# (Old) Gobble, eh? A Metric Thanksgiving MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [October 12, 2026, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-gobble-eh-a-metric-thanksgiving-mmp/1033772 "2026-10-12T06:28:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-gobble-eh-a-metric-thanksgiving-mmp/1033772/141 "2026-10-15T13:27:00Z")
Mornin’ everyone. It’s 50F, dark, and cloudy. Today’s forecast calls for morning fog, afternoon sun, and a daytime high of 71F. I rotate two sets of sheets, and I don’t rotate my dinnerware or glasses. I received new stoneware as a gift last Christmas. I had Christmas china for many years, but I got rid of it during the Great Purge. I have a set of china somewhere that was given to my mother, and I will eventually get rid of it if my sister doesn’t want it. If I remember correctly, she wanted my mother’s fancy china that was never used. I don’t live that way, and I am perfectly happy with my stoneware. It’s nice and simple, a matte, flecked kind of white color. **Shoe** , I’m glad your mother is home and recovering, and I hope it’s going well. **Bright Tree** , I hope your leg is feeling much better today. **JtC** , yay for getting all the permits! The pups are due for their Bordetella shots next month, so I’ll need to set up an appointment. A German/Polish restaurant that’s been around for years and was even featured on Diners and Drive-Ins is finally shutting down. The owners, one of whom was the cook, are retiring, and I can’t blame them. To be honest, I thought the food quality had declined in recent years, but I know my mother liked going there. My sister and brother-in-law often took her there on outings. At any rate, I’ve found another German restaurant with a more Bavarian slant north of me, so my husband and I will check it out soon. There isn’t much going on around here; the usual errands and puttering around the house and garden. I have one dahlia that is still producing massive flowers (dinner plate-sized). So, I continued to water all the posies because a lot of them are still blooming. The day before yesterday, the birds were going wild in my yard. I had flocks of them; a family of Northern Flickers (I usually only see pairs), flocks of Robins, Townsend’s warblers, all the usual Black-Capped and Chestnut-backed Chickadees, Juncoes, Stellar Jays, Red-Breasted Sapsuckers (which I rarely see in my yard), Nuthatches, Fox Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Red-Winged Blackbirds; just flocks of all these birds, all at once. If Maisie noticed them and barked, they’d lift off, and it was like 50 birds taking off all at once. It was nuts and really cool to see. I love the Townsend’s warblers; they’re so colorful. I’m not sure what I’m doing today. Maybe bike riding, maybe just some errands. I’m not really in the mood to spend any money, and when I get like this, I know it’s best to listen to that mood. Alrighty, I need some more coffee. Please take care of yourselves. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2026, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-gobble-eh-a-metric-thanksgiving-mmp/1033772/142 "2026-10-15T13:51:16Z")
I have my high school ring in my jewelry box. No way I can wear it any longer, not that I care that much about my high school. The band is slightly flattened from carrying heavy luggage. I never got a college ring - all I wanted out of Purdue was ME, with a degree, of course. I gathered all the household trash - there was lots more than I expected. I’ll load it into my car shortly and I think I’ll take it right away. **FCD** is here and he can deal with the HVAC tech if he shows up while I’m gone. So time to get trashy. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2026, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-gobble-eh-a-metric-thanksgiving-mmp/1033772/143 "2026-10-15T14:02:21Z")
I didn’t want a high school ring. My high school was good, but I longed to escape to college. I bought my college ring years later, when I could afford it. I chose a pretty dainty one and wear it occasionally. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2026, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-gobble-eh-a-metric-thanksgiving-mmp/1033772/144 "2026-10-15T14:16:37Z")
