# 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:** 15
**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 18, 2007, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/281 "2007-10-18T06:33:22Z")
[QUOTE=Lunch] Where’s **Roo**? [/QUOTE] Here I am!! ::bounce, bounce, bounce:: What happened to the groping lessons? More lessons please. I was getting kinda tired of the same one over and over again. More creativity please. 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂 ::bounce, bounce, bounce:: Kinda annoying when people are bouncy and smiley when you’re feeling sick, innit? 😃 (Be grateful! I was gonna add a whole row of smiling smilies, but decided to have mercy. I’m not that well myself yet) And btw, don’t be passing that stuff back this way. That’s some nasty cooties! 🆒 Drink lots of fluids and try to get some rest. . .but not on your keyboard. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/282 "2007-10-18T06:44:28Z")
[QUOTE=Heffalump and Roo] Here I am!! ::bounce, bounce, bounce:: [/quote] ::stares at eye candy:: 🙂 > [@](#): > > What happened to the groping lessons? More lessons please. I was getting kinda tired of the same one over and over again. More creativity please. We need a private place for the **creative** lessons! ::Pokes head in 304:: Looks like [del]the prisoner[/del] LOUNE has [del]escaped[/del] vacated the room! Come on over here 😉 > [@](#): > > And btw, don’t be passing that stuff back this way. That’s some nasty cooties! 🆒 Hey, I got it from you! So we don’t need to be careful… we can go on sharing 😃 > [@](#): > > Drink lots of fluids and try to get some rest. . .but not on your keyboard. 😉 What? My head is **not** resting on th afkjghpsaidhg[uioahdagdf ---
**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 18, 2007, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/283 "2007-10-18T06:50:34Z")
[QUOTE=Lunch] We need a private place for the **creative** lessons! ::Pokes head in 304:: Looks like [del]the prisoner[/del] LOUNE has [del]escaped[/del] vacated the room! Come on over here 😉 [/QUOTE] ::following:: OK, but no drooling and getting snot all over me! Good night everyone! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/284 "2007-10-18T06:51:40Z")
Hi **roo** , _bounce bounce bounce_ Ima try to be here more frequently. **rebo** one of my favorite cakes combined with one of my favorite pies? It sounds sinful, and is now on my holiday menu, thanks! Oh, and a good pumpkin pie is divine, but a bad pumpkin pie is revolting. I had a piece of bad pie once, back in the day my then boyfriend’s father baked one from scratch, literally, beginning with a pumpkin from the grocery at Halloween. We here are all edumakated enough to know that the pumpkins for jack-o-lanterns are not particularly suited for pies, for pie one would want a sugar type pumpkin, right? (Or a can of Libby’s, but only the pure pumpkin, the pie filling in a can pumpkin is yukky.) Well, the pie filling was kind of greyish, and very stringy, the crust had the consistency of cement, and I toyed with it until I could gather some dishes and took it all into the kitchen where I buried my pie in the trash. What a bad memory, pie should always be a good thing. S’mores can be a good thing, Crisco has it’s place, but Miracle Whip is beyond gross. Given, I wouldn’t eat mayonnaise until I was in my teens, but always Best Foods/Hellman’s. Anytime my mom or gramma tried to sneak a sandwich with Miracle Whip on it past me it never made it past my nose! _shudder_ We are all allowed a couple of guilty pleasures though, I happen to be fond of dipping green olives in the Cool Whip at holidays. Now how many shuddered at that thought? 😛 Nelly looks very comfortable in her hamper **doggio**. Mine like their crates, pillows, and blankies, it was just a thought. How is she getting on with Lucretia, or is the better question how well is Lucretia tolerating her? She is a pretty girl, to be sure! Comparing snowfall and temps would be kinda fun **snowbunny** , I get to accumulate the total snowfall here though, right? Ours comes and goes, you will just keep accumulating all winter. I like your kind of winter better than ours on The Rock, and boy do I miss home and the good old Cascade Concrete! I just saw the forecast on tv, and the temps are moving down to high 30’s during the day and the low 20’s at night. Time to pile a few more pommies on my bed! Hey **herbs**! I am loving the cable internet, who knew it could go this fast?!! Now I just have to withstand the pressure from family and friends to join the World of War[del]crack[/del]craft. 