# (Old) Spot the Lunatic - A Cat MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [November 18, 2024, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spot-the-lunatic-a-cat-mmp/1010390 "2024-11-18T07:54:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spot-the-lunatic-a-cat-mmp/1010390/221 "2024-11-22T00:49:45Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > I think you have us all beat I think **JanetheCane** is the one who doles out the beatings, I’m just oldest runner up and the crankiest. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2024, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spot-the-lunatic-a-cat-mmp/1010390/222 "2024-11-22T00:53:54Z")
Me: \< goes to lie down \> Leafblowers: \< start Mongolian throat singing \> Spot : [![](https://64.media.tumblr.com/24ac50896417a911bf1d0f24531b58f6/c4ada191984b7f7c-5b/s540x810/e39d1deba0da22c38c32be2b39837e3102475cde.jpg) ](https://64.media.tumblr.com/24ac50896417a911bf1d0f24531b58f6/c4ada191984b7f7c-5b/s540x810/e39d1deba0da22c38c32be2b39837e3102475cde.jpg) But now I’m up from naptime, having a margarita and watching some hockey. > [@Bob\_Blaylock](#): > > Short birthday; only lasted a minute. > > It was my sixty-second birthday. A pun like that will get you on a watch list. > [@Paintcharge](#): > > I think I’m pretty close to you, early 50s?. I believe **GodBod** is the real youngster. 1. 54 in February. and you are correct. > [@Paintcharge](#): > > Or maybe I’m crazy. Well, you do post here. But maybe the dirty laundry s laden with dirt, and the cares of the world, and clean laundry isn’t, plus likely less dense due to the dryer cycle. > [@Baker](#): > > What’s the point of being grown up if you can’t act childish once in a while? Yes. \< offers Jelly Babies \> ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spot-the-lunatic-a-cat-mmp/1010390/223 "2024-11-22T01:01:26Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > Yes. \< offers Jelly Babies \> I once went to a sci fi convention as the fourth Doctor, explaining that my current regeneration was having issues. I even made the scarf according to the BBC pattern. ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Blaylock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_blaylock/32/3235_2.png) [@Bob\_Blaylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Blaylock)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spot-the-lunatic-a-cat-mmp/1010390/224 "2024-11-22T01:08:12Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > A pun like that will get you on a _watch_ list.   As long as it references the correct _watch, which is a Casio GW-M500A G-Shock…_ ---
**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:** [November 22, 2024, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spot-the-lunatic-a-cat-mmp/1010390/225 "2024-11-22T01:14:37Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > Or maybe I’m crazy. Look at who you’re hanging out with and think about it. 😉 Then again, maybe wrinkles are heavy? > [@SCAdian](#): > > it’s weird being the same age as old people. I saw this on a t-shirt for sale on FB - I’m thinking I need to buy it. I did my longest bike ride today - 50 minutes total, I think, including a slow warm up and a slower cool down. Something over 10 miles. Now it’s crochet time. My alarm is set for 0615 - I want to get to the Dr office early to get my blood drawn, since it’s fasting and I’ll be wanting to eat immediately after. I will make sure to drink a lot of water in the morning - every little thing to help plump up my crappy veins. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2024, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spot-the-lunatic-a-cat-mmp/1010390/226 "2024-11-22T01:28:16Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > 54 in February You got me by a few months. I’m not till June. Ok, time to trim the beard and look presentable for a finish carpenter interview in the AM. Then maybe I can sell all my tools to the new company? ---
**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:** [November 22, 2024, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spot-the-lunatic-a-cat-mmp/1010390/227 "2024-11-22T01:29:35Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > **flyboy** , well, at least you have the laptop… Hopefully it will be of use sometime soon. I’m in the If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It camp. I connect to VPN on my Mac, then connect to my desktop PC with Microsoft Remote Desktop. It works, only I need to be able to connect to VPN (which is still down), and someone has to turn on my PC after a power failure. With the Lenovo laptop, I only have to connect to the VPN. The laptop is meant to replace the desktop. I ordered a wireless, rechargeable mouse. I could get reimbursed, but I’m wondering if it’s worth it for $8.69. ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spot-the-lunatic-a-cat-mmp/1010390/228 "2024-11-22T01:31:35Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > I’m cleaning out the dark portal to chaos, aka the pantry cupboard. Besides shoe’s suggestion, light colored contact paper is fairly inexpensive and easy to remove when you are moving out and hoping to get your deposit back. Good luck with the neighbors. Moving is always stressful, hopefully they will settle down when they find their spoons. > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I got a (small) raise, my dad got his b-day gift after all, and I’m looking forward to Thanksgiving Day. That is such good news, it was worth waiting for! I’m happy for you 🙂 > [@scareyfaerie](#): > > It’s actually crushed rock salt, but everyone calls it grit because we’re British and we’re perverse like that. That’s something we aren’t going to like back here. In AZ, they spread cinders on the roads and then swept them back up to use later. They use salt here which makes cars rot. > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > One of my blankets seems to bring out the “must knead!” in him. Is it a fleece one? I bought one for Crabby Old Cat and it seems to work for GG and Jolene as well. > [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](#): > > ‘Round these parts you can buy bottled Arby’s horsey sauce at the grocery store. I was thrilled when I saw the bottle cause we didn’t get it back in AZ, hence the hoarding and begrudging. > [@rocking\_chair](#): > > the elevators are so old that when they need a part it has to be made, they are not stock items. Oh dear, I already know that this is going to run over budget. I hope it’s not horrible. > [@peedin](#): > > The furnace was replaced 2 weeks ago but the thermostat was fine. Or so we thought…. Of course it was fine until after the furnace guys were there. It’s in the rules or something. > [@Kitten\_Mitten](#): > > When I leave the house, I do something called 1234. We used to have a doormat that said “Cell Phone? Keys? Wallet?” and it actually worked for a couple of weeks. Back before smart phones and elastic waistbands, my phone always lived in my pocket, but now it lives on my desk where it is easy to forget about. > [@Kitten\_Mitten](#): > > Have to run to get ready for Tai Chi I am happy that you are enjoying it, jealous that you have a class to go to. I haven’t found anything here and online classes just aren’t the same. I do miss them. > [@Paintcharge](#): > > Then I need to liquidate my shop. Anyone need a table saw? I’m so sorry. I hope that working for someone else isn’t too horrible. Best of luck! > [@Paintcharge](#): > > Rolled newspaper, corner, you know the drill. 🤣 Yeppers!!! I think I’m 66. Counts on fingers, yes, 66 until next month. My birthday is so late in the year that I can’t just subtract my birth year 1957 from the current year and get my age. > [@peedin](#): > > One of the ladies at the Barn is studying to be a saddle fitter so I gave her my 1990 saddle to dissect. That was very kind of you, you can’t often find used saddles at thrift stores. I hope she learned a lot from it. I would also assume horse hair was used, human hair is usually used for wigs. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I’ve figured out that instead of asking her to make a choice, I’ll say “Why don’t you…” and she seems to respond better. There might be a time when it is easier to just make a cup of coffee and a cup of chocolate and put them in front of her. She probably doesn’t really know what she will want until she sees/smells it. The end times seems to take everything they have just to sit upright and put things in their mouth, making choices is hard. > [@Seanette](#): > > About to leave for my date with the tortilla press. They aren’t nearly as bad as they used to be. That’s the best I can come up with about the whole situation. > [@kayT](#): > > But just must say I might be the oldest here so far, turned 78 in October. Happy birthday! > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Never made it to the gym this afternoon, I think the hard workouts the last week or so finally told on me, laid down and ended up sleeping nearly 3 hours. I keep telling you, you aren’t 50 anymore! I’m not sure about the gym tomorrow morning. I know the highway will be clear and I’m sure the interstate will be, I’m not sure about the narrow and very winding road leading to the gym. I guess I’ll find out tomorrow. The water was much warmer today than yesterday, but today is the first scheduled swim team meet. Happily the practice sessions are after 1700 so they won’t crowd