# It's the Independence Day in December MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [December 14, 2015, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-independence-day-in-december-mmp/740399 "2015-12-14T06:40:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [December 15, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-independence-day-in-december-mmp/740399/41 "2015-12-15T02:53:20Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Work is done, salad has been eaten, ammo and gun packed for tomorrow. No spree – just a last chance to go shooting with a friend before he moves to NJ. Yeah, you need to fire off a couple hundred rounds before you move to Jersey. Practice makes perfect! ---
**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:** [December 15, 2015, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-independence-day-in-december-mmp/740399/42 "2015-12-15T05:08:19Z")
I made ith through work. Home now, making chicken, chilies, and quinoa for dinner. Today is my Firday! > [@Spiderman](#): > > Just why is it called common sense if it’s rare? 😕 We have tents and propane heaters. Chill. > [@missred](#): > > So maybe Ground Hog day? 😃 Extend Ground Hog day? I never sausage such a thing!\* \*I’m on a roll tonight! ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-independence-day-in-december-mmp/740399/43 "2015-12-15T05:49:28Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] That’s what I do for a living, while wearing a black T shirt that says, “I’m here because you broke something.” [/QUOTE] I’ve got one of those. Need one that says “I read your bank statements” There’s plenty of “I read your email” shirts but I don’t support Exchange, and I don’t do Windows. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-independence-day-in-december-mmp/740399/44 "2015-12-15T08:48:09Z")
Last final of the semester tonight. I _think_ I have a good grip on the material. Didn’t sleep last night, so crashed as soon as I got home from irk. Just got up about half an hour ago (I was planning to get up around 1-ish anyway for a little more study time). I’m on closing shift tomorrow, so can spend quite a bit of quality time with my pillow after the test. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2015, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-independence-day-in-december-mmp/740399/45 "2015-12-15T09:19:17Z")
> [@ddsun](#): > > Are they not still made out of cardboard boxes and tinfoil? We just started watching this season and I was struck by the “Lost in Space” level special effects. That would not surprise me at all, **sunny**. They always seemed to do these things on a fairly tight budget. I have no idea what they’re like now, the last Dr I remember watching was Peter Davidson and I couldn’t really see him as a Dr because I’d just finished watching him being the vet’s wastrel younger brother in “All Creatures Great and Small”… Busy day for me, I have a “professional services event” this morning which promises to be the most boring thing ever, and certainly will be several hours I’ll never see again. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-independence-day-in-december-mmp/740399/46 "2015-12-15T09:27:53Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > Some Turkey Day meals repeat without even trying. What, like cucumber, which to me is the cheapest vegetable? Or are you actually eating them? > [@ddsun](#): > > Are they not still made out of cardboard boxes and tinfoil? We just started watching this season and I was struck by the “Lost in Space” level special effects. There’s also some wood and rubber bits, specifically the plungers in the Daleks. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2015, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-independence-day-in-december-mmp/740399/47 "2015-12-15T11:08:54Z")
Hey - let’s not dis cucumbers! I happen to like them and I’d have bought some yesterday if they didn’t look so nasty. Sliced with a little salt -YUM! Good morning! Lousy night last night. Shortly after I fell asleep, I was awakened by a weird metallic sound. I lay there listening, but there was no evidence of any intruders, so I eventually fell asleep. Turns out the noise was caused by **FCD** ’s shaving mirror in the shower - the suction cup let go and it slid down the wall only to be caught by the grab bar, which is metal. Anyway, between that and waking just before 4, I’m definitely in zombie mode today _\_ - and for the moment I have nothing to do. Thus it begins. 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:** [December 15, 2015, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-independence-day-in-december-mmp/740399/48 "2015-12-15T11:09:23Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. _YAWN_ ‘Tis 52 Amurrkin out and foggy with a predicted high of 74 and sunny for the day. I get to go to the west and southwest forty today. Hopefully the fog will burn off before I have to leave. Bein’ as this will be pretty much an all day adventure, I shall leave from da cave. I’m goin’ to three places, but they are spaced fairly far apart. So, a good amount of ridin’ is in store. OK, that’s all I got. I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy demands sustenance. Then, alas and alack, purtification for irk must commence. Happy Tuesday Y’all! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-independence-day-in-december-mmp/740399/49 "2015-12-15T11:29:59Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Hey - let’s not dis cucumbers! I happen to like them and I’d have bought some yesterday if they didn’t look so nasty. Sliced with a little salt -YUM! I’m not dissing them, in fact I respect them very much! It’s them who dis me ☹ ---
