# MMP: How to make Gravy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [February 20, 2006, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-how-to-make-gravy/345309 "2006-02-20T11:25:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-how-to-make-gravy/345309/321 "2006-02-24T14:37:07Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > OK-you all can be honest with me–is he brilliant or mentally ill? I gotta say–it’s really a tossup. 🙂 He’s definitely cute, though. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-how-to-make-gravy/345309/322 "2006-02-24T14:38:12Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > I went back and looked, cause I thought we had two offers last week to do this week’s and I was right. What we decided was that you **Smitty** would do this week’s MMP and **'mika** would do next week’s MMP. So, **'mika’s** up for this Monday, unlessen she pops in and says otherwise. > > Paging **'mika**. **'mika** please pick up the white courtesy phone. Paging **'mika**. Brilliant! I’m happy to MMP for you anytime, though, so consider my offer _open ended_ (I kind of like it here, and I think I’ll stay 😃 ) AND! Breaking news in the Harvard thing: I just got an email from the hiring manager - he and his boss feel I’m a _“strong candidate”_ for the position, and I’ve been invited for the final round of the interview process Monday. **W00t!** ---
**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:** [February 24, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-how-to-make-gravy/345309/323 "2006-02-24T14:40:50Z")
**rigs** maybe his stomach has issued a declaration of independence to his head. If he barfs up tea, then his stomach is doing its interpretation of the Boston Tea Party and saying “No Taxation Without Representation” to his brain. Poor guy, there’s a whole war for independence going on inside him and you send him to school! **Smitty** of course butter is a proper grits adornment. See, I had cheese grits on the brain. If I’m puttin’ lots of cheese in the grits, then I don’t use butter. If the grits are sans cheese, then it’s salt, pepper and butter. Usually I make cheese grits though, so no butter on those cause I don’t need butteriness if I got cheesiness. ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-how-to-make-gravy/345309/324 "2006-02-24T14:53:32Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Paging **'mika**. **'mika** please pick up the white courtesy phone. Paging **'mika**. I just emailed her to let her know we’re looking for her in the MMP. I don’t gamble - I can think of 3 zillion things I’d rather spend the money on. Yes, even $2. I’d rather be guaranteed a cup of coffee with the money than take the chance on losing it and getting nothing in return. But despite that, I still love Vegas and will gladly take advantage of the cheap hotels and great food. Both \*\*KeithT \*\*and I have Rapid Rewards credits from SW, and we’re going to take a trip out there before we move to MN. (SW doesn’t fly to MN ☹ so we have to use up the credits before then.) He’s never been so it should be a lot of fun. There’s almost no one at work today. It’s the end of school vacation week around here so a lot of people are spending the day with family. So I’ll be hanging out here today instead of doing work. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-how-to-make-gravy/345309/325 "2006-02-24T14:56:57Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **Smitty** of course butter is a proper grits adornment. See, I had cheese grits on the brain. If I’m puttin’ lots of cheese in the grits, then I don’t use butter. If the grits are sans cheese, then it’s salt, pepper and butter. Usually I make cheese grits though, so no butter on those cause I don’t need butteriness if I got cheesiness. What kind of cheese do you use? I’d like to try these _cheese grits_. If I had to guess, I’d say shreeded chedder stirred in just before serving, yeah? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-how-to-make-gravy/345309/326 "2006-02-24T14:58:14Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > I went back and looked, cause I thought we had two offers last week to do this week’s and I was right. What we decided was that you **Smitty** would do this week’s MMP and **'mika** would do next week’s MMP. So, **'mika’s** up for this Monday, unlessen she pops in and says otherwise. > > Paging **'mika**. **'mika** please pick up the white courtesy phone. Paging **'mika**. \*throws herself at \*_Swampy’s \*\* feet_ Oh, pleasepleasepelase can I? Oh please! I’d love to! I accept! I accept! … Maybe. 😃 Yeah, I’d love to. I think I even have a great idea. Let me get the rules straight though, is there a time I have to post it by? I am NOT an early riser, but I’m sure I’ll be up until midnight Sunday night though. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-how-to-make-gravy/345309/327 "2006-02-24T14:59:22Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Paging **'mika**. **'mika** please pick up the white courtesy phone. Paging **'mika**. Oh yeah, gimme Hamm on five, hold the Mayo. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-how-to-make-gravy/345309/328 "2006-02-24T15:02:27Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Oh yeah, gimme Hamm on five, hold the Mayo. Captain Oveur, white courtesy phone. I’m going to be giggling for at least the next half hour. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-how-to-make-gravy/345309/329 "2006-02-24T15:03:10Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > - Let me get the rules straight though, . Don’t forget the rule that says you have to mail a box of chocolates to the Doper that posts the previous wee’s MMP. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-how-to-make-gravy/345309/330 "2006-02-24T15:26:35Z")
Let’s see, I still have some chocolates from Easter 2005, will they do? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-how-to-make-gravy/345309/331 "2006-02-24T15:29:13Z")
> [@Winston Smith](#): > > Don’t forget the rule that says you have to mail a box of chocolates to the Doper that posts the previous wee’s MMP. 😃 hey! I never got my choc’s from **swampy**! ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-how-to-make-gravy/345309/332 "2006-02-24T15:31:38Z")
