# 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:** 4
**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, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/61 "2014-08-19T01:59:36Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > **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. Do not let it slip your mind that we need anti personnel weapons that will not destroy the neighborhood. Not that it is a Bad Thing. Note that the P-61 turrets are controlled remotely, so we may sit in the basement bunker, drinking beer, playing pool or poker, posting to the 'Dope, as the mood strikes, taking turns machine gunning our neighbors. Good times! ---
**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, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/62 "2014-08-19T02:03:10Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Do not let it slip your mind that we need anti personnel weapons that will not destroy the neighborhood. > Not that it is a Bad Thing. > > Note that the P-61 turrets are controlled remotely, so we may sit in the basement bunker, drinking beer, playing pool or poker, posting to the 'Dope, as the mood strikes, taking turns machine gunning our neighbors. > Good times! We could have both, ya know. ---
**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 19, 2014, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/63 "2014-08-19T03:04:54Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > 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. Teal’s a kind of blue-green. I have no idea what “tope” is. 🙂 The Crayola “Super Spectrum of Color” 50-color box of colored pencils does have a color it IDs as teal. Looks pretty similar to the aquamarine in the 96-count box of crayons. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2014, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/64 "2014-08-19T04:11:41Z")
Tope is maybe taupe? I was sleepy now I’m not. Too pissed off to sleep. I’m still mad at my mother. She is probably still mad at 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:** [August 19, 2014, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/65 "2014-08-19T05:55:24Z")
Arrrrg. Can not sleep. Gotta be up in 5 hours. Oh Sandman, why do you forsake me? I am tempted to just get up and go to irk extra early. ---
**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, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/66 "2014-08-19T08:45:58Z")
Up and caffeinated. Booster Club meeting after work, which means I will be forced to dine at the Bistro. Woe is me! ---
**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 19, 2014, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/67 "2014-08-19T09:55:56Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > 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. [Teal](https://www.google.com/search?q=teal&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=zRzzU6GdAZe3yAS6i4KYCg&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1312&bih=859) [Taupe](https://www.google.com/search?q=taupe&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Fh3zU6PKJcWoyASvvYCwBw&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1312&bih=859) I’m going to take up a collection and buy you a search engine for your birthday. 😛 Even my \*80 y/o mother \*knows how to look up thing with Google!! Good morning! It rained overnight, but it doesn’t look like it was a big storm. Still, rain, so there’s that. We decided last night that the entire wall that was repaired should be repainted. So I’ll start by washing it all down, then edging, then rolling. It shouldn’t take very long. Then this afternoon, we can bring out the piano and move the armoire from the blue room to the green room. I should probably also change the linens on the blue room bed, since my mom will be sleeping there on Sunday. \*\*FCD \*\*will do any crabbers that show up today. It’s a “random” day, so he can ignore the prioritized list. He should be able to catch one or two. Other than that, just another day in paradise. Happy Tuesday! ---
**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 19, 2014, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/68 "2014-08-19T10:00:34Z")
Blurf. Painting finished! Largely by the other housemate that was fed up with the decor, 'cos Monday is juggling night, so I couldn’t stay in for the second coat. Looks waaay better before; a few cushions, maybe a lamp in the dark corner, and it’ll look positively nice! It really does throw the rest of the dingy house up now though… This may spread. Today I think shall be job huntin’ agency day, as I’ve not heard back from them from last week!, so I guess that’s a “no”, and I’m not getting offered enough hours to pay the rent, so my rubbish job is out of chances. I did oversleep though, ‘cos (probably due to the internet going down) we all wound up sittin’ in the nice room talkin’ till gone 3 ayy emm! PS, nice piggies! I liked guinea pigs ever since we had one at my primary school. Everyone always fought over who got to take it home for the weekend or holidays ‘cos it was so cute. Then it spent a long holiday with a kid who had another guinea pig, and it made a baby one shortly after it came back. If the fightin’ over mummy pig was bad, I’m surprised we all survived the baby battle 😃 ---
**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, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/69 "2014-08-19T10:37:26Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. _YAWN_ ‘Tis 64 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 90 and _thunderstorms developing by 9:00 A.M._ accordin’ to the weather PTB. They lie a lot as of late. Yay for painted room **Nuts**! However, you do know that the rest of the place will now have to be painted, right? It can never stop with just one room. **MOOOOOOM** just _one_ wall will be painted? It is to laugh! 😛 Ok, that’s all I got. Need more caffiene and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, alas and alack, irk purtification must commence. Happy Tuesday Y’all! ---
**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 19, 2014, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/70 "2014-08-19T10:58:12Z")
Happy Toosday, mumpers! I still have most of yesterday’s blurf although I haven’t had half the questions I got yesterday so I don’t quite feel like I’m running the show today. **Nuts** , when you’ve finished painting your place, please come and do mine… I think I need more tea, I’ve spent all morning sorting out various versions of letters for our incoming students…I will be having 195 of them, lucky me…and I’m starting to get double vision now. Fat Club tonight, so I get to glare at the scales and tell them it can’t possibly be true 😛 ---
**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 19, 2014, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/71 "2014-08-19T11:15:52Z")
\*\*swampy \*\*- since I only have a single gallon of paint and it’s got to cover the purple in the basement bathroom, yes, only one wall will be painted. 😛 We’re showered and dressed. \*\*FCD \*\*is checking for crabbers. Shortly, I will wipe down the wall and find a roller and tray so’s I can get the wall done. Rah. ---
**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, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/72 "2014-08-19T11:15:59Z")
Mornin’ all. It’s the last day of my vacation. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/73 "2014-08-19T11:40:28Z")
> [@Buttercup\_Smith](#): > > Looks like I misspelled Lieu. Sorry. In lieu of lieu? Ain’t no thing. 🆒 ---
**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 19, 2014, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/74 "2014-08-19T12:20:51Z")
The wall is painted and except for the fact that it’s cleaner than a couple others, you’d never know. I guess that’s the miracle of computer-measured tints. Anyway, yay!! In a little while, I’ll attack the stuff in the green bedroom that’s blocking the piano in. We need space to tip it on its side in order to negotiate the corner in the hallway. Wish we had another body to help. Oh well… ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/75 "2014-08-19T13:26:05Z")
tl.dr BLURF! ---
**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, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/76 "2014-08-19T13:28:11Z")
**MOOOOOOM** oh please! Before this is all over with, every room in FairyChatEstate will be re-painted. It never stops at just one wall or room. Why do you think I keep puttin’ off paintin’ da cave? 😛 I now get to go wanderin’ around the near forty some more. Envy me. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2014, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/77 "2014-08-19T13:30:08Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > My big sis is in town, a major grocery chain (HEB) is going to announce who won a food artisan competition for 10-25k and have the product featured in their stores; a “Primo Pick.” Are these two statements connected, as in your sister is up for the prize? [QUOTE=gotpasswords] 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. [/QUOTE] In house staff, and two of the three have been here longer than I have. They usually have their act together when it comes to stuff like this. I guess it was just a bad day for them. ---
**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 19, 2014, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/78 "2014-08-19T13:41:42Z")
**swampy** , while I have wanted to repaint the family room for some time, I have managed to resist the urge, mostly because I have no idea what I want to do with this room. But I have no problem now not painting any more. I’ll get to the purple bathroom in the basement when I return from my trip. Assuming that brewing volcano in Iceland doesn’t screw things up for us… ---
**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, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/79 "2014-08-19T14:13:08Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I’ll get to the purple bathroom in the basement when I return from my trip. Purple? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-raleigh-its-the-mmp/695813/80 "2014-08-19T14:15:07Z")
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