# In Honor of Labor Day, the FAQ MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [September 5, 2011, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-labor-day-the-faq-mmp/595222 "2011-09-05T04:07:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-labor-day-the-faq-mmp/595222/41 "2011-09-06T00:45:40Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > Spoken like a true pre-hospital provider. Go get your ankle x-rayed. I’m seriously thinking about it. It’s getting increasingly difficult to walk, especially after I’m off of it for a bit. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-labor-day-the-faq-mmp/595222/42 "2011-09-06T02:32:32Z")
[Stern Voice] **BBBobbio**. X-rays. Now. [/Stern Voice] ---
**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:** [September 6, 2011, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-labor-day-the-faq-mmp/595222/43 "2011-09-06T02:51:41Z")
Look, it’s **LiLi**! Wow, how amazing for you to have so many offers of help. Hope the being sick part ends soon. Bet you can guess her sons’ actual names. 😃 Gnat was known as **tinyninjachef** before he was born, since **LiLi** is reknowned for her cooking and her husband is reknowned for his martial arts. I don’t think TomKitten had a pre-birth name. And well…the twins…naming them seems daunting. x-rays sound like a good idea to me, **Bobbio**. Good catch on the **DH** , **swampy**. But, yes, other than gotti, I don’t believe anyone uses that one. Got a fair amount of gardening done and went for a walk and some ice cream. Have been hanging around finishing laundry and surfing and watching tennis. It’s a wild evening chez GT. Off to pull last load out of the dryer. Wooooo hooooo!!! Hugs all. GT ---
**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:** [September 6, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-labor-day-the-faq-mmp/595222/44 "2011-09-06T03:05:34Z")
Dinner was awesome! Ribeyes and sallit and twice baked NOT’s and sauteed mushrooms. And PEACH COBBLER! With ice cream! Burp. I rock. Plus, I did NOT sit on my ass all day. I cleaned the master bedroom, and got all sweaty, and took a shower with no showerhead because Mr Rebo took the showerhead back to Lowe’s cuz low-flows SUCK and I wanted a showerhead that BEATS ME \ and that one didn’t. We had a new (sucky!) showerhead cuz Mr Rebo knocked the soap holder thingie off the wall in the shower, along with lots of tile, so when he put up the temporay fix of vinyl beadboard, he replaced the bathtub hardware including a (sucky!) low-flow showerhead. I do not wish to be GREEN about a showerhead, thank you very much. Rant over. I donwanna go to irk tomorrow. whine. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-labor-day-the-faq-mmp/595222/45 "2011-09-06T05:43:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\***How did the MMP get started, anyway? > \*\* > Rue DeDay, AKA Unca Rue,** who was a stay-at-home dad for a while, got into the habit of starting threads on Monday. He’d generally start with some anecdote, such as this one and then meander off wherever it took him. At some point, he went back to work and didn’t have time to post any more and we started taking turns and including MMP in the title so that people could find it. > > **Who started it?** See Above > > **When**? (Somewhere in the mists of, time, mebbe? Can anybody answer this?) > > \*\*Who started the nickname thing? \*\* > The nicknames started because a few of the original (2nd Gen, c. 2007) Mumpers (and where have they been lately, anyway) had very long screen names. Also, as we came to know each other, the nicknames became terms of endearment. Some, like Noone Special (who better get his butt back in here if he knows what’s good for him), have a few. > > **What do some of the acronyms, nicknames and “Mumpspeaks” mean?** > N. O. T.‘s = potatoes (to distinguish them from the poster Taters: Not Our Taters > OYKW = Ol’ You Know Who. (Swampy’s main squeeze) > ACBG - A Certain Burly Gentleman. (see Above) > Firday (started by a drunken HazelNutCoffee ) > Blurf - the first incoherent thing you mumble when waking up > DH - Dear/Darling/Damned Husband > Delores Reboot =Rebo, by the way - if you couldn’t figure it out. > Noone Special = special one = Nooner = Lunch > Vunderbob = Bobbio because he lost a lot of weight and Bobbio rhymes with Fabio > Janis-and\_c0 = Pearl from Janis Joplin’s Album of that title > Squid & Goat (don’t ask) > JDD JoeDawg’s Daddy > MOG - Mother of The Groom > PB - Papa Bear (\*\*Pearl’\*\*s Main Squeeze) > > When was the term Mumper first used? > > [Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8787139&postcount=82) > **What/Where is the MMP recipie Blog?** > Which leads us to another important Mumper fact: we’ve posted so many recipes that, McUne, whose full name is Most Creative User Name Ever started us a blog. She got too busy to keep it up and handed the reins over to me a ways back. I’ve been cleaning up my bookmarks and found some recipe links from before the blog and am going to add those recipes sometime soon. I keep a link to it and other important Mumper info in my signature, which I hardly ever click on. If you need to get to it, you can go to GT’s profile to find it. Did I leave anything out? (this is fun btw, it’ll be nice to have a FAQ of our very own!) ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-labor-day-the-faq-mmp/595222/46 "2011-09-06T06:27:26Z")
