# It's the old fart's MMP!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [July 29, 2013, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-old-farts-mmp/664800 "2013-07-29T09:29:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**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:** [August 3, 2013, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-old-farts-mmp/664800/241 "2013-08-03T11:44:24Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. _YAWN_ 'Tis 74 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 94 for the day and sunny. Thus cee-mint pond time shall be had. **Drae** yay for fixed van! Good luck wih the show. [QUOTE=Jim] Yer makin this too hard. 5 mil plastic sheeting in the truck bed, salt and garden hose. Back twuck as close to pool as possible, loose the winch, take cable over brush guard, over headache rack, with a little extra poolside. I can assume you have collared and put a long lead on your SHARK. Attach winch cable to lead and slowly winch into twuck. Drive to Mediacom, prop open front door, back to said door, disconnect SHARK from winch and drop tailgate. It is enough water with a SHARK in it. 😃 [/QUOTE] Well, when you put it that way it’s easy! 😃 Ima tuna all these bad fish puns out. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2013, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-old-farts-mmp/664800/242 "2013-08-03T12:20:01Z")
Blurf. Trying to sort through all my stuff, with the plan of taking a bunch of it to sell tomorrow. I wish I had some idea how much space I’m going to have… Hope I actually sell enough to make it worth my while, I’m going to need all the spare cash I can get. Damn this is getting stressful, there’s a little timer ticking down in my head going ‘if you don’t find anything in x days, then you’re screwed!’ Hopefully some of my friends currently in France will be able to at least look after some of my stuff for a while- I can’t very well live in van or on friends’ couches with two fish tanks. Not really a traditional homeless person’s pet. Anyway, I should get back to sorting stuff out. Hope you all’re having a better weekend. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-old-farts-mmp/664800/243 "2013-08-03T12:29:46Z")
> [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](#): > > **Doggio** killed the MMP! > > It’s 5 a.m. and I’m already showered and consuming my caffeine in the form of a Diet Coke. In about an hour I’ll be heading off to Pennsylvania. Let’s hope that it doesn’t rain today! I’m about to consume caffeine in the form of a regular coke. I can’t wait to get back to work on Monday, when I can go back to drinking coffee. Heh. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2013, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-old-farts-mmp/664800/244 "2013-08-03T12:52:37Z")
Looks like another crab-free day, with rain promised. We’re going to ride up to Glen Burnout to get aquarium salt, then stop in Annapolis to see the fancy-pants aquarium in the mall. We saw it on TV last night - it was built by those guys in Vegas who have the TV show about building freeky fish tanks… Anyway, it’s something to do on a potentially dreary day. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2013, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-old-farts-mmp/664800/245 "2013-08-03T13:34:08Z")
Blurf. I smelt something, I think the fish puns have run too long. I hope we don’t all roe the day they started. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-old-farts-mmp/664800/246 "2013-08-03T15:33:40Z")
**Dogbutler** , you don’t find fish puns finny? Bah, my off-her-rocker, not-right-in-the-head mother is visiting. As soon as she came she started spouting nonsense to me while my dad muttered angrily in the background. It’s supposed to rain today, but maybe I’ll flee to downtown as soon as possible and find stuff to do there, or something. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-old-farts-mmp/664800/247 "2013-08-03T15:43:30Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > **Dogbutler** , you don’t find fish puns finny? > > Bah, my off-her-rocker, not-right-in-the-head mother is visiting. As soon as she came she started spouting nonsense to me while my dad muttered angrily in the background. > > It’s supposed to rain today, but maybe I’ll flee to downtown as soon as possible and find stuff to do there, or something. I salmon stoop to that level. Sorry about the mom drama {{{{ **Midget** }}}} ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-old-farts-mmp/664800/248 "2013-08-03T15:44:57Z")
Thanks for the support, **dogbutler.** I think we’ve exhausted the fish puns - not one sole joke left. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-old-farts-mmp/664800/249 "2013-08-03T16:54:31Z")
We do tend to carp on and on with the fish puns don’t we? In other news TVCTPMO in the form of Mediacom is doin’ an outstandin’ job today. After my fit with ‘em yestiddy evenin’ and a non to pleasant for them phone call to me this mornin’ (hey they called me!) I have been assured the stoopid digital box thingies will work. So I connect 'em up, follow the directions and one of 'em still has a green blinkin light (they are supposed to be steady green lights once activated) and because of this I cannot program any of the stoopid remotes that came with the stoopid boxes. GRRRRRRRRRR! ---
