# Looking back – how history will interpret the MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [April 28, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-back-how-history-will-interpret-the-mmp/447182 "2008-04-28T03:53:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 24
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-back-how-history-will-interpret-the-mmp/447182/461 "2008-05-04T15:50:21Z")
[QUOTE=Mama Tiger] I can’t say I blame Mr. Cheerio for being more than a bit surprised, **Haze**. Your life has a plot that’s possibly even _more_ improbable than a soap opera. Did you try to explain what was going on, or did you just leave it at that? [/QUOTE] I just left it at that, since I didn’t want to bore his friends with my melodrama. The really funny part was that this was AFTER I told him about the whole Cloud Maiden thing, in a kind of “I expect there to be more drama from you” way. I should sell my life story to Hollywood. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-back-how-history-will-interpret-the-mmp/447182/462 "2008-05-04T15:55:00Z")
oooh! and they’ll buy it and you’ll have to stay in the US as story consultant! My nephew’s SIL is a screen writer! ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-back-how-history-will-interpret-the-mmp/447182/463 "2008-05-04T16:15:53Z")
_wanders in, stumbles over large pile o’pronouns and CAPITAL LETTERS in doorway_ Okay, who left this mess here, huh? I suppose you expect ME to clean it up? I think not… hmph! Up early with five hours of sleep, drinking cawfee like a madwoman… Grandchild’s theater group is performing at Saturday Market today and of course I gotta be there. Then it’s off to Vancouver for the SO to finally install a computer he did a build on like a YEAR ago–they’ve taken THIS LONG to clean out the room it needs to go in. :rolleyes: Yeah, I’m so looking forward to this trip! Well, I think I’ll take along some covered buckets and help myself to a bunch of their poop pile, they have a donkey and goats and ducks and geese and chickens and rabbits and up until last weekend a cow so there should be a whole bunch of free garden glop–the trip shouldn’t be a total waste. Besides, I’m figuring it’ll be crappy inside or crappy outside and at least outside there won’t be a millenium’s worth of cigarette smoke, hyork! Vrroooom, bye! ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-back-how-history-will-interpret-the-mmp/447182/464 "2008-05-04T16:20:01Z")
Me not with the baby bird, except in sympathy. ☹ **Pie** –I’m starting to think that Pontificating is endemic. Gah. :rolleyes: **Spaz**! Where did you find that? How did you know I had modeled for that? :eek: I love it and have sent it on to all my geeky librarian friends. Thanks. 😃 Beautiful day here. I’m just about to go to Home Despot and buy tons of stuff for the deck and yard. And then I get to get dirty all day. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-back-how-history-will-interpret-the-mmp/447182/465 "2008-05-04T16:40:45Z")
[QUOTE=SpazCat] What kind of books are you purging? [/QUOTE] A bunch of old accounting textbooks, and I need to skim over my fantasy and romance shelves to pluck out what I won’t read again. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2008, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-back-how-history-will-interpret-the-mmp/447182/466 "2008-05-04T17:14:04Z")
So, I stayed up late watching bad TV and drinking with the Kid, and slept til 10:30. But then I made breakfast, so now I have the right to be a complete sloth the rest of the day, right? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-back-how-history-will-interpret-the-mmp/447182/467 "2008-05-04T17:18:05Z")
[QUOTE=Flutterby] A bunch of old accounting textbooks, and I need to skim over my fantasy and romance shelves to pluck out what I won’t read again. [/QUOTE] any humor fantasy in your collection? I’ll pay postage. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-back-how-history-will-interpret-the-mmp/447182/468 "2008-05-04T17:35:30Z")
[QUOTE=Flutterby] A bunch of old accounting textbooks, and I need to skim over my fantasy and romance shelves to pluck out what I won’t read again. [/QUOTE] I’ll take fantasy! ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-back-how-history-will-interpret-the-mmp/447182/469 "2008-05-04T17:41:05Z")
I’ll take chocolate! ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-back-how-history-will-interpret-the-mmp/447182/470 "2008-05-04T18:23:01Z")
[QUOTE=Always Brings Pie] I’ll take chocolate! [/QUOTE] Chocolate? Where? Mr Cheerio still hasn’t called yet. I’m debating whether I want to just assume the lazy bastards have become lost in the world of Wii and just go to the park by myself, or wait a bit longer. (I suppose I could call them, but I have a weird aversion to calling people that borders on a phobia.) ---