> [@Lissla\_Lissar](#): > > I think all three-year-olds should spend that year of their lives in the salt mines. There’s a village near Pamplona called “Potasas de Navarra”, originally built to house the workers at the salt mines. Maybe we could convince the local Gumint to start an “international magnet kindergarten”. > [@](#): > > Since I’ve found out we’re having twins, I’ve had four different relatives volunteer to come and help, for weeks at a time, and one of them is going to _fly in from Vancouver_. To Toronto. This is awesome. Twins get extra-special rates at the IMK. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-labor-day-the-faq-mmp/595222/47 "2011-09-06T06:58:33Z")
> [@janis\_and\_c0](#): > > [Stern Voice] **BBBobbio**. X-rays. Now. [/Stern Voice] No x-rays. Icepack, elevation and sleep has it feeling better. Stooopid dawg just got me up to go outside, and I was hobbling better than I did when I went to bed. Exam of my right foot showed minimal swelling and no purple skin, so I’m going to grin and bear it for now. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2011, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-labor-day-the-faq-mmp/595222/48 "2011-09-06T10:06:30Z")
Men and pain - I swear!!! **FCD** has been hurting all weekend. Would he take a day and just take it easy? Of course not. Yesterday he was hobbling around like a geriatric patient, hardly able to straighten up, but he insisted on installing wiring in his shop. Because, you know, the world would end otherwise. :rolleyes: He is going in for an MRI tonight. Still, I don’t get why he can’t just take a day or two to chill and let the aches heal - it’s not like there’s a deadline for getting his shop up and running. :rolleyes: It’s mid-60s out right now and raining. I don’t think we’re supposed to get over mid-70s today. I have a timer set so I have time to get my tools together and shower before class. Meanwhile, it’s my on-line playtime. If by play, I can include the comics, Dear Abby, and Mumpin’… 😃 I had a terrible night - I couldn’t fall asleep at a decent hour - blah! With luck, rising early today will help reset my internal clock. Plus I was having dreams about being late for class today. Speaking of class - I looked up on the college site - it’s a full class - 18 total. Two of us are taking the advanced, four for intermediate, and twelve beginners, all in one room. Plus there are 5 on the waitlist. Even the evening class is closed. Suddenly ceramics is popular! Glad I signed up early. Thus beginneth my morning. Happy Tuesday! ---
**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:** [September 6, 2011, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-labor-day-the-faq-mmp/595222/49 "2011-09-06T10:17:08Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. _YAWN_ 'Tis \ 69 \ degrees Amurrkin out with a predicted high of _only_ :eek: 80 for the day! Oh My! Lee didn’t bring as much rain as I’d hoped but apparently has given us quite the cool down. OYKW, JDD and Partner calmed me down re [del]goin’ Rambo on[/del] wantin’ to cancel Mediacom. I will concede that there was some rough weather (downed trees and such) in town although nuttin’ like that happened out heah around da cave. Maybe that did affect service. Right now everything is workin’ so on their advice I’m givin’ benefit of the doubt. I’m still not exactly happy with 'em though. Mediacom that is. **BBBobbio** watch that ankle ok? I say if’n it does not quit hurtin’ go get it xrayed. Have fun in class **MOOOOOOM**! Learn good. Ok, I need more caffiene and should seek foodlike substance for rumbly tummy. Then, alas, purtification for irk must commence. At least it’s a short week. Happy Tuesday Y’all! ---
**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:** [September 6, 2011, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-labor-day-the-faq-mmp/595222/50 "2011-09-06T11:07:11Z")
Up, caffeinated, off to irk. Watch the ankw, **VBob**. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-labor-day-the-faq-mmp/595222/51 "2011-09-06T11:07:33Z")
Blurf. The second Monday of the week. I still have a hitch in my gitalong this morning, but not anywhere near the extent of when I went to bed. I think I’ll survive. I had a WTF? dream last night. I was traveling to Nashville TN for a job interview, and not only did I get on the plane without luggage, I did it without a boarding pass. All I had with me were my usual wallet, keys, and cell phone… :dubious: Not only that but the airline invoked a joke I use frequently (“Fly-EZE Airlines. We can’t afford to crash…”), and the puddle jumper landed on a highway, taxiing over city streets to the airport. The whole dream reeks of insecurities, but I’ll be damned if I know what they are. ETA: First! ---
