# MMP - Springtime is for Lovers **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [May 8, 2006, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-springtime-is-for-lovers/355869 "2006-05-08T12:09:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**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:** [May 10, 2006, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-springtime-is-for-lovers/355869/161 "2006-05-10T20:18:01Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] Try Brockton [/QUOTE] And you know this how, **rosie**? šŸ˜‰ As projected, eyeballs are currently bleeding copiously. (Okay, so Iā€™m exaggerating. They just feel that way.) I think PowerPoint is secretly irradiating millions of people and we will all soon be carrying white canes. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-springtime-is-for-lovers/355869/162 "2006-05-10T21:01:22Z")
[QUOTE=Tupug Anachi] And you know this how, **rosie**? šŸ˜‰ As projected, eyeballs are currently bleeding copiously. (Okay, so Iā€™m exaggerating. They just feel that way.) I think PowerPoint is secretly irradiating millions of people and we will all soon be carrying white canes. [/QUOTE] ::looking wide eyed and innocent:: why, simply because my friend from college and her wife settled there. And they have many lesbian friends. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-springtime-is-for-lovers/355869/163 "2006-05-10T21:50:16Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] Thanks for making me giggle madly. [/QUOTE] Thank you, thank you, Iā€™ll be here all week. Donā€™t forget to tip your waitress. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-springtime-is-for-lovers/355869/164 "2006-05-10T22:18:01Z")
Dontcha hate it when your job gets in the way of your work? I hafta do a 12 tomorrowā€“and I have so much to do with the info we went over at my mtg today! And there is all this other shit to do on Friday. I liked being busy this week, but this is too busy. Thank god I went to the grocery store at 9 pm last noc (and who does that? not meā€“I go Mondays at 9 am and have the store to meself!)ā€“I have no time for food acquisition the rest of the week. Someone come tell my 8 year old that he really doesnā€™t want to put together that Lego Viking ship tonoc. I want to go to sleep, NOW, I am so tired. Can Thursday just be over with, please? And I like that frosted sugar butter mentioned above. Cinnamon AND chocolate? Dayum. Texas toast to me=expensive marketing for garlic bread. **Puggy** -Power Point is a mindmeld for aliens. Be cautious. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-springtime-is-for-lovers/355869/165 "2006-05-10T22:21:17Z")
[QUOTE=Sean Factotum] Whatā€™s the difference between Texas Toast and plain old garllic bread? [/QUOTE] Itā€™s texas toast if itā€™s served with bbq. Itā€™s garlic bread if itā€™s served with sketti or lasagna. That clear things up for ya? ---
**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:** [May 10, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-springtime-is-for-lovers/355869/166 "2006-05-10T23:31:09Z")
**rigs.** all this other shit? ahem. šŸ˜› Kidding, I know the crunch. So yeah, I want Thursday over with too. See? All this committee and bus lease business thatā€™s been cramming my days and that I thought was all off the decks lately? Well, itā€™s all on the agenda for the 5/22 Board meeting, which I knew, and of course, I usually have to send a summary or write the action report for the board, so I expected that. But Iā€™m talking to the boss today, and he says ā€œHey, letā€™s get that nailed down tomorrow, because next week is tight, and we have to have the completed stuff over to the superintendent by Wednesday at noonā€ _sigh_ Ok, fine. So, Iā€™ll just get to it NOW so we can do the work on it tomorrow, since he has to do the PowerPoint, because the rule is ā€œHe who has to make the presentation, makes the PowerPointā€. Oh, whatā€™s that you say? Youā€™ll be at the HS Senior Night watching your son get acclaimed as a scholar the night of the board meeting? And wonā€™t be at the board meeting? _sigh_ Itā€™s me, working from the couch again tonight. Rah. