon. Ah’se tahred, but am staying up for John Stewart–Ah’se misses me some John. Have a good night, all. ---
**Author:** ![Fetchund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunting-for-a-bar-a-transatlantic-mmp/512647/132 "2009-10-09T01:33:29Z")
You know what? A beer really doesn’t make me better at figuring out macros and such. Too late! Get some sleep, all - tomorrow is Friday, and we all deserve to enjoy its shortness! ---
**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:** [October 9, 2009, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunting-for-a-bar-a-transatlantic-mmp/512647/133 "2009-10-09T01:35:22Z")
I went to jury duty again today, where we jurors heard the closing arguments and received our instructions from the judge. We found the defendent guilty on all counts; driving on a suspended or revoked license in the 2nd degree; driving while under intoxicants, and a special verdict basically stating, she was offered the chance to do a BAC and refused it. The first verdict was easy, she admitted to it, and the state had entered into evidence the letters she received from the state stating her license had been revoked or suspended. The second verdict took us a little longer. We basically had to convict the defendent on circumstantial evidence; i.e, the deputy’s testimony and the deputy’s report of the incident. It would take a long time to type out what happened, but we as a group did not find her testimony creditable. Her behaviour, according to the deputy’s testimony, certainly indicated she was impaired, many improper things said to the deputy, couldn’t finish the gaze test, couldn’t stand properly, the smell of alcohol eminating from her, among other things. Finally, she refused to take the BAC. I’m sorry, but it indicated to me that she had something to hide. She even stated that she’d “Blow that thing off the Richter scale”. All the same, we felt badly for her. Things are not going well and weren’t going well in her life when this occurred. Still, she’s the one who made the choice to drive on a suspended and to get behind the wheel drunk. I have to check over the weekend to see if I report Monday, but was already told, I’m more than likely to have to report. \*\*Mr. Taters \*\*has had a crappy two weeks at work. He’s been working 12 and 13 hour days. He doesn’t mind if it happens once in awhile, but two weeks running is getting old. Actually, come to think of it, it’s actually been three weeks of these long days. He’s not been in a good mood.☹ Hugs and kisses to all. Be careful with the coffee maker, **Bobbio**.😉 I hope tomorrow is a better day,\*\* FCM \*\*and that you DON’T have to work next week. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2009, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunting-for-a-bar-a-transatlantic-mmp/512647/134 "2009-10-09T03:16:12Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > (and if you grope me, you WILL lose an appendage-note I do not specify which one!) :eek::eek::eek:[del][sub][sub][sub][sub]grope[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/del] 😉 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunting-for-a-bar-a-transatlantic-mmp/512647/135 "2009-10-09T03:43:00Z")
> [@tarragon918](#): > > **Rosie** , those are indeed the first words of Fanny Brice in “Funny Girl,” which was on TCM this past weekend - love that movie! And of course Streisand is the best.. ok - what more recent movie made use of that phrase several times in the film? ---
**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:** [October 9, 2009, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunting-for-a-bar-a-transatlantic-mmp/512647/136 "2009-10-09T08:15:33Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’ _YAWN_ **MOOOOOOM** you work in a big place. A couple of missin’ bodies probably won’t be noticed. 😃 Here’s hopin’ staycation happens next week. **Taters** loudly announcin’ you miss the days of public hangin’s in the town square might get ya out of jury duty. Just sayin’. Fun fact about my home town. The art museum, which btw, is a pretty cool place for a small town, was the original county jail. The building has a tower which was used for hangin’s. Now the only thing they hang there is art. Ok, and on that note, I go brekkie foragin’ and consume more caffiene before work purtification. Later Y’all! ---
**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:** [October 9, 2009, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunting-for-a-bar-a-transatlantic-mmp/512647/137 "2009-10-09T09:12:32Z")
Happy Firday, folks! I got home yesterday all excited because 'im indoors said the new porch was finished - when I looked at it, I was convinced they’d put the doors on the wrong way round. The shiny silver hinges are on the _outside_. That is clearly wrong. From inside it looks very nice, but from outside it looks very silly. I am going to see if I can persuade him to call them and ask them to come back and do the job properly, I really hope he doesn’t think it should look like that. In other news, 'tis Firday and I will be spending the morning herding tutors around and making sure they all turn up in the right place. Ho hum. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunting-for-a-bar-a-transatlantic-mmp/512647/138 "2009-10-09T10:29:11Z")
**T G** blurf **I F** ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunting-for-a-bar-a-transatlantic-mmp/512647/139 "2009-10-09T11:03:49Z")
_wheeze_ _hack_ _sniffle_ I don’t wanna go to work today. Waaaaaaaaah. It’s cold and dark and rainy and my bed is just so much comfier. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunting-for-a-bar-a-transatlantic-mmp/512647/140 "2009-10-09T12:15:44Z")
Happy Firday blurfs, y’all. My peecans are starting to fall. Now I have to scoop nuts before I mow the yahd. Not much planned fer the weekend, but I certain VWife has a whole lotta whipcracking on her list. The number one item on my Christmas wishlist is a weekend of sloth. Item #2 is a side order of debauchery to go with the sloth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunting-for-a-bar-a-transatlantic-mmp/512647.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunting-for-a-bar-a-transatlantic-mmp/512647.md?page=8)