# Looking to the East - An MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [October 15, 2007, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756 "2007-10-15T04:54:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**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:** [October 17, 2007, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/221 "2007-10-17T14:58:34Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] Pumpkin is the single most overrated piece of food evar! _turns and runs from the pitchfork-and-torch wielding mob_ [/QUOTE] I second the motion. I can eat it if I have to, but I never ever ask for it. ---
**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:** [October 17, 2007, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/222 "2007-10-17T15:06:49Z")
[QUOTE=HazelNutCoffee] That is weird and bizarre and arbitrary. I think I’ll establish that rule in my writing classes. 😃 It couldn’t get any worse. I’m tempted to start giving out essays like: “Write 500 words on any subject you like, without using the letter ‘e’ once.” Or, “Write an essay that uses the word ‘banana’ in every other sentence.” [/QUOTE] I had a writing class in high school that I didn’t take seriously (last semester, senior year.) Every paper I turned in had the theme “Man’s inhumanity to Man”. Even a short 200 word piece that I had to write about the Bullwinkle balloon used in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. ---
**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 17, 2007, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/223 "2007-10-17T15:12:08Z")
Morning, all. It was soooo nice to sleep fairly well last night – I didn’t spend the whole night aching and tossing and turning, I just cuddled up with Emily and we both snored the night away. Just lovely! So now I am up and caffeinating and preparing to get started on some congressional [de]drivel[/del] work. Hence the lack of positive contractions in this post. :rolleyes: But first I must caffeinate a bit more, to make up for staying up too late last night. For the first time in far too long, instead of giving up and going to bed because I felt so miserable, I got a nice second wind and was able to actually get some constructive work done until the moderately wee hours. It was nice to actually _function_ again. Spackle-feeding is the only way to go, **Dotty**! And be sure HRH’s first birthday cake is chocolate, for better photographic evidence. 😃 > [@](#): > > I don’t really care for Miracle Whip. I prefer old fashioned heavy whipping cream, that I whip up myself. If I have German vanilla sugar around, I add a little of that too. Okay, that is going too far – Miracle Whip on pumpkin pie? All together now: Ewwwwww! 😃 Congrats on finding a house, **taxi**! I hope it all works out well. Be sure to have a really, REALLY thorough inspection first, however – it truly pays to spend $$ on a good inspection up front. And also insist on a home warranty; they cost less than $500, but can save you _thousands_. Between those two, you should be covered for any unexpected surprises. It is a lovely morning, and I had better get some of this work done since I have a hair appointment this afternoon. When visiting old friends, it is important to hide the grey hair. Especially when this particular old friend still has none. Or so she claims. :dubious: Am I overusing smilies this morning? Do I care? Later, all! ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/224 "2007-10-17T15:15:03Z")
Is it possible to have too much s’mores in your life? A Mumper thinks so and I think she’s batshit crazy for saying so. I’ll withhold her name for now for fear of her personal safety. ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/225 "2007-10-17T15:24:58Z")
Miracle Whip is not allowed in my house. I was visiting a friend on day, and she was making tuna sandwiches for us. I wasn’t really paying attention while she was making them, and when I took the first bite it was all I could do not to spit it out. I told her “I think your mayonaise has gone bad”. She took a bite and said “no, that’s how Miracle Whip is supposed to taste”. I told her that I really hated to seem rude, but I just couldn’t eat it. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/226 "2007-10-17T15:28:31Z")
I agree. Miracle Whip is horribly mis named. ---
**Author:** ![Most\_Creative\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Most\_Creative\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Most_Creative_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/227 "2007-10-17T15:35:15Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] Is it possible to have too much s’mores in your life? A Mumper thinks so and I think she’s batshit crazy for saying so. I’ll withhold her name for now for fear of her personal safety. [/QUOTE] I will fess up now. It’s me. Growing up I had s’mores all the time. Living in the country we always had bon fires, went camping, etc. Now I really don’t care for s’mores. I will eat them if forced upon me, but I really don’t care for them. I would much rather eat all of the ingredients separately than all mushed together. Maybe my lack of s’mores is why I’m not getting groped? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/228 "2007-10-17T15:39:30Z")
::gives \*\*McUne \*\* a generic, non-threatening, purely platonic grope:: ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/229 "2007-10-17T15:44:38Z")
May Og have mercy on your soul you anti, s’moreite bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/230 "2007-10-17T15:55:01Z")
I love s’mores. Anti-smores heretics shoiuld be… well, should be forced to give their s’mores to me. Sigh. A friend who’s a really, really devout Protestant, and with whom I have endless hours of argument and wrangling, has just sent me, _and expects me to read_, a six page essay he found online about Luther’s rewriting of Marian theology. I’ve read about half of it, and I think a lot of the essayist’s arguments are disingenuous. I don’t want to read the other half. :Bangs head down on keyboard: ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/231 "2007-10-17T16:03:33Z")
The way to get someone to stop sending you stuff like that is to find one or more online articles that refute the salient points of his/her email. You may have to do it more than once, but they’ll begin to feel as fed up with your emails as you are with theirs ---
**Author:** ![Dottygumdrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Dottygumdrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dottygumdrop)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/232 "2007-10-17T16:07:48Z")
Ummmmm … fight my ignorance. What’s a s’more? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/233 "2007-10-17T16:17:52Z")
