# Like a thief in the night......MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [March 12, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-thief-in-the-night-mmp/348085 "2006-03-12T21:58:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![frogger\_world\_champion\_1981](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d07c76/32.png) [@frogger\_world\_champion\_1981](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frogger_world_champion_1981)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-thief-in-the-night-mmp/348085/1 "2006-03-12T21:58:49Z")
“So” I thought to myself (as one does when one is not alone and does not wish to look like a raving idiot) “What better way to introduce myself to a group of people I know, but who do not know me, than so hijack one of their most sacred rituals, the MMP”. I snickered to myself (as one does when one is filled with fiendish pride). Alas, the Ogs were not smiling upon me. As penance for my weekend of margarita fuelled glory, I was forced to walk in the rain to work. “Ha” I said out loud (as one does when one thinks he or she has the best of the Ogs) I was prepared for the rain and the wind!. So I set out through the weather in a long flowing jacket to the nearest bus stop. I was within twenty metres or so when the bus whooshed by. Luckily, there was one in the distance so I stood there, all smug and gleeful with the promise of another bus to take me to work, thinking I had outsmarted Og again. Alas. My gorgeous chariot with it’s shiny wheels, comfortable seats and warm interior was not in service. With a slight frown I continued to walk to work, stepping in the odd puddle but arriving on time. To the kitchenette I went to complete the _other_ Monday Morning Ritual…only to find a complete lack of milk. Yep, this week has to be a great week…surely it can’t get worse than this! 😛 So, good morning all. How was your trip to work? All leaps in logic, offending of Og and spelling/grammar mistakes blamed on a complete lack of coffee. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-thief-in-the-night-mmp/348085/2 "2006-03-12T22:00:51Z")
Dude, where are you that it’s Monday morning for you already? _wanders off into timewarp, shaking head_ ---
**Author:** ![MessyPaint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@MessyPaint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MessyPaint)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-thief-in-the-night-mmp/348085/3 "2006-03-12T22:19:45Z")
lame and disrespect ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-thief-in-the-night-mmp/348085/4 "2006-03-12T22:32:23Z")
**Mama Tiger** , you asked my question! It’s 2:00pm on Sunday here. **frogger world champion 1981** , welcome, we are happy to see you. Do you live “down under”? Asia? Or some other where? Most of us are in the U.S. so your question will go unanswered for a few more hours. I can tell you that Sunday in Seattle is beautiful, but I did get wet too. I washed the hubby’s truck while he was napping. I am a Goddess. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-thief-in-the-night-mmp/348085/5 "2006-03-13T00:53:36Z")
> [@frogger world champion 1981](#): > > “So” I thought to myself (as one does when one is not alone and does not wish to look like a raving idiot) “What better way to introduce myself to a group of people I know, but who do not know me, than so hijack one of their most sacred rituals, the MMP”. I snickered to myself (as one does when one is filled with fiendish pride). > \ > **All leaps in logic, offending of Og and spelling/grammar mistakes blamed on a complete lack of coffee.** (bolding mine) and perhaps the fact that it’s still Sunday? ---
**Author:** ![frogger\_world\_champion\_1981](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d07c76/32.png) [@frogger\_world\_champion\_1981](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frogger_world_champion_1981)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-thief-in-the-night-mmp/348085/6 "2006-03-13T01:07:08Z")
Rest assured I am somewhere where it’s Monday! I thought I’d get in early as it’s been my dream in all my time lurking to be the first in with the **MMP**. As for the timewarp, I’m stuck in that too, so for me it’s still 1998. Apologies to all located on the other side of the International Date Line and thanks to **picunurse** for the warm welcome!. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-thief-in-the-night-mmp/348085/7 "2006-03-13T01:22:06Z")
Wow, man. This is totally blowing my mind. It’s Monday already?!? I didn’t go to work! Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-thief-in-the-night-mmp/348085/8 "2006-03-13T01:24:31Z")
Oh, and welcome to the SDMB! I predict great things for you, young Jedi. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-thief-in-the-night-mmp/348085/9 "2006-03-13T01:24:44Z")
> [@Winston Smith](#): > > Wow, man. This is totally blowing my mind. It’s Monday already?!? I didn’t go to work! Damn. **Smitty,** I didn’t go to work either, because it’s SUNDAY here. By the way, did you ever hear anything back about the interview/job? Did I miss it in the other MMP? ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-thief-in-the-night-mmp/348085/10 "2006-03-13T01:27:54Z")
