# New MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [July 28, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mmp/457941 "2008-07-28T17:35:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mmp/457941/201 "2008-07-31T13:00:31Z")
VRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM Drive by! :flings hugs, confetti, yays, boos, happy buffdays and random stuff: VVVVVVVVVVVVVRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mmp/457941/202 "2008-07-31T13:28:52Z")
My, from the amount of noise in that car **BooFae** drove by it must’a been breaking the speed limit! Sorry, **Bobbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbio**! Happy, happy, happy bithday VBob! ---
**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:** [July 31, 2008, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mmp/457941/203 "2008-07-31T13:31:37Z")
BONNY BIRFDAY, BOBBIO!!! HAVE A GREAT TRIP, NOONEY!!! **haze** , maybe cute co-worker would rather you had all your faculties about you when he puts on the moves. Nothing kills a mood faster than when your partner pukes in your bed…I’m just sayin… I ordered a travel bag to use on my trip. It’s got all kinds of theft deterrent stuff. I also found a travel pillow Chez Target for cheap that I’m gonna get for the plane. Now all I have to do is buy a few travel clothes and a soft cosmetics case…I think. But I got two months so it’s all good. Last night was grilled sirloin o beef and spare guts with hollydaze sauce. And Mr. Anachi had apple pie but I was good. Tupug ---
**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:** [July 31, 2008, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mmp/457941/204 "2008-07-31T14:12:57Z")
Happy Birthday, Bobbbioooooo!!! Between reading the MMP, the Feuds, and work - I’m a busy little beaver! I’m caught up. Yays, boos, hugs and kisses… ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mmp/457941/205 "2008-07-31T14:26:31Z")
**Happy Birthday, BBBobbio!!** Must be a good day to have a birthday. It’s my boss’s boss’s 40th birthday today too. So her boss brought in bagels. But so did my manager (for an unrelated event). So we’ve got a TON of bagels here. Can I shove one through the cd drive for anyone? We’ve even got 4 kinds of cream cheese if you want! (Although I don’t know how well a bagel fits in a cd drive!) So far I’m being good and avoiding the bagels. I didn’t know about them ahead of time so I had breakfast at home so I really don’t need a metric buttload of carbs now. But they look really really good. We’ll see how long I can hold out! I probably just missed it because the story, but I’m guessing \*\*Spaz \*\*got rid of WowCrackRoommate ok if there’s a new roommate now…? Was it relatively drama free? I’m taking tomorrow off so today’s my Firday. Yay! And my team’s having an off-site “meeting” on the patio of a local restaurant/bar starting at 3 this afternoon. So I only have a few more hours until I’m done for the week! Thank goodness. Other than Monday, it’s been an incredibly slow week and I just wanna go home where there’s actual stuff to do! Or sit by the pool if there’s nothing else to do! 😃 ---
**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 31, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mmp/457941/206 "2008-07-31T15:00:49Z")
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR BOBBIO! Today is my last day of work until August 18th! Woot! Woooooooooot! I’m free! Today I also drove the “baby” to work. It was fun. I couldn’t get my phone configured though in the car computer, so I’ll have to fart around with it later. I should actually do some work now. Hugs and smooches to all! Oh! **Swampy,** I don’t think you’re a meanie. I was thinking the same way you were, but with the other folks’ advice here, I was starting to feel like _I_ was a meanie. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mmp/457941/207 "2008-07-31T15:22:46Z")
Happy birthday, Bobbio! Morning all. This is a drive-by post. Still have lingering bits of gross from the flu I came down with on Monday. Spent my day off yesterday in Mt. Dora, looking at a potential wedding venue, which we liked and I hope my mom will like; spent the other 6 hours of that day helping **Acid Lamp** with the kiddos who gave me the flu in the first place. Took a photo of the [strange Victorian Mason house](http://picasaweb.google.com/nashiitashii/MountDoraLakesideInn/photo#5228880059697574114) near the center. I don’t want to get out of bed to get to work today, but I have to. At least 5 hours is better than having a full day shift? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mmp/457941/208 "2008-07-31T15:28:29Z")
**Happy Birthday, VunderBob!!!