# No topic, off-the-cuff MMP
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-topic-off-the-cuff-mmp/605115
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Tags:** mmp
**Created:** [December 5, 2011, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-topic-off-the-cuff-mmp/605115 "2011-12-05T11:19:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-topic-off-the-cuff-mmp/605115/181 "2011-12-07T17:29:46Z")
All I want for Christmas is my very own burly man. I will hug him and squeeze him and call him George . . .
The puppy does not know what she wants. I have a list as long as my arm of Things That Need Doing. My tummy’s growling, but I haven’t started the day. I had a dream that I was teaching, and my class was in full rebellion, and _my mom_ came in and started criticizing my classroom management skills. Not. Fun.
I promised myself I would go to the gym and walk on the treadmill for an hour, but the healed blister is sticking to my shoe, which leads me to believe it will just blister up again, so I need to do some problem solving.
Eeesh.
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### Author:  [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-topic-off-the-cuff-mmp/605115/182 "2011-12-07T17:30:45Z")
> [@swampbear](#):
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> ::takes **Rosie’s** arm and begins kissin’ up and down::
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> Tish! You spoke French! Say some more! c’est la vie! voulez vou! au contraire!
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> Sometimes one’s inner Gomez Addams must be let out! 😃
I didn’t think she was your type, **Swampus**.
She _IS_ my type, however. **Rosie** , how you doin’?
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-topic-off-the-cuff-mmp/605115/183 "2011-12-07T17:32:47Z")
I don’t know that I’m **swampy** ’s type either, but he still took me out to dinner and picked up the tab. 😉
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-topic-off-the-cuff-mmp/605115/184 "2011-12-07T17:45:17Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#):
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> I don’t know that I’m **swampy** ’s type either, but he still took me out to dinner and picked up the tab. 😉
Imagine what would’ve happened had you spoken French to me! 😛
**BBBobbio** if it makes any difference I’d kiss up and down your arm too if you spoke French to me. Just ask OYKW.
Gomez Addams has influenced my life greatly. I want to blow up trains!
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### Author:  [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-topic-off-the-cuff-mmp/605115/185 "2011-12-07T18:14:39Z")
I have to go buy tires for the Mazda today. :rolleyes:
Envy me.
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-topic-off-the-cuff-mmp/605115/186 "2011-12-07T19:11:48Z")
> [@Peeta\_Mellark](#):
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> I knew I shouldn’t have been bragging about the beautiful weather yesterday. Today we’ve got that “wintry mix” of nastiness out. I’d take a heavy snow over that, happily. Anyone want to trade weather with me? :
Well, we’ve got drizzle and sometimes slightly stronger rain, you want it? I agree that snow is way, way better than wintry mix\*. I hate driving on _ice_. I don’t mind snow nearly as much.
_though I must qualify this by saying that snow is way, way better than a lot of things, because I really, really love snow. I swear I should have been born an Eskimo_\*
\*\*is “Eskimo” an ethnic slur these days? Is there a better term? I remember several years ago how surprised I was that “Oriental” was no longer to be used. I’m never up to speed on these things.
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### Author:  [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-topic-off-the-cuff-mmp/605115/187 "2011-12-07T19:47:22Z")
> [@phouka](#):
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> All I want for Christmas is my very own burly man. I will hug him and squeeze him and call him George . . .
And rub his feathers and stroke his long bill?
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### Author:  [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-topic-off-the-cuff-mmp/605115/188 "2011-12-07T20:14:11Z")
Wow we are chatty this week 😃
I made it back very very late last night into OKC from my flying-less than 24 hour- visit to Houston. It was 23 degs at the airport and the truck was iced over. So I fire it up and get the heating going and get my scraper and deicer out to begin ice removal. There was someone else who got off the parking shuttle bus at the same time as me who was galantly trying to wipe away the ice on her car with a piece of cardboard. Being the very nice lady I am I offered my scraping and de-icing services. Wow was she grateful 😃
The past few days have been whirl of presentations and meetings and spreadsheets and contracts and crazyness and this will continue until I leave for vacation next Thursday afternoon. Urgh.
