# I need to be excused **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 21, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-be-excused/295491 "2005-03-21T00:39:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-be-excused/295491/1 "2005-03-21T00:39:13Z")
Hi, it’s me - usually poster # 39 or higher in the **MMP**. Ummmm, I could tell you the truth, which is that I have to work tomorrow for a change so I can’t post in the usual prompt manner. Or I could make up some excuses like: the dog ate my computer I lost the mouse my sick aunt’s nephew’s cousin needs me I have really bad diarrhea I laughed at someone’s post and blew Dr. Pepper thru my nose and now my monitor is unusable I have brain freeze from a blue Slurpee the vernal equinox has rendered me an idiot without fingers to type the dog pooped out the computer he ate, then ate the poop Please, someone tell me that I’ll be missed. I suppose wishing for my post to be visited by **Rue** is just asking for disappointment. But anyone, anyone??? ---
**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:** [March 21, 2005, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-be-excused/295491/2 "2005-03-21T00:58:02Z")
I’ll miss you. Sorry about the dog and the computer… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-be-excused/295491/3 "2005-03-21T01:09:28Z")
“Mr. Osborn, my brain is full.” ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-be-excused/295491/4 "2005-03-21T01:33:19Z")
A blue Slurpee? :eek: Oh, man… Hey, no biggy. You can pull a double shift sometime next week. When I was working 3rd shift, the only place open for lunch at 2:00am was the bar around the corner. Once, I called in sick to work, and the next night the bartender was miffed that I hadn’t called in sick to the bar, too. :smack: He said he had a good mind to write me up. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2005, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-be-excused/295491/5 "2005-03-21T02:44:16Z")
That means we all have to move up one in line. :dubious: Well Okay, we’ll cover for ya’ this time, but try to be more prompt in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-be-excused/295491/6 "2005-03-21T03:52:18Z")
You are dead to me! **Beckwall**? **Beckwall** who? Where’s that broken-hearted crying sound coming from? Annoying that. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2005, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-be-excused/295491/7 "2005-03-21T12:04:17Z")
Noooooooooo! You can’t flake on us **beckwall**. You’re like the cumin in our MMP… whatever dish takes cumin. Maybe a curry? (I don’t cook much, so that was probably a bad way to go for an analogy.) You will be sorely missed. Heck I might not even _post_ the MMP this week out of sorrow. On second thought, I think I will anyway. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2005, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-be-excused/295491/8 "2005-03-21T13:19:46Z")
Slacker!!! 😉 ---
**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:** [March 21, 2005, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-be-excused/295491/9 "2005-03-21T13:26:02Z")
Well, if it’s just this **one** time and you promise to write and call once in a while and eat all your veggies, you may be excused. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2005, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-be-excused/295491/10 "2005-03-21T13:36:03Z")
So are we running two MMPs this week. 'Cause, that’s a lot of extra work. Not that I can’t pull my share. I’m just sayin’. And **beckwall** , Imodium works really great for me. You might want to try it. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-be-excused/295491/11 "2005-03-21T15:38:19Z")
Don’t say she’s cumin, **Rue**. I am pretty sure I don’t recall a funky smell.