# Nothing to write home about - a very early MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [June 19, 2006, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-write-home-about-a-very-early-mmp/361252 "2006-06-19T04:10:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-write-home-about-a-very-early-mmp/361252/61 "2006-06-19T22:30:43Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] \*\*swampy \*\* - you should convert to Judiasm just to piss 'em all off šŸ˜‰ šŸ˜ƒ [/QUOTE] I alwalys had **Swampy** figgered as a Frisbeetarianist\*ā€¦ \*The belief that when you die, your soul goes to the roof and no one can get it downā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-write-home-about-a-very-early-mmp/361252/62 "2006-06-19T22:34:14Z")
The Dope is blocked at work as ā€œentertainment.ā€ Funnily enough, livejournal isnā€™t blocked. I worked. I had lunch. I got off work. And here I am now, waiting on laundry. I know. The excitement is palpable. I like rainy afternoons when I donā€™t have to go out. Theyā€™re nice for staying in and cuddling. Alas, no cuddles for me, as TBT doesnā€™t live in my town, or even my state. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-write-home-about-a-very-early-mmp/361252/63 "2006-06-19T22:34:26Z")
[QUOTE=swampbear] **MBG, Sean, Bobbio** etal, I really couldnā€™t care less if the Presiding Bishop is man/woman, gay/straight or a wolverine. I tend to ignore much of the Whiskypalian world outside of the Diocese of Jawja. The thing with me is, those Bishops-With-Sticks-Up-Their-Butts in the WAC who looked the other way when certain other Anglican Communions thought it ok to allow polygamists to join the church and indeed to become Priests, Deacons and possibly Bishops, so long as they didnā€™t marry anymore wives than they already had, but God forbid a woman or a gay person feel a calling to the ministry. :dubious: They can all just bite my big olā€™ gay WASP butt. [/QUOTE] Hell **Swampy** , I thought I was agreeing with youā€¦ I shouldnā€™t say much more, beause Iā€™ll come dangerously close to being taken seriously around here. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-write-home-about-a-very-early-mmp/361252/64 "2006-06-19T23:03:32Z")
Heigh ho. Dinner in the oven. I am researching bar stools online. Tis not as fun as it sounds. I need at least 4. I want ones that swivelā€“I think theyā€™re more fun than stationary ones. Canā€™t find the style I like in swivel. Such is my day. A good day, by all accounts. Tomorrow is boring meeting day at work. I hate boring meeting dayā€“but I do get paid for being bored. My sinuses are acting up as wellā€“there is no good reason for sinuses, correct? And didnā€™t Cecil do a column on grapenuts and maltose? I think soā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-write-home-about-a-very-early-mmp/361252/65 "2006-06-19T23:34:16Z")
I am remembering snipets of my Iguanas essay - I started off musing on my choice from the hat, wondering what kind of story I could write, staring at the computer screen waiting for droplets of blood to form on my forehead\* and wondering about the mess theyā€™d cause landing on the keyboard; and decided an essay on why I couldnā€™t come up with anything in the time alloted (we had 2 weeks) would be appropriate. Then I mused about the phrase being a new slang for inebriation (and a guy with a bizarre nickname) ā€œIguanaā€™s in the Grape. Nuts!ā€ But the gist of the essay was about how the iguana got there in the first place. Seems cute little Billy found a cute little iguana in the playground one day and, after much pleading with Mommy and Daddy, was allowed to keep it provided Billy watched it to make sure it never got into the pantry. But of course, imagine Mommyā€™s surprise when, upon coming home from her errands, she spied a box of cereal on the floor of the pantry. And the rustling she heard caused her to shout ā€œBilly! Your iguanaā€™s in the Grapenuts! Again!ā€ I donā€™t remember the conclusion of the essay - only that it got a few laughs. Several weeks later, I was presented with a cap - my friend had found a cap with a reasonably-iguana-looking lizard on it, and he drew in the GrapeNuts for me. I wonder what the iguana would think of the new Grape Nuts Granola Crunch? - - ā€œWriting is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.ā€ - - Gene Fowler ---