**rosie** get better!
**LiLi** put your feet up and use the helpful friend of mom to the utmost advantage!
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### Author:  [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-topic-off-the-cuff-mmp/605115/189 "2011-12-07T20:40:48Z")
Just stopping by briefly to complain. It’s in the thirties and snowing today and we’ve got the windows open and the fan on because we’re waiting for the guy to come fix the sump pump. And I’m freezing cold!
Oh, and I went to get my hair ‘trimmed’ and a swear she took off something like three inches of hair! Trimmed? Huh. And she didn’t even offer to dry my hair or anything so that makes me even colder.
[/whining]
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### Author:  [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-topic-off-the-cuff-mmp/605115/190 "2011-12-07T20:43:36Z")
No **Mooom** , his mom does not intimidate me. She was up in August and she sat on my floor and played with the pomeranians, and I fed her salad with king crab and I also baked a salmon that she scarfed down. She’s got a very good appetite for such a thin old woman! She is just super high energy and everything is all _waaaaay_ up in the stratosphere, dramatically speaking. She says “Darling, you simply _must_, **must** (insert whatever she thinks I ought to do) darling!” I love her, but when she leaves/gets off the phone, I collapse with fatigue! Hey, Alaska trained me to be very laid back, and she is the equivalent of a LA freeway at rush hour, yikes!
I have had a lazy morning. The insomnia was rough last night, so I drank two red beers and when I fell asleep I fell hard. It felt good, I haven’t been sleeping well due to the coughing and the mucus factor. When I woke up my light was still on and I was wearing my glasses.
I ought to decorate for Christmas, and begin thinking about the baking. I am just not feeling the spirit though, probably residual depression re: the boyfriend. I am homesick for Kodiak and my “family” there. _sigh_ Perhaps some pretty colored lights would lighten my mood, hehehe!
My #3 daughter and I are going to learn French this winter, it’s nice to know I can elicit arm-kissing from **da bear** when I am feeling the need for male attention! Voulez vou, **bear**? 😛
**LiLi** I am feeling you, even though I only had singletons. Take every opportunity to get off your feet while you can. I have four young 'un’s (a couple who are not so young, actually) and watched a lot of other people’s children while raising mine, and I am still tired. (My youngest is almost 19) Enjoy yours while you can, they grow up so fast.
I need to get ready to leave the house. I don’t want to leave the house, but I must. Have a good one my peeps!
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### Author:  [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-topic-off-the-cuff-mmp/605115/191 "2011-12-07T20:58:55Z")
There’s black ice warnings tonight and the snow-word has been mentioned. It was sleeting when I came home an hour ago. Winter finally showed up!
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### Author:  [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-topic-off-the-cuff-mmp/605115/192 "2011-12-07T21:20:59Z")
> [@swampbear](#):
>
> ::takes **Rosie’s** arm and begins kissin’ up and down::
> Tish! You spoke French! Say some more! c’est la vie! voulez vou! au contraire!
> Sometimes one’s inner Gomez Addams must be let out! 😃
> [@VunderBob](#):
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> I didn’t think she was your type, **Swampus**.
> She _IS_ my type, however. **Rosie** , how you doin’?
Boys! Don’t fight over me! There’s plenty (and I do mean plenty) for both of you.
> [@SpazCat](#):
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> There’s black ice warnings tonight and the snow-word has been mentioned. It was sleeting when I came home an hour ago. Winter finally showed up!
**BITE YOUR TONGUE!!!**
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### Author:  [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-topic-off-the-cuff-mmp/605115/193 "2011-12-07T22:06:21Z")
Hi!
Lots of [del]fresh meat[/del] welcome new guests this week!
And… **!!!HAZE!!!** 😃
I’ve got nuttin’. I’d comment on other people’s posts but… well, I have been kinda, sorta reading, but retaining little to nothing ☹
That’s what I get for being good at my job I guess… more work! I keep thinking things will quiet down, and I’ll be able to work normal hours for a change - and then something enw comes up.
Good think I love my job.
Well, it’s after midnight. and I have to be up in 7 hours. Night, y’all!
