# I Messed Up My Farmer's Tan **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 1, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-messed-up-my-farmers-tan/315129 "2005-08-01T13:44:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-messed-up-my-farmers-tan/315129/161 "2005-08-04T14:54:20Z")
Now I can’t even get the double posting right. I should quit while I’m behind. Since the mood of the moment is explanations, **donkey** , what does ACUG stand for? ---
**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:** [August 4, 2005, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-messed-up-my-farmers-tan/315129/162 "2005-08-04T14:57:08Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Now I can’t even get the double posting right. I should quit while I’m behind. > > Since the mood of the moment is explanations, **donkey** , what does ACUG stand for? Well, sometimes us maroons gotta be tole moren oncet. 😉 ---
**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:** [August 4, 2005, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-messed-up-my-farmers-tan/315129/163 "2005-08-04T14:59:53Z")
**taxi** , I’m very sorry about your Teddy kitty. I got a skinny ol kitty myself who’s starting to have health problems and I know it’s gonna be hard to let her go. But we do have the responsibility for these guys and the power to end their suffering. Big hugs, girlfriend. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2005, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-messed-up-my-farmers-tan/315129/164 "2005-08-04T15:06:58Z")
**taxi** , I’m so sorry. :🤗: I will try to get a picture all casual-like some time, but I warn you, it may melt my camera. He’s this amazing shade of deep bronze, has terrible posture, and wears transparent skin-tight unflattering clothes. He’s really scary. Also he gives off ‘I’m so self-involved and dumb that I don’t realize I look like an idiot’ rays. Painful. The dried cherries and berries combo from Costco is painfully good. It’s $8 a pound for mixed dried cherries, strawberries, cranberries, and blueberries. It sounds expensive until you realise that any one of those dried fruits cost _$14 a pound_ at the bulk food store. So I feel virtuous for eating inexpensive healthy dried fruit. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2005, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-messed-up-my-farmers-tan/315129/165 "2005-08-04T15:09:12Z")
Well, sounds expensive to me. I get squinty about paying more than $5 a pound for almost anything. I’m cheap. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-messed-up-my-farmers-tan/315129/166 "2005-08-04T15:23:58Z")
> [@Ashes](#): > > Well, just how strong are these xanax **Draelin**? I remember mine not having the punch of a half a glass of wine. Last night, I got home from work, discovered that in my extreme desire to get there I had forgotten to a) go to the ATM, b) pick up the laundry I didn’t do in celebration for Tuesday not sucking, and c) buy cigarettes. Then I burst into tears. After slowing to the point where I only had the little sniffles and the occasional hiccup, I called my best friend (who was on her way over, anyway), and asked her to pick me up some smokes. Then I went straight for the bottle of Xanax. I calmed down quite a bit. I don’t know if I calmed down because I was home and in my jammies, because I was given a big double-chocolate-fudge brownie in addition to my cigarettes, or because of the pill. Either way, it didn’t make me nearly as tired as everyone said it would, and I no longer have any compunctions about taking it at work, should the need arise. I believe the need will probably arise, given the morning my whole department is having, but I shall not count my neuroses until they rear their ugly heads. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-messed-up-my-farmers-tan/315129/167 "2005-08-04T15:26:46Z")
**ACUG** stands fer **A Certain Umm… Guy** , in the style of **swampy** ’s **ACBG**. i couldn’t think of an adjective to put there, so I’ve got an **Umm…** holding its place. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-messed-up-my-farmers-tan/315129/168 "2005-08-04T15:28:29Z")
> [@Tupug Anachi](#): > > Well, sometimes us maroons gotta be tole moren oncet. 😉 Ok. **ACUG** stands fer\*\* A Certain Umm… Guy\*\*, in the style of **swampy** ’s **ACBG**. i couldn’t think of an adjective to put there, so I’ve got an \*\*Umm… \*\* holding its place. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-messed-up-my-farmers-tan/315129/169 "2005-08-04T15:34:12Z")
Dammit, the first explanation was my 2500th post, and NO ONE TOLD ME!!! ---
**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:** [August 4, 2005, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-messed-up-my-farmers-tan/315129/170 "2005-08-04T15:34:58Z")
> [@chaoticdonkey](#): > > Ok. > > **ACUG** stands fer\*\* A Certain Umm… Guy\*\*, in the style of **swampy** ’s **ACBG**. i couldn’t think of an adjective to put there, so I’ve got an \*\*Umm… \*\* holding its place. Who??? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-messed-up-my-farmers-tan/315129/171 "2005-08-04T15:59:22Z")
> [@chaoticdonkey](#): > > **ACUG** stands fer **A Certain Umm… Guy** , in the style of **swampy** ’s **ACBG**. i couldn’t think of an adjective to put there, so I’ve got an **Umm…** holding its place. All I could thing of was A Certain Ugly Gentleman, which is definitely not nice, and probably factually wrong. I’m glad you set the record straight. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-messed-up-my-farmers-tan/315129/172 "2005-08-04T16:00:28Z")
