# Slightly more than a 3-hour tour – a sea-going MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [August 7, 2006, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-more-than-a-3-hour-tour-a-sea-going-mmp/367664 "2006-08-07T09:24:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-more-than-a-3-hour-tour-a-sea-going-mmp/367664/341 "2006-08-11T19:08:53Z")
[QUOTE=Exgineer] Damn right. This “metrosexual as the ideal male” crap has to stop. We have no need for a word like “metrosexual” anyway, because we already have perfectly servicable terms for these guys, like “wimp,” “crybaby,” “momma’s boy,” and “sissy.” [/QUOTE] And Tony. That’s the name of a friend of mine’s boyfriend who knows a lot about French food, wine, and living in D.C., and nothing about power tools, plumbing or installing a water heater. Friggin’ useless - a 40+ year old man who’s afraid to install a garbage disposal. And goes to a barber to get his nose hairs trimmed. I just pull my out with my fingers. **rigs** Spring-loaded? I didn’t even think of that. Definitely worth looking for. Thanks! **mika** we have ruby throated hummers. Thanks for the links. We are in the planning stages for next year’s landscaping now. In fact, I have some new ammunition to get rid of that box elder tree that I hate that’s in the backyard. I had the POrkin man come by earlier today (I took a long lunch) to find the source of the ants that have been invading our kitchen the last few days, and they’re living in that tree. Seems it’s starting to die on the inside, and all kinds of insects are moving into the hollow spots in there. Yahoo!!! Fire up the chain saw!!! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-more-than-a-3-hour-tour-a-sea-going-mmp/367664/342 "2006-08-11T19:15:02Z")
[QUOTE=Sean Factotum] And goes to a barber to get his nose hairs trimmed. I just pull my out with my fingers. [/QUOTE] Boogers and all? 😉 I have my earlobe hair trimmed when the barber is doing his/her job, but that’s a matter of practicality. The last time I tried to cut the grampa hairs myself, I cut up my ears pretty good… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-more-than-a-3-hour-tour-a-sea-going-mmp/367664/343 "2006-08-11T19:15:30Z")
[QUOTE=Sean Factotum] And Tony. That’s the name of a friend of mine’s boyfriend who knows a lot about French food, wine, and **living in D.C.** , and nothing about power tools, plumbing or installing a water heater. [/QUOTE] (Emphasis added.) Well, _there’s_ your problem. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Yep, here, too. Sleek and sexy. All over the place. We know, hot stuff. We know. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-more-than-a-3-hour-tour-a-sea-going-mmp/367664/344 "2006-08-11T19:18:03Z")
[QUOTE=Sean Factotum] **mika** we have ruby throated hummers. [/QUOTE] I am _so_ juvenile. \ ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-more-than-a-3-hour-tour-a-sea-going-mmp/367664/345 "2006-08-11T20:07:30Z")
[QUOTE=Draelin] I am _so_ juvenile. \ [/QUOTE] Took long enough. It shot right past **swampy**. And there are no boogers attached to my nose hairs. Have a good weekend, y’all. See you Monday. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-more-than-a-3-hour-tour-a-sea-going-mmp/367664/346 "2006-08-11T20:16:29Z")
[QUOTE=swampbear] **EC** it was for Diet Dr. Pepper. Why do I know that? Cause I like Diet Dr. Pepper, so I remembered. If it had been sump’n I don’t like I wouldn’t remember it. Mind like a sieve here! 😃 [/QUOTE] I’ve got a mind like a steel colander. You’re another Diet Doctor freak? \ GULP! \ To steal an expression of yours - that online FedEx thingie and the ability to scoot down to Kinkos to drop off outbound packages at literally any time is jake. I’m an eBaying, FedExing package ninja - more often than not, I sneak into Kinkos at 10 PM, slink past the copiers, drop off a box at the counter and evaporate before anyone even looks up and sees me. Much better than UPS as they close at 6:00, so I have to wait until weekends. Same for the post office, but they have longer lines. [QUOTE=anyrose] Mop heads, mop heads Roly poly mod heads Mop heads, mop heads sweep them up. yum. [/QUOTE] May I respectfully submit a better last line: Wring them out. Yum! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-more-than-a-3-hour-tour-a-sea-going-mmp/367664/347 "2006-08-11T20:21:58Z")
[QUOTE=gotpasswords] [QUOTE=anyrose] Mop heads, mop heads Roly poly mod heads Mop heads, mop heads sweep them up. yum. [/QUOTE] May I respectfully submit a better last line: Wring them out. Yum! [/QUOTE] I defer to the superiority of that lyric ---
**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:** [August 11, 2006, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-more-than-a-3-hour-tour-a-sea-going-mmp/367664/348 "2006-08-11T21:59:29Z")
Nay!. Sorry, I have to work all weekend. At least the weather is better, it’s 80 and I have windows open. **gt** FedEx ninjas: When you have to flip out and kill someone _now_. I feel your pain **Ex**. I gotta shave my ears twice a week. :eek: I use the trimmer on my electric razor. **Sean** , My eyboard aslo neeeeds an upGrade. **swampy** , I have 2 mops and a swiffer. Time for food! and beeverages! ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-more-than-a-3-hour-tour-a-sea-going-mmp/367664/349 "2006-08-11T22:26:26Z")
