# (Old) A spot of good news in the MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [October 26, 2026, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-spot-of-good-news-in-the-mmp/1034165 "2026-10-26T08:41:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2026, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-spot-of-good-news-in-the-mmp/1034165/321 "2026-11-01T15:40:59Z")
Up, caffeinating, breakfasted and fixing to do KP. When I walked Nelson this morning, the courtyard still smelled like smoke and the burnt out shells of the two vehicles involved were still sitting there. I feel for the folks having to deal with insurance and such with that. I need to take out the trash and sweep floors. I may get ambitious enough to scrub the tub (not that it’s a mess, but I do try to give it a scrub every now and again). After that, RDOS. Y’all have a great day! ---
**Author:** ![liirogue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2026, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-spot-of-good-news-in-the-mmp/1034165/322 "2026-11-01T16:56:37Z")
Happy Sunday! It’s a cool and foggy morning here, which seems appropriate for the day after Halloween. I waffled on handing out candy this year since it’s a new-to-me neighborhood but decided I just didn’t feel like messing with it. Only a couple of neighbors kept their porch lights on and I never saw any little goblins when I looked outside, so I suspect this isn’t the happening place to be for candy. The last two weeks at work have been very busy so I needed a chill weekend and haven’t done much other than a bunch of laundry. I did pop out early this morning to go to Sam’s for gas - that place gets to be a madhouse so I try to avoid it during busy times. But the gas savings more than pay for the membership. **Hippie** that is a beautiful quilt! What do you usually do with your quilts once they’re done? **Red** I hope things calm down over there and you don’t have a repeat of that anytime soon! **Cookie** sorry to hear about the Le Creuset breaking (and also thanks for the info - I didn’t know that chipping enamel meant the cookware was no longer safe to use) **Boo fae** I’m glad to hear that Muffin is finally getting more comfortable and coming out for pets. Poor thing just really has had a rough go trying to adjust. **Nut** your posts are always so interesting! One of the cats wants play time so off I go… ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2026, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-spot-of-good-news-in-the-mmp/1034165/323 "2026-11-01T17:03:16Z")
Good morning! Chloé had her bath yesterday, then **Mrs Magill** and I went to get our Covid and flu shots at the Publix. After mine, I walked up to the Great Clips and unshaggified myself. While I was there, **Mrs Magill** picked up some smoothies for lunch. I called in my pre-order to Costco for a pizza.\[1\] We hung out and read for a while, then, after **Squeaky** went to work, we went to the Andy’s for ice cream and Chloé’s good puppy for taking a bath pup-cup. We then swung by the Costco to get our pizza. That place was a zoo. We got home, and because we’re both reprobates who’d ruined our dinner by having a late afternoon ice-cream, we were not hungry, so I put the pizza in the oven on the “warm” setting. Wr set up our table at the end of the driveway and brought the fire pit to the driveway. We handled out candy for the next couple of hours. We were approached by a freshman band parent who recognized **Mrs Magill** , \*The Band Lady." **Squeaky** asked if he could go to a Halloween party after work, we told him that was fine, as long as he was home before eleven. He came home at ten, because when he pulled up the the party, it looked like it was a little more raucous than he felt comfortable with. We praised him for his good decision making. Chloé and her victim: [![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55624212832_80b793859e_b.jpg) ](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55624212832_80b793859e_b.jpg) Our wee axe murderer: [![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55625348558_0ae124e5cd_b.jpg) ](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55625348558_0ae124e5cd_b.jpg) The fire pit after I added a packet of metal salts: [![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55625425079_dbbdd64b2a_b.jpg) ](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55625425079_dbbdd64b2a_b.jpg) > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Tonight started off with a **BANG!!** Remember a week or so ago, one night I said we were super-dead? We sold more product IN THE FIRST HOUR today than we’d made that whole night. > > I think there were at least a half-dozen online pre-orders before we even opened, which is extremely rare outside of madhouse days like The Superb Owl. Some time in the last twenty years, Halloween became synonymous with pizza night. > [@nelliebly](#): > > DON’T FORGET TO CHANGE YOUR CLOCKS! I managed to remember at about ten-thirty. **Mrs Magill** thought I was mad, because changing the clocks also means changing the batteries on the wall clocks, and I got them hung correctly on _the first try on both_! **Hippie** That quilt is beautiful. I love the purples. > [@Filbert](#): > > The Celtic Samhain (other spellings are available, it’s pronounced roughly ‘so - een’), was already around before All Saints Day- on the same