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2006, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-springtime-is-for-lovers/355869/167 "2006-05-11T00:21:13Z")
Yay Rigs!!! Yay Rebo!!! To all of you who responded \*EWwwwww!!! \* to the idea of ā€˜olderā€™ people having sex; šŸ˜› PFFFFBBBTTTTTT!!! > [@FCM](#): > > Taters is charming, if a lushā€¦ I guess I shoulda warned ya, alla them Seattleites are lushes. I suspect it has something to do with all the rain. I liked your interview **Welby** , when I finally figured out it was one of the links over on the right. I ainā€™t the brightest bulb on the string sometimes. The kinetic sculpture race interview was fun too. I lived just outside of Ferndale, CA in the early 70s right after the first kinetic sculpture races were started. [Linky.](http://kineticsculpturerace.org/) I think Iā€™d like Baltimore. > [@Bobbio](#): > > It was a short description of her encounter with another BOB, as in her Battery Operated Boyfriend. Well, itā€™s obvious then, she wants you as a fourth for Bridge. **Puggy** , I finally found Daisy Cooks on OPB, quite by accident. She was on at 1:30 pm Mon. here. Now if sheā€™s on next Mon. at 1:30, it may suggest a pattern! **Lissla** , We have a ā€˜memory foamā€™ mattress that cost a bunch that I donā€™t really like much at all. After weā€™ve been in bed for a little while, a kinda trough forms in the middle of the bed thatā€™s tough to get out of. 'Course weā€™uns is some biggern youā€™ens. But try to get a money back guarantee if you can. And next time Iā€™m in Detroit Iā€™ll have to see about driving over to Toronto. (Chocolate cinnamon buns, :drool:) I tink Iā€™m all caught up now. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-springtime-is-for-lovers/355869/168 "2006-05-11T00:24:22Z")
[QUOTE=Bumbazine] To all of you who responded \*EWwwwww!!! \* to the idea of ā€˜olderā€™ people having sex; šŸ˜› PFFFFBBBTTTTTT!!! w. [/QUOTE] Old people have sex? :d&r: ---
**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:** [May 11, 2006, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-springtime-is-for-lovers/355869/169 "2006-05-11T00:26:47Z")
I knew I forgot _something_: **Lissla** , if you try that Cuban rice recipe, you can substitute a tablespoon or 2 of seasoned salt for the old bay seasoning. I may have found the [original recipe](http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_14884,00.html), though itā€™s not _quite_ how I remember it. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-springtime-is-for-lovers/355869/170 "2006-05-11T00:28:37Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] Old people have sex? :d&r: [/QUOTE] Yeah. And we know what weā€™re doing too! šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-springtime-is-for-lovers/355869/171 "2006-05-11T01:30:27Z")
Summer between freshman and sophomore years, I was in a local summer theatre production of an ensemble musical review. So was The Asshat (except back then, I didnā€™t view him as such - back then he was [del]fresh meat[/del] cute and single and available). I flirted, he was shy. I flirted some more, he was less shy. I continued to flirt, he gave in. It was rocky at best, but thru the haze of me forever wanting more than he was able or willing to give (and not willing to see that) we became best friends, sharing gossip and grief, and taking turns treating whenever we went to the movies or the pub. There are many little stories within this big one, but this thread is (ostensibly) about big love, so Iā€™ll stick to the main theme. In retrospect, to TAā€™s credit, he never let things get too far, so I was spared the trauma of ā€œmy firstā€ rejecting me; But I walked around convinced that we would be together forever and that heā€™d eventually see that I was the only one for him, and weā€™d at last consummate. It was also during this time that HSLoML and I finally ended our on-again-off-again ā€œaffairā€, and TA helped me through that. In an effort to make the relationship easier on both of us, I tried to focus my lust on others; there was Connecticut Guy (who shared a birthday with HSLoML) and Jersey Boy, who did end up being my first, but thatā€™s another tale; and Pennsylvania Pal (who bore a striking resemblance to CG) and TA was there through all of it. It eventually, around the time I turned 30, became obvious to me that this relationship was very lopsided, and to retain (or regain) my sanity, I needed to extricate myself from it. That was painful, but I told him there would probably come a day when I could approach him platonically, but that was a long way off, so buh-bye. Fast