**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:** [June 19, 2006, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-write-home-about-a-very-early-mmp/361252/66 "2006-06-19T23:50:38Z")
OKā€¦now that Iā€™m awakeā€¦sorry about the sinus headache, **rosie**. Feeling any better? Welcome to all the newbies! I think **gabriela** was missed in other lists. She deserves at least an honorable mention for having gotten responses started out on an appropriately juvenile note. I too am among MMPers who have suffered from slicing and dicing. Had an allegedly new and sharp knife. It slipped while I was slicing. Sliced into the tip of my index finger instead. Lots of blood. Applied the butterfly bandaid. Survived quite well. **winnie** , dear, your story was icky. **Drae** , your weekend made me laugh. Well, not your weekend, but your description. Cute puppies, **kaiwik**! I thought of you too, **swampy**. New presiding bishop actually sounds like a person with priorities in the right place. They quoted her in our paper as wanting to focus on ā€œpoverty, AIDS and justice.ā€ Also, her first career was as an oceanographer (no point, really, I just thought it was interesting). [Hereā€™s the article.](http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/06/19/20060619-A1-00.html) Ohā€¦ **swampy** thinks Iā€™m lovely and talented? :: is flattered:: [Cecil speaks on the important topic of Grape-Nuts.](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_147.html) Iguanas are not mentioned. Or alligators, for that matter. I like your Grape-Nuts story, **rosie**. **FCM** , you are making me feel like a lazy bum. I came home, got my hair cut, sat down to read the Dope, am composing a post. Noticed that the silly wasps are working on another nest. I really donā€™t want to use wasp spray. Still pondering alternatives. One site I read yesterday said you should ignore wasp nests if they wonā€™t interfere with people coming and going, but this one is just above my front door, so I donā€™t think it qualifies. Guess Iā€™ll have to research further. Alsoā€¦I should contemplate dinner. Iā€™m thinking itā€™s a Cheerios with strawberries kinda night. Did I mention that strawberries were $.99/lb at Wild Oats. Good strawberries. I looked at the sign several times before I grabbed two boxes and then paid close attention when I got to the cash register. Two pounds of strawberries for $1.98!!! Yay! GT ---
**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:** [June 20, 2006, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-write-home-about-a-very-early-mmp/361252/67 "2006-06-20T00:22:08Z")
Whew! Iā€™m finally home Welcome to the newbies! Love offerings of dark chocolate must be sent to us old-timers; itā€™s a rule! šŸ˜‰ **Swampy,** I was telling **Mr. Taters** about your post re: the new head of the Episcapelians (Iā€™m too lazy to look up the spelling). He told me to tell you that perhaps you should join a new conference called the Pissed-Offcapalions. šŸ˜‰ Dinner will be left over lasagna. Iā€™ve been told the hubby and son have already dug into it, but thereā€™s enough left over for dinner. **gots,** Iā€™m sorry to hear of DHā€™s job loss. I hope he finds something better soon. Thatā€™s all I can think of for now. Iā€™m kind of tired. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-write-home-about-a-very-early-mmp/361252/68 "2006-06-20T00:43:33Z")
as for my sinus headache - the blinding I-canā€™t-open-my-eyes part is gone, but my head still hurts. I did make it thru a whole day of work, and my PT appointment, so I guess Iā€™m better. I made someone else feel better (sort of) a gal who had survived a nasty car wreck (she was in a body brace and had stitched up scars all over) was working out tonight while I was there. I told her ā€œcheer up - once youā€™re better, youā€™re better - Iā€™ll have arthritis the rest of my lifeā€ she smiled. Not at my misery, but at my attempt to cheer her. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2006, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-write-home-about-a-very-early-mmp/361252/69 "2006-06-20T01:56:23Z")
Evening! Hello to the new people, and Iā€™m honoured to be sharing (metaphorical virtual) space with **gabriela**. Have some chocolate cinnamon buns and some peanut butter rice crispie squares. Iā€™ve got to wash a bunch of dishes and then wait around until Iā€™m tired enough to sleep. Tomorrow is fifteen loads of laundry, plus running back and forth to the laundromat and cleaning the fridge out. Mr. Lissar has just decided he doesnā€™t like peanut butter sammiches anymore. I have a Costco packet of buns in the freezer, and three kilos of peanut butter. Sigh. Would someone clunk me over the head so I can sleep? ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-write-home-about-a-very-early-mmp/361252/70 "2006-06-20T02:18:24Z")