**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:** [August 3, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-old-farts-mmp/664800/250 "2013-08-03T16:55:20Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > I think we’ve exhausted the fish puns - not one sole joke left. I’m sure you could get a grouper new ones together if you worked on it. So, it’s Caturday, I have done the ironing, run errands, vacuumed the floors, done half an hour on the wii and had a shower. I’m making chilli later but now I think I shall retire to my sofa with aperitif. That sounds like quite the most civilised thing to do. Good luck with the house-hunt, **Nuts** - I’m afraid I don’t know anyone down your part of the country who might be able to help with the fishies at least. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2013, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-old-farts-mmp/664800/251 "2013-08-03T17:23:57Z")
The fish puns are makin’ me sick enough to need a sturgeon. I give up. I plugged the cable lines back into all the teevees. I shall take my vendetta against Mediacom to the local office on Monday. My thought is to box up all those digital thingys and remotes, take 'em in, say none of 'em work so give me some that do. Or send ‘em a shark and a box of pointy stick wieldin’ Sri Lankan spiders. Right now Ima go to the cee-mint pond and have me a beerverage. Laterz! ---
**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:** [August 3, 2013, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-old-farts-mmp/664800/252 "2013-08-03T17:25:58Z")
This plaice gets sillier by the day… Well, I’ve not found anywhere yet, but I’m looking round one house on monday, and I’m meeting up with someone tomorrow who’s looking for something similar, to work out if we want to look together- she picked my favourite cafe to meet in, which I reckon is a Good Sign. I reckon the car boot sale’s off tomorrow- it’s been raining all day, and the forecast now says rain tomorrow mornin’. I don’t feel like getting up really early, driving half an hour, then either having it cancelled or having no customers (even if it does turn out dry, if it’s forecast to be wet not so many will show up), so I shall leave it til next week. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-old-farts-mmp/664800/253 "2013-08-03T19:13:52Z")
> [@ScareyFaerie](#): > > I’m making chilli later You guy eat chilli as well as making atrocious puns? Does it have bread in it? Is it boiled? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-old-farts-mmp/664800/254 "2013-08-03T19:30:15Z")
You can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna MMP. Thanks folks I’ll be here all weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-old-farts-mmp/664800/255 "2013-08-03T20:52:36Z")
I can has weekend? I can has! 😃 ---
**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:** [August 3, 2013, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-old-farts-mmp/664800/256 "2013-08-03T21:44:36Z")
As an Instrumentation Engineer, I wish that I’d been in on the development of[this.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w) ---
**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:** [August 3, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-old-farts-mmp/664800/257 "2013-08-03T21:47:29Z")
Back from a nice afternoon out and about. We went to the mall in Annapolis to look at the fish tank that those TV guys made - singularly unimpressive. Not many fish, and all the “coral” in it was fake and painted hideous colors. ick. And they’d removed some of the stuff that was shown on the program - made it less tacky, frankly. Then we went to the art store and \*\*FCD \*\*bought a bunch of bottles for his airbrush paint. After that, we drove to Glen Burnie and got a bunch of salt for the aquarium, followed by a late lunch at Boston Market near Marley Station - I bet \*\*sari \*\*knows the one… 😃 On the way home, we stopped for milk. And we didn’t get rained on too much. 😃 So endeth another 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:** [August 3, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-old-farts-mmp/664800/258 "2013-08-03T21:54:52Z")
Incidentally, did anyone else get this PM? > [@](#): > > Hi > Hi! Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Rachelle and I came from a 3rd world country and a not well-off family. I have 4 other siblings that are still studying and my parents and I pay for their school because my parents cannot pay for it all. I have read one of your comments. I am very glad that you helped someone and am inspired by you. I just left a job because of their inhumane practices especially my boss. I have been looking for jobs for months now but I think everyday is a bad luck. I have been thinking of starting up a small business just so I can provide for my family. I have decided on putting up a business because I wanted to be the boss and show my employees what a good boss is. Also, someday, at least, I want my previous boss to realize what humanity is all about. I have been looking for someone to help me. I am just thinking that maybe there are people who will believe in me. Kindly help me even this one time only. Thank you for spending time to read my message. Have a good day always. I don’t know whether to feel special or not… ---
**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:** [August 3, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-old-farts-mmp/664800/259 "2013-08-03T22:17:08Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Incidentally, did anyone else get this PM?I don’t know whether to feel special or not… You _are_ special, FairyChat. 🙂 Did I tell you that Mama Plant needs an operation? ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2013, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-old-farts-mmp/664800/260 "2013-08-03T23:04:52Z")
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