# MMP - Peep hunts and other interesting events **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [April 17, 2006, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-peep-hunts-and-other-interesting-events/352968 "2006-04-17T11:21:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-peep-hunts-and-other-interesting-events/352968/181 "2006-04-19T14:55:46Z")
[QUOTE=Spatial Rift 47] The icing on the cake - they have something called, and once again I am not making this up, Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses. Okay? _Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses_. This has got to be their headquarters. Jehovahs Witness Central, and inside there’s a throne for the King of Jehovahs Witnesses. All those doorbells, all those pamphlets, just part of their masterful plan to take over the fucking world. They’ve already got a Kingdom going. Mark my words, people, this is it. In a few short years they’ll have armies and armies of those confounded Witnesses invading city after city. … crap. [/QUOTE] The town I grew up in, and that I only moved out of last year has one of those. it’s a monster, holds probably a few thousand people or more at a time. One of the houses I owned there backed up to a 2-lane highway, across which stood the monstrosity. I’d only do it at night, but from my backyard, a 6-iron would disappear into the darkness, then you’d hear a soft “click…click” as it bounced twice on the asphalt, followed by a “clang” as it hit the aluminum side of the building. See, life deals you lemons, you make lemonade. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-peep-hunts-and-other-interesting-events/352968/182 "2006-04-19T15:02:51Z")
[QUOTE=rifty] \ decides that’s the place for me. **ferret)** I email John on Saturday humbly requesting to live in his house for 10 weeks. \ [/QUOTE] What the hell is **that**? It doesn’t surprise me that Panama City doesn’t have a decent coffee place. The town is lousy with Navy officers, and they just cannot be trusted to know good coffee under any circumstances. But since you are going to be working with the Navy, ask the first Chief you see where to get coffee. He/she’ll know, and it will be good. Sean - retired Navy Chief ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-peep-hunts-and-other-interesting-events/352968/183 "2006-04-19T15:04:23Z")
https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=60446&ll=41.662012,-88.08751&spn=0.003543,0.010815&t=h&om=1 Put this on Hybrid view. My house was on the curved road to the south of the Hall, which is the large rectangular building on Schmidt Rd. with the 63 kazillion parking spaces. THAT is how big a Kingdom Hall can be. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2006, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-peep-hunts-and-other-interesting-events/352968/184 "2006-04-19T15:12:15Z")
Yes, I too await the story of what has our young **Dorothy** so agitated. Now, it’s just one development after another as far as my life is concerned. Remember how I didn’t exactly have a place to live in Panama City? Well, I do now. Yes, that quickly. What can I say? I’m just that good. Here’s what happened: 1. Naval officer stationed in Panama City running his base’s part of this program - we’ll call him Ed, because that’s his name - notices there’s a housing shortage. 2. Ed petitions his base for any officers who can offer a room to an intern for 10 weeks. 3. Several other officers submit their names and brief descriptions to Ed, who then sends them out to the interns. pi) One officer in particular - we’ll call him John, because that’s his name - includes a far more detailed description than the others, with the result that one of the interns - we’ll call him me, because it’s me - decides that’s the place for me. ferret) I email John on Saturday humbly requesting to live in his house for 10 weeks. Q) Yesterday, John responds without an explicit yes, but including his home number and work number, and an invitation to call his house and talk to his wife to set details and ask questions. I take this as a yes. So, I need to make that call as soon as I’m done. But first, the other development that happened just this morning. See, Monday I recieved the hardcopy version of my acceptance letter to Amsterdam. In response to this I emailed the guy running the MSc program in Theoretical Physics asking when I should expect the financial and housing info. Today I got an answer: First week of May for financial info, two weeks after that for housing. What that means is that I need to accept Dartmouth’s offer (their decision deadline is the 25th), just to have that as a backup in case Amsterdam somehow is too expensive. Don’t worry, I can withdraw from Dartmouth later without a problem. But, I don’t think Amsterdam will be too expensive, as I just went back to the program’s website and it lists tuition at three thousand euro, which would put two years of Amsterdam Grade-A Awesomeness for less than what my parents paid for one year of RPI. Oh, and about Panama City. I found it on my Google Earth, and I was playing around with the layers, getting a feel for what’s in this strange little city. Malls, one. Major retail, half a dozen stores. Movie rental, one Blockbuster, and