# (Old) Dark Skies in the MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [August 24, 2026, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523 "2026-08-24T08:43:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523/201 "2026-08-28T14:07:59Z")
Someone upthread mentioned the ferals. The catman has been feeding them for years. He took them all to get spayed( or neutered? Theyre all females). ---
**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:** [August 28, 2026, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523/202 "2026-08-28T14:57:14Z")
Morning all. Made to about 90% totality before I pooped out and slept till 7am. The Great September Grocery Shopping is about 85% done (need to go to another nearby Kroger to pickup a few more items) and I’ll get them here in a bit, just digesting my pecan sticky bun (my, how delicious). Soccer practice with the 9 year olds today, with games starting tomorrow. Already 83F and heading to 88F, so the AC will be staying on today. **Flyboy** , you are not allowed to be comfortable with a system; that means they must change it up…it’s a immutable law of bureaucrazy. **Shoe** , > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > You wanna guess the sound I made when I walked in? No. No I do not. **BBBoo** , hope the pain now pays off in comfort later, and guess you can join **JtC** in the walking stick group. > [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > I musta angered the gods And the Gods must be Crazy… > [@dogbutler](#): > > > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > > > There should be laws. > > I’ll keep an ion it. Your positive about that? **swampy** , happy wellness time. I’ll see the doc for mine in about 2 months or so when my current prescriptions run out. **boo fae** , good luck with getting the students to do the obvious. **FCM** , I think you’ll enjoy the Alaska cruise, I have done it twice and enjoyed it both times. > [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](#): > > Yesterday I had a new friend over and we made silly clay stuff and sloppy joes. You did differentiate between them, didn’t you? 😉 😁 And guess I’d better go finish the shopping before RDOS syndrome completely takes over and I start opening my You Tubes and comics. Have a good Firday all. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2026, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523/203 "2026-08-28T15:11:27Z")
Happy Firday! Up, caffeinating, breakfasted and fixing to do KP. There are a few phone calls today, unpacking the travel bag and I’ll do a load of laundry. Other than that, RDOS time in the studio. Y’all have a great day! ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2026, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523/204 "2026-08-28T15:19:57Z")
Hey, 2028 Mumpfest in Seattle if that’s where **FCM’s** cruise leaves from? I don’t much do the Facebook thing, but I’m glad you’re getting all the live, **Mollie!** Too cloudy to see the eclipse ☹ ---
**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:** [August 28, 2026, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523/205 "2026-08-28T15:34:43Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Hey, 2028 Mumpfest in Seattle if that’s where **FCM’s** cruise leaves from? Sorry - Vancouver. But if you all book the same cruise… 🚢 I’ve finished the second coat of cetol after fixing up the messy job **FCD** did yesterday. He just lacks the attention to detail when it comes to painting and such - he should have let me do it. But it’s done. And I’ve ingested lunch, so it’s time to start laundry. Rah. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2026, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523/206 "2026-08-28T15:45:33Z")
Another sunny day today. Breakfast was fried taters with eggs and sausage. I don’t usually make this, as the fat content doesn’t agree with me, but the wife likes it. Mostly done puzzling, but the NYT crossword is not making me happy. Exercised (weight day). ---
**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:** [August 28, 2026, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523/207 "2026-08-28T15:54:03Z")
Good Morning, everyone! I slept in for a bit this morning. No sunrise photos, so here’s a puppy dog whose dinner alarm went off an hour early: [![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55493456961_989a804a5b_b.jpg) ](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55493456961_989a804a5b_b.jpg) Last night was Open House for the High School. It was our last one. **Squeaky** graduates this spring, and then we will have an empty nest. **Mrs Magill** is planning on getting T-shirts for the teachers that had all three boys, something like, “I survived all three Magill boys, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.” > [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > Me too. A specific weirdo with the initials CJ Z. > [@scareyfaerie](#): > > **Mollie** I sent you friend request too 🙂 Got 'em! Thank you. > [@susan](#): > > I don’t much do the Facebook thing, but I’m glad you’re getting all the live, **Mollie!** Thank you. Today is a valley day, so the FB love is appreciated. I don’t have as many any more, but when I get them, it still sucks. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2026, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523/208 "2026-08-28T17:01:13Z")
**Fang** just sent us a photo of him earning his [Royal Danish Air Force March Ribbon](https://d2mkojm4rk40ta.cloudfront.net/us-east-1-src/prod/clientUploads/2026-06/08/1/208984/5da67f23-b1ce-4e83-a40b-a74727c071f7-bQj2RC.png). [![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55492628692_30c7179f57_b.jpg) ](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55492628692_30c7179f57_b.jpg) I’ll not share the photo he took of his feet. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2026, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523/209 "2026-08-28T18:00:31Z")
> [@Taters](#): > > I, too, missed the partial eclipse. It completely slipped my mind. It was cloudy here, for the first time in weeks if not months. Of course. Murphy has a nasty little alleged sense of humor. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2026, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523/210 "2026-08-28T18:08:10Z")
