# Life On The Other Side Of The Burlap - A Renaissance MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [October 2, 2006, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-the-other-side-of-the-burlap-a-renaissance-mmp/374938 "2006-10-02T05:40:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**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:** [October 5, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-the-other-side-of-the-burlap-a-renaissance-mmp/374938/281 "2006-10-05T20:35:48Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] Oh, can I do it? I have a holiday and I’ll be going to the zoo on Sunday! Pleeeeeeeeeeease? [/QUOTE] Go for it, girl!! All in favor?? … well, you know the drill. You got it! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-the-other-side-of-the-burlap-a-renaissance-mmp/374938/282 "2006-10-05T20:37:12Z")
[QUOTE=FairyChatMom] Go for it, girl!! All in favor?? … well, you know the drill. You got it! 😃 [/QUOTE] YAY! I’ll be sure to have zoo picture and Albany Aquaduck pictures (going there Saturday). So it’ll be a FUN MMP! Thanks, Mom! ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-the-other-side-of-the-burlap-a-renaissance-mmp/374938/283 "2006-10-05T20:40:02Z")
All those in favor of **Mika** doing the next MMP, please signify by saying aye. AYE! All opposed? _::crickets::_ Looks like we get to hear about the zoo! Yay, animals! Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-the-other-side-of-the-burlap-a-renaissance-mmp/374938/284 "2006-10-05T20:41:26Z")
Those bloody crickets. At home they eat styrofoam, here apparently they never want _anyone_ to start an MMP. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-the-other-side-of-the-burlap-a-renaissance-mmp/374938/285 "2006-10-05T21:02:46Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] Those bloody crickets. At home they eat styrofoam, here apparently they never want _anyone_ to start an MMP. [/QUOTE] Cuervo is the Mad Cricket Killer. He brings them up from the basement, bats them around the floor awhile, watches them run around, kills them. Apparently they taste bad though, cuz he won’t eat them. Just sayin’, since crickets were on the table, in a manner of speaking. ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-the-other-side-of-the-burlap-a-renaissance-mmp/374938/286 "2006-10-05T21:05:11Z")
**’mika** , what the heck is an Albany Aquaduck? Or do I have to wait until Monday? I was out in the backyard sawing down a bush with delusions of treehood, when the damn thing started to fall and snatched the saw while I was still holding it. Now my shoulder hurts. I am not a happy SCL. The bush/tree is now in the gutter waiting for yard waste pickup. That’ll teach it. I’m also trying to do a flat rock walkway type thing by the side door. There’s about a 3 x 6 foot area that stays damp and nothing will grow there because it gets too much traffic - it’s right by the trash cans. So I’m going to make a walkway with flat rocks left over from my wall-building project. We will see how it goes. I doubt I will do much more today because my shoulder hurts and I don’t feel much like digging. ---
**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 5, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-the-other-side-of-the-burlap-a-renaissance-mmp/374938/287 "2006-10-05T22:07:27Z")
Yay **mika**! Do us proud. Seems some people have a holiday Monday. The [del]slackers[/del] lucky soandsos. Three nuns are walking down the street when a man jumps out and flashes 'em. The first nun has a stroke, the second nun has a stroke the third nun didn’t touch him I’m goin’ to hell for tellin’ it and y’all are goin’ to hell for laughin’ at it! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-the-other-side-of-the-burlap-a-renaissance-mmp/374938/288 "2006-10-05T22:36:43Z")
Hee-hee \, I laughed at the joke. Doesn’t matter that I laughed though. I already have a ticket for the Hell Express. One more hour to go… ---
**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 5, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-the-other-side-of-the-burlap-a-renaissance-mmp/374938/289 "2006-10-05T22:40:10Z")
[QUOTE=Taters] Hee-hee \, I laughed at the joke. Doesn’t matter that I laughed though. I already have a ticket for the Hell Express. One more hour to go… [/QUOTE] One more hour to go before the Express leaves for Hell? :eek: Reckon I have time to shower, pack and get drunk? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-the-other-side-of-the-burlap-a-renaissance-mmp/374938/290 "2006-10-05T22:43:37Z")
[QUOTE=SnakesCatLady] **'mika** , what the heck is an Albany Aquaduck? Or do I have to wait until Monday? [/QUOTE] More on Monday, but check out [www.albanyaquaducks.com](http://www.albanyaquaducks.com) for more info! MBG my Picante (the gecko) does eat the crickets, only they’re not the singing kind. He loves them, just gobbles them right up. The funniest thing is when he’s stalking and one of them runs over his foot, and he twitches his foot, like he’s saying “Go away, cricket! I’m hunting crickets!” ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-the-other-side-of-the-burlap-a-renaissance-mmp/374938/291 "2006-10-05T22:44:38Z")
And I love this: > [@](#): > > bush with delusions of treehood… Excellent! Sorry about your arm though! ---