[QUOTE=Dottygumdrop] Ummmmm … fight my ignorance. What’s a s’more? 😕 [/QUOTE] A s’more (contraction: gimme some more) is a delicacy made from graham crackers, milk chocolate and marshmallows. Make a sandwich of the graham crackers with the chocolate and the marshmallows inside, and expose to heat until the contents are melted. I will humbly accept all unwanted s’mores. Out of the goodness of my heart, because we don’t want them to be homeless, do we? ---
**Author:** ![Most\_Creative\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Most\_Creative\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Most_Creative_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/234 "2007-10-17T16:18:52Z")
**Dotty** , I would duck and run when \*\*LOUNE \*\* reads that. [s’more](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S'more) ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/235 "2007-10-17T16:31:14Z")
Thanks for the congrats, \*\*doggio \*\*and **gt**. And for the advice on the inspection and warranty, **Mama Tigs**. It’s exciting but overwhelming dealing with all of the mortgage stuff, the insurance stuff, and keeping in mine all this other stuff. Like the fact that there could be problems getting a mortgage for a condo conversion. Bleh. But it’s still exciting to think about a new house. 🙂 Sooooooo tired right now. I slept well, but that didn’t help get me through a presentation by the USPS. I’m sorry, but it’s just boring. So now I need a nice nap. And for all the cheery people who are playing indoor mini golf outside my cube to raise money for the United Way to be a little less loud and cheery. Gitoff my lawn!! ---
**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:** [October 17, 2007, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/236 "2007-10-17T16:43:11Z")
**taxi** - you and **Keith** are buying a house? Congrats! At least you know what you’re going to be doing for vacations and weekends from now on (working on the house.) ---
**Author:** ![Dottygumdrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Dottygumdrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dottygumdrop)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/237 "2007-10-17T17:07:55Z")
Thanks for the ejumacation on s’mores. Sounds like a nice campfire treat, but not something I would like to eat on a regular basis. A bit like Oreos really - the chocolate biscuit part is nice, particularly with a glass of cold milk, but I’m kind of … meh … about the white icing stuff in the middle! I do like sweets (quite a lot, sometimes) but I lean more towards the savouries for my comfort eating - anything with complex carbohydrates and cheese just makes my mouth water, so mac ‘n’ cheese covered in **NOT** puree and more cheese then baked until gooey is my idea of food heaven. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/238 "2007-10-17T17:21:35Z")
> [@Lunch](#): > > Roo – Yay on kicking Teh Sick! (All the other sickies – let’s gang up on Roo for kicking you while you’re down) 😕 You mean about getting my voice back? It kinda comes and goes. . . last night, there was some grossness that you don’t even wanna hear about. And since I’m not mean, I won’t tell ya. 😛 > [@Lunch](#): > > Roo! BTW, you really need to practice your groping. Want some private lessons? Yes, please! Apparently, my goosing skills need some work. They put **BBBobbio** out for seven hours. Could I practice that on you? 😃 **gt** , I hope you figure out what’s causing your illness-type feelings. I did a diet journal for a year a long time ago where I cut out everything and added stuff back slowly to figure out what was causing some of the symptoms. It was pretty tedious, but it really helped, I think. > [@Dotty](#): > > Roo, watch out you don’t dally too long deciding what to do! You mean I’m supposed to wait a whole 60 minutes?! Think of how many ideas I could have come up with in those 60 minutes!! 😉 > [@Lunch](#): > > Yeah – wasn’t there that big scandal a few years ago about some congresscritters hitting on their pages? Now why would Roo and I be on the same page, I have no idea. Roo, perhaps you do swing that way after all? Weren’t you there to help me hold him down? Perhaps it’s _you_ who swings. . . didn’t I see you swinging that other time. . . at least partially then. 😛 > [@LOUNE](#): > > _pounces Roo…and knocks over another lamp_ _grabs LOUNE, ties him up in one swift motion and throws him in room 304_ Anyone want a piece of LOUNE? ::thinking of charging admission:: 🆒 > [@BBBobbio](#): > > Woozles, you got me so hard that I was out for 7 hours, and I need caffeine this morning to medicate myself from the lingering effects. Oops!. . . . . sorry! :o Maybe a little less _twisting_ and _yanking_ then next time? 😛 **Lunch** said I could practice on him, so I should be better next time. I hope you had a good rest, though. 🙂 > [@Haze](#): > > Crisco? :eek: You don’t like Crisco? What’s your preference? Are you one of those butter-only snobs? 😉 > [@Haze](#): > > I was grading papers on the El this morning and one girl, for her descriptive essay, was writing about a bakery I _love_ that story. Cracked me right up. So many ways to go with that one. 😃 **kai** , you’re back!! ::bounce, bounce, bounce:: Glad to hear about your internet connection. Hope you stick around. **taxi** , congrats on the condo in process. Sounds exciting. Miracle Whip? Pumpkin pie? Just ewwww. s’mores are where it’s at. But since I can’t eat chocolate, I have to substitute carob. But I saw this great frozen thing yesterday at the supermarket. It was soy ice cream sandwiched between two cookies and covered in carob. Yum! I think I’m getting that today. It’s a beyoooootiful day out there, so I’m off to get it started. Have a great day, y’all and be good! ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/239 "2007-10-17T17:33:58Z")
304…isn’t that the room with Mariah? _splish splash_ ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/240 "2007-10-17T17:44:32Z")
[QUOTE=SnakesCatLady] Miracle Whip is not allowed in my house. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] I agree. Miracle Whip is horribly mis named. [/QUOTE] Oh dear. Oh dear. Miracle Whip is my trashy little secret. It was what we had in the house when I was growing up, and I still use it. Sometimes we would have jello salad (jello with a can of fruit cocktail mixed in), and we would put a little bit of Miracle Whip on top. What can I say? I blame it on the Eisenhower presidency, when women wore burnt-orange coats and wore gloves. I’ll admit that I can get picky about food, but then I look in the fridge and see a bottle of Miracle Whip. It’s like a cat who turns up his nose at food from the big can instead of the little can, but then goes and rolls in the garbage. There’s really no accounting for it, I know, but there it is. ::sigh:: Does this kick me out of the cool-kids club? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756.md?page=13)