day. Details are a little scanty for the early versions, but it seems it was a big feast and it was one of the days where the underworld was close, so spirits were likely to cross over. It’s a “mid-way” day. It’s mid-way between the equinox and the solstice. Like Candlemas, May Day, and the Dog Days. > [@peedin](#): > > Jekyll was pronounced Gee kill in the movie. I say Jek ill. Tomayto tomahto. “Gee-kill” would be the correct Scottish pronunciation of the name. The story is supposed to be set in London, but is really Edinburgh with the serial number filed off. > [@liirogue](#): > > Only a couple of neighbors kept their porch lights on and I never saw any little goblins when I looked outside, so I suspect this isn’t the happening place to be for candy. We had about twenty takers. We had expected more, since the weather was so nice, but we do live at the top of a very steep hill, so I can’t blame kids for not wanting to walk up it. Their loss, though. We were putting hands full in their bags. * * * 1. We’re still used to having a lot more people in the house. If I’d thought about it, I’d have put it in to the Papa John’s. We now have pizza for days. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2026, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-spot-of-good-news-in-the-mmp/1034165/324 "2026-11-01T17:43:19Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > The song is for the name Delilah (note the extra Ls and E) to give us 🎶 hey there “deh-LIE-lah”. Now I have the Oak Ridge Boys in my head, singing “Delilah” instead of “Elvira”. > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > **Nut** , Belgian Raspberry Beer are three words I never thought I would see together. Interesting taste, I am sure. Certainly not anything that would need to be protected from me. > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > I belong (for now) with a warehouse called BJ’s but seldom if ever go there. We belong to BJ’s, too, but seldom go there. Their meat section is very good, and they carry a few things that no one else around here, but those bulk purchases are sometimes a bit much. > [@Paintcharge](#): > > > [@Aspenglow](#): > > > > I remain in the “never broke a bone in my life,” club > > I’m in that club too I was in that club for a few years, too – but a kid pushed me off a slide in second grade and I broke both wrists. When I went to my high school 50-year reunion a few years ago, one of the ladies stopped to read my nametag and I said “You probably won’t remember me.” Her answer was “_You_ broke both arms in second grade.” Seems she sat right behind me in class. > [@Aspenglow](#): > > **Mollie** , mmmmm. Stromboli. You’ve talked me into it. Big Y has really good ones in their deli section. > [@Aspenglow](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > Razzys. With chocolate Koo Koos and yellow-cake Zingers. > > Those are them! I’ll have to see if they even make them anymore. I know they make the raspberry ones, and I’ve seen the chocolate ones within the last few years, but Hostess labels them both “Zingers”. > [@Aspenglow](#): > > don’t get me started on the corruption and greed rife in our so-called “health” care system. @scareyfaerie – how much extra do you folks pay for your free health service? Or, alternatively, how much would your taxes go down if that was stopped? > [@swampbear](#): > > My **DAWGS** One of the best things about being retired – I no longer have to people talking all day about yesterday’s game (of whatever variety). > [@nelliebly](#): > > DON’T FORGET TO CHANGE YOUR CLOCKS! I wonder how long it will take my phone to reset this time. Last fall, IIRC, it took a couple weeks, and this spring it was close to a month. > [@Filbert](#): > > No children attempted to mug me for chocolate Didn’t know you folks do anything like that over there. Too much overexposure to American movies and TV? (Will you be taking a Guy out for a walk Thursday?) **Mollie** and **shoe** , love the pictures! > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > > > dinner before 7-8pm is just. not. done. > > Dinner before six always seems early to me. Supper was always at five when I was a kid. And five is the standard Navy time for the evening meal. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2026, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-spot-of-good-news-in-the-mmp/1034165/325 "2026-11-01T17:55:43Z")
Happy November! 🍂 I got home at a little after 8pm yesterday. Seeing some kids still walking around did make me a little bummed to have missed my first trick-or-treating in the new 'hood, but WifeBFF and my “nephew” definitely needed my help yesterday…and HusbandBFF was glad to see me. There wasn’t much improvement yesterday, but this morning the PA finally heard some digestive sounds and he’s graduated to a liquid diet. 