# MMP - Bright & Early, Front & Center **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [January 16, 2006, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207 "2006-01-16T09:56:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/301 "2006-01-20T17:18:29Z")
OMG!! Once again I leave the room and all hell breaks loose! HMMMPPHHH!! :: pats blue hair and compresses lips church lady style:: ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/302 "2006-01-20T17:32:31Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > d) None of the above. He was shot in 1963. Didn’t say which Kennedy. 1968 is a valid choice. Teddy K. does shots every day… ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/303 "2006-01-20T17:41:45Z")
November 22, 1963. i looked it up to make sure. I was a junior in high school. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/304 "2006-01-20T17:53:49Z")
I was 16 months old… 😃 Hey there, **Zine** --how’re ya doin? And **Pug** --we’re not getting older, we’re getting better. Practice makes perfect and all that… **Drae** --I hear ya on the “do it right the first time”. Afterall, if you want something done… **Spats** --I’m counting on you to be a gentleman. (is chivalry dead?). Putting together this new desk is a PIA. Why o why don’t I have people? ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/305 "2006-01-20T18:00:15Z")
> [@Bumbazine](#): > > November 22, 1963. i looked it up to make sure. I was a junior in high school. I was in my mother’s uterus when he was shot. 😃 I was a bad and forgetful mommy today. As I reported yesterday, my daughter was ill and missed school. In my rush to get out the door and to work today, I forgot to write a note asking the school to excuse her absence due to illness. I’ve called the school and left a message, but I have yet to hear back from the school. I called them 0730 this morning, and it’s 10:00 now. I don’t want my daughter to get in trouble due to my stupidity. I’m a sorta oldster too. I’ll be 42 in May. When the hell did that happen?! I could have sworn I was only 22 just yesterday. My 39 year old sister had surgery yesterday and had her uterus and cervix removed. She also had (time for ick factor) severe endometriosis, so that had to be cleaned up too. At any rate, she had a real rough time of it, and they had a hell of a time getting her to wake up from the anesthesia. It took her nearly five hours to wake up. That’s a little scary. I’m going to call the hospital when I get home to see how she’s doing. I can’t call from work because it’s long distance and I’m one of those people who don’t have a cell phone. TGIF! TGIF! ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/306 "2006-01-20T18:12:47Z")
Who’s on deck for the Monday MMP? ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/307 "2006-01-20T18:19:09Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > **Drae** --I hear ya on the “do it right the first time”. Afterall, if you want something done… Believe me, that’s how it gets done these days. _sigh_ I should buy stock in Energizer. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/308 "2006-01-20T18:20:20Z")
Some people in this thread … I’m not sayin’ who … [desperately need this product](http://prettygoodgoods.publicradio.org/product_detail.php?prod_base_id=205) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/309 "2006-01-20T18:24:22Z")
That is hysterical. It’s no sin to love yourself, or one another… 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/310 "2006-01-20T18:30:22Z")
> [@Ellen Cherry](#): > > Some people in this thread … I’m not sayin’ who … [desperately need this product](http://prettygoodgoods.publicradio.org/product_detail.php?prod_base_id=205) I’m buying that for _all my friends_ next Christmas. That’s hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/311 "2006-01-20T18:30:55Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > d) None of the above. He was shot in 1963. > Oh dear Og, that better be right. oh for :smack: :rolleyes: you know what I meant (sheesh) ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/312 "2006-01-20T18:31:17Z")
> [@Bumbazine](#): > > November 22, 1963. i looked it up to make sure. I was a junior in high school. Ya olde pharte. I was still in diapers, and well into my Terrible Twos. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/313 "2006-01-20T18:33:19Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Didn’t say which Kennedy. 1968 is a valid choice. > > Teddy K. does shots every day… > [@Bumbazine](#): > > November 22, 1963. i looked it up to make sure. I was a junior in high school. oy! note to self - google first, then post I was but a wee bairn back then, and at least I got the interval between the two correct. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/314 "2006-01-20T18:42:42Z")
I was 6 months old when that happened. My GF is 47. I’d have to say, since I’ve known her for 4 years, that your plateau need not end at 45. **Taters** I just ripped my wallet apart looking for the phone card I use for emergencies. I was going to offer the numbers on it to you so you could find out about your sister. But I can’t find the damn thing. Sorry. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/315 "2006-01-20T19:08:23Z")
