# Ok, I'll start this week's MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [December 17, 2012, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-start-this-weeks-mmp/644295 "2012-12-17T11:16:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-start-this-weeks-mmp/644295/81 "2012-12-18T15:39:26Z")
The sun is out! Supposed to be a high of 58, so not so bad for December. Today is pizza day so I don’t have to feed the sah-kid, just pick up the phone, order some food, and wait for it to get here 🙂 So far hell pup’s mom hasn’t called for me to walk her and I’m hoping she doesn’t need me today. Whoops, just called and yes, she needs me. Guess I’d better get my ass up and in gear. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-start-this-weeks-mmp/644295/82 "2012-12-18T15:39:32Z")
> [@peedin](#): > > At irk but generally doing nothing. Today is the hospital-wide employee Christmas lunch (although I think they call it a _holiday_ lunch which is stoopid and pisses me off). Perhaps it is also a Channukah lunch. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-start-this-weeks-mmp/644295/83 "2012-12-18T15:41:14Z")
I could go with bah-humf\*ck ---
**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:** [December 18, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-start-this-weeks-mmp/644295/84 "2012-12-18T15:42:37Z")
IF you are coughin’, hackin’ and/or makin’ noises that indicate you are about to heave up everything you have ingested in the last thirty days, please mute the dang phone! Seriously, poor thing sounds like she might expire anytime now. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-start-this-weeks-mmp/644295/85 "2012-12-18T15:49:15Z")
**(((((Cap’n)))))** Feel better soon, sickies! I have been a busy fae today, some kind person arrived in the office and dumped 90 assignments on my desk this morning and asked if I “could do something with them”. I can think of several somethings I could do with them, but I have decided to do the honourable “something” that I am actually expected to do. I did nip out at lunchtime to drop off some hexmas pressies to Bridezilla (she’s been married for 2 years but still hasn’t lost the name). This year several friends are getting home-made gifts so she has peanut brittle, rocky road and jammie dodgers to share with her husband (provided he behaves himself and doesn’t spend too much time on the naughty list). My line manager has agreed to my hours for this week so that means I come in early for four days and go home at lunchtime on Friday…then I’m not in again until 3rd January! Sadly I only have three days of paid holiday left so I will have to be unpaid for the rest but the break from work will be good. Another friend has boiler problems and has no hot water or heating at home so I am waiting for an update from him on the engineer otherwise I need to get my spare housekeys from the friend I’m taking to Fat Club tonight, then he can have those and spend the day at mine keeping warm. He’s retired (his g/f isn’t, she still works) but I don’t like to think of them at home and cold when I have a warm house that’s empty all day. See? I’m not _all_ bad. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-start-this-weeks-mmp/644295/86 "2012-12-18T16:12:49Z")
Ms. hack/cough/heave has either put her phone on mute or expired. Just thought y’all would want to know. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-start-this-weeks-mmp/644295/87 "2012-12-18T16:13:29Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Also, I wanna eat **N.O.L.** with **WetOne**. That sounds YUM! **Swampy** if you get your butt up here by 12:30 CST, we can have lunch together. That would so fun!!!1!!! Then we could go drinking. Just sayin.’ ---
**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:** [December 18, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-start-this-weeks-mmp/644295/88 "2012-12-18T16:39:31Z")
> [@peedin](#): > > **Swampy** if you get your butt up here by 12:30 CST, we can have lunch together. That would so fun!!!1!!! Then we could go drinking. Just sayin.’ Hmmm… could I get from here to wherever **WetOne** is CST in two hours? Dang, probably not! In other news I have successfully survived conference call heck. YAY!!! Just think, in January instead of CCH I get to go to Stone Mountain and look at everybody face to face in In Person Conference Heck, right reserved to upgrade (downgrade?) to In Person Conference Hell as needed. ---
**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-start-this-weeks-mmp/644295/89 "2012-12-18T17:05:40Z")
Home from Conn and damn glad of it. Normally my weekend is my weekend - a time of rest. This week it was a pair of 16 hr days sandwiched between 7 hr drives is an uncomfortable satellite truck. It’s Tuesday and I need this week to end NOW. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-start-this-weeks-mmp/644295/90 "2012-12-18T17:21:24Z")
Glad you’re home safe and sound **gigity**. May you have some well deserved and well earned downtime soonest. Hot turkey 'n cheese with chips and a cookie for **N.O.L.**'Twas good. Baked poke chops with some kind of tbd vegetative matter will be dindin tonight. Now back to irk. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-start-this-weeks-mmp/644295/91 "2012-12-18T18:09:41Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Well, somebody brought US _homemade_ gingersnaps… I made my first batch of gingersnaps this past weekend - they’re good, but \*\*FCD \*\*said they taste more like his mother’s molasses cookies. I did kinda goof and overdo the molasses, but they are good cookies! 😃 But I didn’t take them to your work… or to my work, for that matter. 😃 We went out for lunch, and I’m trying to get my brain back in gear. I found out I’m being yanked on to yet another project. rah. Welcome back, **tugig**! Sounds like you had one hellacious weekend, and not in a good way. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-start-this-weeks-mmp/644295/92 "2012-12-18T18:12:36Z")