** ---
**Author:** ![mmouse9799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mmouse9799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmouse9799)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mmp/457941/209 "2008-07-31T15:42:20Z")
As I was walking from the train to work this morning, I stepped wrong _or something_, my left ankle gave way, and I fell. Hard. It hurts. I limped and hobbled into my office, got ice and sat down. Took two advil and that seems to work OK as long as I don’t move at all. Hawkeyeop and I were planning on renting a car this weekend and going to either New Hampshire/Maine or Cape Cod for the day, but now I don’t know…My ankle is pretty bad, and I think I want to stay off of it. But he said, “how do you know now what your ankle will feel like this weekend?” Uh…because I have a pretty good idea of what my body is like and this is going to take more than two days to go away… Grrrr Boy!! So, all non-essential walking is being eliminated from my plans…some essential walking too if I can get away with it. We’ll see what happens. My manager and her manager have been great though. They gave me a voucher to take a cab home which will greatly help alievate the stress that walking to and from the train, and taking the train itself would put on it. They also said that I could leave whenever I want to, but I won’t get paid for the rest of the day, which I already knew. But … but … but I don’t wanna spend my birthday tomorrow with a hurt ankle. ☹ It does seem like it’s Birthday week in the MMP. Happy B-Day, V-Bob! hee hee Fireman’s yellow… Happy Vacation, Noonie! ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mmp/457941/210 "2008-07-31T15:47:37Z")
**Happy Birthday VBob!!!** Man I’m tired. I just can’t seem to get enough sleep lately, though I go to bed at a reasonable hour. I’d better get some sleep though since Sunday we’ll be going to the lake again. **Muppet** , I’d probably prefer living in sin too. In fact, I don’t know if I’ll ever get married, or if I’d even be lucky to have a long term boyfriend. The longest relationship I had went down in flames because it was more he used me and I was a naive girl. Now I’m just stuck in my ways and prefer things as they are, I don’t know if anyone would put up with my crap or if I could put up with someone else’s… it doesn’t help that the last guy to show interest in me proceeded to tell the people he was living with (my friend’s neighbours) he’d scored with me when nothing of the sort even happened. I just want a decent guy who won’t rub me wrong and I (hopefully) won’t rub him wrong who can handle the fact that I can be a bitch at times (usually when I’m overwhelmed and feeling shitty), and do have a child. I don’t want a guy who wants me just for sex (I can take a lover for that) or to have me pay the bills (been there done that). meh I’d better go before this turns into a weird ramble of crap which I’m afraid it already has. ---
**Author:** ![Dottygumdrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Dottygumdrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dottygumdrop)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mmp/457941/211 "2008-07-31T15:52:47Z")
Hi guys! Busy day with the little chickadee … vrooommmmmm! Oops … screeeeecchhhhhhh!!! **Happy Birthday VBob!!!** Later folks … vroooommmmmmm! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mmp/457941/212 "2008-07-31T15:56:31Z")
I think I’ve figured out what I/we are going to do about the house cleaner. 1. Prior to her next visit, we’ll move VWife’s drugs and the other valuables out of the house and put them under lock and key. 2. It started as a joke, but I’m making a one sheet sign that says **BUSTED** and put it in the drawer where the percocets live. 3. If I can find a camera fast enough, hide it and aim it at the drawer. 4. Let her clean house unattended as before. 5. Return home before she’s done, and deliver The Lecture, which will go something like this: > [@](#): > > Sharon, we know about your past, and we know about your present problems. We’re the type of people who would and have given the clothes from our backs to help someone out. We’re not schmucks, and stealing is way over the line; stealing prescription narcotics my wife relies on to function is even worse. > > We have you on tape going through that drawer. Need I remind you that I’m on a first name basis with the sheriff, the county probation officer, the DA investagator, and two of the magistrates? (for real, MMPers) We could have you charged with a felony within the next 20 minutes if we wanted to. > > We’re also the forgiving type. You can figure that out easily because we’re not firing you now. However, you have exactly no chances left. If anything goes wrong or comes up missing in the future, you’ll be at the head of the list of suspects and out of a cleaning gig, even if it didn’t happen on your watch. > > I need the key to the house. You can expect to be cleaning from now on with one or both of us present at all times. > > You asked for AA information for your husband the last time you were here. You should consider Narcotics Anonymous for yourself. Whaddaya think of this? ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mmp/457941/213 "2008-07-31T16:14:09Z")
HIPPO BIRDY, BBBBOBBBBIIOOOOOOO!!! Bon voyage, **Nooner!** I’m all worried this morning–SpaceDawg is now refusing food, which she NEVER does. I don’t know if she doesn’t like the smell of the meds in her food or if the new NSAID is giving her stomach troubles. I looked up the medication (meloxicam) and nausea, appetite loss and diarrhea are common side effects and might be transitory or might be signs of a graver intolerance. Unfortunately, there are very few NSAIDs that are approved for vet use due to renal and liver issues so if she can’t tolerate this drug we have very few options for her. I hate this part of pet ownership… ☹ ---
