# My first emergency repair in the new house; a handy MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [July 10, 2006, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-emergency-repair-in-the-new-house-a-handy-mmp/363846 "2006-07-10T09:39:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Twinkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Twinkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twinkie)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-emergency-repair-in-the-new-house-a-handy-mmp/363846/261 "2006-07-13T15:51:59Z")
Just stopping by to say **HAPPY BIRTHDAY rigs!** No fancy colors or fonts or anything --I’m a simple girl. 🙂 But the wishes are heartfelt. Celebrate all weekend, and enjoy your new year. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-emergency-repair-in-the-new-house-a-handy-mmp/363846/262 "2006-07-13T15:52:18Z")
_gasp_ **Rigs**! How _dare_ you deprive **swampy** of his chance to sing loudly and in a colorful font! **HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RIGS!** **Doggie** –I’ve actually heard the Torture Museum isn’t really worth the trip, but if it gets me a postcard that says “I went to the Torture Museum”, that’s good enough for me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-emergency-repair-in-the-new-house-a-handy-mmp/363846/263 "2006-07-13T15:56:16Z")
Thanks, all! I really wanted to post here yesterday, but I had a meeting at work (which was a disaster) and had to run errands and then do stuff in the kitchen and make my cake and then my inlaws dropped in and my mother called and and and and and… I finally got my desktop picture to be oriented the right way up. I am so proud. But I don’t know what I did, so… ---
**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:** [July 13, 2006, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-emergency-repair-in-the-new-house-a-handy-mmp/363846/264 "2006-07-13T15:58:27Z")
\ CLEARING THROAT \ \*\* HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!! HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!! HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY DEEEAAARRR RRRIIIGGGSSS!!! HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!! \*\* It’s never too late to sing Happy Birthday. 😃 > [@doggy](#): > > swampy I read you reply to MsRobyn as “It’s the asshats who have all the real power” **doggy** there’s more truth in that than I want to think about. :eek: I’ll be back later with the excitement that was my morning. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-emergency-repair-in-the-new-house-a-handy-mmp/363846/265 "2006-07-13T16:03:14Z")
\*\*[color=purple]HAPPY BIRTHDAY RIGS!! \*\* ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-emergency-repair-in-the-new-house-a-handy-mmp/363846/266 "2006-07-13T16:04:16Z")
good greif - those anticoding hamsters are at it again I meant to say \*\*HAPPY BIRTHDAY RIGS!! \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-emergency-repair-in-the-new-house-a-handy-mmp/363846/267 "2006-07-13T16:04:45Z")
_Dayum_, **anyrose** , what did you do? Happy Birthday, **rigs**! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-emergency-repair-in-the-new-house-a-handy-mmp/363846/268 "2006-07-13T16:05:18Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] _Dayum_, **anyrose** , what did you do? Happy Birthday, **rigs**! [/QUOTE] I wish I knew ---
**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:** [July 13, 2006, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-emergency-repair-in-the-new-house-a-handy-mmp/363846/269 "2006-07-13T16:23:57Z")
I’m heading off to lunch, but in honor of the birthday of our very own **rigsie** , I’m distributing cupcakes: _hands out one cupcake per Cool Kid_ See you later! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-emergency-repair-in-the-new-house-a-handy-mmp/363846/270 "2006-07-13T16:26:05Z")
[QUOTE=Spatial Rift 47] I’m heading off to lunch, but in honor of the birthday of our very own **rigsie** , I’m distributing cupcakes: _hands out one cupcake per Cool Kid_ See you later! [/QUOTE] Yummy! Thanks, Spats! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-emergency-repair-in-the-new-house-a-handy-mmp/363846/271 "2006-07-13T16:27:24Z")
[QUOTE=Spatial Rift 47] I’m heading off to lunch, but in honor of the birthday of our very own **rigsie** , I’m distributing cupcakes: _hands out one cupcake per Cool Kid_ See you later! [/QUOTE] carrot cake cupcake! my favorite! thanks, **spatsie**! ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-emergency-repair-in-the-new-house-a-handy-mmp/363846/272 "2006-07-13T16:30:58Z")
