# MMP - The Fire Within **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [February 6, 2006, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-the-fire-within/343222 "2006-02-06T12:50:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**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:** [February 9, 2006, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-the-fire-within/343222/181 "2006-02-09T12:54:57Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > Who’s Sela Ward? [This](http://www.wheelsoffdesign.com/hof/ward/ward1.jpg) is Sela Ward. She’s an actress, and was one of the sisters in the television show _Sisters_ about 10 years ago (or maybe more.) And I’m with you on this one, **Rue**. Very yummy, no matter her age. My head hurts. Too many Yuenglings last night. Hopefully, it will stop by the time I’ve got to go back into the training at 10 o’clock. My boss says that today we will actually cover things I need to know. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-the-fire-within/343222/182 "2006-02-09T13:09:27Z")
> [@scout1222](#): > > **swampy** , I had no idea Bibles and hymnals were such violent weapons! > > 😃 What? You’ve never seen a nun armed with a ruler? Or a Baptist minister wielding the good book? ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-the-fire-within/343222/183 "2006-02-09T13:11:07Z")
> [@Sean Factotum](#): > > I wonder, **VBob** , are you allowed to go to JB’s? I’d be having a blond moment, if I had hair. What’s JB’s? ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-the-fire-within/343222/184 "2006-02-09T13:15:07Z")
> [@Sean Factotum](#): > > [This](http://www.wheelsoffdesign.com/hof/ward/ward1.jpg) is Sela Ward. She’s an actress, and was one of the sisters in the television show _Sisters_ about 10 years ago (or maybe more.) And I’m with you on this one, **Rue**. Very yummy, no matter her age. Sela Ward, Dana Delaney, and moi. I’ll be in heaven, and I’m sure they’ll think they wound up in hell… ---
**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 9, 2006, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-the-fire-within/343222/185 "2006-02-09T13:49:49Z")
Hi everybody! Hopefully my work has slowed down a bit and I can play more on the Dope today. Nothing exciting happening in my life. I don’t even have anything mundane to talk about! 'Cept I’m eating leftover pepper steak for breakfast. Mmm. I don’t bake anything except cornbread. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2006, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-the-fire-within/343222/186 "2006-02-09T14:43:23Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > I’d be having a blond moment, if I had hair. What’s JB’s? JB’s Gallery of Girls. Tidewater’s Premier Gentleman’s Club. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2006, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-the-fire-within/343222/187 "2006-02-09T14:44:25Z")
Tupug is _coooooooooolllllllldddddddd_! Tupug is NOT happy. Yes, I know it’s likely colder where you are but I don’t care! Cold + Tupug = Cranky. ☹ [This](http://www.dogbiz.com/dogs-grp4/welsh-terrier/welsh-terrier.htm) is a Welch Terrier if anybody wants to know. A Welch Terrier bitch should not be confused with Sela Ward. What? I’m just sayin is all. I have a PowerPoint to do for the research department this week. It’s boring stuff and I’m using last year’s to pull statistics and charts so I don’t have to redo them from scratch. Trouble is, the font has to be changed and a few other tweaks so it’d probably be just as fast to do it from scratch afterall. 😛 Did I say I was colcranky? Tupug ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-the-fire-within/343222/188 "2006-02-09T15:10:18Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Sela Ward, Dana Delaney, and moi. I’ll be in heaven, and I’m sure they’ll think they wound up in hell… Sela just finished a bunch of guest appearances on House. And I’m glad she’s going. I’m sorry guys - but she must have had too much Botox, because the woman can’t move her forehead for the life of her! Susan ---
**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:** [February 9, 2006, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-the-fire-within/343222/189 "2006-02-09T15:18:23Z")
Morning. Now it’s time to clean the kitchen, after all the fun hijinks yesterday. Apparently the team of magical kitchen cleaning gnomes didn’t make their scheduled appearance. It’s cold here too. I’m happy. I like cold. Well, cold within reason, which is -15C or higher. ---
**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 9, 2006, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-the-fire-within/343222/190 "2006-02-09T15:24:39Z")
In the fantasy world of my own little head, I either look like Sela Ward or Demi Moore, depending on the length of my hair. When I had it extremely short, I was Demi In Ghost. Longer, I was Sela In Sisters. These days, I’m more like Kathy Bates In Misery. :eek: When I was younger, I was told occasionally I looked like Meryl Streep (although I think it was just the long nose). Boy I bet you all have quite the beauty imagined for me! When I was in grade school, the nuns didn’t use rulers, but one memorable Sister Mary Roberta did tie a child to his desk with the jumprope. He wouldn’t stay in his seat. Speaking of age and beauty, I was in the Ear, Nose and Throat doc yesterday with Little Mr. Baby Cherry, and there, flung onto the coffeetable was a copy of AARP Magazine. You will never believe who was on the cover. Guess. Go on. You’ll never believe it. You’ll never guess in a million years. Goldie Hawn !!! Told ya. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2006, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-the-fire-within/343222/191 "2006-02-09T15:24:48Z")
