# (Old) Get To the Chopper! A Bastille Day MMP

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**Created:** [July 14, 2025, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-get-to-the-chopper-a-bastille-day-mmp/1020844 "2025-07-14T07:28:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-get-to-the-chopper-a-bastille-day-mmp/1020844/4 "2025-07-14T10:55:04Z")

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Mornin’ all! About 0630 and sunrise as I start to dribble. Yep dribble. It’s going to be one of those wet gray days. Isn’t actively raining now, but everything is wet and the temp’s a relatively cold 76/24. Brrr! NWS is cheerfully predicting showers & T-storms much of the day w lots of 1-2"/3-5cm rainfall, and some areas with double or maaybe triple that. Mild street flooding is expected in the usual ~~suspects~~ locales.

Which dampens (heh) my morale, douses any thought of a carwash, drowns my interest in biking or beaching, and leaves me with damned little to do when stuck alone. Seems like a great day for more indoor … sports.

From last week:

> [@A high seas MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-high-seas-mmp/1020586/287):
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> I may be one of few people who have lived in Northeast Maine and San Diego. I spent a summer in Machias, went to school in Orono, and my family is from near Blue Hill. If you ever saw the children’s book _One Morning in Maine_ you saw my great grand father.

Cool! I noticed Machias on the map but picked nearby Whiting as my representative last-place-in-the-US. It isn’t quite, but it’s close. Sorta like **Flyboy** ’s town.

So yeah, you get the lived-two-corners award as well. 😁

A good friend of mine has a cabin on one of the many islands just off Freeport. He & wifey spend a bunch of each summer up / out there. I’ve been once and the nothingness there is really pretty. And the ~~furriners~~ locals talk real funny. Good times. 😉

  

From upthread:

**Boofae** : But what about the guy’s beard?!?! Enquiring minds want to know! And yes, safe travels. But only after a fresh yummy pizza.

**Swampy** : You sure know how to play this game. Always with the good eats and the easy livin’. I might get to be you once I grow up but that’ll take work, and I’m an RDOS to my newly minted RDOSsy core.

  

Other than that, _nada mas_ here at CasaLSL’s outpost in one corner of the country. Onward into the meaty part of the week. Cheers!

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