**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:** [May 4, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-back-how-history-will-interpret-the-mmp/447182/471 "2008-05-04T18:42:31Z")
Home. Fed. Shorn. Oh and Churched. Considering gettin’ Napped. **MBG** you have my permission to sloth. **Spaz** “Dress The Librarian” is fun. Too bad we can’t save our stunning outfits so we can give **rigs** some good ideas. 😃 I feel a nappy-poo comin’ on! ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-back-how-history-will-interpret-the-mmp/447182/472 "2008-05-04T18:44:46Z")
**GT,** I’m giggling myself silly over the different names for the Coleus on the site you linked. I’m particularly fond of “Murder Suspect”… but then again, it would be the logical choice for a red-splattered varietal, no? 🙂 The “Religious Radish” is gorgeous, BTW. **Haze** , you may as well write off Mr Cheerio for the rest of the day. Something happens to the male ability to sense the passage of time when video games are involved. We just finished tidying up our garage so that we could finally get the bikes out of the basement and into a more convenient location. I’m dirty and sore, but it’s wonderful to have some room to maneuver in the laundry room again. It’s still too chilly to put more stuff in the ground (and the soil is too wet from two days of drizzling rain anyways), so gardening will wait until next weekend. In about an hour, we’re going to slap some bronto-sized beef ribs on the grill and slow smoke 'em for 4-5 hrs or so. I found them on sale at the grocery store last weekend and squealed like a Valley Girl (normally, all you can get here is short ribs, which are equally tasty but not nearly as yummy for slow cooking)… I guess I was channeling **swampus** for a second there. 🙂 Sides will be apple and fennel slaw and some roasted N.O.T., I think. OK, time to rinse off the garage gunk and get some dinner started. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-back-how-history-will-interpret-the-mmp/447182/473 "2008-05-04T18:59:50Z")
Busy working, so just interrupting for quick message to **snowbunny** since I assume you’re at work today: Your aunt is out of the hospital and doing much better. Call me if you get hopelessly bored. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-back-how-history-will-interpret-the-mmp/447182/474 "2008-05-04T19:29:25Z")
You guys are jumping the gun here! I haven’t even started to pull through the shelves… I might not get to it for a couple weeks yet, and it might take me longer because I have stuff I need to go through all over the place. (I’m trying to get to a place where I don’t feel overwhelmed by everything in the house… things is much of it isn’t really mine and I have to keep pushing to get it done without resulting in a meltdown on both our parts…). I’ve been trying to purge for a long time now, and Mom has issues with letting things go for many varied reason I can’t and really shouldn’t get into here. No humourous fantasy, sorry. The ones I’ve read I mainly borrowed from the library. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-back-how-history-will-interpret-the-mmp/447182/475 "2008-05-04T19:49:50Z")
Yep, I’m at work, I’ll call in a bit. I think today may set a record for slow around here. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-back-how-history-will-interpret-the-mmp/447182/476 "2008-05-04T20:41:19Z")
I found the [perfect graduation outfit](http://images.buycostumes.com/mgen/merchandiser/20893.jpg) for **rigs**! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-back-how-history-will-interpret-the-mmp/447182/477 "2008-05-04T20:43:42Z")
Bwahahaha!!! That made me LOL. It’s perfect. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-back-how-history-will-interpret-the-mmp/447182/478 "2008-05-04T21:24:37Z")
What? You _doubted_ my ability to find the perfect outfit? :dubious: 😃 ---
**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:** [May 4, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-back-how-history-will-interpret-the-mmp/447182/479 "2008-05-04T22:21:19Z")
It’s 5:20, and guess what I’ve done today? Nothing. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-back-how-history-will-interpret-the-mmp/447182/480 "2008-05-04T22:46:47Z")
I forgot my phone, **MamaTigs** , so I guess I won’t call you. At least not from work. An hour and fifteen minutes to go… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-back-how-history-will-interpret-the-mmp/447182.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-back-how-history-will-interpret-the-mmp/447182.md?page=25)