🤞 Meanwhile, WifeBFF hurt her foot last night and she and my nephew are currently at urgent care for an x-ray! As she said, “when it rains it pours.” ☹ She has no idea what she did: at one point she got out of bed, and when she planted her foot she felt a sharp pain. She iced it and wrapped it and hoped it would be better this morning, but no luck. Her oldest friend is arriving tomorrow, and will spend a week with them: as much as everyone wants HusbandBFF to be back home, spending _one_ more night in the hospital could actually be better for everyone (he gets professional care and she doesn’t push herself/their son doesn’t have to take care of both parents). I’m feeling a little selfish at the moment: if she needs to stay off her foot her son will need to stay at the house with her, in which case they might ask me to go visit HusbandBFF today…and I don’t wanna. Happily his current hospital is closer to home than the one where he had surgery, but I’ve been helping them and/or my father since first thing Wednesday morning and even though I love everyone I really need a break. Not to mention that it’s going to be another busy and challenging week at work, plus I have the election on Tuesday (which will be at least a 15-hour day). Of course I would go if asked, but I’m sitting here hoping WifeBFF’s foot is somehow alright only mostly because I want her to be OK…but partly because I’m a terrible person. 🥺 I’m going to try to not worry about either of them for a little while – at least until WifeBFF tells me her x-ray results – and am about to go eat lunch and read for a bit. When she and I left the hospital yesterday we stopped at a restaurant to pick up dinner, and I have yummy leftovers that I’m looking forward to reheating. > [@Filbert](#): > > I think they actually just made that one up Well, yes and no: Google tells me that “Miss Wolcott’s Ghost” is a common misspelling of “Miss Willmott’s Ghost,” and the namesakes’ backstories/legends are nearly identical – though the character the plant is named after in the book is definitely fictional. 🙂 > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > > > I guess I may have to join Costco just to fit in with the rest of the MMP > > Or you can sit at my “Never been to Costco, don’t really wanna” table. I’ve been to Costco with friends and I get its attraction (along with other bulk clubs like BJs, Sam’s, etc.), but a membership has never been worth it for this single gal. Can we just have a “Costco isn’t for me except for maybe a hotdog every now and then” table? 😁 > [@Chefguy](#): > > My beloved Le Creuset enameled Dutch oven got chipped when I was trying to get off some really tough food residue I’m so sorry for your loss. ☹ > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > We sold more product IN THE FIRST HOUR today than we’d made that whole night. Woah! > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Whiskers, tiger ears, glow-in-the-dark shirt Adorbs! 😃 > [@missred](#): > > Nothing like getting roused out of your apartment by someone pounding the door yelling “FIRE!” Holy crap! I’m so glad no one was hurt and the building wasn’t damaged. But that’s exactly what happened to my family 50 years ago, when a fire started in the apartment above ours (the occupant fell asleep while smoking). I was two months away from turning 5: one of my earliest memories is of hearing the pounding and yelling, then being on the sidewalk, and then being in an ambulance with my mom because I’d gone into shock. > [@LH75](#): > > The quilt. Gorgeous! > [@peedin](#): > > _Young Frankenstein_ Solid choice. 👍 > [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Chloé and her victim: That. Is. Awesome. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2026, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-spot-of-good-news-in-the-mmp/1034165/326 "2026-11-01T18:01:28Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Didn’t know you folks do anything like that over there. Too much overexposure to American movies and TV? (Will you be taking a Guy out for a walk Thursday?) It’s _from_ Scotland, you guys pinched it it from here! Of all the bloody cheek… Locally it’s still often known under the older name of ‘guising’; kids would dress up and go house to house, then sing a song or tell a joke or something in exchange for a treat of some description. Some of my now former irk mates still insist on the joke or song. I have seen a bunch of kids doing ‘penny for the guy’ exactly once in my life. I think that died out in about the '70s. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2026, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-spot-of-good-news-in-the-mmp/1034165/327 "2026-11-01T18:06:42Z")
From Daughter’s FB post: > Tobias: I’m a grumpy old man! > Me: If you want to be a grumpy old man, you have to say “Get off my lawn!” > Tobias: I don’t have a lawn! 🤣 RDOS mode continues. I printed out the recipes I wanted. I also ordered and scheduled installation of the dishwasher we’ve giving Daughter and SIL for Christmas (OK, a bit early.) Their dishwasher is awful - the door won’t stay closed without major effort. And luckily for us, the one they chose is on sale, plus rebates for the appliance and installation. So yay! And only the basement clock remains to be reset. I’ll do it when I go downstairs. Whenever. For now, it sounds like too much effort. Yanno, because RDOS. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2026, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-spot-of-good-news-in-the-mmp/1034165/328 "2026-11-01T18:10:44Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > movies and TV? (Will you be taking a Guy out for a walk Thursday?) > > It’s _from_ Scotland, you guys pinched it it from here! Of all the bloody cheek… Feel free to take it back! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2026, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-spot-of-good-news-in-the-mmp/1034165/329 "2026-11-01T18:24:13Z")