Good morning. **Mrs Magill** and I voted yesterday. We then did our weekly provision gathering, grabbed a quick dinner and come home to **Spike** , who’d just gotten home for fall break. I forgot to move the recycling to the curb last night, but the recycling dude waited patiently for me to bring it around. > [@JaneDoe42](#): > > No Kings this Saturday, be there! Thank you for the reminder. I’ve just added it to the family calendar. > [@JaneDoe42](#): > > Mom had one of those, but she also had a full sized cedar chest. **Mrs Magill** has a full sized cedar chest. I have no idea what’s in there. I think it’s been opened once since we’ve been married. Either it’s full of the heads of her past lovers, and she’s been playing the long game; or it’s full of old sweaters. It could go either way. I learnt SNAFU from the Intellivision game. It was a legally distinct Snake game. Mattel claimed SNAFU Situation Normal, All Fouled Up. Even at the age of ten, I wasn’t too sure about that “F”. I learnt FUBAR a little later. I still tend to use it sometimes. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I bought some ground beef at Aldi yesterday and I need to do something with it today. Publix had rump roasts on BOGO yesterday. We came home with two four pound roasts that have been vacuum sealed and put in the Deep Freeze for later consumption. I still have my high school ring and my college ring. My father is in Rotary with the admissions dean at NC State. He let us leave our rings in the NC State Bell Tower overnight a couple of years ago. Now, I have an extra special class ring that won’t fit over my knuckle anymore. Have a good day, everyone! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-gobble-eh-a-metric-thanksgiving-mmp/1033772/145 "2026-10-15T14:45:09Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I have my high school ring in my jewelry box. No way I can wear it any longer, not that I care that much about my high school. The band is slightly flattened… I found mine several years ago, and hung it on a hook where we hang keys. The band is slightly flattened, and it’s tarnished. I wasn’t a fan of gold, so I got the high-mount ‘argentus silver’. I wish I’d opted for the low-mount gold, but there you are. I have no desire to wear it, but I wouldn’t like to get rid of it. Our school team was (is?) the Rebels. My ring has a confederate soldier’s bust on a crest, flanked by U.S. and Confederate flags. A charging Confederate cavalryman is on the other side. The following year, the soldier was changed to a cartoon version. Really sad that our mascot was a Loser. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2026, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-gobble-eh-a-metric-thanksgiving-mmp/1033772/146 "2026-10-15T15:06:48Z")
I worked with a guy who was embarrassed that he got his engineering degree from West Virginia. So he would wear his father’s University of Florida ring. I dunno - seems to me unless you went to Doug’s University of Engineering and Bowling, where’s the embarrassment? Then again, Larry was a pretender in a number of ways. I decided to take a chance and go to the convenience center, so that chore’s out of the way. Two full bags of garbage, a bucket of cat crap, 3 bags of recycling, and a box full of cardboard, all out of the garage. Yay! Then I did some roll-suckage. Now I wait for a call from the HVAC tech. I’ll head to my studio after lunch and ready things for the grands this weekend. I think I know what I’ll teach them. I may even do some stuff myself this afternoon. We shall see. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2026, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-gobble-eh-a-metric-thanksgiving-mmp/1033772/147 "2026-10-15T15:16:05Z")
I lost my class ring a couple of years after I graduated. Up, caffeinating, breakfasted and fixing to do KP. After, I shall shevel and go to the grocery store. I have a gnawin’ and a cravin’ for fried chicken, so I may hit the drive thru at Hartz this evening. Y’all have a great day! ---
**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:** [October 15, 2026, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-gobble-eh-a-metric-thanksgiving-mmp/1033772/148 "2026-10-15T15:18:27Z")
Assorted school rings are one of those mysterious 'Murrican school rituals to me, like the mysterious rite known as ‘homecoming’\[1\] and the graduation rank system. Not that I would expect any of you but **BooFae** to know what graduating from university with a Desmond means… Not a very inviting day outside, a bit wet and very overcast- the forecast said it would be nice, it lied- so I have barely set foot out so far. Did the laundry anyway, and I’m heading out later to meet some people at the pub, for the first time in far too long. * * * 1. yes I could look it up, no I’m not going to ---
**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:** [October 15, 2026, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-gobble-eh-a-metric-thanksgiving-mmp/1033772/149 "2026-10-15T16:07:04Z")
Have managed nearly perfect slothage for the past several hours, only spoiled by my going out and returned the empty garbage bin to the garage and putting the neighbor’s bin back by their house (they do the same for me on other weeks). So need to get get up and accomplish something…probably fix myself a cheeseburger… **Taters** , hope the new restaurant doesn’t disappoint. Happy puttering around. And onward. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-gobble-eh-a-metric-thanksgiving-mmp/1033772/150 "2026-10-15T16:26:51Z")