[QUOTE=Lissla Lissar] peanut butter rice crispie squares. [/QUOTE] I love you. Could ya toss me one of those now? ::Looking at the oven where my leftover pizza is reheating:: ā˜¹ Welcome all you new folks!! **FCM** , stop it now. Go sit down and do nothing. Really. Well, itā€™s over. The ā€œ **MBG** is an evil man because he wanted to change walk boundaries and make 98 more kids walk to schoolā€ epic. There was a public hearing at which a few parents got up and prattled on about how unreasonable it is that kids walk to school, because yaā€™ know, they have to CROSS STREETS!!! :eek: Then one guy that was there for something completely unrelated got up to say, in essence: ā€œOh, sit down and quit whining, theyā€™re YOUā€™RE kids, YOU are responsible for them getting to school if thereā€™s no bus because you live so effing close to school, so shut it and sit downā€. Then the board voted, only 5 of the 7 were there, and it was 5-0. Beer time. Sure would be nice to have a peanut butter rice krispy square to have to wash downā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Twinkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Twinkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twinkie)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-write-home-about-a-very-early-mmp/361252/71 "2006-06-20T02:50:02Z")
[QUOTE=Mr Bus Guy] ā€¦Then the board voted, only 5 of the 7 were there, and it was 5-0ā€¦ [/QUOTE] Was that 5 - 0 in favor of more walkers? Thatā€™s how Iā€™d vote! This conversation is one of the reasons I dropped out of PTA. The same parents who let their kids walk across a busy street to the ice cream parlor after school in 5th grade didnā€™t want their _high schoolers_ to have to cross streets only a little busier. When I heard myself start the ā€œback when I was in school, I had to walk uphill both ways,ā€ argument, I knew it was time to leave while my dignity was still intact. Iā€™m up late tonight baking birthday cake for my baby. She turns 15 tomorrow. Iā€™m not sure how thatā€™s possible ā€“ I still think she canā€™t be more than 6 or 7. Iā€™m making a heart shaped white cake, which Iā€™ll decorate with white frosting and spray roses, and itā€™ll be surrounded by the same cake in cupcake-sized hearts filled with strawberries. Sheā€™ll love it, but personally, Iā€™ll have to figure out how to get some chocolate on there before Iā€™ll eat it. ---
**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:** [June 20, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-write-home-about-a-very-early-mmp/361252/72 "2006-06-20T03:46:49Z")
[not mundane not pointless]Woooo Canes win the Cup![/nmnp] **kai** my mom has a black pom. Cute, but hunts better than my beagle. :dubious: **Sean** most of my cartoons are either cat torture or vile [puns](http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e260/dogbutler/Toons/photo1Copy15.jpg) welcome newbies! from a not quite veteran. time to celebrate, then bed(got a meeting tommorow :rolleyes: ) ---
**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:** [June 20, 2006, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-write-home-about-a-very-early-mmp/361252/73 "2006-06-20T03:59:03Z")
You are a great mom, **Twinkie**. You know, you get just as much appreciation and love for making rice crispie squares as you do for making homemade cinnamon buns and strudel and danishes and coffee cake. I should give up on the difficult stuff. After I make Nigella Lawsonā€™s buttercream caramel merengue cake. And maybe some molten chocolate cupcakes. If someone will clean my house Iā€™ll bake for them! ---
**Author:** ![Twinkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Twinkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twinkie)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-write-home-about-a-very-early-mmp/361252/74 "2006-06-20T04:14:05Z")
Hey, **Lissa** , if youā€™re making molten chocolate cupcakes, send me directions & Iā€™ll bring my vaccuum cleaner and a dust rag. It should only take me about 10 hours to get thereā€¦ And if Iā€™m a terrific mom, itā€™s only because she provides such good source material, I canā€™t help it. Sheā€™s the best kid I know. Uh oh, Iā€™m getting tired and sappy. I think that last layer is cool enough to come out of the pan now. Iā€™d better go to bed! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-write-home-about-a-very-early-mmp/361252/75 "2006-06-20T06:58:04Z")