Biscuits and gravy this morning, as is usual on Sunday. No real plans for dinner. Donated my Dutch oven to the dumpster this morning in anticipation of the new one arriving tomorrow. In a major fuckup in prior planning, management arranged for the elevator contractor to shut down one of our elevators for repairs on election day. How stupid is this? Also, since our van is awaiting parts, anybody in a wheel chair is out of luck for a ride to the polling place. I hope they all voted by mail. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2026, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-spot-of-good-news-in-the-mmp/1034165/330 "2026-11-01T18:36:17Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > but partly because I’m a terrible person. 🥺 Ummm… Wrong. Caregivers have to take care of themselves, too. When **Mrs Magill** had her cancers, all the “how to care for your sick loved ones” books had at least one chapter dedicated to making sure _you’re_ okay, too. Too many people try to make caregivers feel bad fot including themselves in their priority list. Think of it like the oxygen mask on an airplane. You put yours on first before you help anyone else, otherwise you have two passed out people. > [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@Aspenglow](#): > > > > **Mollie** , mmmmm. Stromboli. > > You’ve talked me into it. Big Y has really good ones in their deli section. You all reminded me: When **Mrs Magill** picked up the Strombolis, the guy looked at her funny and said, “You’re not Maus.” They know me by name at the pizza place, and her by name everywhere else. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2026, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-spot-of-good-news-in-the-mmp/1034165/331 "2026-11-01T19:27:28Z")
> [@missred](#): > > The weed dealer upstairs was doing the pounding. They get a bad rep, but IME they tend to be decent people. Your building has one of the really good ones! > [@missred](#): > > Nothing like meeting all of the neighbors at once than standing outside in your jammies Since I don’t like clothing in bed, this could get awkward. (And chilly.) > [@dogbutler](#): > > pizza with extra meow-zarella cheese Dammit, I missed a great opportunity! > [@Taters](#): > > Death Chicken Why is it called that? > [@Filbert](#): > > this time of year when everything’s apparently dying but often not really gives you some bleedin’ obvious symbolism It does? 😜 > [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > I put the pizza in the oven on the “warm” setting. I was really worried that this was going to lead to another “fire!” tale. > [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > wee axe murderer Oh, dear gawds, that is too adorable for words. (The victim’s dress was well-done, too!) > [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Some time in the last twenty years, Halloween became synonymous with pizza night. Okay, I don’t ezzactly have my finger on the pulse of pop culture, but .. dafuq? I missed that memo. > [@nelliebly](#): > > DON’T FORGET TO CHANGE YOUR CLOCKS! I happened to be derping on my phone at 1:59 am and had the strange satisfaction of watching the clock go from 1:59 to 1:00 a.m. (“Woah, man, I was like, in the _future_ man!”) > [@Filbert](#): > > features in some really old legends, where it’s mentioned like it’s something that would need no explanation Hundreds upon thousands of years from now, the ancient tales will talk of “Netflix and chill” and anthropologists unearthing their remains will conclude it was a mystical healing spell possibly connected to primitive fertility rites. > [@liirogue](#): > > I didn’t know that chipping enamel meant the cookware was no longer safe to use I didn’t, either. We be fightin’ iggn’rance over heah! Genuinely, thank you @Chefguy I would’ve thought it was OK to go ahead & keep using. > [@SCAdian](#): > > Now I have the Oak Ridge Boys in my head, singing “Delilah” instead of “Elvira”. … and now, I do too. I’m not sure whether to thank you for the entertainment, or curse your ancestors, for planting this earworm. > [@SCAdian](#): > > wonder how long it will take my phone to reset this time. Last fall, IIRC, it took a couple weeks, and this spring it was close to a month. Is your phone a cartoon prop from The Flintstones? (I thought they either immediately update, or they don’t at all. What’s with a multi-week delay, and then it’s good?) > [@Misnomer](#): > > I’m feeling a little selfish at the moment Burnout is a very real thing. It almost always is accompanied by feelings of guilt. But please, do take care of yourself. (You know the old airplane thing, you can’t help put on someone else’s oxygen mask if you’ve passed out first.) On re-read I was ninja’d, but imma keep it, to add a voice to the choir. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Daughter’s FB post Practical kid. * * * Was up’n’about before my alarm - my gawds, having two Early Out shifts back to back is niiiiiiice - so I’m having a leisurely pre-work “breakfast”\[1\] while Monkey enjoys a heavily supervised roll-around in the sunshine on a sprinkle of catnip. * * * 1. Chicken cordon bleueueue (oven baked while I derped on my phone) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2026, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-spot-of-good-news-in-the-mmp/1034165/332 "2026-11-01T19:29:09Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I would’ve thought it was OK to go ahead & keep using. Me too. I checked online to be sure and everything I read was very adamant about NOT continuing use. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2026, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-spot-of-good-news-in-the-mmp/1034165/333 "2026-11-01T19:39:01Z")