**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:** [July 31, 2008, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mmp/457941/214 "2008-07-31T16:43:27Z")
**HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOBBIO!** Today is also the birthday of one of the people at Archivin’ Work. Rare Book Guy’s wife made ooey gooey fudgy brownies. We all died and went to heaven when we ate them. I like The Lecture. It’s firm and to the point. Today I found $20 of Confederate money in a scrapbook I was copying. That is officially the coolest thing I’ve ever run across at any work ever. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mmp/457941/215 "2008-07-31T17:24:49Z")
Happy Birthday, **Bobbio**!!! I, too, liked The Lecture. I’ve had **NOL** and am waiting for the meter reader. I have a couple of online chores to do, then I’m going to do some gardening in the front yard. It would be nice if they came soon, though. Back later… GT ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mmp/457941/216 "2008-07-31T18:12:15Z")
Whew! I made it through the morning without succumbing to the call of the bagels. And I went home and made up a very yummy sesame fake-crab salad. On a really good pita. The whole thing was Teh YUM! Sorry about the doggie problems **Smartie**. It sucks when our pets start having problems, especially when we can’t fix the problem for them. That’s really cool about the Confederate money, **Spaz**! Will it stay in the library? Be on display? Go to a museum? I also like The Lecture, **bbbobbio** , but I’m guessing you won’t be able to get all the way through it… no matter how many times I practice speeches like that in my head, the people I deliver them to are never considerate enough to let me get all the way through a lecture uninterrupted. 😉 But as long as you convey the most important points to her (We know what you did. It was wrong. We’re not firing you, but we won’t let you be here unattended. If you screw up, we’ll call the cops. Consider getting help.), I think it’ll have the intended effect. An early Happy Birthday, **Fluttery**! I’m off work tomorrow so I won’t get to say it then. \*\*nashii \*\*(Do we have an approved nickname for you??), the place you’re looking at getting married in looks a lot like the place KT and I were originally planning to get married, except our historic hotel was in Upstate NY. But similar historic period, I’d guess. Really neat place. (The only reason we _didn’t_ get married at that place was that it closed - as in went out of business - a couple weeks after we booked it… fortunately, we hadn’t put down any money yet though so it was ok, but it left us scrambling a little to find another nice-looking historic sort of place.) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mmp/457941/217 "2008-07-31T18:14:25Z")
Lecture sounds good, but be prepared for Sharon to get uber-defensive and try to throw the blame on you guys ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mmp/457941/218 "2008-07-31T18:21:17Z")
Greetings from **beebs** : > [@bbs2k](#): > > Dearest rosie, > How are you feeling? Despite my absence I have done my best to continue to keep up with the MMP… among other threads (see how I’m not the [only frustrated one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10049524&postcount=80)?). > Anyways, would you do me a favor and forward [this link](http://leeanndavesweddingjuly202008.site.shutterfly.com/251) and my well wishes onto the MMP? These are wedding photos I served as the best man for last weekend. Just clarify that [I am the short one](http://leeanndavesweddingjuly202008.site.shutterfly.com/460) wearing the black vest, standing next to the groom wearing the white vest. > Your resident best man (again in November for my brother), > beebs ---
**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:** [July 31, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mmp/457941/219 "2008-07-31T18:34:58Z")
[QUOTE=taxi78cab] That’s really cool about the Confederate money, **Spaz**! Will it stay in the library? Be on display? Go to a museum? [/QUOTE] It’ll be deacidified and encapsulated in mylar before being returned to the collection it came from to sit in a box, waiting for a researcher to find it and squee. Where in the collection to put it is the question. I don’t want to put it back in the restricted box with the original scrapbook, but…it’ll be safest there. I’ll ask the bosses when it comes back from treatment. A **beebs** message! With pictures! (How _you_ doin’? 😉 ) ---
**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 31, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mmp/457941/220 "2008-07-31T18:35:57Z")
\*\* HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!! HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!! HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY DEEEAAARRR BBBOOOBBBIIIOOO!!! HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!! \*\* I like the lecture but as others have said be prepared for some bodacious wailin’ and nashin’ of teeth and denial. Y’all are still too nice. Her butt would be fired as of yesterday if it were me. Da bear does not tolerate stealin’ at all. **Rosie** please tell **Beebs** that it’s good to know he does not point at his wienie in every picture taken of him. 😃 I went in to work and was given the option of comin’ home to do stuff. I took it. Ok, acutally I’m about to start on stuff. What I did was come home and mow cause we keep bein’ told we will have massive tstorms and such later this afternoon. So, da yahd is all mown and I’m all showered and clean. Now, it’s work time. Later Y’all! ETA: Sorry about SpaceDawg **SmartiePants**. It’s tough when a pet gets sick like that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mmp/457941.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-mmp/457941.md?page=12)