# (Old) Face Off Against Moanday: A Start Of Hockey MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [September 22, 2025, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-face-off-against-moanday-a-start-of-hockey-mmp/1023284 "2025-09-22T05:23:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 33
**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:** [September 22, 2025, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-face-off-against-moanday-a-start-of-hockey-mmp/1023284/33 "2025-09-22T18:42:48Z")
Started Typing: 2:06 PM ET Clicked Reply: 2:42 PM ET The remainder of my birthday passed with an appropriate level of sloth. 😁 I learned from a friend on FB that there was going to be an Earth, Wind & Fire special on CBS at 8pm, but it didn’t start until 8:20 so I watched the end of _60 Minutes_ for the first time in a bajillion years. Andersoon Cooper did a segment on monarch butterflies, which was oddly fitting: when I was born we were living in Carmel, CA, and one day a monarch landed on my stroller…my mom (who died almost 10 years ago) associated them with me from then on. I’m not the “_OMG my mom was visiting me on my birthday!_” type, but it did feel kind of appropriate to stumble across a report about monarchs. 🙂 (Related story: I’ve collected Swarovski crystal since I was in high school, and shortly after Mom died I saw that they had a figurine of [an angel holding a butterfly](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Swarovski-Crystal-Figurine-ANGEL-WITH-BUTTERFLY-5407431/733880920). I’m also not the angel type, but I _had_ to get it!) > [@(Old) Turning up the heat in the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-turning-up-the-heat-in-the-mmp/1023053/321): > > I am sitting here on my birthday watching Earth Wind And Fire singing about the “21st Night In December”. _PERFECT!_ September. 😁 But yeah, so did I! Belated happy birthday! > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > You are _SMRT_!!! I have my moments. 😃 In fact, here comes another one… > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > For these things, shouldn’t they be called ‘corn _maises_’? > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Oh, well done, sir. I believe the word you’re both thinking of is “[maize](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize).” 🙂 > [@LSLGuy](#): > > an entertainment level quake Phew! > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Best part was, someone was driving by, slowed to a creeping stop, rolled down his window, and yelled “GOBBLE GOBBLE!” and fifteen little heads simultaneously swiveled … there was a moment of tense stillness .. and then everyone went back to whatever they were doing Ha! 😂 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-face-off-against-moanday-a-start-of-hockey-mmp/1023284)._