**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:** [December 15, 2015, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-independence-day-in-december-mmp/740399/50 "2015-12-15T12:05:55Z")
\*\*blurf \*\* ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-independence-day-in-december-mmp/740399/51 "2015-12-15T12:13:09Z")
> [@Buttercup\_Smith](#): > > \*\*blurf > \*\* Indeed. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2015, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-independence-day-in-december-mmp/740399/52 "2015-12-15T12:49:01Z")
Happy Toosday! well not so happy for somebody- because somebody parked on my property again and the tow truck is on it’s way. SUV this time. I finally found the landlord’s name and number, maybe I should give her a call? ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-independence-day-in-december-mmp/740399/53 "2015-12-15T12:57:30Z")
I would. Her tenants are creating a problem for neighbors, she needs to know. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-independence-day-in-december-mmp/740399/54 "2015-12-15T13:17:18Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > We have tents and propane heaters. Chill. You’re tailgaiting in a _heated_ tent? Do you also hold your pinkie out when you take a drink? :dubious: We’ve set a record high for the 4th straight day; today was **Swampy** ’s _faaavorite_ degrees…at 1:sumpin AM. Will be upper 50° & blustery by the late afternoon. My step counter was reading 9966 steps; that # reads the same right side up as upside down. It was too early in the morning to try & figger out 'zactly how I’m s’posed to put it on my wrist iffn I don’t know how it goes by reading the numbers. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2015, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-independence-day-in-december-mmp/740399/55 "2015-12-15T13:33:55Z")
Up, caffeinated, off today. I shall clean the apartment after Gordie’s long walk. > [@Spiderman](#): > > You’re tailgaiting in a _heated_ tent? Do you also hold your pinkie out when you take a drink? :dubious: No ,just when we’re passing the Grey Poupon around. 😛 Good luck on the test, **Nettie**. **Mooommmm!!!** , I like cucumbers with salt and lime juice. **Boofae** , the Doctor Who special effect budget is a good bit higher these days. You should check it out. 🙂 ---
**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:** [December 15, 2015, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-independence-day-in-december-mmp/740399/56 "2015-12-15T13:58:33Z")
I’ve been here 3 hours. I did one minor change on a drawing. I asked my boss for work and he brought over some stuff I can’t even start till I talk to the engineer. The engineer isn’t here. Plus I forgot my phone. Gonna be one of those days… ---
**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:** [December 15, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-independence-day-in-december-mmp/740399/57 "2015-12-15T14:04:12Z")
so got into it with the bitch next door The tow driver got lost and he got there just as they were coming out supposedly the landlord is telling her tenants they can park there oh for real and I heard the same whine from the bitch about how she doesn’t have anywhere to park not my problem however Hagerstown says it’s a civil issue and they don’t get involved which sounds weird to me usually tenants being a nuisance comes under some ordnance ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-independence-day-in-december-mmp/740399/58 "2015-12-15T14:18:56Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > **Mooommmm!!!** , I like cucumbers with salt and lime juice. You spelled “tequila” wrong. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![TheSpeculationElucidation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@TheSpeculationElucidation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSpeculationElucidation)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-independence-day-in-december-mmp/740399/59 "2015-12-15T14:22:51Z")
> [@Sahirrnee](#): > > I finally found the landlord’s name and number, maybe I should give her a call? For sure. Especially if they’re claiming that they have permission to park there! Sorry you’re having to deal with so much nonsense. ☹ **BLURF** Still not used to this morning schedule! I used to go to BED at 6:30, not wake up at 5! But it’s getting easier, and I like the shift so far! Getting a haircut tomorrow. I’m starting to look a bit frazzled! I’ve never gotten layers before. I think I’d like it! Hope everyone has a great Tuesday! ---
**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:** [December 15, 2015, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-independence-day-in-december-mmp/740399/60 "2015-12-15T14:57:26Z")
Oy. One of those, “why does the day start so early?” days. Kidlet is on the bus. Second kidlet is fully dressed and ready to go in 15 minutes. I am eating toast and wishing for an asteroid to smite me. I am the opposite of a morning person. BLURF! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-independence-day-in-december-mmp/740399.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-independence-day-in-december-mmp/740399.md?page=4)