**Swampy** , I have four mops: a boring sponge-on-a-stick mop, one of the ones with a washable head with all the little fabric pieces going everywhere that you twist to wring, a hardwood floor mop, and a clorox readymop. So, today was first day of having an apartment. We don’t have any stuff there, but we set off bug fumigators, and I’m going to go spray poison around too. There’s no evidence of bugs, and they have a bi-monthly exterminator come around. (Can you tell that bugs freak me out?) It was actually kind of funny, because there was a wasp lazing about in there right before we set those off, and we wondered where he would end up dying. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-more-than-a-3-hour-tour-a-sea-going-mmp/367664/350 "2006-08-11T22:28:31Z")
Haven’t read today’s MMP yet. I’ll do so in a moment. I’d just like to say: WOO!!! and HOO!!! My cable has been restored by the cable company’s 2 rockingest repair guys. It was, to understate it, logistically difficult to get to the pole, but they did it and reconnected me and they were here just after 5 and, most importantly: It works now!!! Yay!!! :::: Does elaborate happy dance :::: Back with more later, but I had to share NOW! GT ---
**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:** [August 11, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-more-than-a-3-hour-tour-a-sea-going-mmp/367664/351 "2006-08-11T22:36:08Z")
Welcome back to normality, **gt**! So far, so good with the firing. I keep running downstairs to make sure it’s doing what it’s supposed to be doing. And it is. Yay! In theory, when I wake up tomorrow, my first made-at-home batch of stuff will be cooling down, and after we get back from boat-cleaning, I should be able to unload the kiln. Then the decoration begins. Now I gotta figure out what cleaning stuff I need to take tomorrow. And how many garbage bags. And how many rags. Man, I’m tired out already!! ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-more-than-a-3-hour-tour-a-sea-going-mmp/367664/352 "2006-08-11T22:59:17Z")
**sean** --google birds unlimited. They have several stores and do ship stuff. I think I got mine at Frank’s at its going out of business sale awhile back. Good luck. Eating on the porch tonoc, wish I could sleep out there as well, but work tomorrow, so must get real shut eye. See ya all on Montag morgen. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-more-than-a-3-hour-tour-a-sea-going-mmp/367664/353 "2006-08-12T00:52:32Z")
OK…now I’ve surfed around a lot, read all of today’s MMP posts, had dinner and relaxed a bit. Thanks for the welcome back, **FCM**. Short summary for **Meeks** : - Lightning hit/bounced off tree and caused picture 1. - Dopey tree guys came and hacked off fallen and other droopy branches. Hauled off large objects, but left some leaves and small branches. - GT and neighbor picked up. - See last pic. - No pic, but the cable you can see draped over the right corner of the garage in the last pic has been replaced by cool cable guys and is now allowing me to write this from home. And, so you don’t need to go hunting for the link: [Here it is again.](http://www.bubbleshare.com/myalbum/54268.f109f3c9d90) Yay!!! (Did I mention I’m deliriously happy?) My mop inventory: 4. One old-fashioned rope one. Two sponge mops. One Swiffer mop. All that talk of hair in odd places ::shudder::. Doesn’t bother me IRL, but reading about it… ::shudder:: Thanks for the hummingbird links, **Mika**. I really really really want to have hummingbirds (and actually have plants that should attract them), but somehow they never seem to make it to my garden. My friends have them, but not me. ::pouts:: Oh, and do we get to see pics of the blouse? I, too, am strongly in favor of a great weekend. My allergies have picked up again, for some reason. Hoping to get rid of them, since I need to be healthy for my trek to Michigan on Friday. Wow, sounds like DH has a major clean-up on his hands, **gotti**. Bet he’s liking the challenge, though…? Hee…liked the Lutheran squirrel joke, **Bobbio**. I’m sure I’ve missed stuff. Gotta go back and get caught up on additional surfing. Back later, maybe. GT ---
**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-more-than-a-3-hour-tour-a-sea-going-mmp/367664/354 "2006-08-12T01:24:32Z")
Why all the hate for squirrels? My dad is the same way, and his frustration knows no bounds when he is bird watching and a squirrel leaps/hops/scurries onto one of his bird feeders. I always have both bird and squirrel feeders set up so everyone is happy. I love squirrels, and even though they are a rodent, well, bunnies are rodents too, and how cute are they? (Very!) We lived on Pillar Mountain for a few years, and I had squirrels bold enough to come in the house, hop on my lap and take peanuts from my hand. Fox, too, except for the lap part! Well, and the peanut part too, the fox preferred meat! Here I have three eagle pairs very close to the house, and I have not seen a single squirrel. We moved last September and I had skiffman put up the two bird feeders, but evidently they are not well placed. We had a few birds visit them earlier this Spring, but with all the rain this summer I now have sprouted seeds which need to be mown. I miss hummingbirds, even though we do have Rufous hummingbirds in Alaska I have never seen one. Skiffman reported one summer that he saw one while he was in the skiff making a set. Tiny little hummingbird, out over the open water, buzzed in to check him out! Freaked out the skiffman, I’ll tell you! “Slept like a baby” _snort_! Four kids later and **I** know what a ridiculous saying that is! #2 daughter didn’t sleep through the night until she was four years old, it was more like twenty minute naps and then