Sending offf prayers for **Tater’s** sister. I’m 27. Does that make me a young’un? Now time to pack Mr. Lissar’s lunch, get the kitchen clean (it’s got cinnamon sugar goop all over) and do three loads of laundry. One day soon I’m going to schedule a Day Off. On that day, I will not do any housework. It will be lovely. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/316 "2006-01-20T19:12:12Z")
My \*mother \* was a wee one when that happened. (My bio mom had me in her late teens, that was '75). I love that washing sins hand soap, but I’m gonna need a lot of it to wash my sins off. Better to get other people to sin, too, so I look better in comparison. **Drae** , we’ve talked before about our equally stupid previous boyfriends. Mine was the same as yours, no interest, and I even believe we were the same age. Ah, me, young love. NOT. 😃 **Taters** , good luck to your sister. She’s in my thoughts. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/317 "2006-01-20T19:32:29Z")
> [@Sean Factotum](#): > > I was 6 months old when that happened. > > My GF is 47. I’d have to say, since I’ve known her for 4 years, that your plateau need not end at 45. > > **Taters** I just ripped my wallet apart looking for the phone card I use for emergencies. I was going to offer the numbers on it to you so you could find out about your sister. But I can’t find the damn thing. Sorry. **Sean,** you’re such a sweetie. Thanks so much for the kind thought. If anything goes downhill today before I get home, I’m sure my BIL or my mother will call to let me know. They both have my work number. Thanks to the rest of you too for the kind thoughts on my sister. Well, I _think_ I’m done with that PITA report. Just waiting for okay from the chief before I post it to the site. After that, I have to get with the IMD folks so I can get Oracle installed on my PC, so that I’ll have backdoor access to the ICDB tables. I also need to have a sit down with our PA&E folks to talk about an ad hoc that I can get access to create a new provider schedule spreadsheet. After that, I have all my other daily PITA stuff I must do, in addition to my support form so I can show my incoming boss what I do for a living and what he needs to rate me on come October. **FCM,** how’s \*\*FCD \*\* today? Also, I have news on the NSPS front. Seems it won’t be crammed down my throat next month. It’s been delayed (at least for us) until October. Of course, this could change in the next couple of weeks. I still don’t want it to happen. In addition, I read that now even ranking Congress members are concerned that DoD is not going adequately fund NSPS so they’re looking into that as well. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/318 "2006-01-20T19:45:51Z")
**Taters** --5 hours to wake up is not all that uncommon. Unless they tried to reverse the anesthesia and it didn’t work. Most post-ops I’ve taken care of basically sleep for about 10 hours. They may wake up for a few, but tend to nod off again. She needs to remember to turn, cough and take occasional deep breaths to keep her alveoli open. Also, ASAP–outta that bed! In a chair and/or walking. (this is all dependent on the OK from the doctor). Getting “active” and coughing help prevent blood clots in the legs, and pneumonia (in the lungs of course!). Hope she’s doing well. I am back from returning library books and getting measured for support hose. (you all thought I was kidding, upthread, didntcha? Well, you be a nurse for 20 years and have 3 kids and get back to me on your varicose veins! No worries–they’re not visible, thank og). I think I want to be a Viking. #2 son brought home a Dorling-Kindersley book all about Viking culture–they look really cool! Plus the seat of local government was called…a Thing! Isn’t that a scream! More government bodies should be called things, IMO… ---
**Author:** ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/319 "2006-01-20T20:36:37Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > As for the **rigs** -\*\*spats \*\* scandal, does \*\*\*Spats \* \*\* want to 'fess up? **Spats**! Yoohoo! Ladies! You’re scaring the poor boy! Come on over here **Spats** I’ll make you a nice bowl of soup and do your laundry for you. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207/320 "2006-01-20T20:47:30Z")
**eleanor,** I realize that taking five hours to wake up from anesthesia isn’t all that uncommon, but my understanding was there were other difficulties. I’m not clear yet on what they were. Since I haven’t heard anything yet today, I’m guessing she’s progressing fine. My mother was freaked out last night because she felt that nurses and doctors weren’t doing a good enough job of keeping them informed and because they wouldn’t let her and my BIL in to see my sister. I explained the providers’ first priority was my sister, their patient, and they were taking care of her and doing what was best for her. I have Viking blood in me, along with some French and Spanish royalty, German, and Rumanian. There’s a couple of other things, but those are the main things coursing through my veins. Is it 1630 hours yet? This day is dragging, dragging, dragging. Where’s **FCM?** I need to refresh and update some spreadsheets now. My work never ceases. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-bright-early-front-center/340207.md?page=17)