forward thru the next 3 years (CG came and went, JB flared up and died out, and PP was too far away to be of any significance) and I felt I had gotten to a point in my life where I could be happy without TA. Then, one day, out of the blue, he walks into my office (I damn near had a heart attack). He was in the complex for an interview and decided to risk looking me up. Talk about opening up the flood gates. Within a year, the relationship was just as lopsided as it had ever been. With one minor difference; Having been in therapy for a few years at this point, I no longer held in my anger for fear of offending and alienating the target of my ire. So when TA responded to something I did that he didnā€™t like by writing me a letter (a letter? a _letter_?) I told him what I thought of that cop out. After he got over the shock of me actually raising my voice to him, he decided to ice me out. Going so far as to resort to childish name calling in front of mutual friends. Every day since I thank him for doing that, and for revealing what an asshat he truly was. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2006, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-springtime-is-for-lovers/355869/172 "2006-05-11T01:34:06Z")
Glad the mini-Dopefest went well. Of course, we knew it would. And yes, pics are, of course, in order. Sorry the training is boring, **Taters**. (The things one must endure for a Dopefestā€¦!! šŸ˜ƒ ) Iā€™m planning to go to **Rueā€™s** SW Ohio fun thingy and will chastise him appropriately on behalf of the entire MMP. Hmmmā€¦I guess I could boycottā€¦but Iā€™m pretty sure it will be a fun time. Good luck with the show, **Dot.** Those are beautiful pearls, **Ellen**. I think most people just donā€™t notice much. I know I get distracted with work and lots of times donā€™t pay attention to the people stuff as much as I should. I was not squicked out by the idea of old people having sex (I am nearly old myself); I was squicked out by the idea of unwanted icky e-mailsā€¦ Lovely, busy, plant-buying day. Came home and collapsed for about an hour. Had one of those naps that was either too short or too long; still groggy. Maybe partly because itā€™s raining out - finally. (Although Iā€™d have preferred it to hold off until I was done planting.) Excellent time to post, no? Wellā€¦I think itā€™s going to be early to bed for meā€¦Iā€™m sure I was going to say more, but itā€™s not happening tonight. GTā€¦toddling off ---
**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:** [May 11, 2006, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-springtime-is-for-lovers/355869/173 "2006-05-11T01:54:16Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] Old people have sex? :d&r: [/QUOTE] You betcha we do toots, and we wake up the kids with the noise. šŸ˜ƒ :eek: šŸ˜ƒ :eek: šŸ˜› ---
**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:** [May 11, 2006, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-springtime-is-for-lovers/355869/174 "2006-05-11T03:15:08Z")
We are home, and Lazy Husband and Mr. Lissar are assembling our new bed. I am staying out of the way. We got the whole shebang at Ikea, but the mattress has a 25 year limited warranty thing and I think in about four or five years weā€™ll want to shell out for a really good mattress. The one we got was thoroughly comfort-tested (Mr. Lissar does a mean bellyflop) and we have both a nice mattress pad and egg crate foam under it. Total cost (including a laundry basket, an ironing board, a new set of sheets, and not including the perfectly beautiful dark red embroidered duvet cover that I wanted that cost $300 but Mr. Lissar said that was too expensive and would make everything in our bedroom dark red because the walls would match) was about $750. Not bad. ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-springtime-is-for-lovers/355869/175 "2006-05-11T09:22:04Z")