Another late Air, and a mad scramble with the driver leaving late. I feel sorry for the one driver, he had 20 tires, 4 of them giant truck tires. Among the rewraps were 3 cases of Staples 8x14" paper going to…_The International Paper plant_. 🤨 Of course driving home a Honda Civic came flying out of the Exxon, and almost t-boned me. Relax dude, it’s not a BMW.(To be fair, Beemers swerve into my lane at high speed from the opposite direction.). I stopped at Teeter for some catfish, a lime, and some [Czech Party Mix](https://www.totalwine.com/beer/lager/czech-pilsner/deep-river-czech-party-mix-pilsner/p/2126285820?srsltid=AfmBOopHlZtWJPmEDMx0Co9aryUDq4YTGfZue4iK4dXDBB65CDmmYJHU) I was also clouded out of the eclipse. > [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > No sunrise photos, so here’s a puppy dog whose dinner alarm went off an hour early: “I saved you from The Invisible Mole People, does this not earn me Second Breakfast?” - Chloé. > [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > **Fang** just sent us a photo of him earning his [Royal Danish Air Force March Ribbon](https://d2mkojm4rk40ta.cloudfront.net/us-east-1-src/prod/clientUploads/2026-06/08/1/208984/5da67f23-b1ce-4e83-a40b-a74727c071f7-bQj2RC.png). Danish? Did he defect? 😉 ---
**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:** [August 28, 2026, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523/211 "2026-08-28T18:26:58Z")
I’m more a fan of the [Norwegian military](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Olav). ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2026, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523/212 "2026-08-28T18:30:36Z")
The Wikipedia article doesn’t say, but do we have any idea if the successive title-holders were in any way related to one another, aside from being the same species? ---
**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:** [August 28, 2026, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523/213 "2026-08-28T18:35:34Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > here’s a puppy dog That is weapons-grade cuteness. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2026, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523/214 "2026-08-28T18:50:53Z")
Hm, not sure; the current holder possibly has a baby on the way, which is being reported as the first there of the species since 2009, and he was picked as a successor in 2008, so it’s not impossible. I suspect not though, or they would have mentioned it somewhere. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2026, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523/215 "2026-08-28T18:59:34Z")
In the last 2 days I’ve gotten calls/voicemail leaving a number with a NYC area code in a vaguely legal-sounding somewhat threatening message. Except the caller is addressing someone with **FCD** ’s first and last name by my middle initial. And it mentions something about our county. I did a search and found a guy in our zip code who has the name, including middle initial, that the caller mentioned. From the look of his FB page, he’s lots younger and _waaaaay_ more right wing than **FCD** ever was. Not that it matters - I don’t answer calls from numbers I don’t know, and a google search of the caller’s number came up as a debt collector/robocall. I’m guessing if it is a debt collector, he just found first/last name matching my phone number and decided to give it a shot. Anyway, that’s this afternoon’s excitement. First load of laundry done, second in the dryer, last in the washer. Good times. I think supper tonight will be grazing. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2026, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523/216 "2026-08-28T19:46:59Z")
We’re starting the day with a roughly $140 order involving SIX POUNDS OF FRENCH FRIES. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2026, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523/217 "2026-08-28T19:56:43Z")
About how big would a normal order of fries be? I’m sure 6 pounds is a lot, I’m just trying for some sense of scale. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2026, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523/218 "2026-08-28T19:57:11Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Vancouver. But if you all book the same cruise… > 🚢 Vancouver is also pleasant for a Mumpfest if our regional folks have passports. I’ve gone to Alaska out of Canada Place. Pretty easy to uae public transit to get there. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2026, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523/219 "2026-08-28T20:06:01Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > so here’s a puppy dog whose dinner alarm went off an hour early: Chloe knows how to work the cuteness, doesn’t she? 🙂 > [@Seanette](#): > > About how big would a normal order of fries be? I’m sure 6 pounds is a lot, I’m just trying for some sense of scale. Still frozen, it’s about the size of a big a$$ bag of Ore Ida. Time to throw the wash in the dryer. Slowly, but surely, things are coming together. Once I get an appointment set with the nephrologist, I need to ask about safe pain relief, since the one drug that I was on is out of the question now and likely, forever. I have opiates that I don’t like to use unless I have to, cause, yeah all of the side effects. **shoe** , you are likely more familiar with Texas MJ laws than I (they weren’t strictly enforced in TN), but I’m thinking some gummies might be what I need. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2026, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523/220 "2026-08-28T20:21:21Z")
That stomach bug I had a couple weeks ago really took it out of me. I just achieved mowage, but had to stop and rest 4 times doing it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-dark-skies-in-the-mmp/1032523.md?page=12)