😃 Hi **gt**!!! I thought about you today while looking out the window at my garden, realizing that the white poppy that grew this year with all of the salmon and red poppies is not going to get enough sun and warmth to bloom and scatter seeds. The flower buds look lonely and sad out in the wind and sleet, but the foxglove that bloomed last year threw so many seeds they have shown up everywhere, and they will bloom next year, and while I was cleaning up the bulb beds I found crocus bulbs which didn’t bloom this year, but they clearly survived and grew over the summer. I remember once upon a time I spent almost two months (December and January) in Mentor-On-The-Lake, and my then sister-in-law and I took a long walk on a silent snowy day ending up in the midst of a huge rose field, and when I look up and see that you are from Ohio I remember that moment with such clarity. Oh, and I have meant to say for a long time that I envy your meals. When the last of the kids has moved out and skiffman is out fishing I am going to eat like that. My family would be appalled if I tried to serve them each a sweet potato for dinner, it would be to laugh! This is too long already, and I have a lot of catching up to do, so I will end my post with this bit of news: tonight I will sleep in a brand new bed! My old bed was pretty saggy, and now the new bed is so tall and fluffy, I can’t wait to go to bed! G’night everyone, except for those for whom this is morning already, or soon will be, you get a good morning! ---
**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 18, 2007, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/285 "2007-10-18T07:04:02Z")
Children, children! Here I am, up till the wee hours working, and what do I find? The groping continues! Tsk, tsk. 😃 Okay, I’m not even making sense to myself. It’s waaay past my bedtime. Nighty-night, all! ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/286 "2007-10-18T07:08:37Z")
[QUOTE=Mama Tiger] Children, children! Here I am, up till the wee hours working, and what do I find? The groping continues! Tsk, tsk. 😃 Okay, I’m not even making sense to myself. It’s waaay past my bedtime. Nighty-night, all! [/QUOTE] You’re just jealous. Admit it! Or better yet, join the fun. And you’re probably of two minds – both relieved and incensed – about the fact that nobody has shown any inclination to grope **SnowBunny**! (:eek: 😛 d&r) ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/287 "2007-10-18T07:20:47Z")
Did you all know there actually is an active member here (the SDMB, not the MMP… yet!) called **[purple haze](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?userid=38699)**? Since 2003, too. **Haze** , behind you! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/288 "2007-10-18T09:46:03Z")
I guess going to bed at 830 pm is good for a person. That’s what I did last night and I fee great this morning. Sinuses are draining (TMI), but thank god for that. I am so sick of the hard sell with NPR and PBS. I subscribe to both. I used to be filled with guilt that I didn’t and so I figured that was why I found the beg-a-thons so annoying. So, I subscribed. Now they’re MORE annoying–you’ve got my money, now go away! They’re like telemarketers you can’t hang up on. Work, grocery shopping. Tomorrow oil change and homework. Who wouldn’t be me? ---
**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 18, 2007, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/289 "2007-10-18T10:19:05Z")
_shakes off the tranquilizer and slowly wakes up_ Bleh. Mornings suck. Tranquilize me again, please. ---
**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 18, 2007, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/290 "2007-10-18T10:33:08Z")
Mornings are a good thing! _bounce, bounce_ Time to wake up! Good morning everyone! I’m up, should be starting to get ready for work, but instead am here on the dope. Have a great day everyone! _bounce, bounce, bounce_ ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/291 "2007-10-18T10:40:51Z")
[QUOTE=LOUNE] Bleh. Mornings suck. Tranquilize me again, please. [/QUOTE] :: Tranqs LOUNE with a large hammer:: > [@McUNE](#): > > Mornings are a good thing! _bounce, bounce_ > … > _bounce, bounce, bounce_ You two **sooooo** deserve each other… I know I am Officially Sick[sup]TM[/sup] when I go for a cup of coffee, take a look at the coffee machine, and make myself a cup of tea instead… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/292 "2007-10-18T10:51:37Z")