Cleaning is done, trash and recycling are out, and load #3 is in the washer. Canes are up 1-0 after one. I do dinner between 9 and 10p.m. > [@Filbert](#): > > this time of year when everything’s apparently dying but often not really gives you some bleedin’ obvious symbolism. “Your friend here is only mostly dead.” - Miracle Max > [@Taters](#): > > I wish they would just keep us on standard time. It’s actually better for you because it follows the circadian rhythm. I’d be fine with it. > [@peedin](#): > > I swear I know all the dialog to YF. _BLUCHER!_ > [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > wee axe murderer 🤣 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2026, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-spot-of-good-news-in-the-mmp/1034165/334 "2026-11-01T19:51:50Z")
We went into town, Ms Peach got to visit with her friend Echo and they caused a ruckus in the office. She also got lots of pets from other coworkers. I’ve made a tradition of taking her into the museum on Sundays to visit with the boss’s pup. Then went and voted. Then to the grocery sto. Now second load of laundry is sloshing. BLT ingested, waiting for the handegg I’m interested in to start in a couple of hours. > [@dogbutler](#): > > BLUCHER! Whinny!! And a crack of thunder. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2026, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-spot-of-good-news-in-the-mmp/1034165/335 "2026-11-01T19:54:18Z")
Have dined at the Olive Garden and am now at the gym doing penance. Rain has finally stopped but everything got nicely soaked so there is that. Filled my gas tank for less than $5 thanks to a ton of Kroger points and that should get me to somewhere on the road to Brother’s for Thanksgiving before the next fill. Checked the accounts and all is well finance-wise. That should take care of the major duties of the day. Back on the treadmill for round 2–400 more calories to burn. ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2026, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-spot-of-good-news-in-the-mmp/1034165/336 "2026-11-01T20:04:15Z")
> [@peedin](#): > > I watched Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931 version with Frederick March, and boy howdy, was it creepy) Oh, yeah, I forgot - I watched that one, too. The scenes where Hyde’s tormenting Ivy are especially painful to watch. And not because it’s a sick fantasy. That looks like a lot of the horribly abusive, and not uncommon, domestic relationships one reads about. The later version of this movie with Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman is also good (and creepy), and the same scenes are just as disturbing. Yeah, I blinked at that pronunciation of Jekyll, too. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2026, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-spot-of-good-news-in-the-mmp/1034165/337 "2026-11-01T20:25:21Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Wow! You said that quilt is 9’X9’? What are your plans for it when it’s done? > [@liirogue](#): > > **Hippie** that is a beautiful quilt! What do you usually do with your quilts once they’re done? This will be the third full size quilt I have finished, all three 9x9. Sunflower has two that size. We just rotate them on our bed. One of Her quilts is flannel front and back and double batted. When the winter is deep and the wind howls, that is warmth for the souls as well as the body. My other finished quilt is 6’6" x 6’6". This is the one I keep in my den and roll up in if I need to sleep on the couch ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2026, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-spot-of-good-news-in-the-mmp/1034165/338 "2026-11-01T20:26:01Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > because changing the clocks also means changing the batteries on the wall clocks, The kitchen clock that needs new batteries is the only one that hasn’t been changed. I change the living room and bedroom clocks and skip the car clock entirely (I’ve been doing this long enough that I know what season I’m an hour off). Chloe and MrsMagill are adorable, **mollie**. Trash is out and I’m fixing to take Nelson on his afternoon constitutional. I’ll start chopping veggies for supper around 1530 (eggroll soup). I’ll play around in the studio until then. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2026, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-spot-of-good-news-in-the-mmp/1034165/339 "2026-11-01T21:10:56Z")
Soaking up rays(he goes slightly ginger in direct sunlight) [![](https://64.media.tumblr.com/1707cd1d7aeabbe96956e7628ed67b28/36a38a558f775721-a5/s540x810/00f30a28ea89b1d148ebc6d37080b27a22689b32.jpg) ](https://64.media.tumblr.com/1707cd1d7aeabbe96956e7628ed67b28/36a38a558f775721-a5/s540x810/00f30a28ea89b1d148ebc6d37080b27a22689b32.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2026, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-a-spot-of-good-news-in-the-mmp/1034165/340 "2026-11-01T21:15:21Z")
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