me out in the mornings. I cannot believe all the stuff I am carrying to the gym every day. I started with a towel, shower shoes, shampoo and a comb. I’ve since added another towel, body soap, loofa, tangle spray, deodorant and now I’m going to have to start packing a blow dryer because it was way too cold to be walking around outside with wet hair. I will be so happy when I finally get it cut, I couldn’t get an appointment before Thanksgiving. It’s been snowing most of the day, but nothing has been sticking so far. It came down pretty strong for a while and GG was mesmerized. Jolene glanced out and I could tell that she saw the movement, but it didn’t affect her like it did GG. Today we learned that we had a smoke alarm in the laundry room. Surprisingly enough, the dead battery beeping started in the middle of the afternoon instead of the middle of the night. That’s a good place for one, we will replace it. > [@dogbutler](#): > > Me: \< goes to lie down \> I love your dresser and vanity. They don’t make them like that anymore ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spot-the-lunatic-a-cat-mmp/1010390/229 "2024-11-22T01:36:05Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > > [@dogbutler](#): > > > > 54 in February > > You got me by a few months. I’m not till June. Now this is a revolting twist~I’m old enough to be your mother. I’ll do my best to not act like it. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2024, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spot-the-lunatic-a-cat-mmp/1010390/230 "2024-11-22T01:50:08Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > I almost don’t wanna play anymore. I hope that some restorative sleep helps you feel a little (or a lot!) better. > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I got a 50c/hr raise. She just wanted to keep it quiet. > > It’s not much, economy-wise. I’m not delusional that this will buy me a Mercedes. > But it’s more that this is - explicitly - how they reward, I dunno, good behavior? This is how they say, “We see you busting your ass.” (It has been quietly but again very explicitly stated, if you do the bare minimum, you don’t have much chance for a raise. Which I’d say is fair.) Yay! You are right. Although the extra four bits are nice, it’s awesome that they recognize your efforts. > [@nelliebly](#): > > It’s over 4’ tall and very deep, and since it’s made out of ~~dark wood~~ particle board covered in coffee-colored contact paper, you can’t see what’s in the far reaches. I have a couple of [these](https://www.amazon.com/GE-Wireless-Operated-Activated-25434/dp/B01JF94TSU/ref=sr_1_7?adgrpid=1344703285164957&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.EOptAxsShbcjRQlEwezIhi4oPvB5Tk2TFFSJNjGozTmMXV1Z1n6IWwmv-072B9O1mQvm5x7RoMcHTKhYAarmLnMtv5DUnwS1DuZotM1NbpaSy646kNaOZYvEbHR8nJJf23HG0BTNFCAQpsjWFjXz8NGkAdcQoI3mFA1xcFCWV0zZOAfMJ0iwSU1OKa7Ncg45g2uyybfU6W3LrvpcKOfp4U5czkZ_pwrOQXrULZR_oAOPOW4-0hiQcfXXUfmREj4Ycg7o7qSPzek5ifSAoxJJlB7e5PlT_qb3UEBfuVcj0KA.LgxQcV-sepBOqie9YG00tr0OiZlZUILaGv15mT5mpeQ&dib_tag=se&hvadid=84044194295259&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=83477&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvtargid=kwd-84044299372198%3Aloc-190&hydadcr=6948_13209895&keywords=battery%2Boperated%2Bcloset%2Blights&msclkid=188b26dd16cd178188ca41e2db778134&qid=1732234687&sr=8-7&th=1) in some of the dark recesses of the studio and they help a lot. Nice work **hippy**! > [@Paintcharge](#): > > Got an interview tomorrow. Then I need to liquidate my shop. Anyone need a table saw? Best of luck on the interview. I hope that a new gig will provide some generous bennies. Once you move out of your shop, do you have a garage or something for some of your equipment so’s you could keep a side hustle going? > [@dogbutler](#): > > A slightly(?) less chaotic day. I zinged my finger cutting a box. The way management acted, you’d think I amputated an arm, and was bleeding out. I did my Senior Day shopping afterwards, now time for a quick nap. I bonked my right eyebrow with a carton weighing ~2.5# today and got much of the same response. Had to fill out paperirk, walk Safety Dean through what happened and when I get back from vacation, will have to go through a review, complete with my suggestions on prevention. Oy vey! > [@dogbutler](#): > > > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > > > can anyone else beat that? > > I’m dangerously close to being the whippersnapper here, at least when **MG** isn’t here > \< jumps up and down on virtual Mumper lawns \> I’m likely one of the older Mumpers still full time in the irkforce. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > He’s got all kinds of tools - Grizzley, DeWalt, Milwaukee, Craftsman, Black & Decker, Delta, and others I can’t recall. Throw Rockwell in there and you have my dad’s shop. > [@JaneDoe42](#): > > I think I’m 66. Counts on fingers, yes, 66 until next month. My birthday is so late in the year that I can’t just subtract my birth year 1957 from the current year and get my age. Mine’s so early in the year that I automatically think of someone in the birth year before mine as the same age as me. TGIT and the beginning of vacation! I’m so ready for time off. I came home from irk, did a couple of loads of laundry, et and did KP, but that was just about all of the energy that I had. Tomorrow morning, I’ll go for my semi-annual PCP check up, pick up prescriptions and a couple of toiletries, come home, do some packing, take Nelson to the dog park to burn some energy off before a long car trip, then load what can be pre-loaded in the car. I’ll hit the road Saturday. Until then, I’m not eating anything that requires dirtying more than a coffee cup or travel mug here at home. Stay safe and healthy y’all! ---
**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:** [November 22, 2024, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spot-the-lunatic-a-cat-mmp/1010390/231 "2024-11-22T02:01:35Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > Now this is a revolting twist~I’m old enough to be your mother. > I’ll do my best to not act like it. [Stepchild]YOU’RE NOT MY REAL MOM![/Stepchild] 😛 ---
**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:** [November 22, 2024, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spot-the-lunatic-a-cat-mmp/1010390/232 "2024-11-22T02:11:41Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > I love your dresser and vanity. They don’t make them like that anymore ☹ I got them as payment for covering a bar tab(along with the matching bed frame). 🍻 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spot-the-lunatic-a-cat-mmp/1010390/233 "2024-11-22T02:16:27Z")
Between heavy cold and heavy snowstorm I’ve been at home all week and will likely stay tomorrow as well. Too much coughing and sneezing to go to the office and infect others. But, upside is that I brought work home on the weekend, just in case the weather turned bad, and it did. Working on a big project that I can never quite get to, but being trapped in the house with a computer that has working VPN ( 😉 ) has let me actually get some of it done today. Hope to get more done tomorrow. No snow falling, and low wind, so just -8 tonight. Had to do a grocery store run (one **must not** run out of toilet paper, even when coughing up a lung!), and the air actually had that lovely winter crispness and fresh snow scent that we vainly waited for all last winter. Maybe this winter will be more like normal. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2024, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spot-the-lunatic-a-cat-mmp/1010390/234 "2024-11-22T02:19:22Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Had to do a grocery store run (one **must not** run out of toilet paper, even when coughing up a lung!), This sounds like an excellent time to avail yourself of grocery delivery. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spot-the-lunatic-a-cat-mmp/1010390/235 "2024-11-22T02:20:41Z")
I wanted to get out of the house for a bit, even for something as mundane as that. Fresh air and all that. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2024, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spot-the-lunatic-a-cat-mmp/1010390/236 "2024-11-22T02:23:24Z")
Just hope you didn’t overdo and set back recovery. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2024, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spot-the-lunatic-a-cat-mmp/1010390/237 "2024-11-22T02:24:30Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > [Stepchild]YOU’RE NOT MY REAL MOM![/Stepchild] And he’s not really my brother!!! But we love you **Boo** ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spot-the-lunatic-a-cat-mmp/1010390/238 "2024-11-22T02:46:06Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > we love you **Boo** It’s mutual. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2024, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spot-the-lunatic-a-cat-mmp/1010390/239 "2024-11-22T02:52:11Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > But we love you **Boo** > [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > It’s mutual. So say we all!(except on Saturday at 3:30pm EST. 😉 🦡 vs. 🌽 ) ---
**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:** [November 22, 2024, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spot-the-lunatic-a-cat-mmp/1010390/240 "2024-11-22T02:55:47Z")
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