**frogger world champion 1981** is posting from the future. ---
**Author:** ![frogger\_world\_champion\_1981](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d07c76/32.png) [@frogger\_world\_champion\_1981](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frogger_world_champion_1981)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-thief-in-the-night-mmp/348085/11 "2006-03-13T01:40:18Z")
> [@Patty O'Furniture](#): > > **frogger world champion 1981** is posting from the future. Greetings from the future **Patty** …still no flying cars and still no updated model of that damned Death Ray either. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-thief-in-the-night-mmp/348085/12 "2006-03-13T01:40:26Z")
> [@Taters](#): > > **Smitty,** I didn’t go to work either, because it’s SUNDAY here. By the way, did you ever hear anything back about the interview/job? Did I miss it in the other MMP? The hiring manager’s boss has been out sick for over a week, so the wheels of progress are rusted to the track. At least that’s what the hiring manager told me when I emailed him to follow uo last week. It’s also possible that they offered to job to another applicant and they’re waiting to see if (s)he accepts. 🙂 what’s an extra week of anticipation anyways, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-thief-in-the-night-mmp/348085/13 "2006-03-13T01:45:48Z")
> [@Mama Tiger](#): > > Dude, where are you that it’s Monday morning for you already?[/SIZE] I suspect many of the posts will be guessing the OP’s whereabouts. So let me take the first stab. The timestamp was **Today 04:58 PM**. Anything east of Cairo at that time would technically be 00:01 or “earlier” on Sunday. The OP has taken the bus to work and is already trying to start the morning coffee. So let’s go eight hours past Cairo. I’m guessing either Sidney or Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-thief-in-the-night-mmp/348085/14 "2006-03-13T05:27:11Z")
Monday morning, for me, will mean working at our big, drafty metal shop. The owner likes to keep the thermostat at 62 degrees. Sometimes we nudge it a little higher to keep from freezing. Friday, I wore a record four shirts at work. Heh! I feel triumphant getting a post in reletively early on an MMP. Thanks, **Frogger,** for making this possible, where ever you are! My guess is that you’re in the tiny Pacific nation of [Kiribati,](http://geography.about.com/od/physicalgeography/a/kiribatiidl.htm) which moved the Dateline in 1995 so that its scattered islands would be all on the same side. OK, you’re probably not in Kiribati. My real guess is New Zealand. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-thief-in-the-night-mmp/348085/15 "2006-03-13T06:17:23Z")
:😢: It’s toooo early!!! ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-thief-in-the-night-mmp/348085/16 "2006-03-13T06:21:30Z")
Dude, it’s 1:20 over here. Technically Monday, but in reality Sunday-and-oh-my-God-what-the-frell-am-I-doing-up-at-this-hour-o’clock. You’re weird. Cute, but weird. Welcome to the boards. _smooch_ ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-thief-in-the-night-mmp/348085/17 "2006-03-13T08:51:44Z")
All is not right in my world when the MMP comes on sunday afternoon. It just makes Monday come too fast. Anyway… welcome, **frogger**! (yay, i’m not the newest kid anymore!) Tomorrow is my first day of rehearsals. yay! My goal is to lose eleven pounds before the show. I can so do it. OMG! OMG! OHEMGEE!!! I broke the bathroom!! oh SHIT!!! (not literally.) I walked in and closed the door… we have large ceramic (or something) tiles on all the walls and when I shut the door, it must have knocked one of the high-up ones loose and CRASH!!! all over the floor. This happened just now as I was writing this post so I’m still in freak-out mode. i’m going to be in so much trouble for this!! I swept it up, but now there’s a bag of ceramic smithereens and there’s a tile missing on the wall. ahhhh what am I going to do? I’m dead meat. Anybody in Siberia need a roommate? Anybody with unbreakable walls, that is? ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-thief-in-the-night-mmp/348085/18 "2006-03-13T11:27:59Z")
No work for me today except some writing and some more home repairs, so no walking. Yay me. Also up waaaaaaaay too early due to a pinched nerve in my neck. I’m betting my temporary housemate is wondering what the heck I’m doing up before she is (she leaves for work at 6 AM). Good to see ya, **Frogger** ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-thief-in-the-night-mmp/348085/19 "2006-03-13T12:38:44Z")
I am so glad someone else started the MMP. I got a lot of stuff sitting on my desk this morning, and there was no problems with the in-laws-to-be during their visit. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2006, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-thief-in-the-night-mmp/348085/20 "2006-03-13T13:05:22Z")
> [@Sean Factotum](#): > > I am so glad someone else started the MMP. I got a lot of stuff sitting on my desk this morning, and there was no problems with the in-laws-to-be during their visit. I object. **Froggy** wasn’t properly railroaded into making the OP like the rest of us were. You’ll simply have to do this again. Next time, bring chocolate and sheep. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/like-a-thief-in-the-night-mmp/348085.md?page=2)