Good morning! I’ve been up since around 5:30, but busy with paying work. It’s currently around 50Ferrets and expected to climb to around 80F as the day goes on. Things cool off quite a lot as the week goes on. **Knots** , nicely done with the fridge filters! I usually reset mine once in between changings as it’s just me, and the filters aren’t that heavily used. Seems to work ok, but my fridge is a nag. Seems like it’s always after me to do something for it. I fret over what to do with my “good china” – yet another thing that was mercilessly imprinted on my young mind that I “must have” to be a Proper Married Lady™ (ugh!), and while I still love the patterns I chose, it almost never gets used and takes up a bunch of space. The money that was spent on building that set over the years is breathtaking and can never be recouped. Some days I dream of having one last 7-course meal extravaganza that ends with all my friends throwing their plates and glassware into a roaring bonfire. **FCM** , I have the hope chest, too, though mine was purchased by my parents. I don’t even know what all is in there now. More stuff to soon get rid of, I suppose. Mostly keepsakes that mean nothing to anyone but me. > [@dogbutler](#): > > My new PC is still out for delivery, and the old one is pinin’ for fjords. So I am typing on my phone. So feel free.to heckle me for spelling and grammar mistakes. **doggio** , I don’t think I’ve ever heard you sound so discouraged. I am sorry yesterday was such a bad day. I hope today can go at least a little better. As for heckling you for spelling and grammar mistakes, no. Just no. I hope the PC shows up today and you can avoid phone-typing. As you would say: {{{{ **doggio** }}}} **red** , good luck with the pic line being removed soon! I so hope this is the end of this ordeal for you. You’ve been such a trooper! > [@susan](#): > > Very good news! I agree! Thank you. 🙂 Today things continue to improve. My china is Noritake. I also have a full old set of their day-to-day stoneware. That stuff will survive a nuclear holocaust, it is so durable. I use it now for picnics. What a lovely gift from your lovely wife, by the way! **JtC** , yayyy on the completed permits! Go, you! I am going to try to attend a No Kings rally on Saturday. The Ewe-Jean ones have the highest energy, but with the leg issues, I will try for a smaller one closer to home. Those have also been well attended when I’ve gone. Hope you finished the stitching last night you were in the middle of. LOL, good job on the acronyms, **metal mouse**! I also particularly liked BOHICA, which I had not heard before. 😃 And… chocolate Cheerios? I’ve never seen those. I don’t think I’ll miss them, though. **shoe** , you’ve been busy! Your home environment sounds much improved. Good job! Sorry your sleep was so discomfited, **Cat Glove**. Maybe a nap later on today? > [@Spoons](#): > > I do recall that he once said, “Listen, I was in the Navy, and trust me, a trucker’s vocabulary can make a sailor blush.” I wish I could put you up against my birth mother’s mother. She could out-cuss anyone I ever met. Left me speechless the first time I ever heard her let fly. My goodness! **BooFae** , enjoy Kris Barras! I get what you mean. **swampy** , boring but tasty is a win, in my book. Happy mowage! **Taters** , your dahlias sound jaw-dropping, and I love that you had the bird congregation in your yard! Enjoy your day, whatever you decide to do with it. 🙂 Yayy for voting, **Mollie**. I’m keeping an eye on my mailbox to see if my ballot shows up today or tomorrow. It will be a quick turnaround to a drop box as soon as it shows up. If it shows up. If not, I’ll be in line at my elections office on Tuesday. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Our school team was (is?) the Rebels. My ring has a confederate soldier’s bust on a crest, flanked by U.S. and Confederate flags. A charging Confederate cavalryman is on the other side. The following year, the soldier was changed to a cartoon version. Really sad that our mascot was a Loser. Mine, too, exactly the same! I hated it. Our school newspaper was called the Rebel Record. When I became editor, I tried hard to change it to the Oatmeal Press, which I considered the height of wit in those years. No one went for it, though. All these years later, they’re _still_ the Rebels. How cringe. Enjoy your pub time, **Nut**! And if you ever care to explain what graduating with a Desmond means, I’d love to learn about it. 🙂 * * * Almost time to rouse Ollie and get ready for the day. I’m headed to town to meet a friend for lunch and run a few errands while I’m there. Will return home reprovisioned and set for another couple of weeks. A quick MMP story: About 2 months ago, I kept smelling a distinctive garlic odor every time I opened the kitchen door. I always have fresh garlic around, but it doesn’t usually smell unless I’m actually chopping it up. I keep the garlic in a hanging basket, so it was easy to source the stink. I casually grabbed the bag of 2 heads and moved them into the fridge. Whereupon they began to stink up the fridge. I finally inspected them more closely and discovered that both heads had gone bad! I can’t recall this ever happening before. Fresh garlic keeps a long time. These heads were only a couple weeks old. So I put them into a plastic container I was throwing away and put it into the trash. Whereupon they began to stink up the area where I store trash until I’m ready to transport it to the tip. So I located the plastic container with the stinky garlic heads in it and moved it to the trash freezer. They can stink up that freezer in the workshop all they like. Good grief, I’m sick of those two rotten garlic heads! Hope everyone has a delightful day! ---