a place called “Condom Knowledge.” No, I’m not making that up, and no, I _don’t_ want to know. Supermarkets, half a dozen. Restaurants, a few dozen. Bars/lounges … METRIC SHITTON. There are, no exaggeration, stampedalanches of bars in Panama City, Florida. You can’t read the names on the map, they’re so densely packed in. Guess how many coffee shops are in Panama City. That’s right, none. Not a single place to get coffee, but you can’t swing a dead gator without hitting a bar. Ah, but the ultimate irony is this: Second only in number to bars in this wonderful town? CHURCHES. They have churches over here, churches over there, churches everywhere. They have churches directly on the beach, with a scenic oceanside view. They have Catholic, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Baptist, and Lutheran Churches. They have a Christain Science church, for crying out loud, which makes me sorta scared to go live there. The icing on the cake - they have something called, and once again I am not making this up, Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses. Okay? _Kingdom Hall of Jehovahs Witnesses_. This has got to be their headquarters. Jehovahs Witness Central, and inside there’s a throne for the King of Jehovahs Witnesses. All those doorbells, all those pamphlets, just part of their masterful plan to take over the fucking world. They’ve already got a Kingdom going. Mark my words, people, this is it. In a few short years they’ll have armies and armies of those confounded Witnesses invading city after city. … crap. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2006, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-peep-hunts-and-other-interesting-events/352968/185 "2006-04-19T15:17:37Z")
Okay, so in other news I’m a moron. Somehow refreshing the page was the same as posting again. Go figure. **MBG** … wow. That is colossal. I’m scared. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-peep-hunts-and-other-interesting-events/352968/186 "2006-04-19T15:45:20Z")
Sorry, everybody! I know it wasn’t Thursday. I was thinking Tuesday and still managed to write Thursday. Guess I was reeeeeaaaaallly hoping. More later, I’m swamped! But I did want to tell everyone - we have a little shopping list on the wall, where they write things I need to buy for the office. Well, last week someone put “Brain”. And now I looked and it says Brain Guts Charm A Life Think they’ll have those at the grocery store? ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-peep-hunts-and-other-interesting-events/352968/187 "2006-04-19T15:47:58Z")
Good Wednesday Morning, everyone. I just wanted to let y’alls know that I’m not going to be renewing my subscription. I figure this is the one place on the board where I can say that and not be subjected to an overwhelming “don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out!” Besides, if I didn’t say anything, at _some_ point, one of youse would notice and ask what was up. Anyway, I know you will all function without me, but if you’re waiting with rapt attention about what’s going on in my life, you can always read [My LiveJournal](http://scout1222.livejournal.com/) or shoot me an email at leadersteph at yahoo dot com. My subscription isn’t up today, so it’s not like I won’t be around, but I thought I’d let the MMPers know, since I check in here all the dang time. ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-peep-hunts-and-other-interesting-events/352968/188 "2006-04-19T16:07:23Z")
[QUOTE=scout1222] Good Wednesday Morning, everyone. I just wanted to let y’alls know that I’m not going to be renewing my subscription. [/QUOTE] Don’t let the door hit you. . . . You KNEW someone would say it. 😉 ---
**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:** [April 19, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-peep-hunts-and-other-interesting-events/352968/189 "2006-04-19T16:10:24Z")
**scout** you do not have permission to leave. Now, just stop all this silly not renewing talk of yours right now young lady! Good. We have that cleared up. And everybody agrees with me right? Right? Right! :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-peep-hunts-and-other-interesting-events/352968/190 "2006-04-19T16:20:08Z")
Yep, I _knew_ someone would. I just wasn’t sure it was going to happen in the very next post. 😃 ---
**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:** [April 19, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-peep-hunts-and-other-interesting-events/352968/191 "2006-04-19T16:37:21Z")
Good timing, **welby**. **scout** , we’ll miss you. I’ve bookmarked your liverjournal, so I’ll probably be checking it regularly. **Spats** , they’re _all_ called Kingdom Hall. There’s one close to my parents’ house, and even though it’s tiny (but filled with persistent evangelists) it’s called a Kingdom Hall. That reminds me- someone tried to evangelise to me on Monday. That hasn’t happened in years. It must be because my eyes don’t glow red anymore. I always feel that I disappoint my poor would-be converters by already being Christian. Especially when i had glowing red eyes. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-peep-hunts-and-other-interesting-events/352968/192 "2006-04-19T17:18:17Z")