**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 5, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-the-other-side-of-the-burlap-a-renaissance-mmp/374938/292 "2006-10-05T22:45:01Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] More on Monday, but check out [www.albanyaquaducks.com](http://www.albanyaquaducks.com) for more info! MBG my Picante (the gecko) does eat the crickets, only they’re not the singing kind. He loves them, just gobbles them right up. The funniest thing is when he’s stalking and one of them runs over his foot, and he twitches his foot, like he’s saying “Go away, cricket! I’m hunting crickets!” [/QUOTE] Maybe Picante just doesn’t want his dinner getting in the way of his lunch. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-the-other-side-of-the-burlap-a-renaissance-mmp/374938/293 "2006-10-05T23:11:46Z")
[QUOTE=swampbear] One more hour to go before the Express leaves for Hell? :eek: Reckon I have time to shower, pack and get drunk? 😃 [/QUOTE] Argh, the above happens when one multi-tasks. Or, at least when \*I \* multi-task. What I meant to include somewhere in there where it would make sense is that I had one more hour of WORK to go, not necessarily go to hell. My commute has become hellish though, so maybe that was a little Freudian slip or something. I dunno; I’m tired. It should be Friday TODAY dammit! B]Swampikuns,\*\* I suppose you have time to pack, shower, etc if you drink up right quick. Just slam that bottle right back… There you go! Gettin’ tipsy yet? ---
**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 6, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-the-other-side-of-the-burlap-a-renaissance-mmp/374938/294 "2006-10-06T00:01:48Z")
[QUOTE=Taters] Argh, the above happens when one multi-tasks. Or, at least when \*I \* multi-task. What I meant to include somewhere in there where it would make sense is that I had one more hour of WORK to go, not necessarily go to hell. My commute has become hellish though, so maybe that was a little Freudian slip or something. I dunno; I’m tired. It should be Friday TODAY dammit! B]Swampikuns,\*\* I suppose you have time to pack, shower, etc if you drink up right quick. Just slam that bottle right back… There you go! Gettin’ tipsy yet? [/QUOTE] I laughed, so I am pounding 'em as fast as I can. 😃 ---
**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:** [October 6, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-the-other-side-of-the-burlap-a-renaissance-mmp/374938/295 "2006-10-06T00:56:56Z")
Sounds like you’ll have a fun weekend, **Meeks**. I’ll look forward to hearing about it. Tired. Should be working, but I can’t do it just now. I’m having trouble typing coherently. Guess I’ll watch a movie or something. Dinner was gnocchi and then a caramel apple. Who says I don’t know how to live? Back tomorrow. GT ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-the-other-side-of-the-burlap-a-renaissance-mmp/374938/296 "2006-10-06T01:26:15Z")
I love gnocchi! I haven’t eaten yet; I suppose I’ll have to cook something for dinner. I’ve got some leftovers, so I think that’s what we’ll be having. I should do some laundry too. I lead such an exciting and glamorous life. ---
**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 6, 2006, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-the-other-side-of-the-burlap-a-renaissance-mmp/374938/297 "2006-10-06T08:49:34Z")
🙂 No rain yet, still nice and cool. Should be a good day today, there is hockey and the new season of BSG… I’m going to the game, and will Netflix season 3 when it comes out. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-the-other-side-of-the-burlap-a-renaissance-mmp/374938/298 "2006-10-06T08:54:22Z")
Next week is Holiday Week or something. Monday, lots of You Guys Over The Pond. Thursday (or wherever it gets moved to), lots of You Guys Over The Pond But North Or South Of Those Who Had Monday, plus us Spaniards and Portuguese, plus some Guys On This Side Of The Pacific But Going Over China. All that comes up to Columbus Day aka Hispanics Day, which means I’ll be off work next Thursday aaaaand, since it’s Spain, Friday as well, of course. Compulsory “bridge”, the company closes and says anybody dumb enough to come to the office won’t get paid anyway, so we’re not coming. I have no idea whether I’ll have anything interesting to talk about, but if you guys want, I can take the MMP on the 16th. ---
**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 6, 2006, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-the-other-side-of-the-burlap-a-renaissance-mmp/374938/299 "2006-10-06T09:14:46Z")
[QUOTE=Nava] Next week is Holiday Week or something. Monday, lots of You Guys Over The Pond. Thursday (or wherever it gets moved to), lots of You Guys Over The Pond But North Or South Of Those Who Had Monday, plus us Spaniards and Portuguese, plus some Guys On This Side Of The Pacific But Going Over China. All that comes up to Columbus Day aka Hispanics Day, which means I’ll be off work next Thursday aaaaand, since it’s Spain, Friday as well, of course. Compulsory “bridge”, the company closes and says anybody dumb enough to come to the office won’t get paid anyway, so we’re not coming. I have no idea whether I’ll have anything interesting to talk about, but if you guys want, I can take the MMP on the 16th. [/QUOTE] Looks like we have a [del]sucker[/del] volunteer for the 16th! ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-the-other-side-of-the-burlap-a-renaissance-mmp/374938/300 "2006-10-06T11:18:46Z")
[QUOTE=Mr Bus Guy] Cuervo is the Mad Cricket Killer. He brings them up from the basement, bats them around the floor awhile, watches them run around, kills them. Apparently they taste bad though, cuz he won’t eat them. [/QUOTE] My cat does the same thing. He brings them up from the basement, rips their legs off, and leaves their little dismembered bodies all over the house. Rather gross. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-the-other-side-of-the-burlap-a-renaissance-mmp/374938.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-the-other-side-of-the-burlap-a-renaissance-mmp/374938.md?page=16)