**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:** [October 15, 2026, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-gobble-eh-a-metric-thanksgiving-mmp/1033772/151 "2026-10-15T17:20:47Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > And if you ever care to explain what graduating with a Desmond means, I’d love to learn about it. 🙂 It’s rhyming slang, so it’s supposed to be non-intuitive. UK university grades go, from best to worst: 1st class, 2.1, 2.2, 3rd, ‘pass’ and fail. I don’t know why it’s not 1,2,3,4, but it’s not. A Desmond is a 2.2, named, of _course_, for the South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu. A 3rd is also known as a ‘Gentleman’s degree’, while a 1st is sometimes known as a ‘Damian’, as a rhyme for the British modern artist Damian Hirst. I don’t recall ever hearing a nickname for a 2.1, but I’m sure there is one. Yes, we do do this just to confuse people. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-gobble-eh-a-metric-thanksgiving-mmp/1033772/152 "2026-10-15T17:22:07Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > Yes, we do do this just to confuse people. You do! And thank you for explaining. I learned about rhyming slang from my late Down Under husband. I _do_ know what a septic tank is. 😉 ---
**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:** [October 15, 2026, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-gobble-eh-a-metric-thanksgiving-mmp/1033772/153 "2026-10-15T18:54:50Z")
I received a wonderful compliment today. Martin, the Vet tech, asked me if I was a teacher before I retired. I said no, I was a librarian. He said that I have a very educated and deliberate way of speaking, unlike himself who says um and eer all the time. I thanked him and I said I have worked very hard not to say those filler words. This is one of the nicest things anybody has ever said to me. I have just fed Ursala Kitteh and apparently she thinks that wasn’t sufficient. She is now wandering around my feet meowing at me. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2026, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-gobble-eh-a-metric-thanksgiving-mmp/1033772/154 "2026-10-15T19:01:18Z")
Update. Saw the Guy at dinner yesterday. He invited me over. Went there, he dozed off for an hour, then woke and said you can spend the night if you like. I said I need my chocolate and toothbrush so he walked me there and back. Stayed up talking til 2. I went to go to the bed and he doesnt want anyone including himself on the bed. His dog, okay. I slept on futon Still wondering if hes not trying anything as hes not interested or wants to take it slow. When we were outside he said I like to take it slow, apropos of nothing so maybe. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2026, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-gobble-eh-a-metric-thanksgiving-mmp/1033772/155 "2026-10-15T20:08:15Z")
They had me and J in early for training, along with 2 guys who had never done it before. So I ended up on the 300 Sort Table again. It seemed slow, at least till they stopped the belts, and we were buried with clerk work(including a cart of irregs). Once again there was a lot left behind, even with the drivers started late. Damaged and retapes looked less hideous, apart from some lady who shipped a very old award with some old charmsabnd pics from the 40s. In a used Amazon box. With 1 layer of bubblewrap. And least the award survived, even if the frame was toast. Speaking of which, when a drive can’t do a delivery, they are supposed to do a crossmark and write in the date, attempt time, initials, and a code for why. One of the drivers uses a Sharpie instead of a pen, and rounds his "d"s, so his DMG(damaged) looks like _ **OMG** _. I got out at one, and did my Senior Day shopping. Now I’ve had a can of soup. And waiting for Da to deliver my PC. It’s supposed to be here between 2 and 6, but with my luck, they came in the 8 minutes I was in the shower between 2:07 and 2:15. Also Spot was not happy I was late. And gave mean and earful, and kept trying to trip me. Me: “Dude, are you actively trying to.kill me?” Spot: “Of course I am trying to kll you, you ninnyhammer, I am a predator!” > [@scareyfaerie](#): > > managed to drop a 30kg bell on his hand and snapped his thumb backwards. 😮 \< faints \> > [@Taters](#): > > Maybe bike riding, Cheap fun and exercise. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Doug’s University of Engineering and Bowling I’d be proud to wear that sweatshirt. > [@Aspenglow](#): > > I fret over what to do with my “good china” – yet another thing that was mercilessly imprinted on my young mind that I “must have” to be a Proper Married Lady™ In the South, you’re still considered living in sin till you get a deviled aig plate. > [@Aspenglow](#): > > **doggio** , I don’t think I’ve ever heard you sound so discouraged. Not discouraged, just irked. Vexed, even. It’s hard to be discouraged when you have a warm cat and a cold martini. ---