she **had** to have mama. Every once in a while I try to get skiffman to let me at least thin out the mono brow, but he says not just no, but hell no! I had an interesting encounter with a head once. I was working on the f/v Gladys R baiting up for a halibut opener. It was a sunny, warm day, and the boat was anchored in a pretty spot to the side of the channel. I needed to _go_ so I climbed around the stern and pulled the door toward me. I miscalculated the space and the door knocked my glasses off my face and into the water. I was seriously tempted to dive in after them, because I am as blind as a bat without them, but that water is always cold, and I thought better of it. I stumbled around for a couple of months until I made it into Kodiak and got a new pair. It was on that boat that I learned where the expression “the shitty end of the stick” comes from…yeesh!!! Hey **Drae** Xanax gets me through my flights too! I hope that you have a wonderful vacation! The Manamanah song is one of my mom’s favorites. She’s always been a little silly! **gotti** it sounds as though your husband has his hands full with his new job. Whew, the best of wishes to him. Good on you **fcm** I hope that every piece comes out exactly the way you want, and that you sell out quickly at your craft show, maybe become a world famous potter…maybe I get carried away sometimes, but I really do hope that all of your pieces come out nicely! I sing too **rosie** and wish you the best with your quartet. I love working on harmonies, it’s so much fun, 'specially when you get it right! Yay for **mika’s** mad sewing skillz! I have a very nice sewing machine my mom gave me, but it’s mostly a dust catcher. That was some impressive tree damage **gt** do you like the new openness of the area now that it’s cleaned up, or are you gonna miss the tree hanging over the fence? I am doing the happy dance for the restoration of your services, I hate it when we have outages. So far the drizzle has held off, although the sky is sunny for a bit, then overcast. My bones are achy, which means the rain is coming. The stew will be simmering away here in a few minutes, and then I’ll be cleaning house so I will only have to do the minimum over the weekend. Yeah, right. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-more-than-a-3-hour-tour-a-sea-going-mmp/367664/355 "2006-08-12T01:36:20Z")
kai - are you in Sweet Adelines up there in the hinterlands? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-more-than-a-3-hour-tour-a-sea-going-mmp/367664/356 "2006-08-12T01:48:31Z")
**Ellen Cherry** - check your email - then [click here](http://s17.photobucket.com/albums/b75/anyrose/?action=view¤t=TheMuppets-Manamana.flv) ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-more-than-a-3-hour-tour-a-sea-going-mmp/367664/357 "2006-08-12T02:15:25Z")
I _love_ that video, **rosie**! GT ---
**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-more-than-a-3-hour-tour-a-sea-going-mmp/367664/358 "2006-08-12T08:54:26Z")
No **rosie** we don’t have the Sweet Adelines here, at least not on Kodiak. I remember a neighbor who sang with a Sweet Adelines group back in the 70’s, she enjoyed it a lot. I just love to sing, and I began playing guitar, again, back in the 70’s. I was a theater/choir rat all through high school, our Concert Choir always went to State and we always took the highest marks. I also sang in the Girls Swing Choir, and had a chorus part in _Carousel_. Our Drama Club had several musical members, one of the guys played a 12 string very well, and along with a couple of the other guys, myself and my two best friends we did a lot of both impromptu singing as well as being asked to perform by both the school as well as for a couple of events in town. (It was a very small town!) Lots of church singing, both in the choir as well as solo and small group. I was in _South Pacific_ here in Kodiak with The Arts Council before I decided that I preferred to work backstage. There are many musicians here, and groups form, break up, and re-form. I continue to sing at church, and even if arthritis has slowed my fingers down too much to do any real guitar playing I still sing, and #3 daughter is musically inclined so I am teaching her the basic techniques of singing and to harmonize . hehe, The Son also enjoys singing, but we have been noticing that his voice isn’t very stable right now, so he is waiting for his voice to pick a range before he gets too loud with us! 😃 A life without music would, for me, be unbearable. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-more-than-a-3-hour-tour-a-sea-going-mmp/367664/359 "2006-08-12T12:57:31Z")
What? No one’s up yet? I slept in a bit and have been enjoying my renewed ability to get to internet for a while. Trying to figure out what to do with the day. Maybe I’ll go get coffee. GT ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-more-than-a-3-hour-tour-a-sea-going-mmp/367664/360 "2006-08-12T13:34:21Z")
I’m awake, and just about to drink tea prepatory to leaving for the Market, wherein I will meet Quasi-Daughter and we will buy things for this evening’s barbeque. I don’t know what to make, yet. It’s supposed to be beautifully cool again, today. I am happy. Mr. Lissar will not let me remove blackheads from his nose. Am I the only one who feels compelled to remove blackheads? Yuck. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-more-than-a-3-hour-tour-a-sea-going-mmp/367664.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slightly-more-than-a-3-hour-tour-a-sea-going-mmp/367664.md?page=19)