Bwah! I just say I’m Christian–throws them off track… **scout** --this is not good. Why do you have to go? Do I have to read your LiveJournal to find out? I don’t want you to go–unless you were one of the two jerks who drove me nuts in the Pit about a month ago–if you are, then buh-bye! (you see how well I learn everyone around here…) Back from mega errands–I am DONE and can go work in the yard. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-peep-hunts-and-other-interesting-events/352968/193 "2006-04-19T17:21:15Z")
Oho-you’re an accountant, eh? So is my husband. Be gone! (just kidding) I don’t see anything there that would indicate a substantial reason for leaving. And you are not a dork. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-peep-hunts-and-other-interesting-events/352968/194 "2006-04-19T17:30:33Z")
You’re not going to find anything about why I’m leaving. I’ve just decided not to pay again. No drama, no nuttin’. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-peep-hunts-and-other-interesting-events/352968/195 "2006-04-19T17:36:45Z")
Yep, they’re all Kingdom Halls. That’s apparently the word they use instead of “church.” Draelin, I’m so glad you got those shoes! Now I want a pair. In other We’re All Getting Old News – Swampy has to go to the periodontist, I’m going to the ophthalmologist next Monday … _to get bifocals_. I’m not sure how I feel about this. Yes, I want to see better. Yes, it will be fun and exciting to get new frames (I’ve been in the current two [glasses and sunglasses] for six years) and NO I’m not particularly vain. But … oh … I don’t know how I feel about it. Bifocals! I am letting my hair go gray and I. Don’t. Care. But bifocals? At least they don’t have lines any more. I think the cosmos is laughing at me: putting me in gray hair and bifocals and making me the mother of a toddler. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-peep-hunts-and-other-interesting-events/352968/196 "2006-04-19T18:05:01Z")
But, **Spats,** I thought you didn’t even like coffee, which in my mind, leaves me confused as to why coffee shops matter. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-peep-hunts-and-other-interesting-events/352968/197 "2006-04-19T18:05:19Z")
[QUOTE=scout1222] You’re not going to find anything about why I’m leaving. I’ve just decided not to pay again. No drama, no nuttin’. [/QUOTE] Well, ptoeey to you too! Who wants drama–I’m over my quota as it is. But there must be a reason. If not, then ciao! ---
**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:** [April 19, 2006, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-peep-hunts-and-other-interesting-events/352968/198 "2006-04-19T18:55:24Z")
**scout,** I’m sorry to see you go. I’ll miss your witty little two line comments in the MMP. Also, I’m still very glad I got to meet you in person. **dots,** spill! What’s happening? You know we’ve all got broad cyber shoulders. \*\*swampy, \*\* **Mr. Taters** would be making running commentary on the show right along side of you. He’s really good at that. Sometimes it makes a show more fun and entertaining, but, when you’re actually trying to hear and see what’s going on, it can be irritating. But, I still love him. **welby,** I’m sorry to hear about your new car. You were definitely more restrained than I would have been. I cannot abide it if people talk on the cell phones while driving. It’s one of my HUGEST pet peeves. Add to that, eating, smoking, whatever, and I become Yosemite Sam steamed. **Bobbio,** be careful. Have the wife be careful too. This woman sounds like a real whack-job. I have nothing exciting to add today and I’m sure there are other things to address here, but I need to publish a report and finish eating my lunch. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2006, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-peep-hunts-and-other-interesting-events/352968/199 "2006-04-19T19:45:47Z")
[QUOTE=scout1222] You’re not going to find anything about why I’m leaving. I’ve just decided not to pay again. No drama, no nuttin’. [/QUOTE] Is that allowed? I thought there had to be drama in things like this. Oh wait, that’s for the attention freaks. I’ll miss you too, **scout**. And I’ve never been able to navigate those blogs successfully. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-peep-hunts-and-other-interesting-events/352968/200 "2006-04-19T20:53:32Z")
[QUOTE=Sean Factotum] Sean - retired Navy Chief [/QUOTE] Wait a sec!! How did I go this long and not know this?? Suddenly, many things are clear! I, myself, never made chief. I got as far as AT2, then went over to the _Dark Side_, and got out as a LT. My right headlight is burned out - I discovered that when I pulled up behind a pick-em-up truck on the way to work this morning and noticed his tailgate was only partially illuminated. So I have a replacement bulb just waiting to be installed. You’ll notice I’m not in the garage right now… **scout** , you poopyhead, you’re not allowed to quit. I have spoken. So just stop talking that nonsense. Sheesh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-peep-hunts-and-other-interesting-events/352968.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-peep-hunts-and-other-interesting-events/352968.md?page=11)