**Author:** ![Kitten\_Mitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@Kitten\_Mitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitten_Mitten)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-gobble-eh-a-metric-thanksgiving-mmp/1033772/156 "2026-10-15T20:12:30Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > I took a beastloaf outta da freezer Thank you for mentioning; I immediately got up and took 1/2# of ground turkey and ground beef out of the freezer to thaw for stuffed bell peppers that I’m making on Saturday. > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > only one I remember from college was the Master Batters Hubs’ sister and BIL had a cottage up north and were in sort of a cove where all the peeps within were friendly and had a competition each year to see who would catch the most fish. The trophy was named the Master Baiter. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Our school team was (is?) the Rebels South High School in Bakerfield? Our best man went there. I also lost my class ring several years after I graduated when I was a Camp Counselor and left it in my shoes on the sand when we took the kids down to the lake to swim. About 30 years later, a young man, well not that young because he was just 2 yrs younger than me, showed up at my Mom’s door with the ring. He had worked at the Camp several years after I did and somehow found it in the sand, took it home since we had attended the same HS intending to check his HS yearbook from the year I graduated. It ended up in a catchall drawer in his mother’s kitchen. Someone finally got around to cleaning out that catchall drawer and decided to check the yearbook. So, I got it back but of course it doesn’t fit so it’s in a jewelry box. The coincidental thing is that his Mom was my catechism teacher in 12th grade and we had lived on the same street about 6 or 7 blocks apart. Work was unremarkable. I’ve just been an RDOS since I walked home and will continue as such. It’s overcast so kind of dreary; doesn’t give one much motivation. Hope your day is sunny, either literally or metaphorically. ☀ ---
**Author:** ![Kitten\_Mitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@Kitten\_Mitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitten_Mitten)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-gobble-eh-a-metric-thanksgiving-mmp/1033772/157 "2026-10-15T20:17:29Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > They had me and J in early for training Because you were training others or you were being trained? I have to think you were doing the training; you’ve been there so long you must know it all. > [@dogbutler](#): > > Spot: “Of course I am trying to kll you, you ninnyhammer, I am a predator!” who does Spot think will take over as his slave? ---
**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:** [October 15, 2026, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-gobble-eh-a-metric-thanksgiving-mmp/1033772/158 "2026-10-15T21:06:37Z")
**Squeaky** got his 31 on the ACT! ---
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> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Did a little looking as it is a good question, and found a couple from purported military sites… > TARFU-- Things Are Really F\*\*\*\*\* Up > > BOHICA–Bend Over, Here It Comes Again. > > FUMTU: F\*\*\*\*\*\* Up More Than Usual BOHICA is in common use in the Navy. I read someplace long ago that during WW II they had JAAFUs – Joint Anglo-American F\*\*\*-Ups. > [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > SNAFU. (My big brother was in the Army, can you tell?) > Situation Normal All F\*\*ked Up. But Doggio was looking for something _stronger_/_worse_ than FUBAR. ---
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The Lidocane patch did its job. I made it through the day without needing the early afternoon advil. I know it is topical, but am hoping that when they get the results from the x-rays something will be found. Never heard BOHICA before. Yay **Squeaky!!** That means he gets a free ride to school? Ms Peach has a case of the inside zoomies…she went out and did dog business, now is back inside being a nuisance. And **a stranger** parked in the driveway next door! Must be woofed at. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-gobble-eh-a-metric-thanksgiving-mmp/1033772.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-gobble-eh-a-metric-thanksgiving-mmp/1033772.md?page=9)