My bro just emailed this to me - I had to share it: > [@](#): > > With the holidays upon us I would like to share this story with my friends about drinking and driving. > > As you may know some of us have been known to have brushes with the authorities from time to time on the way home after a “social session” out with friends. Well, two days ago I was out for an evening with friends and had several cocktails followed by some rather nice red wine. Feeling jolly, I still had the sense to know that I might be slightly over the limit. > > That’s when I did something that I’ve never done before - I took a cab home. Sure enough, on the way home, there was a police road block, but since it was a cab they waved it past. I arrived home safely and without incident. > > This was actually quite a surprise, as I had never driven a cab before. I don’t know where I got it and now that it’s in my garage, I don’t know what to do with it. > > Have a safe Holiday Season. Dat’s my bro!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-start-this-weeks-mmp/644295/93 "2012-12-18T18:18:04Z")
apparently I am getting too fat while pregnant ☹ ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-start-this-weeks-mmp/644295/94 "2012-12-18T18:19:24Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > My bro just emailed this to me - I had to share it: > > Dat’s my bro!!! 😃 Hahahaha, excellent. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-start-this-weeks-mmp/644295/95 "2012-12-18T18:28:33Z")
**N.O.T.** was et and suprize, I had the chikken. It was delish AND I got a filet to take home for din-din! Jeanne’s filet was not done enough for her so she gave it to me and got the chicken. I have mushrooms at home so will saute a handful to go with the leftover beef. MOO!!! ---
**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:** [December 18, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-start-this-weeks-mmp/644295/96 "2012-12-18T19:42:14Z")
Score **WetOne**!!! A nice hunk o’ beef to take home. 😃 **Apes** whoever said that to you deserves horrible retribution. **MOOOOOOM** HEE! Well, ye olde hometowne is abuzz with excitatement! Remember last week when I mentioned the biiiiiig trial about a “prominent citizen” for child pornography? He’s been convicted of 64 counts against him including charges of possession of child pornography, evidence tampering and invasion of privacy. The judge revoked his bond and he will remain in jail until sentencin’ on February 12th. He claims he must have “accidentally” downloaded the porn when he was downloading old movies to play on the tv station he owned at the time. Ummmmm… :dubious: “Accidentally” downloaded videos _and_ pictures of child pornography. Plus all the cameras mounted in the studio at crotch level, which is just skeevy. :eek: This will be the talk of ye olde hometowne for months to come. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-start-this-weeks-mmp/644295/97 "2012-12-18T19:53:34Z")
\*\*Apes \*\*- isn’t it amazing how everyone everywhere is an absolute authority on your pregnancy, despite how you may feel or what your doctor may say?? I suggest you respond to moronic comments thusly: BITE ME! 😛 Time to go home. Yay! ---
**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:** [December 18, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-start-this-weeks-mmp/644295/98 "2012-12-18T20:01:13Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > \*\*Apes \*\*- isn’t it amazing how everyone everywhere is an absolute authority on your pregnancy, despite how you may feel or what your doctor may say?? I suggest you respond to moronic comments thusly: BITE ME! 😛 I was thinkin’ about respondin’ to moronic comments like that with a two by four or a baseball bat with a spike in it but BITE ME works as well. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-start-this-weeks-mmp/644295/99 "2012-12-18T20:29:52Z")
Leg: **CRAMP!** me: … Leg: Oh, I’m sorry; were you sleeping? Go ahead, it’s okay. me: … Other leg: _is he asleep yet?_ Leg: I dunno, let me check… Leg: _cramp_ me: ! ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-start-this-weeks-mmp/644295/100 "2012-12-18T20:37:56Z")
Back from my walk, or should I say drag. I left out of here, bright and sunny, I’m even wearing shorts - but that’s more because I need to do laundry - but it was still warm enough out that I was comfortable. I get a few little sprinkles on the windshield. I didn’t know it was supposed to rain. As soon as I pull up in front of hell pup’s house it starts pouring and the wind is blowing and my truck is rocking!!! WTH!!! I run in the house and put the pups out and figure I’m not walking the hell pup in this… and a few minutes later I look up and the sun is shining, no rain, no wind. So hell pup got her walk. **FCM** I like the way your brother thinks 😃 I worked with a guy who thought the solution to drunk driving was to have a bar on every corner so people could walk to and from. **Apes** My friend knew a woman who used to tell people not to mess with pregnant women because it’s legal for them to stab you. Personally I think people who mess with pregnant women deserve whatever they get. You keep sticking your hand in the tiger’s cage you can’t blame the tiger for ripping it off! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-start-this-weeks-mmp/644295.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-ill-start-this-weeks-mmp/644295.md?page=6)