# It's a holiday for some in the MMP!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [October 12, 2015, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-holiday-for-some-in-the-mmp/734411 "2015-10-12T09:47:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**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:** [October 14, 2015, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-holiday-for-some-in-the-mmp/734411/121 "2015-10-14T10:04:23Z")
Up, caffeinated, off to work. ---
**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 14, 2015, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-holiday-for-some-in-the-mmp/734411/122 "2015-10-14T10:06:50Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. _YAWN_ 'Tis 59 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 82 and sunny for the day. We shall see. Right now ‘tis foggy out. I need to make a trip down to the extreme southwest forty this mornin’. This is where Jawaja, Alabammy, and Flahrduh meet up. Sixty miles one way to end up nowhere. Rah. OK, that’s all I got. I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy wants sustenance. Then, alas and alack, purtification for the irkday must commence. Happy Hump Day Y’all! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-holiday-for-some-in-the-mmp/734411/123 "2015-10-14T11:56:21Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Why the hell do I get “Flytrap”? Why not[Dionaea muscipula](http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/69/5669-004-B4BF1047.jpg), or [Sarracenia](http://www.lewisginter.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Pitcher-Plant-Sarracenia-leucophylla-jonah-holland-500.jpg), or [Nepenthes?](http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/624_351/images/live/p0/2p/lb/p02plb38.jpg) > > dammit. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Be glad you didn’t get **[Audrey II](https://www.google.com/search?q=audrey+ii&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAmoVChMInbSDvtLAyAIVBPceCh2Z0Agj&biw=1296&bih=898)**! 😛 > [@kopek](#): > > Because you always remind me of him. > > [http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4121/4765217922\_1a2c44a2bf.jpg](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4121/4765217922_1a2c44a2bf.jpg) I was going to it’s because it’s the most common form of your name to match a most common you I forewent the debate in favor of a very disappointing Dodgers v Mets NLDS game. The Mets need to get angry again like they were in game 3. ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-holiday-for-some-in-the-mmp/734411/124 "2015-10-14T12:13:18Z")
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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-holiday-for-some-in-the-mmp/734411/125 "2015-10-14T13:22:49Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > Oh, yeah. We had enough for a whole team with a bunch of alternates. And we took our division, because all the bar teams thought the guys were all weak pansies. We won games by 10, 15, even 20 runs. Made it to the championship. Lost 2-3. The following year, the other teams knew what to expect so we didn’t do as well. > eta - the theatre department wasn’t just actors - it was builders and engineers too, because someone had to build the sets and handle the lighting and sound So it was in my HS too but that meant it was considered a great place for chicks to learn how to put up sets (there was no such things as builders or engineers, it was an “everybody does everything until tested otherwise” kind of set up). My brother got to do the main character in Don Mendo’s Revenge on account of being a) male and b) intelligent enough to remember the lines, but they were three guys and over twenty girls. The Lit teacher was very happy to have three guys. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-holiday-for-some-in-the-mmp/734411/126 "2015-10-14T13:30:14Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Why the hell do I get “Flytrap”? Why not Dionaea muscipula, or Sarracenia, or Nepenthes? Isn’t a flytrap the Diothing whose lastname means “grabs flies”? ---
**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 14, 2015, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-holiday-for-some-in-the-mmp/734411/127 "2015-10-14T13:36:57Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Isn’t a flytrap the Diothing whose lastname means “grabs flies”? Heck if I know, I’m an engineer, not a Latin scholar. :dubious: ---
**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 14, 2015, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-holiday-for-some-in-the-mmp/734411/128 "2015-10-14T13:43:06Z")
Here is the [horrid truth.](http://www.sarracenia.com/faq/faq2880.html) Please be sure that there are no children in the room. ---
