# MMP Mystery – What’s up with Murray??

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-mystery-what-s-up-with-murray/342190>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Tags:** mmp\
**Created:** [January 30, 2006, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-mystery-what-s-up-with-murray/342190 "2006-01-30T10:17:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-mystery-what-s-up-with-murray/342190/41 "2006-01-30T20:16:17Z")

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**rigs** , I appreciate the advice. Lemme give you another example of what it means to have three guys for every girl. The first girl I ever fell in love with was someone I met at orientation. When I asked her out, _two weeks into college_, she was taken (we’re friends now). They’re all taken, all of them. And **Bumba** , **rigs** may have been joking, but I wouldn’t be. Of course, if she’s young enough to have algebra homework, well, suffice it to say that 5 \< x \< 10, where x is the number of years I would be in prison.

**Drae** , where on EARTH did you go to school??

I finally mailed my application to Amsterdam this morning. It cost me $30 to transfer €100 ($125) to the school’s account for the application fee, and $24 to next-day both my application and the recommendation letter. Total cost: $179. And I still have to mail them an official transcript. Oh well. After that I went to my first class, albeit 20 minutes late from the mailing-ness. The professor pointed out something interesting during lecture. First, you have to know that RPI is all on one giant hill, and this class happens to be in a room with big windows facing up the hill. Directly outside of one of these windows is a tree on an extra steep slope, and he pointed out the not-grassy slightly-raised area of the ground on the up-hill side of the tree. What does that mean?

Yup, you guessed it. That tree is a-comin’ down. Slowly but surely its roots are sliding free of the earth to which they desperately cling, inch by inch, centimeter by centimeter, until BAM! Ain’t nobody gonna be looking out that window. Actually, I’m sure the school knows about it, and I’m sure they’ll make sure it doesn’t actually fall over and wreak hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage on one of their buildings.

Oh, afterthought: It occurs to me that I could make sure I’ll have everything I need to know to maintain a home just by saving all the MMPs. 😃

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**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-mystery-what-s-up-with-murray/342190/42 "2006-01-30T20:29:05Z")

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> [@Spatial Rift 47](#):
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> **Drae** , where on EARTH did you go to school??

Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass–Where nobody graduates, but everybody’s too stoned to care. Roughly ten men for every woman. If you’ve got a freshman class of a hundred people, that’s only ten women. What are the odds that _any_ of those women are supermodel-gorgeous? Lucky me, I got one of maybe three available smokin’ hot chicks as a roommate. :rolleyes: My other roommate made bongs for spare cash. My room was constantly _full_ of musicians … all of whom wanted to smoke with one roommate, then sleep with the other … and then chat with me because I was the one who was fun to talk to.

By the way, “fun to talk to” translates into “wouldn’t bang her with someone else’s junk.” But I’m not bitter. 😃

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**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-mystery-what-s-up-with-murray/342190/43 "2006-01-30T20:44:19Z")

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C’mon **Drae** , you were in Boston. There are three dozen other schools there, all with plenty of guys to date.

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**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 30, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-mystery-what-s-up-with-murray/342190/44 "2006-01-30T20:57:22Z")

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> [@eleanorigby](#):
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> 😕 I am understand the words, but the meaning escapes me…how old is this grandchild? There’s a student at RPI who would like to meet her…

#3Granddaughter is 8. Come to think of it, it’s about time for her to be nein. Daddy came and collected her and I’m running my errands now. I stopped at the shop to drop off some stuff and eat my sammich, and now I’m a gonna go home and do some stuff. We got our taxes back from the accountant this morn and I gotta tell ya’, he earned every penny we pay him. We still gotta pay, but it isn’t nearly as bad as when I did the taxes. Now I’ve gotta finish filling out a form the hospital gave me and then we negotiate how much I’m actually gonna pay them, and how. Y’all know about the disparity between how much a hospital bills and how much the insurance companies pay, dontcha? Well, our hospital has a policy that uninsured patients get a discount so that they’re not paying more than the insurance companies negotiate. Anyway, we’re gonna talk about that, now that we can prove that we’re just one step away from living under a bridge.

**Drae** , here’s some math for ya: Musicans = pond scum, Stoned musicians \< pond scum.  
I’m just sayin’.

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**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-mystery-what-s-up-with-murray/342190/45 "2006-01-30T21:00:18Z")

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> [@Spatial Rift 47](#):
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> C’mon **Drae** , you were in Boston. There are three dozen other schools there, all with plenty of guys to date.

