# My Misspent Youth - the MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [March 24, 2008, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-misspent-youth-the-mmp/442515 "2008-03-24T10:15:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-misspent-youth-the-mmp/442515/221 "2008-03-26T09:37:22Z")
Work is crazy…! In brief – Congratulations, **TagFree**! 🙂 Don’t forget to write here, **MCUNE**. Without typing, of course! Get somebody to take your dictation and type it in for you 😃 \*\*Haze \*\*-- sounds like you’re **really** under the weather. Call in. Stay in bed. Get well! {{{}}} to all the other sickes, ouchies and sads out there. It’s far too many… ☹ \*\*Beebs \*\*against the Dentist? I’m betting on **Beebs**. This way, whoever wins, I’m either rich or happy… 😛 (Seriously, dude, it really isn’t that bad. Just let go and let him do his thing… remember, even if it hurts, it will be over soon. That’s the best I can do.) ---
**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:** [March 26, 2008, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-misspent-youth-the-mmp/442515/222 "2008-03-26T09:56:54Z")
Congrats **TagFree** on the baby and congrats **Rosie** on the new tenant. **Haze** if you’re contagious stay home. That’s my rule anyways. Mornin’ Y’all! I’m wide awake and caffienatin’. Still stuffy and sneezey but it appears no fever, so I believe I will return to the workplace today. Off in search of more caffiene. Later Y’all! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-misspent-youth-the-mmp/442515/223 "2008-03-26T11:40:18Z")
[QUOTE=Always Brings Pie] For[rosie](http://www.comics.com/comics/fminus/index.html) [/QUOTE] :D:D:D:D:D:D ---
**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:** [March 26, 2008, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-misspent-youth-the-mmp/442515/224 "2008-03-26T11:46:59Z")
I’m goin’ to work. I don’t want to go to work. Just thought I’d share. ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-misspent-youth-the-mmp/442515/225 "2008-03-26T11:47:12Z")
Welp, here I am, up and caffeinatin’ … morning all. 🙂 One day closer to Friday! Forgot to congrats **Rosie** on the new tenants, yay! 🙂 **Dotty** , I hope **HRH** is feeling better today. And good luck at the dentist, **Beebs**. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-misspent-youth-the-mmp/442515/226 "2008-03-26T11:59:06Z")
off to work…late agaon 😉 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-misspent-youth-the-mmp/442515/227 "2008-03-26T12:00:44Z")
Mornin, y’all. Seems like Teh Pregnant is catching around here. Congrats, **Labelless**! Hope I don’t get it. So, I was bopping along on my way home last night, and there was a critter crossing the road a little bit ahead of me. “That’s a big squirrel…” “Must have arthritis, 'cuz it’s walking funny…” I got a little bit closer, and saw that the fur on the tail was long, and draping down. It was also black and white in color. “Holy\* **SHIT! THAT’S A SKUNK!!!** \*” I did a big swerve behind it, while s/he kept moseying its way across the road. Glad I didn’t hit it, but I’m still perplexed why it was out in broad daylight. **Swamps** , I doan wanna work, either, but I’m already there, and it beats sitting around the house listening to VWife bitch. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2008, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-misspent-youth-the-mmp/442515/228 "2008-03-26T12:02:45Z")
Went to the game last night, playoff tickets were waiting for me when I got home. Hooray for **Nola**!!! Congrats on the tenant, rosie! Haze, call in. **Mmmmooooooommmmmm!** , can I have $700 for playoff tickets? ---
**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:** [March 26, 2008, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-misspent-youth-the-mmp/442515/229 "2008-03-26T12:31:56Z")
Zygotes are catching. Congratulations! **HAze** , stay home. My personal 15-pound zygote looks to be waking up, so off I go. ---
**Author:** ![mmouse9799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mmouse9799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmouse9799)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-misspent-youth-the-mmp/442515/230 "2008-03-26T13:09:10Z")
Catching teh sick was bad enough… Thankfully I have pills so that I don’t catch teh pregnant. **Mooom** , can I have $1,500 for a new laptop? ))) **Beebs** ((( I’m sorry you have to go to the dentist. I’m scared about what the dentist is going to tell me when I go next, because it’s been awhile. I have to find one first though. Congrats, **Rosie**! **Haze** , I’m **voting stay home**! ---
**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:** [March 26, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-misspent-youth-the-mmp/442515/231 "2008-03-26T13:52:18Z")
**fcm** , I too am looking forward to the meetup!! 🙂 > [@gt](#): > > MCUNE, sorry about the tendinitis. I’ve had similar issues before. One of the things that helped me a lot was learning to use the mouse left-handed. I almost never use it right-handed anymore. I had a right-elbow issue a couple years back and mousing left-handed helped it heal much more quickly. I had exactly the opposite problem since I’m a lefty. Frickin elbow hurt like a mutha!! I now use my right hand for mousing with no further complications. Congrats, **[del]labeless[/del] [del]tagfree[/del] [del]nola[/del] Momma**!! > [@haze](#): > > On the bright side, my voice sounds super sexy. Heh, the last time this happened to my daughter, she sounded just like Demi Moore. Oh, and my vote is, get revenge…go to work and contaminate! Other than that, I have the presentation from hell to get back to. Tupug ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-misspent-youth-the-mmp/442515/232 "2008-03-26T13:52:59Z")
Morning, all. Another sunny day here; it was supposed to rain last night, but I don’t think it did. At least not on our house. Which is fine by me, since I left the folding chair sitting out in the yard that I sit in to play with Isaac; I hate to leave it out in the rain, my butt gets wet when I sit in it. ☹ > [@SmartBaldwin](#): > > Tiger by the tail… Congrats! But watch my tail there, young lady! 