# Live from Raleigh, It's the MMP! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [August 18, 2014, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813 "2014-08-18T09:21:41Z")\ **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:** [August 18, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/41 "2014-08-18T21:20:04Z")
What is the volume of the Cone of Shame? Lead is expensive, think I’ll go for cottonseed oil. [Here is another fish](http://www.saltwatersmarts.com/diy-target-feeder-mandarinfish-pipefish-2804/) to frighten Swampy. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/42 "2014-08-18T21:27:27Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > **[IT > IS > FINISHED](http://ryl.livejournal.com/869396.html)** Congratulations! It’s a nice blanket and looks like it’ll do its job well. **2gig** , enjoy the new family members, and good job keeping the mature piggies together. I’m sure their adjustment will be a lot easier since they have each other there. ---
**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 18, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/43 "2014-08-18T21:37:45Z")
So, teal is blue? ---
**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:** [August 18, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/44 "2014-08-18T21:41:09Z")
Supper was very yum! We were both really hungry and now we’ve both got happy tummies! 😃 Ice cream later. Wall repair is done. Carpet has been cleaned. Tomorrow, the piano moves back in the living room. It’s been a good day. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/45 "2014-08-18T21:44:30Z")
**Dogbutler** is [one in a million](http://www.wral.com/wake-to-add-1-millionth-resident-this-week/13901668/). Literally. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/46 "2014-08-18T21:48:44Z")
[QUOTE=Sean Factotum] …it still shouldn’t have taken them 45 minutes to look at my phone, look at the desk next to me, and then say,“Hmm, maybe there’s something common that would knock out both of these phones/connections that are right next to each other.” [/QUOTE] You’ve either got clueless or outsourced IT. The latter often incorporates the first option and fosters a “Not my table!” mentality where they’re only paid to address whatever’s on their ticket, and not paid to do root cause analysis. So, do I want to do full time telecommuting? There are pluses and minuses. The big plus is not having to wake up before dawn and spending four hours a day on trains and buses. On the minus side, I’d lose some exercise - going to the office involves going out for a walk at lunchtime to find food. Working from home, the food is no farther away than the kitchen. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2014, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/47 "2014-08-18T21:57:10Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > What is the melting point of lead? ::sigh:: [ul] [li]Climbs up to turret on Mumper house. [/li][li]Ignites cauldron of lead. [/li][li]Forages for a thermometer. [/li][li]Tells **Flytrap** to stand down below & call up when lead starts pouring onto him. [/li][li]Measure temperature in cauldron.[/ul][/li]Or, we could do this the [hard](http://lmgtfy.com/?q=melting+point+of+lead) way. :dubious: ---
**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:** [August 18, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/48 "2014-08-18T22:19:08Z")
\*\*gotti \*\*- get a treadmill and set up a workstation so that you walk while you work. You’re welcome! 😃 My brother does that - he’s even walked during teleconferences, altho it’s more of a stroll than a walk. Wouldn’t do to have the company president panting on the phone, you know. And with that, I shall mosey over to the recliner and, um, recline. And knit. \*\*\* MWAH!\*\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/49 "2014-08-18T22:39:24Z")
I can send some pre heated lead, iffin that will make it easier. I have the tools. The Mumper House has a turret! 105mm or 120mm? **Spaz\*\*\*\*happy dance** **2gig** nice piglets, good show. In other news Houston is hawt and humid, film at 11. That’s all fer now. **Jim** ---
**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 18, 2014, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/50 "2014-08-18T22:56:24Z")
> [@Capt\_Kirk](#): > > The Mumper House has a turret! 105mm or 120mm? Quad fifties, military surplus from a[P-61.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_P-61_Black_Widow) ---