the show was great! The whole cast was justā€¦ electric. The techies got all their cues perfect, the cast party was too much fun, I got a standing ovation (well, I think it was for the whole cast, but the audience stood when I bowed.) As for picturesā€¦ Iā€™m so bad at taking pictures. Iā€™ll see if I can nick one of my sistersā€™ digital cameras for tomorrow. If not, Iā€™ll see what the other kids and the stage parents come up with. Tomorrow I have a doctorā€™s appointment, so I get to go into school late. Which is fine with me. Iā€™m a little nervous about the appointmentā€¦ Iā€™ve had appointments where they decide not to let me leave. but my mom says she wonā€™t let them keep me anywhere til after the show is over. And now I canā€™t sleep. **Lissla** : Iā€™ve seen wrist piercings, ankle piercings, neck piercings, piercings right in between the collarbonesā€¦ I think itā€™s because facial piercings are too mainstream now. A lip piercing or eyebrow piercing will gross some of the geezers out, a nose piercing or belly button piercing will mostly go as unnoticed as ear piercings, and all the sluts on the pom squad have their tongues pierced, so people want to be more extreme. As for old folks having sexā€¦ some do. but not my parents. Theyā€™re abstinate. **Ellen** , the pearls are lovely. the thing about black pearls, I think, is that they look like hematite more than pearls (to me, anyway) so theyā€™re not immediately recognizable as something exotic and really neat. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-springtime-is-for-lovers/355869/176 "2006-05-11T11:13:04Z")
Yay, **Dot** --Iā€™m glad it went well. And Iā€™m glad youā€™re going to the doctor. **MBG** --you are the highlight of my Friday! And a priority. Off to work nowā€“still sound like Kathleen Turner (an improvement, in that I used to sound like Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck when I even had voice). How come she gets big bucks for laryngitis and I got bupkus? Tis a cruel world. Stop all this blood sex talk. I alternate between excitement and grossed outness (is so a word). Sex is good, but not stranger sex, unsolicited via email. blech. Look, only 13 hours and Iā€™ll be home again. Gee, that should just fly right byā€¦ ---
**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:** [May 11, 2006, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-springtime-is-for-lovers/355869/177 "2006-05-11T11:49:17Z")
Dang did it ever storm last night! Big Lightning! Lotā€™s oā€™ rain. Yay for that. It was nice to have some burliness to snuggle up to. Ok, well, thatā€™s always nice, but particularly last night. Snuggling and storms just seem to go so well together. Today I have to go buy a white orchid corsage for my mother. See, my younger brother, who died four years ago, always got her a white orchid corsage for Motherā€™s Day along with some kind of commemorative Motherā€™s Day plate thing from, I think, Avon. Anyways, ever since he died, Iā€™ve taken on the corsage and my sister has taken on the plate. Thatā€™s in addition to what we get mom for Motherā€™s Day. Iā€™ma give her a $50.00 gift card from a local department store (of which there is a branch near her) so she can use it to go shopping for some spiffy stuff to take on the cruise sheā€™s going on in November. Mom has turned into a cruise queen, I think. She says she wants to do one a year to somewhere. Of course, sheā€™s having a difficult time figuring out how to fit that in what with her garden club, trips all over with her senior citizenā€™s group, church activities, shopping excursions with her lady friends, and on and on and onā€¦ Heh! I called and asked if I should plan to stay over this weekend or should I just FedEx stuff to her. She got a kick out of that. Part of my weirdness is inherited from her. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-springtime-is-for-lovers/355869/178 "2006-05-11T11:54:52Z")
[QUOTE=SurrenderDorothy] As for old folks having sexā€¦ some do. but not my parents. Theyā€™re abstinate. [/QUOTE] My parents donā€™t have sex, either. Theyā€™re both deadā€¦ :eek: šŸ˜‰ ---
**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:** [May 11, 2006, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-springtime-is-for-lovers/355869/179 "2006-05-11T12:40:23Z")
Iā€™m pretty sure mine donā€™t either. Theyā€™ve been divorced for 35 years, and still argue when they see each other (like at my sisterā€™s wedding last month.) ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-springtime-is-for-lovers/355869/180 "2006-05-11T13:14:00Z")
I kinda hope my parents still have sex, because I like them and think they deserve a little fun. But that doesnā€™t mean I want to _think_ about it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-springtime-is-for-lovers/355869.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-springtime-is-for-lovers/355869.md?page=10)