😃 And do you know a nice dentist who might at least smooth off the rough edge of the tooth for you? Only takes a moment, and costs far less than an extraction. Or a crown. Or three new crowns +one replacement plus a root canal to install an anchor for one new crown because there’s not enough tooth left around the old huge fillings to support a crown. Such as I’m facing. _::shudder::_ And speaking of dentists, **{{beebs}}**. I know you’ll be okay with **Pie** holding your hand, though! Yay for new quiet tenants, **Rosie**! Does this mean you’ll also have a resident Smokey-sitter if need be? And yay for a good first date and a second to look forward to, **Fluttery**! I definitely vote for staying home when you’re that sick, **Haze**. I hate, hate, hate when sick people come to work and make everyone around them sick. At least where Papa Tigs works, when people are sick enough they insist they go home since they have enough patients as it is! But he still brings me more than his fair share of germs. Trust me, no one will thank you if you do go on; they’ll just avoid you like the plague you are. Sending lots of chicken soup your way to feel better soon! Is that everybody? I hope? If not, consider yourself hugged, boo’d, yay’d, etc. I am mystified. For about two weeks, my low back has hurt like a m\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* for no known reason, especially when I wake up in the morning. This in spite of our comfy new mattress and my ergonomic chair. So this morning? I wake up pain-free. I’m not complaining, but I sure wish I knew what I did to make it stop hurting! I guess I’ll go enjoy it while it lasts. Stoopid back. Never know whether it’s going to like me or hate me. _::grumble grumble::_ Off to get some work done. Or run errands. Or just drink more caffeine. Or something. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-misspent-youth-the-mmp/442515/233 "2008-03-26T14:05:32Z")
Shhhhh! I’m going to have a mini-Dopefest with beebs and mousie Friday night. Don’t tell anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-misspent-youth-the-mmp/442515/234 "2008-03-26T14:21:38Z")
[QUOTE=HazelNutCoffee] Is the American work ethic that it’s better to stay home when you’re sick and not spread germs? Because the Korean work ethic is to go to work unless you are about to die and germs be damned. [/QUOTE] YES \! If I catch what you have because you came to work when you’re sick, I will be beyond pissed. (My virulence on this subject can be attributed to the fact that I used to have to go to the hospital every week for IV treatments for my pet autoimmunity. Exposed to enough germs there already, thank you.) I had a dream last night in which I yelled at Complicated Roommate for hours and he didn’t talk back. Now it’s out of my system and I don’t have to yell at the real person. 😃 (Can’t share what I was yelling at him about because he swore me to secrecy, but believe you me it deserved a yellin’.) Yell yell yell And it was all yellow. There, now that’s out of my system as well. Hopefully I can get my completed taxes from Adopted Dad’s Awesome Accountant tonight in time to go to Movie Night. I need to fill out my FAFSA for the fall. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-misspent-youth-the-mmp/442515/235 "2008-03-26T14:45:14Z")
[QUOTE=NuttyJava] Is the American work ethic that it’s better to stay home when you’re sick and not spread germs? Because the Korean work ethic is to go to work unless you are about to die and germs be damned. [/QUOTE] Only if you have a job that lets you stay home. If not you pretty much have to unless dead (or nearly so). ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-misspent-youth-the-mmp/442515/236 "2008-03-26T14:49:50Z")
[QUOTE=Flutterby] Only if you have a job that lets you stay home. If not you pretty much have to unless dead (or nearly so). [/QUOTE] and if you’re dead - you have to bring a note ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-misspent-youth-the-mmp/442515/237 "2008-03-26T14:54:24Z")
\*\*beebs \*\* and \*\*mousie \*\* - important info in your PMs ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-misspent-youth-the-mmp/442515/238 "2008-03-26T15:01:48Z")
**Congrats NoLa!!** [QUOTE=mmouse9799] Catching teh sick was bad enough… Thankfully I have pills so that I don’t catch teh pregnant. [/QUOTE] Yeah, thankfully I had surgery so I don’t catch teh pregnant. Ever. 😃 Yay for the new tenant, **rosie**! I switched to the kind of mouse with a track ball that you move with your thumb instead of moving the whole mouse (which means you move your whole arm which is part of what causes the pain at least for me). That helped me a LOT with my shoulder pain. I’ve got a bad case of the Don Wannas this morning. Bleh. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-misspent-youth-the-mmp/442515/239 "2008-03-26T15:04:03Z")
[QUOTE=taxi] . . . of moving the whole mouse (which means you move your whole arm . . . [/QUOTE] ? I barely move anything beyond by wrist with a standard mouse. I can get the whole screen by flipping my wrist one way or the other ---
**Author:** ![mmouse9799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mmouse9799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmouse9799)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-misspent-youth-the-mmp/442515/240 "2008-03-26T15:17:21Z")
Important info received. I will confirm arrangements when able. **Hawkeyeop** looked a little dissapointed when I _implied_ that he was not to come, so I should invite him because I’m a nice girlfriend… :: rolls eyes :: …he doesn’t like the MMP anyway. :: grumble grumble :: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-misspent-youth-the-mmp/442515.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-misspent-youth-the-mmp/442515.md?page=13)