Ah, but you are unfamiliar with Drae-At-Eighteen, who was only slightly more insecure and frightened of rejection than Drae-At-Thirty. The guy I _did_ make the torturous decision to date slept with my four best friends and forgot to tell me he had a fiancee back home. He was a real catch.

**Bumba** , that’s not entirely true. But I’ve never dated another musician. 🙂

In other news, I got the sticker off the microwave. 😃

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**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-mystery-what-s-up-with-murray/342190/46 "2006-01-30T21:36:48Z")

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Murray, silly kitty! You’re supposed to climb on the furniture, not hang out in the drawers. You leave **FCM’s** drawers alone!

> [@eleanorigby](#):
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> A-going to town to git some supplies.
> 
> Anybody need anything?
> 
> Here’s my list, so far:
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> pop  
> sweet n low  
> peanut butter  
> bananas  
> flour  
> toilet paper  
> contract to break knees of --oops! wrong list

I have many jars of peanut butter–I could send you some of mine! I have no idea how I ended up with so much peanut butter. I think I need to make some peanut butter cookies. With chocolate chips. And some shortbread. I’ve been craving shortbread. Other people have cravings for normal things–me, I want shortbread.

**rigby,** my bathroom is Peeps purple. I like it. But I’m weird. I like that better than dark purple. It could be worse–at least it’s not Peeps yellow! 😃

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**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-mystery-what-s-up-with-murray/342190/47 "2006-01-30T21:40:58Z")

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Damn. I might have to make cookies tonight. Curse you, **MagicEyes**!!

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**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-mystery-what-s-up-with-murray/342190/48 "2006-01-30T22:06:54Z")

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**Drae** --are we talking dates or sex? (they are not always the same thing!).

If you couldn’t get a date in BOSTON–home of how many colleges? Boylston Street alone is one huge pick up zone (well, parts of it)…

Sounds like you went to the same school(of thought) I did–the one that asked me repeatedly, “why would you think (fill in name here) would be interested in you?”

It’s an old school and should be torn down. And no vouchers, either!

BBQ pork and tater tots (but **N.O.T.'s** kids) tonoc for dinner.

I think the Grad school app is designed like a freshman weeder course–its purpose is to make you give up in frustration…

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**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-mystery-what-s-up-with-murray/342190/49 "2006-01-30T22:23:52Z")

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> [@eleanorigby](#):
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> Sounds like you went to the same school(of thought) I did–the one that asked me repeatedly, “why would you think (fill in name here) would be interested in you?”

I’m working on my postgraduate degree. 🙂

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-mystery-what-s-up-with-murray/342190/50 "2006-01-30T22:27:34Z")

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> [@eleanorigby](#):
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> **gotpasswords** --come now, if it’s green paint, it must have some blue in it…kudos on the shutoff valve. Things like that make me turn everything off and grouse.
> 
> Are you going to
> 
> 1. change the lights?  
> 2.paint it again?  
> 3.keep it and have a blue bathroom?

I think we’re just going to put a regular incandescent bulb in there so the paint looks green. I know the whole “yellow and blue makes green” but the pigments in the paint are something like green, ochre, black. No blue.

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**Author:** ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-mystery-what-s-up-with-murray/342190/51 "2006-01-30T22:28:55Z")

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[QUOTE=Bumbazine **Drae** , here’s some math for ya: Musicans = pond scum, Stoned musicians \< pond scum.  
I’m just sayin’.[/QUOTE]

Yes, well, pond scum has its own place. Stoned musicians generally do not. Their own place I mean (it’s suppose to be a joke). What I mean to say is leave the poor well-meaning pond scum alone.

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**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:** [January 30, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-mystery-what-s-up-with-murray/342190/52 "2006-01-30T23:52:20Z")

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A rainy night in Georgia,

A rainy,rainy, rainy night in Georgia

It seems like it’s rainin’ all over the world

I feel like it’s rainin’ all over the world

It’s raining here. Just thought I’d share. It’s also kinda thunder stormy.

I really like that song too.

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-mystery-what-s-up-with-murray/342190/53 "2006-01-31T00:26:03Z")

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it’s a very cool song.  
We’ve got spring weather on Lawn Guylandt. And if it were up to me, it could stay like this straight thru til April and I wouldn’t mind a teensy bit

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**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-mystery-what-s-up-with-murray/342190/54 "2006-01-31T00:30:54Z")

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> [@welby](#):
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> What kind of camera do you have?