**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:** [September 6, 2011, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-labor-day-the-faq-mmp/595222/52 "2011-09-06T12:01:00Z")
For the record, I don’t use **DH** either, but that’s because I have 'im indoors instead. On Friday, he will have to become 'im outdoors as we’re off on our hols for a couple of weeks. On the subject of 'im indoors, he had a phone interview for a job he wasn’t particularly bothered about and wasn’t concerned that he’d not heard back from his agent about it. Yesterday the agent rang and said they’re still interested in him, so he might be coming back from holiday and going off to do a job. He still isn’t massively bothered about the job itself but he may well take it just for the sake of it. Three more sleeps to the Caribbean! BTW, **Swampy** - we have an unopened 9-pack in the bathroom, plus (I think) at least another five on the shelf. Since I’m going to be away from home, how many should I pack? ---
**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:** [September 6, 2011, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-labor-day-the-faq-mmp/595222/53 "2011-09-06T12:11:37Z")
Depends on how long you’re gone for **BooFae**. I’d plan on a minimum of three rolls per person per week. 😛 One never knows when a great need may arise after all. **BBBobbio** it could’ve been worse. Ya coulda been nekkid on the plane. 😃 Ima head out to the large and in charge metropolises of Dawson, Da Burg and Sylvester shortly. Tomorrow, I get to spend most of the day in beautiful downtown Arlington, Jawja! Envy my exotic travels. ETA: **Pearl** we are never “naked.” If we’re sans clothin’ we’re “nekkid.” ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-labor-day-the-faq-mmp/595222/54 "2011-09-06T12:15:53Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **BBBobbio** it could’ve been worse. Ya coulda been nekkid on the plane. 😃 Yeah, I was wearing standard office garb. Funny thing is when I am nekkid in a dream, no one cares. That’s probably harder to take than derisive laughter… ---
**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:** [September 6, 2011, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-labor-day-the-faq-mmp/595222/55 "2011-09-06T12:21:56Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > ETA: **Pearl** we are never “naked.” If we’re sans clothin’ we’re “nekkid.” I’m sure you’ve heard this, but \*nude \*is strictly an art term, \*naked \*means you don’t have any clothes on, and \*nekkid \*means you don’t have any clothes on and you’re up to something. 😃 My tools are gathered and ready for class. I’ve breakfasted (broken fast?) and I’m about to hop in the shower. Behave yourselves while I’m gone! No shenanigans! Use coasters! Keep your feet off the furniture! _I mean 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:** [September 6, 2011, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-labor-day-the-faq-mmp/595222/56 "2011-09-06T12:22:14Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Yeah, I was wearing standard office garb. Funny thing is when I am nekkid in a dream, no one cares. That’s probably harder to take than derisive laughter… Well, ya know, you see one nekkid old dude you’ve seen 'em all. 😛 ---
**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:** [September 6, 2011, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-labor-day-the-faq-mmp/595222/57 "2011-09-06T12:22:54Z")
> [@janis\_and\_c0](#): > > Did I leave anything out? (this is fun btw, it’ll be nice to have a FAQ of our very own!) It’s Dolores Reborn = Rebo, not Reboot. Although that’s pretty funny! It’s nice and cool here this morning - 68°! Predicted high of 92°. We got a “cold” front - a dry one. :rolleyes: We have wild fires north of Houston. Yesterday was very windy with the front, and the firemen couldn’t get the blaze out. 8000 people have been evacuated. The winds have died down, so hopefully they can get it under control today. no rain in the forecast all week. Houston is turning into a desert. ☹ Happy Tooooooosday! ---
**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:** [September 6, 2011, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-labor-day-the-faq-mmp/595222/58 "2011-09-06T12:38:04Z")
Here! We’re kind of stuck for boys’ names. Girls will be Miriam and Elizabeth. Going to Costco today to look for a new microwave. The old one burnt out. Bleh. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-labor-day-the-faq-mmp/595222/59 "2011-09-06T12:46:02Z")
for boys - Max & Eliot? ---
**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:** [September 6, 2011, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-labor-day-the-faq-mmp/595222/60 "2011-09-06T12:47:23Z")
Butch and Sundance? Martin and Lewis? Bob and Bing? Chad and Jeremy? Peter and Gordon? Have I dated myself too much with this list? 😉 Showered, dressed, and about to head out the door. Be careful, **Rebo**!! Think rainy thoughts!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-labor-day-the-faq-mmp/595222.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-honor-of-labor-day-the-faq-mmp/595222.md?page=4)