> [@Lissla Lissar](#): > > Morning. Now it’s time to clean the kitchen, after all the fun hijinks yesterday. \*\*Apparently the team of magical kitchen cleaning gnomes didn’t make their scheduled appearance. \*\* > > It’s cold here too. I’m happy. I like cold. Well, cold within reason, which is -15C or higher. Well, duh!!! No self-respecting kitchen cleaning gnome ventures out of doors in those kinda temps! :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-the-fire-within/343222/192 "2006-02-09T15:28:30Z")
> [@Ellen Cherry](#): > > These days, I’m more like Kathy Bates In Misery. Try watching _Misery_ when Kathy Bates looks _exactly like your own mother_. I spent more than one night wondering if Mom was going to come in and hobble me while I was sleeping … It was much more fun to watch Mom in _Fried Green Tomatoes_. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-the-fire-within/343222/193 "2006-02-09T15:52:15Z")
You guys had wimpy nuns. Sister C was a tiny little woman who taught my grandfather, and she was old then. Fifty years later, my own sister had her for a class. Sister C got really pissed at a kid in the class, picked him up by his lapels, and threw him against the chalkboard. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-the-fire-within/343222/194 "2006-02-09T15:53:46Z")
> [@susan\_foster](#): > > Sela just finished a bunch of guest appearances on House. And I’m glad she’s going. I’m sorry guys - but she must have had too much Botox, because the woman can’t move her forehead for the life of her! > > Susan It’s not her forehead that interests me… ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-the-fire-within/343222/195 "2006-02-09T15:57:18Z")
> [@Ellen Cherry](#): > > \ and there, flung onto the coffeetable was a copy of AARP Magazine. You will never believe who was on the cover. Guess. Go on. You’ll never believe it. You’ll never guess in a million years. > > Goldie Hawn !!! > > Told ya. well, heck, she’s in her 60’s! But DAYAMN! I hope I look that good in 20 years! on resembling celebs - while in high school, in the 70’s, I looked like Diana Canova. after college, Wendy Jo Sperber (I miss her). In my 30’s, Kathy Najimy (pre weight loss). If I had my druthers, I’d love to be likened to a caucasian Queen Latifah ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-the-fire-within/343222/196 "2006-02-09T16:01:52Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > on resembling celebs - while in high school, in the 70’s, I looked like Diana Canova. after college, Wendy Jo Sperber (I miss her). In my 30’s, Kathy Najimy (pre weight loss). > If I had my druthers, I’d love to be likened to a caucasian Queen Latifah I’ve been told I remind people of Janeane Garofalo, but I look nothing like her. I think the best “hey, you look like …” I ever got was “You kinda remind me of Natalie, from _The Facts of Life_.” Of course, I was in high school at the time, but I was understandably underwhelmed. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-the-fire-within/343222/197 "2006-02-09T16:14:04Z")
Hello all. Yesterday was a very busy day, so I didn’t get a chance to check in with you. I meetings, etc that dragged on forever. I’m totally serious when I say that some of my notes literally were, “Blah, blah, blah, whine, whine, whine, snivel, snivel, snivel”. Ugh! I get tired of hearing “we CAN’T do that”. How about we fix our friggin’ issues, be a little bold in our initiatives, and take care of our patients, dammit! Okay, on to other stuff. I don’t _think_ I look like anyone famous. I dunno, I never stopped to think about it, and upon reflection, I don’t think anyone has ever told me I look like someone. Wait, when I was a kid, there used to be a show called Zoom and it was taped in Boston, Mass. It was on PBS. There was a girl named Donna on the show, and everybody swore she was my twin. This was the mid to late 70’s I think. I have to admit that I’ve been rather, um, negligent in the whole going to church thing. I don’t go, so thump away. Frankly, my whole philosphy is to live by the Golden Rule: Do unto others, etc. I’m hoping this covers me when it’s time to go to the pearly gates. I need to go finish prettyifying a pivot table so I can send some data to someone who requested it. Have a good day, all! ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-the-fire-within/343222/198 "2006-02-09T16:14:49Z")
Why is it that when you see a word over and over it starts to look all wrong? I’m labeling some properties and a bunch of them are in the “core” zone. After seeing “core” about 50 times, I swear it must be spelled wrong. Core. Core. Core. It needs more letters or something. Maybe a French spelling. I’ve had the same thing happen with “bike” before too. After a while of looking at one word, it just looks like it HAS to be wrong. I’ve never been likened to any celebrity. There was a Norton AntiVirus ad last summer though where the girl standing in front of the computer looked just like me. I’ve still got the ad on my fridge because it makes me feel good to think that if they’d seen me before her, I could have been in their ad! Maybe. Sorta. Something like that. ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-the-fire-within/343222/199 "2006-02-09T16:15:52Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > It was biscuits that took me a looooooooong time to figure out. Got a good recipe? My kids won’t eat my biscuts even when I make biscuts and gravy! The boy actually buys the premade ones and cooks them instead. The little jerk. ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-the-fire-within/343222/200 "2006-02-09T16:20:58Z")
> [@taxi78cab](#): > > After seeing “core” about 50 times, I swear it must be spelled wrong. And “outlying” starts to look like some kind of tea. Mmmmm, I want a nice hot cup of outlying. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-the-fire-within/343222.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mmp-the-fire-within/343222.md?page=11)