# It's a dirty job but somebody has to do it MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [October 21, 2013, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-dirty-job-but-somebody-has-to-do-it-mmp/671799 "2013-10-21T09:00:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-dirty-job-but-somebody-has-to-do-it-mmp/671799/141 "2013-10-23T14:50:49Z")
> [@sahirrnee](#): > > Why do you have canned haggis as an option? One of these days I’m going to say, “This day just couldn’t get any worse!”…then I’ll look at that unopened can and realize how wrong I am. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2013, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-dirty-job-but-somebody-has-to-do-it-mmp/671799/142 "2013-10-23T14:53:04Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Clueless looks like [Kahless](http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Kahless_the_Unforgettable?file=KahlessTOS.jpg) in certain fonts. I think you have to apply to some dude in Florida before you can be a “lead Klingon”. What’s Klingon for “red shirt”? And since we have some new folks, another vital link > **[Translations of My hovercraft is full of eels in many languages](https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htm)** > > How to tell people that your hovercraft has been infested with eels in many different languages. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-dirty-job-but-somebody-has-to-do-it-mmp/671799/143 "2013-10-23T15:04:21Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > I think you have to apply to some dude in Florida before you can be a “lead Klingon”. What’s Klingon for “red shirt”? > And since we have some new folks, another vital link > > [http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htm](http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htm) I don’t even need to click that to know that mine is full of eels. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-dirty-job-but-somebody-has-to-do-it-mmp/671799/144 "2013-10-23T15:06:34Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > I don’t even need to click that to know that mine is full of eels. Then how do you get the miners to go down there? ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-dirty-job-but-somebody-has-to-do-it-mmp/671799/145 "2013-10-23T15:11:53Z")
Yay! We have actual sun! After two days of feeling like I should be building an ark… Had to go dentist today, and my fangs feel all funny now. I was there waay early- I didn’t realise how close the new place was, so left ages to get there. It’s 5 minutes walk away… Anyway, this evening I shall be doing silly things with fire in the park, for the first time in aaages. Should be fun, especially as it’s newbie night… Eep. I’ll bring the burns kit 😉 ---
**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:** [October 23, 2013, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-dirty-job-but-somebody-has-to-do-it-mmp/671799/146 "2013-10-23T15:14:52Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Then how do you get the miners to go down there? (to paraphrase Robot Chicken) Being miners they were probably Irish and therefor clearly drunk. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-dirty-job-but-somebody-has-to-do-it-mmp/671799/147 "2013-10-23T15:26:15Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > Anyway, this evening I shall be doing silly things with fire in the park, for the first time in aaages. Should be fun, especially as it’s newbie night… Eep. I’ll bring the burns kit 😉 I just envisioned \*\*Nuts \*\*as the flaming Ent in the battle of Isengard scene from the movie _LOTR: The Two Towers_. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-dirty-job-but-somebody-has-to-do-it-mmp/671799/148 "2013-10-23T15:30:38Z")
**HEY!!** > [@anyrose](#): > > **Swampy** , why did you change your screen name? Inquiring minds want to know. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2013, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-dirty-job-but-somebody-has-to-do-it-mmp/671799/149 "2013-10-23T15:35:49Z")
It’s cute, how you quote yourself. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-dirty-job-but-somebody-has-to-do-it-mmp/671799/150 "2013-10-23T15:50:02Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > \*\*HEY!!\*\*Inquiring minds want to know. There appears to be a lot of people getting their names changed, and I suspect it’s related to the upcoming teeth-rotting holiday. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2013, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-dirty-job-but-somebody-has-to-do-it-mmp/671799/151 "2013-10-23T15:58:39Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > There appears to be a lot of people getting their names changed, and I suspect it’s related to the upcoming teeth-rotting holiday. I suspect that it has something to do with the Witless Protection Program. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-dirty-job-but-somebody-has-to-do-it-mmp/671799/152 "2013-10-23T16:21:44Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I’ve always wanted to be called “Ace”. I thought **Ace** was taken. **Mr Flibble** on the other hand… ---