I have a Pentax Optio 50. The lens is for Anagramless Guy, who has a Canon SLR camera, and is looking for a wide-angle zoom lens. I have memorized his speech, even though I know nothing about cameras.

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**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:** [January 31, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-mystery-what-s-up-with-murray/342190/55 "2006-01-31T00:43:54Z")

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Lovely song, **swampy**. Those voice lessons are really starting to pay off. Your enunciation is remarkably clear, I must say.

What? 😛

But it’s not raining here. (Although it did, yesterday.)

Weekend - not all that fascinating, although I started working on Valentines. Also, I did laundry. And went grocery shopping. Didn’t clean too much. Am apparently not a Seasoned Woman, either.

No cats or poltergeists, so no mysteriously open doors. Although the shampoo etc. holders in the bathtub periodically fall down for no apparent reason. Loudly. That’s related to suction cups lacking suckiness. Or actually having it, but not the right kind.

Speaking of seaoning… Bought a nice, cheap caldero (Dutch oven) at the Hispanic grocery store on Saturday. It didn’t have seasoning instructions, but I’m pretty sure my old roommate seasoned hers when it was new. She is of course at work and not able to answer her phone. I’d like to make rice in it this week. (It’s about the only non-electric item I can make proper rice in, every time.) I’ve tried looking on the internet and can’t find instructions. I don’t remember if she did the same thing you do with cast iron (this is cast aluminum)… I’m thinking I’ll head over to Cafe Society and hope someone there knows…(cuz even when I reach her, old roomie probably won’t remember and will have to call her mom and…)

If anyone needs chocolate chips, I have plenty, by the way. Discovered one more package yesterday, bringing the sum total bags to 4. Plus one of butterscotch chips. Still not sure why. The last bag was hiding among some Christmas m&ms. Suggestions for things to make with lots of chocolate chips?

In other news, I have vowed to finish two things today:

1. Getting pix for my mom printed (special offer expires tomorrow), and
2. Finish laundry.

Not too ambitious, right?

We’ll see.

GT

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**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:** [January 31, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-mystery-what-s-up-with-murray/342190/56 "2006-01-31T00:48:49Z")

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And no sooner do I post about the Dutch oven seasoning woes than I find [this](http://fantes.com/seasoning.htm). You were awaiting reports of my progress with bated breath, right?

GT

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**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 31, 2006, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-mystery-what-s-up-with-murray/342190/57 "2006-01-31T01:28:50Z")

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I don’t know if I got anything done this weekend except work. Mr. Lissar was working 12 hour night shifts. Didn’t see each other very often.

I’m trying to decide if I want to go wandering tomorrow, or bake and do laundry. I think I might be out of clean clothes, but I have a transit pass for tomorrow, and I feel like I should use it. Unfortunately, if I use it I’ll buy something stupid (see last wee’s MMP).

In other news, we have four year old cheddar from Costco, and it would be a prime reason for baking bread. Oh, and Attacks Husband had insomnia last night, and made shortbread with chopped cranberries, and gave me some. It’s goooooood, and it’s all for me, because shortbread is one of the Things Mr. Lissar Doesn’t Eat.

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**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-mystery-what-s-up-with-murray/342190/58 "2006-01-31T01:39:01Z")

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> [@eleanorigby](#):
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> A-going to town to git some supplies.
> 
> Anybody need anything?
> 
> Here’s my list, so far:
> 
> pop  
> sweet n low  
> peanut butter  
> bananas  
> flour  
> toilet paper  
> contract to break knees of --oops! wrong list

If you have the bread already, the peanut butter and bananas are the starts for a good sammich. Add some honey and fry the bad boy and you have some good eatin’. (It’s what I had for lunch on Saturday.)

Add some bacon and you can go the Whole Elvis!

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**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-mystery-what-s-up-with-murray/342190/59 "2006-01-31T02:19:43Z")

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A peanut butter and banana sammich with honey, _fried_? I think I’m in love. But how do you keep the honey from losing all semblance of viscosity, spreading over the pan, and caramelizing?

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**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:** [January 31, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-mystery-what-s-up-with-murray/342190/60 "2006-01-31T02:40:50Z")

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> [@Spatial Rift 47](#):
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> A peanut butter and banana sammich with honey, _fried_? I think I’m in love. But how do you keep the honey from losing all semblance of viscosity, spreading over the pan, and caramelizing?

I’m thinking caramelized sandwich might not be too bad…

GT (Was that really **Rue** who just stopped by? On a Monday?)

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