Happy belated birthday, rigs!! ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-emergency-repair-in-the-new-house-a-handy-mmp/363846/273 "2006-07-13T16:32:04Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] \*\*[color=purple]HAPPY BIRTHDAY RIGS!! \*\* [/QUOTE] Forgot the [/ color] [spoiler]_…_ …\* …\* Happy Birth Day Rigs!!! - ``` ......* .............* ..............*[/spoiler] ``` Cupcakes! Shiny! ---
**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:** [July 13, 2006, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-emergency-repair-in-the-new-house-a-handy-mmp/363846/274 "2006-07-13T16:32:55Z")
HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY RIGSIE!!! Okay, I gotta scurry back to work…sigh ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-emergency-repair-in-the-new-house-a-handy-mmp/363846/275 "2006-07-13T16:37:20Z")
Thanks to all my MMP friends! Thanks, again! (can you tell that I don’t know how to combine the two? Really? What was your first clue?) Yummy cupcakes, **Spats** --I even ate the candle on top–excellent source of fiber (needed at my age…) ---
**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:** [July 13, 2006, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-emergency-repair-in-the-new-house-a-handy-mmp/363846/276 "2006-07-13T16:45:55Z")
\ This morning I went to Sammy’s Place and Wally\*World. :eek: I was getting some stuff for the big workday on the house Saturday. I got hand sanitizer and wipes, isopropyl alcohol, dust masks, bottled water, bandages, plates and cups. Ok, the plates and cups are for sump’n else work related. We already had gloves, safety goggles and other essential first aid supplies. I shudder to think what might be in that house because before it got all boarded up, I think it was used for errr… all kinds of extra curricular activities. :Shudder: Oh and I got some kitchen tongs. I figure if there’s anything that needs to be picked up off the floor that is of a personal nature, I’m using tongs. I ain’t touchin’ it even with double gloved hands. :eek: I was beset on all sides by Samians and Walmartians. All of whom loooooooooooooooooove to stop in the middle of aisles and stand there mouth agape and stare off in space for what seems hours at a time. I was constantly saying “Excuse me, I need to get by,” Plus there’s always those who lurk at the end of aisles waiting for me to come by so they can ram me with their carts. Then there’s the lets walk sidebysidebysidebysidebysidebyside roving gangs who just will never move. I’m not a very good shopper. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![YaWanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@YaWanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaWanna)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-emergency-repair-in-the-new-house-a-handy-mmp/363846/277 "2006-07-13T17:02:45Z")
Mornin’, y’all. Happy Birthday **Rigs**! Thanks for the cupcake, **Spats**! Nice singin’, **Swampy**! (psst - I saw ya sneak that extry cupcake) ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-emergency-repair-in-the-new-house-a-handy-mmp/363846/278 "2006-07-13T17:03:50Z")
Swampy, at first I thought you said “Simians”. Which is about the same thing. I would like to share with my fellow Cool Kids some of my spambox subject lines. Not safe for children or tender ears: yegoh VieAGRA Arrestee pay attention to the e-mail Masculine performance man fupck Tiny and get fulcked at the ass not YOUNnGEST asian girls very (:eek:) Youkng son fwucking his horny mom some And the worst: single fleshy holes ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-emergency-repair-in-the-new-house-a-handy-mmp/363846/279 "2006-07-13T17:04:52Z")
Stupid freakin smilie. Should have been ( :eek: ) ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-emergency-repair-in-the-new-house-a-handy-mmp/363846/280 "2006-07-13T17:07:05Z")
[QUOTE=YaWanna] Nice singin’, **Swampy**! (psst - I saw ya sneak that extry cupcake) [/QUOTE] I gave him mine, 'cuz sugar makes me sick. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-emergency-repair-in-the-new-house-a-handy-mmp/363846.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-emergency-repair-in-the-new-house-a-handy-mmp/363846.md?page=15)