Chocolates? I didn’t get any chocolates. Am I the Red Skelton of MMP? (psst-to you younger folk, he never got a Dinner). Chocolates? I don’t need no stinkin’ chocolates! and there is no parking in the red zone… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-how-to-make-gravy/345309/333 "2006-02-24T15:40:39Z")
So, I’m undertaking an investigation of Things to See in Amsterdam. There are three separate museums devoted to sex, weed, and tattoos. This is so my vacation spot. 😃 I really can’t wait to go. I suppose I should visit a few historic places, but if’n I’m leaving the country for the first time _ever_ (three days in Toronto at age 8 does not count, if you ask me, because I barely remember it), then gol-durn it, I’m gonna have _fun_. Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-how-to-make-gravy/345309/334 "2006-02-24T15:43:25Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > So, I’m undertaking an investigation of Things to See in Amsterdam. There are three separate museums devoted to sex, weed, and tattoos. This is so my vacation spot. 😃 I really can’t wait to go. I suppose I should visit a few historic places, but if’n I’m leaving the country for the first time _ever_ (three days in Toronto at age 8 does not count, if you ask me, because I barely remember it), then gol-durn it, I’m gonna have _fun_. > > Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue. Nicely done - two _Airplane!_ references in this week’s MMP. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-how-to-make-gravy/345309/335 "2006-02-24T15:52:56Z")
I’m off on a road trip to Jacksonville for a rematch between the Columbus Cottonmouths and the Jacksonville Barracudas. It should be interesting - we beat them last night (after they had 2 buses break down on the way and had to rent cars to get here an hour and a half late) 10-5 with some fun antics including a goalie fight! ---
**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:** [February 24, 2006, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-how-to-make-gravy/345309/336 "2006-02-24T15:58:30Z")
**Smitty** sharp cheddar cheese is the cheese of choice to make grits cheesy. Lots of it. It’s so gooooood! **’mika** as long as the MMP is up by the time I get to work, I’m good. If it’s up by 8 AM eastern time, that’s good too. Or whenever. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-how-to-make-gravy/345309/337 "2006-02-24T16:03:20Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **rigs** maybe his stomach has issued a declaration of independence to his head. If he barfs up tea, then his stomach is doing its interpretation of the Boston Tea Party and saying “No Taxation Without Representation” to his brain. Poor guy, there’s a whole war for independence going on inside him and you send him to school! > > **Smitty** of course butter is a proper grits adornment. See, I had cheese grits on the brain. If I’m puttin’ lots of cheese in the grits, then I don’t use butter. If the grits are sans cheese, then it’s salt, pepper and butter. Usually I make cheese grits though, so no butter on those cause I don’t need butteriness if I got cheesiness. Just making sure you don’t put _sugar_ in your grits. That would make you a damyankee. 😉 Scattered, covered and smothered refers to Waffle House’s magificent hash browns, **Rifty**. You go, **Smitty**! That’s great news! **rigs** , not sure what he meant by that, but I’m sure he’s gonna be fine! Man, I wants me some Waffle House. Saturday morning, look out! ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-how-to-make-gravy/345309/338 "2006-02-24T16:13:21Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **Smitty** sharp cheddar cheese is the cheese of choice to make grits cheesy. Lots of it. It’s so gooooood! I’m gonna make me sone _cheesy grits_ this weekend. My daught will love 'em, but she’ll probably insist on butter, as well. Mmmm… Cholesterol… Drool… Too bad there isn’t an Awful Waffle within about 1000 miles of me. All this talk about scattered smother and covered is getting me all nostalgic for my time in _God’s Country_… ---
**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:** [February 24, 2006, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-how-to-make-gravy/345309/339 "2006-02-24T16:19:03Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > I dont’ like grits–they feel like their name to me in my mouth. I’m an oatmeal girl. Sacrilege! Where do you live … in, like, the _north_?? 😉 Grits are so good! Just yummyyummyyummy. But cheese grits are for side-dishing, and regular grits are for breakfastin.’ With butter and salt. Mmmmm. And I am here to tell you, you can like both! Grits AND oatmeal! Whew. Am I clear on this subject? 😛 And BTW, I re-emailed ya. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2006, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-how-to-make-gravy/345309/340 "2006-02-24T16:21:43Z")
OK-whatcha all think of this: The Rules or How You Lose the Keys to the Car 1. Safety first. This is non-negotiable. No-one will drive any car while under the influence of alcohol or other drug not prescribed by your doctor or Dr Mom. If you find yourself in a situation where you are unsafe to drive, call us and we will pick you up. 2. The driver of the car is in charge. YOU make the rules for all passengers. All passengers must wear their seat belts at all times. There is no goofing around in the car. Passengers who don’t like the rules should become ex-passengers. 3. You are responsible for gas and upkeep of the vehicle. Upkeep is defined as keeping it clean, inside and out. Resale value is increased with a non-trashed interior. All liquids are to be covered, no food in the car. 4. Driving Miss Daisy, or how you are now your brother’s chaffeur. Daddy and I will depend on you to assist in getting your sibs to things, IF we cannot. We will try to honor your schedule as much as possible, but if the conflict is between a social thing for you and a neccessary thing for them (soccer, chess etc)–the necessary thing wins out. 5. You are responsible for finding PT employment this summer and future summers to assist in the payment of the car. 6. If at age 18, you decide you must keep this car, you will be responsible for the loan. There are some things that re the financing and stuff that I don’t need to bore you with. What I am looking for is input re did I miss anything? Thanks [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-how-to-make-gravy/345309.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-how-to-make-gravy/345309.md?page=18)