# I had a brilliant idea for the MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [May 11, 2015, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-brilliant-idea-for-the-mmp/719762 "2015-05-11T10:01:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**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:** [May 13, 2015, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-brilliant-idea-for-the-mmp/719762/121 "2015-05-13T10:13:57Z")
Ah, the blessed relief of the cold front!! The temps and humidity have dropped to amazingly comfortable levels. There’s a bit of a breeze, which is nice, except that I was going to spray the poison ivy to death today, and I need a still day for that. Small price to pay for such loverly weather! No caterruptions overnight, so except for my bladder, I slept thru and I’m close to feeling rested. Yay! I think one of today’s chores will be sorting this pile of papers beside me. I know there’s at least one bill in there, and I think there are actually 2. I should probably take care of them. I’m hoping we’re at the end of the medical bills. Even with insurance, the deductibles and copays just since the beginning of the year have moved into the thousands, between my scalp cancer and my sweetie’s crowns and knee and fillings and (now) ear infection. Those copays, etc, were supposed to take us to Bermuda in October, but that ain’t gonna happen now. First world problems, I know. But \*\*FCD \*\*and I haven’t had a real vacation together in way too long. Depending on what the wind does, I’ll either be spraying for poison ivy or mowing the back yard - those weeds are really ambitious! They shoot up way too fast! I’ve also got some viney things to transplant from one of my big planters to… somewhere. Maybe around the mailbox?? Happy Wednesday!! ---
**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:** [May 13, 2015, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-brilliant-idea-for-the-mmp/719762/122 "2015-05-13T11:11:24Z")
Up, caffeinated, off to work. Hockey tonight. > [@scareyfaerie](#): > > **gotti** , if you need emergency surgery, I have a very sharp knife… And i have a Sawzall.🙂 Deep breathe , **Nettie**! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-brilliant-idea-for-the-mmp/719762/123 "2015-05-13T12:27:47Z")
Blurf. I got nuthin. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-brilliant-idea-for-the-mmp/719762/124 "2015-05-13T13:11:15Z")
**Nettie** , write your draft while _consuming_ a draft; it helps with the breathing issues. 😉 > [@dogbutler](#): > > And i have a Sawzall.🙂 I thought we were using that for **VBob** ’s _reverse_ lobotomy - yano, where we put some in. :o ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-brilliant-idea-for-the-mmp/719762/125 "2015-05-13T13:18:45Z")
i has a blurf, but the lovely weather and gentle breeze are helping to disspell it ---
**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:** [May 13, 2015, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-brilliant-idea-for-the-mmp/719762/126 "2015-05-13T13:55:59Z")
Howdy from the orifice! I survived this mornin’s trip to the east forty. Go Me! Now it’s orifice time until this afternoon when I shall venture forth locally to do two more local monitorin’s and then over to the church house to flip burgers. I have some shorts to change into for burger flippin’ cause, well, outside burger flippin’ calls for the proper attire and that is shorts. One must be fashionable after all!😃 ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-brilliant-idea-for-the-mmp/719762/127 "2015-05-13T14:00:44Z")
I’m awake and dressed and thinking about lunch/dinner. That and the Dope are my excitements for the day. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-brilliant-idea-for-the-mmp/719762/128 "2015-05-13T14:20:32Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > I thought we were using that for **VBob** ’s _reverse_ lobotomy - yano, where we put some in. :o If you’re going to put something in, put some good booze in the bottle. I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-brilliant-idea-for-the-mmp/719762/129 "2015-05-13T14:31:21Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > If you’re going to put something in, put some good booze in the bottle. I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. 😛 I’ll ready the [equipment.](http://lumpykarma.tripod.com/images/Newsletter/funnelbrain.gif) ---
**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:** [May 13, 2015, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-brilliant-idea-for-the-mmp/719762/130 "2015-05-13T15:12:12Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > I have some shorts to change into for burger flippin’ cause, well, outside burger flippin’ calls for the proper attire and that is shorts. One must be fashionable after all!😃 Like [these](http://www.cefashion.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/394823Muscular-Man-Wearing-Tight-Denim-Shorts-and-Vest-Posters-224x300.jpg), no doubt. 😉 The back yard has been mowed - I’ll do the front yard tomorrow, since I’m watering out there at the moment. I’ve also weed-whacked along the garden edges and in places where I didn’t mow. And I cleared the path thru the woods - it’s become rather overgrown since the last time I rode thru. I’ve got the sprinkler going out front, and I pulled some weeds. I think it’s time for lunch. I’m going to WaWa to get a chef’s salad. And then, who knows… ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-brilliant-idea-for-the-mmp/719762/131 "2015-05-13T15:12:39Z")
Happy Hump Day! As my friend from Russia used to say Only in America do you have zee day for zee huumph. She told her husband that it is American law, that one must hump on hump day. It’s chilly in here, a cloudy 58 degrees outside with a projected high of 67. I needed a blanket last night. Lots to do today, maybe not so many interruptions. My mother called yesterday and in under 10 minutes she managed to bitch about Sah-son’s hair, niece1 husband, Obama, Michele, the riots, deceased bf1 and his wife, deceased bf2, senior housing, and living by herself. She needs a bf, or a hobby. Otherwise SSDD ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-brilliant-idea-for-the-mmp/719762/132 "2015-05-13T15:27:46Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Like [these](http://www.cefashion.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/394823Muscular-Man-Wearing-Tight-Denim-Shorts-and-Vest-Posters-224x300.jpg), no doubt. 😉 It is my fault. I should have expected it, from you. But Good Gad, woman, _warn_ us of things like that. :dubious: ---
**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:** [May 13, 2015, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-brilliant-idea-for-the-mmp/719762/133 "2015-05-13T15:34:21Z")
**flytrap** , imagine the pics I decided were “too much.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-brilliant-idea-for-the-mmp/719762/134 "2015-05-13T15:50:52Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > **flytrap** , imagine the pics I decided were “too much.” 😉 I threw up in my mouth, a little bit. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-brilliant-idea-for-the-mmp/719762/135 "2015-05-13T16:04:53Z")
N.O.L. time! Ham 'n cheese sammich and some chips. A cold sody water to wash it all down. **MOOOOOOM** no need for me to wear shorts that long. We’re not Puritans after all! 😛 ---
**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:** [May 13, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-brilliant-idea-for-the-mmp/719762/136 "2015-05-13T16:22:02Z")
What about the cowboy boots, **swampy**? Surely you’ll wear them also… Lunch is done. It’s still to windy to kill poison ivy, so I’m going to put NCIS on the teevee and sort thru my piles of papers. Good times! ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-brilliant-idea-for-the-mmp/719762/137 "2015-05-13T16:41:19Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > **flytrap** , imagine the pics I decided were “too much.” 😉 Where are they? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-brilliant-idea-for-the-mmp/719762/138 "2015-05-13T16:54:31Z")
> [@Sahirrnee](#): > > Where are they? For the love of G-d, do not encourage her. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2015, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-brilliant-idea-for-the-mmp/719762/139 "2015-05-13T16:57:20Z")
Oh, **sari** , you dirty, dirty girl… :eek: You might try googling Men jeans shorts and scroll thru the images… or not. Your call. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-had-a-brilliant-idea-for-the-mmp/719762/140 "2015-05-13T17:08:40Z")
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