**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 14, 2015, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-holiday-for-some-in-the-mmp/734411/129 "2015-10-14T13:47:30Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Funny, **ruble** doesn’t look Jewish. 😉 \ It comes from growing up near the Poconos; at one point we all worked in the lodges for 2.35 an hour and all the pride we could swallow. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-holiday-for-some-in-the-mmp/734411/130 "2015-10-14T13:54:19Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > So it was in my HS too but that meant it was considered a great place for chicks to learn how to put up sets (there was no such things as builders or engineers, it was an “everybody does everything until tested otherwise” kind of set up). My brother got to do the main character in Don Mendo’s Revenge on account of being a) male and b) intelligent enough to remember the lines, but they were three guys and over twenty girls. The Lit teacher was very happy to have three guys. in HS the actors acted and the builders built - the wood shop students were enlisted to help with the set building But I was describing college - and yeah in college we all learned a little bit of everything, but those who excelled at certain tasks did the bulk of those tasks ---
**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:** [October 14, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-holiday-for-some-in-the-mmp/734411/131 "2015-10-14T14:06:56Z")
Happy Hump Day! It’s bright and sunny, looks to be a nice day. The dog is crazy, I think I finally figured it out. He wants to lay in the sun but he wants to be in the same room with me. The hallway is sunny but I’m not going to sit there to irk. My computer seems to be back to normal so maybe windows took care of the problem - thank you all or the advice. I think amazon is all straightened out. So much to do today. I need to get busy. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-holiday-for-some-in-the-mmp/734411/132 "2015-10-14T14:16:40Z")
Good morning everyone. One child off to school, one more yet to shove gently from the nest. 😃 ---
**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 14, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-holiday-for-some-in-the-mmp/734411/133 "2015-10-14T14:26:47Z")
> [@ddsun](#): > > Good morning everyone. One child off to school, one more yet to shove gently from the nest. 😃 How far down is it? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-holiday-for-some-in-the-mmp/734411/134 "2015-10-14T15:28:52Z")
> [@ddsun](#): > > More… > And Taters is just Taters? Right? what about Mashers? Winter is a comin here in the north country I’d like fall to stay longer! :eek: ---
**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 14, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-holiday-for-some-in-the-mmp/734411/135 "2015-10-14T15:58:15Z")
I just et a bowl (well, plastic container that’s actually square) of my homemade beef/veggie soup. I done good! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-holiday-for-some-in-the-mmp/734411/136 "2015-10-14T17:23:33Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > I just et a bowl (well, plastic container that’s actually square) of my homemade beef/veggie soup. I done good! 😃 My lunch is from a similar container (blue lid?) but contains lamb and lentil stew from the freezer rotation. Yum! ---
**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 14, 2015, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-holiday-for-some-in-the-mmp/734411/137 "2015-10-14T17:38:06Z")
I have forgotten what color lid is on the left over ribs. I feel so cheap. dammit. ☹ This forum requires that you wait 60 seconds between posts. Please try again in 4 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-holiday-for-some-in-the-mmp/734411/138 "2015-10-14T18:17:43Z")
This spam is the best email I’ve gotten in a while [QUOTE=spammy email] **(subj)seeking a great guy friend that could turn into more (n.county)** What new sexy?, Please tell me that you’re available, long time without talking sweety I have had some bad times ever since I found out David is f\_ing my cousin., I’m looking for a good lawyer now ☹ and going on with my life. Anyway, I am getting back with good friends on line, like you, thinking that maybe u would like to know about my page…laurafp [co m], I am logged in frequently. just look for tta889 there. I will be waiting seriously, so don t take too long… [/QUOTE] ---
**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:** [October 14, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-holiday-for-some-in-the-mmp/734411/139 "2015-10-14T18:33:36Z")
I had a piece of cake for N.O.L. I’m still hungry because cake doesn’t stick with you. Just got an email from irk that if I log in extra hours this week I can get $150 bonus. So I know what I’ll be doing. This comes at a good time. ---
**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 14, 2015, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-holiday-for-some-in-the-mmp/734411/140 "2015-10-14T19:38:39Z")
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