**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 18, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/51 "2014-08-18T23:00:24Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > [ul] > [li]Climbs up to turret on Mumper house. [/li][li]Ignites cauldron of lead. [/li][li]Forages for a thermometer. [/li][li]Tells **Flytrap** to stand down below & call up when lead starts pouring onto him. [/li][li]Measure temperature in cauldron.[/ul][/li] [Cool!](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Undzq2jJ5oI/Twnv6TT018I/AAAAAAAABMk/sHfc51mJuRY/s1600/Charles+Addams+House.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/52 "2014-08-18T23:03:57Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Quad fifties, military surplus from a[P-61.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_P-61_Black_Widow) Sweet **Flytrap** , that is a fantastic use of the Mumper Defense Fund. Now what mods do I have to make that it can fire SHARKS? **Jim** I just checked the clock and lo and behold, it is Beer Thirty, Quit O’ Clock aka Happy Hour. You have been warned.🆒 **Jim the consumer of alcoholic beverages** ---
**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:** [August 18, 2014, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/53 "2014-08-18T23:18:35Z")
Happy Monday! **Mooom** , your in-law’s and husband’s table stories remind me of my folks’ kitchen cabinets. Forty years ago, Dad built new top cabinets for the kitchen, hung them but never put the doors on. They still don’t have doors. 😛 **doggio** , have you considered sending Gordie to the doggy spa while they’ve siding the building? **spaz** , your afghan is beautiful. **Tugig** , you have a couple of strawberry blonde cuties there. May the three of you be excellent roommates. ---
**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 19, 2014, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/54 "2014-08-19T00:37:56Z")
Howdy Y’all! Home from men’s night over to the church house. We had twenty-two tonight which is a crowd for us. 'Twas good as usual. Da bear is tahrd, however. Dang y’all have been talkative this evenin’! Read everything but retained little, so… hugs, skritches, yays, boos, icks, trouts, chitlins, nougies, wedgies, how _you_ doin’s as needed all around. Da bear is headed to beddy bye shortly. Nitey Nite Y’all! ---
**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 19, 2014, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/55 "2014-08-19T00:39:37Z")
Worked in the Hood. Battled through all million residents on the Beltline. Watching a thuderstorm > [@SpazCat](#): > > **[IT > IS > FINISHED](http://ryl.livejournal.com/869396.html)** And there was great [rejoicing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yciX2meIkXI) > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > He doesn’t like beer. His beverage of choice is fireball whiskey. So 😛 to you!! [Fireball](http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e260/dogbutler/027_zpsb6e20e1d.jpg)?😃 [Lord Vader]All too easy…[/Lord Vader] > [@whitetho](#): > > **Dogbutler** is [one in a million](http://www.wral.com/wake-to-add-1-millionth-resident-this-week/13901668/). Literally. : waves : Red, Gordie has abandonment issues. I always have stay in sitters for vacation. **Flytrap** , I prefer a slightly [larger](http://historylink101.com/ww2_navy/BattleshipNC/images/16in_Main_Guns_Aft.jpg) caliber. And I think they are shark worthy. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2014, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/56 "2014-08-19T00:53:55Z")
Back to irk today. CIt took hours just the get through my email but all in all not too many fires to put out. So, they Can survive without me. Even though my lead looked frazzled. **leiu** I grabbed what I thought were eyedrops one night and it was ear cleaner. Thought I would be blind. Hurt bad. Congrats on finishing blanket and piggies. Din din was fish. Permit fish. Hubby said we don’t talk about that kind of fish??? Last week while we were away I paid a girl to come twice a day to feed my rotten cat Scooter. Well Scooter must have missed us terribly because she will not get out of our sight. Poor kitty. **Mooooommm**. Are y’all going to miss the aquarium? Will you start it up again later? It is so blazing hot here. Much hotter that usual. Too damn hot. Be good all youse. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/57 "2014-08-19T01:00:41Z")
Looks like I misspelled Lieu. Sorry. ---
**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 19, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/58 "2014-08-19T01:00:55Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > So, teal is blue? It looks more teal in person. The flash made it look blue I finally got around to straightening up the piles of wires next to my computer. So many spiderwebs. So many, many sticky spiderwebs. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2014, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/59 "2014-08-19T01:33:41Z")
Gotti - telecommute, telecommute! As a fellow member of the 4 hour daily Bay Area commute club, I say use your 4 hours for other things. Like, for example, exercise. ::dusts off hands:: problem solved. 😃 ---
**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 19, 2014, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/60 "2014-08-19T01:54:42Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > It looks more teal in person. The flash made it look blue I never has any teal crayons. I never had any teal acrylic or oil paint when I took art lessons. What the heck is teal? It is like tope, isn’t it? One of those really strange colors that only females know about. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813.md?page=4)