ETA: Also… **!!!WIKI!!!** 😃
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-topic-off-the-cuff-mmp/605115/194 "2011-12-07T22:11:34Z")
OK, first off, it’s _voulez-vous_ and it means “do you want” - so unless you’re indicating something (and I just know what you pervs are thinking now…) it’s an incomplete statement.
I’ve got an apple crisp in the oven, and the house smells fabooooo! We’ll have polish sausage and rice and some sort of veggie for supper when my sweetie gets up from his nap.
He’s decided to take the rest of the week off, so he won’t be going back to work until February. I guess this will be a test run for when we’re both retired.
I vacuumed, crocheted a hat, and started knitting yet another. It’s dark out, still raining, and the temp is dropping.
In sports, nothing to report. 😃
And that’s the news update from FairyChatEstates.
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-topic-off-the-cuff-mmp/605115/195 "2011-12-07T22:11:48Z")
:: takes **wiki’s** arm and begins kissin’ up and down it::
Tish you spoke French! Speak some more! Moulin Rouge! Crepe Suzette! Mon Petit Chou!
Gomez is feelin’ his oats today. 😃
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### Author:  [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-topic-off-the-cuff-mmp/605115/196 "2011-12-07T22:19:45Z")
**!!!lunch!!!** 😉
I know **moooom** , I should have said _voulez vou…?_ My shorthand innuendo appears to be lacking. 😛
mmm, **bear** kissies! _Une cuiller, un tabouret, la grèle, ronfler, un bavard_!
Okay, I’m gonna put some decorations out, my Charlie Brown tree, Santa and a couple of angels, and some very old red mercury icicles will go on the ficus. Ho ho ho!
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### Author:  [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-topic-off-the-cuff-mmp/605115/197 "2011-12-07T22:20:41Z")
Qu’est-ce qui ce passe, ici?!? Quel bruit!! 😛
Ahm. Pardon my French 😉
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### Author:  [@Bri2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bri2k)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-topic-off-the-cuff-mmp/605115/198 "2011-12-07T22:27:10Z")
Hi Mummpers and Newbies. Sorry I’ve been away. The good news is the busy season at work is almost two-thirds over. Hopefully sanity and regular 40 hour weeks will return before mid-January.
Rain-to-snow mix here in my City of Three Rivers this evening. The snow flurries aren’t sticking, at least for now.
I hope you’re feeling better soon, **rosie**! If I was closer, I’d bring you some hot tea with lemon, honey and rum. Guaranteed to cure what ails you.
And to all of you, may you get everything you want and more this holiday season. You deserve the best!
Bri2k
P.S. Saw that J. Edgar flick last weekend. The, um, “speculative” parts were eye-opening, but overall I found it entertaining and fairly historically accurate.
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### Author:  [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-topic-off-the-cuff-mmp/605115/199 "2011-12-07T22:37:24Z")
Haven’t gotten a damn bit of homework done since I finished my paper yesterday afternoon. Class went well last night. Professor said he’s probably gonna give us our final at the end of class next week since it’s just a normal test so there’s no point coming in for it the following week.
Had my eye doctor followup today. What was supposed to be a contact followup and dilation ended up being a nearly 2 hour appointment while I got a field of vision test, a couple other tests and some attempts to find a contact for my right eye that works better. The trouble with optic nerves that bulge slightly is that all new eye doctors want to really examine them to make sure they’re ok. We’ve pretty much determined that bulging is my normal state but they still like to keep a close eye on them. It’s all good though. I got to see pictures of the backs of my eyes again and I always enjoy that.
Ripped off my nails yesterday and put them back on today. Much better than the first time though definitely not perfect. It’s odd how they’re more comfortable to type with, even though they’re longer than I normally like. I don’t know if it’s because I did them myself or not but they aren’t usually comfortable for typing when someone else does them. I have 4 nails that actually look damn good and two of them are on my right hand!! My brain is fried though from the eye exam and all the chemicals.
I should get started on my homework but I’m really not motivated right now. I just want to build a fire and then snuggle up with the 3 licking heating pads.
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### Author:  [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2011, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-topic-off-the-cuff-mmp/605115/200 "2011-12-07T22:47:24Z")
Je fais un bruit joyeux est tout! ;):p:D
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