> [@GillianBoardman](#): > > **FairyChatMom** I do enjoy him very much. I haven’t read him in years though. See, I love to read and I love to own the books I read. Which led to a huge accumulation. But I keep going through these rather dramatic life changes, and every time I do, my books are too numerous and heavy to take with me. So, off they go to the used book store, or the (insert charity that resells household goods here), and I mourn. I now have vowed not to buy anymore books. I have a library card (and have all of my adult life), damnit, so use it! But it’s hard. I like to re-read all my books. The characters are old friends, & how else can you get all the nuance of the story? When depending on the library, you aren’t quite so free to do that. Why aren’t libraries open 24/7/365? Also, they don’t always have your favorites. Or if they do somebody stole them. Stoopit book thieves. Bad, bad things should happen to them! So anyway, Richard Armour was in the first collection to go. I keep telling myself that owning less things of all types is healthy for me, but so far I have not convinced myself about the books. You can get rid of books? No, this makes no sense to me. Bah, you can find all sorts of wacko stuff on the Internet. Yeah, that’s it. Bookkeeper, who really fits his user name. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-messed-up-my-farmers-tan/315129/173 "2005-08-04T16:01:57Z")
So it has nothing to do with accounting, then? TMI! I prefer non-applicator tampons /TMI! ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-messed-up-my-farmers-tan/315129/174 "2005-08-04T16:05:07Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > All I could thing of was A Certain Ugly Gentleman, which is definitely not nice, and probably factually wrong. I’m glad you set the record straight. HAH! That’s exactly what I thought too! **CD** , hon, you might want to reconsider that “U” since it makes people think “ugly”! Maybe ACAG for A Certain Ahhh… Guy instead. Still gets across the idea of a lack of adjective as well as the “ahhhh” factor that one hopes he inspires. 😃 Thanks everyone for the hugs for my Teddy and me. I haven’t heard from the vet yet so I’m guessing they haven’t got the test results back. I’ll keep everyone posted. ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-messed-up-my-farmers-tan/315129/175 "2005-08-04T16:11:08Z")
> [@Bookkeeper](#): > > Bookkeeper, who really fits \*\*his \*\*user name. (bolding mine) Ooops! I thought you were a woman for some reason. :smack: I think we need a “Gender” description line up next to the Location line. It would clear up the confusion for a lot of us who have ambiguous names! ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-messed-up-my-farmers-tan/315129/176 "2005-08-04T16:33:01Z")
I just got my first thread in 10 months closed. I think that it’s a good thing that it’s been that long, right? Penis unicorns, indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Meaty\_Beaty\_Big\_and\_Bouncy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Meaty\_Beaty\_Big\_and\_Bouncy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meaty_Beaty_Big_and_Bouncy)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-messed-up-my-farmers-tan/315129/177 "2005-08-04T16:34:48Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Who? > > I don’t know why I repeated this attempt at a joke. The first time I tried it, it went over like a turd in a punchbowl. If it makes you feel any better, the first time you made it, it confused me for about 5 seconds. :smack: :wally ---
**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:** [August 4, 2005, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-messed-up-my-farmers-tan/315129/178 "2005-08-04T17:00:33Z")
> [@chaoticdonkey](#): > > **ACUG** stands fer **A Certain Umm… Guy** , in the style of **swampy** ’s **ACBG**. i couldn’t think of an adjective to put there, so I’ve got an **Umm…** holding its place. Unctuous? Undulating? Ursine? oh, the possibilities, they are endless. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2005, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-messed-up-my-farmers-tan/315129/179 "2005-08-04T17:05:44Z")
> [@Bookkeeper](#): > > You can get rid of books? No, this makes no sense to me. Bah, you can find all sorts of wacko stuff on the Internet. Yeah, that’s it. Except decent Eddie Arnold records, apparently. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2005, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-messed-up-my-farmers-tan/315129/180 "2005-08-04T17:20:16Z")
Ok, I am intrigued. **Bumba** why are you trying to find Eddie Arnold records? This is the kinda stuff that needs explanation. You cannot just make a statement like that in the MMP. We’re nosy! We want details. Hee! I had another adjective all together for the **U** in **ACUG**. It has to do with boy parts. I’ll let y’all figure it out. **taxi** here’s hoping for the best for your kitty. I’m glad to know that if the worst thing has to be you’re willing to do it. That shows you really care about him. Ya know, this one of the most TMIy MMPs in a long time. Bout time we got back on track! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-messed-up-my-farmers-tan/315129.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-messed-up-my-farmers-tan/315129.md?page=10)