I am up earlier than I want to be thanks to a @#$%^\*%@$ing leg cramp. I pushed to a new level last night at PT, while doing it I felt my right thigh muscle complaining and backed off on the intensity. And I was fine all night long until about a half hour ago when the garbage truck came rumbling thru and I decided to roll over onto my side for the last bit of sleep until the alarm went off and as soon as I settled in, :: **YOW** ::!!! I was able to sit up on the edge of the bed before it got to its worst, so I shook my leg side to side vigoriusly until it subsided, and cursed myself for _not_ having the banana cream pie for dessert last night (at dinner with friends) But it’s just as well, as soon as the truck rumbled thru, Smokey decided it was time to eat, and (I may have said this before) there is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast ---
**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 18, 2007, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/293 "2007-10-18T11:00:17Z")
_naps, with a small cadre of tweeting birds circling his head_ ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/294 "2007-10-18T11:05:22Z")
[QUOTE=Noone Special] :…I know I am Officially Sick[sup]TM[/sup] when I go for a cup of coffee, take a look at the coffee machine, and make myself a cup of tea instead… :eek: [/QUOTE] Is this where we officially welcome you to the sickie corner. (Not that you weren’t already here for other reasons… 😃 ) Why isn’t it Friday yet? GT ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/295 "2007-10-18T11:31:21Z")
[QUOTE=gardentraveler] Is this where we officially welcome you to the sickie corner. [/quote] Psst… [post #249, near the bottom](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=9083074) > [@](#): > > (Not that you weren’t already here for other reasons… 😃 ) Mental illness != physical illness 😃 > [@](#): > > Why isn’t it Friday yet? It is! Well, in the sense of “last work day of the week,” it is… So there! 😛 ---
**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 18, 2007, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/296 "2007-10-18T12:34:20Z")
I just realized that it’s Thursday! That is a good thing. “The Office” is on tonight. Yay!! Does anyone here watch that show? ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/297 "2007-10-18T12:55:33Z")
[QUOTE=Most Creative User Name Ever] I just realized that it’s Thursday! That is a good thing. “The Office” is on tonight. Yay!! Does anyone here watch that show? [/QUOTE] Sorry, it’s a bad thing on 3 counts: 1. “Pushing Daisies” was last night; 2. It’s another day until Friday; 3. \ ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/298 "2007-10-18T13:01:01Z")
[QUOTE=Noone Special] Did you all know there actually is an active member here (the SDMB, not the MMP… yet!) called **[purple haze](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?userid=38699)**? Since 2003, too. **Haze** , behind you! 🙂 [/QUOTE] Drat, foiled again! :smack: My morning has been made better by a Cinnamon Dolce Latte. I am such a Starbucks whore. I’ve been not cleaning this week at home, partly because I’ve been busy and partly out of curiosity to see if Cloud Maiden would do anything. Her tolerance for messiness is far higher than mine, although to be fair the kitchen, at least, has been kept more or less clean. I, however, am about to go mad from all the dust, so it’s cleaning time once I get home from work today. Yay. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/299 "2007-10-18T13:08:45Z")
I can tell VWife is getting seriously uptight once again about impending Bionic Knees Day Monday. She was cleaning house yesterday; something she _never_ does because we have a house cleaner every 2 weeks, and she was beside herself about the MRSA scare story in the news. Ain’t enough smilies to show the full range of my reactions. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2007, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756/300 "2007-10-18T13:17:25Z")
I am officially leaving sickies corner tomorrow - the time has come to go back to work. Bah, and all that. But it’s time…and if I stay at home tomorrow then by the time I go back on Monday I’ll be needing a sick note from the doc for the number of days I’ve been off. Hardly worth the effort, so I’m going back. On the plus side, I got our Dyson back from the repair man today, it needed a service and a proper clean out. And I managed to do a funds transfer to an account overseas to purchase tickets for the Dead Rat Ball next March. Took me ages to make the woman in Belgium understand that I needed _all_ the information I’d asked for and not just selected bits of it. Still, persistance paid off and the tickets are mine! All mine, I say! **VBob** , does VWife know that she’ll be joining us Cool Bionikids? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-to-the-east-an-mmp/422756.md?page=16)