# (Old) Halfway through the month - Midway in the MMP

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**Created:** [January 13, 2025, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-halfway-through-the-month-midway-in-the-mmp/1012910 "2025-01-13T11:40:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-halfway-through-the-month-midway-in-the-mmp/1012910/400 "2025-01-20T02:21:54Z")

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> [@swampbear](#):
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> Shrove Tuesday

**Swampy**? for you: I’ve always wondered why the Wiskeypalians call the day before Ash Wednesday Shrove Tuesday when much of the rest of the world calls it Mardi Gras, although here in Metropolitan Detroit it’s unofficially called Paczki Day ('cause there were many Poles about)

> [@Baker](#):
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> I won’t be online at all tomorrow. I also won’t have TV on and probably won’t leave my apartment.

Wise decision. Perhaps I will do the same. Or I could just watch a bunch of dvr’d movies, Spartan basketball games- yes, I think that’s what I will do, great idea.

Speaking of Spartan basketball games, the young lads beat the Illini 80-78 today. The diff is the score was the 2 FTs that Frankie Fidler made (formerly of Omaha) when the Illini coach got a Tech. So, they’re now perfect in Big 10 games at 7-0 with an overall of 16-2. Last week they were ranked #12 in the nation. With the win over the Illini (last week ranked #19), I’m hoping they move into the Top Ten. They currently sit first in the Big Ten. And that’s today’s sports report.

> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> Steering wheel was very cold; car predates heated steering wheel technology.

Daughter gave me a lambswool steering wheel cover a few Christmas’s ago; what a diff it makes, particularly in winter but also in summer.

**Sticky** hope all the cough remedies help mitigate your symptoms and that you are able to get well soonest.

Finally took that walk I mentioned yesterday. While out, ran into another Spartan who also watched today’s game and we chatted about that and the 2014 Rose Bowl. We both would like to get to the Rose Bowl to see a regular season game against USC some year.

**lily** what about throwing an extra blanket or two or a comforter or another quilt on the bed?

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