I am posting from a dark room in the northern side of St. Gallen. If anyone knows what country Iā€™m in please advise. Breakfast was good, Iā€™ve got a hardwired internet connection and attempting to check the weather for todayā€™s destination which Iā€™ve still not determined. Ciao, Shibb ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-write-home-about-a-very-early-mmp/361252/76 "2006-06-20T11:09:17Z")
You ever have one of those mornings where the only way you know you slept is that you woke up? I feel crappy and I donā€™t want to go to work. Iā€™m afraid Iā€™ll fall asleep, and I really canā€™t, because I have a lot of work to 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:** [June 20, 2006, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-write-home-about-a-very-early-mmp/361252/77 "2006-06-20T11:48:58Z")
Hey **Shibb**! I was wonderinā€™ if you made it over to Yurp like you were planing. Youā€™re location says youā€™re in Germany. That might help. šŸ˜ƒ **Taters** , tell Mr. Taters that my official flavor of Episcopal is Whiskypalian. **Bobbio** , I know you were agreeing with me. I was just spouting off about my lack of ummmā€¦ wellā€¦ like for the stick-up-the-butt Bishops most of whom are from Africa. Good deal **MBG**! Make the little crumb snatchers walk. Itā€™ll do 'em good, I say. The fish fry was good! Good fish. Good hush puppies. Good cheese grits. Good coleslaw. Good fried green 'maters. Cold beer!!! Oh and a dessert that was made by softening a half gallon of vanilla ice cream, mixing in a small thawed can of frozen lemonade (the six ounce kind), spooning the mixture into 6 ounce paper cups and putting 'em in the freezer to harden. Real smooth and lemony. YUM! Oh, and yesterday, I rode out to the site for our new church building. See, last week trees started cominā€™ down. I watched ā€˜em push over a tree with one of those big olā€™ pieces of construction machinery. It looked like a lot of fun, so I wanted to try but I was told no. The meanies! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-write-home-about-a-very-early-mmp/361252/78 "2006-06-20T11:56:38Z")
[QUOTE=swampbear] The fish fry was good! Good fish. Good hush puppies. Good cheese grits. Good coleslaw. Good fried green 'maters. Cold beer!!! Oh and a dessert that was made by softening a half gallon of vanilla ice cream, mixing in a small thawed can of frozen lemonade (the six ounce kind), spooning the mixture into 6 ounce paper cups and putting 'em in the freezer to harden. Real smooth and lemony. YUM! [/QUOTE] Oh man, I DO NOT want to be anywhere downwind from you todayā€¦ :eek: šŸ˜‰šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-write-home-about-a-very-early-mmp/361252/79 "2006-06-20T12:30:20Z")
[QUOTE=Taters] Welcome to the newbies! Love offerings of dark chocolate must be sent to us old-timers; itā€™s a rule! šŸ˜‰ [/QUOTE] You are _SO_ going to be on **FCMā€™s** shit list for thatā€¦ šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-write-home-about-a-very-early-mmp/361252/80 "2006-06-20T12:45:48Z")
Yup **Twinkie** , 5-0 to let 'em walk. heh - ā€œcrumb snatchersā€ :snerk: The car is loaded with golf clubs to raffle, coolers, and other raffle prizes. I barely fit my own clubs and the bag with the after golf/shower clothes in. Hope the wife fits in somewhere too! Weā€™re out of here in an hour or so, weā€™ll have a nice breakfast with Bloodyā€™s then start setting up things, sticking signs and banners up around the place and getting the ladies ready to sign people in. The outing is about 120 golfers, and later about an additional 75 people (200 total) for fancy dinner and prizes. The event is for the enrichment foundation for the school district where I used to live - I got involved when I lived there, and havenā€™t gotten un-involved. Our foundation raises private money through events like this and award it through a grant process to teachers, and schools for various programs that enrich or enhance what they already do. Usually we give out about $60-$70K a year. The BIG event each spring is the Dinner/Auction, but the golf brings in around $15K. Four years ago, I got tapped as Golf Honcho, which in \*\*MBG \*\*fashion means I delegate, delegate, delegateā€¦I run things with the club, coordinating meals and getting the foursomes set. Then I show up, act all host-ish, and golf with the men while women run the show for me. OK, so I hear the shower has stopped, which means my turn. Gotta hit the road, I hear a fat omelet and a Bloody Mary calling for meā€¦ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-write-home-about-a-very-early-mmp/361252.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-to-write-home-about-a-very-early-mmp/361252.md?page=5)