**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-dirty-job-but-somebody-has-to-do-it-mmp/671799/153 "2013-10-23T16:23:56Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > **Swampy** , why did you change your screen name? It’s part of the yearly joke for paid subscribers during Halloween - you can have your name temporarily changed. It gets fun when you start having a hard time trying to fix a new post to an old name. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-dirty-job-but-somebody-has-to-do-it-mmp/671799/154 "2013-10-23T17:37:17Z")
My daughter plays lacrosse on Tuesdays at a nearby park and I was up in the stands watching her with my son yesterday. Another boy was playing around with mine and he totally fell over on the bleachers and smacked his face. I felt so bad about it and his dad was with his 2 year old daughter in the bathroom. I felt so bad, I only know these people in passing and this guy’s son totally took a header right in front of me. I got the boy over to his dad in the men’s bathroom and he was really bleeding from the mouth by that time. His dad took over from there and was really calm and cool about – way more than I would be if the situation were reversed. They eventually got back to the stands and I apologized again and he basically answered “Hey, they’re boys, they fall over.” ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-dirty-job-but-somebody-has-to-do-it-mmp/671799/155 "2013-10-23T17:59:11Z")
> [@2gigch1](#): > > It’s part of the yearly joke for paid subscribers during Halloween - you can have your name temporarily changed. It gets fun when you start having a hard time trying to fix a new post to an old name. I’m a paid subscriber and a charter menmber, and nobody told me. :dubious: :mad: ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-dirty-job-but-somebody-has-to-do-it-mmp/671799/156 "2013-10-23T18:11:56Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > I’m a paid subscriber and a charter menmber, and nobody told me. :dubious: :mad: m’either ☹ ---
**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:** [October 23, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-dirty-job-but-somebody-has-to-do-it-mmp/671799/157 "2013-10-23T19:08:31Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > **Puggy**!!! Where the heck have you been hiding!!! Everybody thought you’d been abducted by aliens, probed, and made a goddess in their alien world. Or else you got rip-roarin’ drunk and just got out of jail… either way. 😃 It…was…no, that sounds good…I like godess…yeah, that’s it. Good to see y’all! 😃 ETA: So how do I change the status of “guest” to “goddess?” ---
**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 23, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-dirty-job-but-somebody-has-to-do-it-mmp/671799/158 "2013-10-23T19:19:51Z")
Howdy Y’all! I am now a zombie. **Moldy Bread** done et my brain. That’s all I can say for now except dindin will be brrrrrrraaaaaaaaiiiiiinnnnnnnnsssssss! 😃 I shall also shamble (shuffle?) or whatever it is we zombies do to move over to the church house for Evening Prayer this evenin’. I might be Zombielyte even. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2013, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-dirty-job-but-somebody-has-to-do-it-mmp/671799/159 "2013-10-23T19:35:00Z")
> [@Rougarou](#): > > **MOOOOOOM** what **Rosie** said re pie and ice cream. Well, I don’t think Rocky Road or Heath Bar Klondike Bars would be particularly good on punkin pie. 😛 Home, and CAC’d - we’ll see tomorrow if it gets me on base. Here’s a question for your consideration - why, if you have an office with a window, would you put a 6’ tall metal cabinet in front of said window?? 😕 Our IT goddess did that today. I’d kill for a window, and she’s got 2, both blocked by crap in her office. I don’t get it. Corned beef for supper - it’s simmering away, smelling very yum. When the timer beeps, I’ll toss in carrots and onion chunks and N.O.T. chunks. And on the way home, I got a carrot cake, so even dessert is healthy! 😃 Happy Three-Months-till-my-Birthday Day! 😃 ---
**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:** [October 23, 2013, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-dirty-job-but-somebody-has-to-do-it-mmp/671799/160 "2013-10-23T19:43:41Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Guess who’s having mini ravioli for lunch?\* When I was a kid, canned Chef-Boy-Ar-Dee ravioli was the ultimate comfort food. Not too long ago, I decided to get a can when my sweetie was out of town and I didn’t feel like cooking. I don’t know if they changed the recipe or if my palate grew up, but ick! No comfort in that can… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-dirty-job-but-somebody-has-to-do-it-mmp/671799.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-dirty-job-but-somebody-has-to-do-it-mmp/671799.md?page=9)