# Sneezing All Over The MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [April 8, 2019, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneezing-all-over-the-mmp/832208 "2019-04-08T10:43:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneezing-all-over-the-mmp/832208/21 "2019-04-08T21:59:29Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > **Butters** , glad the Dr. Appointment went well. So did mine, and instead of a colonoscopy, there is some type of ‘do it at home’ kit they’re order for me that gives the same degree of accuracy as having a camera shoved up your…bottom part. ‘Nethers’. We calls that part of you [‘nethers.’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHFuzbeTPew) I am intrigued. This is the first I’ve ever heard of a do-it-yourself colonoscopy. Does it find polyps? That’s mostly why my gastro guy wants to look up my nethers every 5 years or so. > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > **Bumba** , don’t you worry while hiding their carts somebody will come along and hide yours? Nope. I can handle two carts at once. 😃 I have had a problem at costco however when having to visit the facility. They don’t want people taking their carts into the bathroom, but there really isn’t any good place to leave it in the interim where it won’t be grabbed by an employee thinking it’s been abandoned. You know; a ‘Potty break corral’. Hey **Sunny**! Glad to see you again. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2019, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneezing-all-over-the-mmp/832208/22 "2019-04-08T22:45:08Z")
> [@Bumbazine](#): > > ‘Nethers’. We calls that part of you [‘nethers.’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHFuzbeTPew) > > I am intrigued. This is the first I’ve ever heard of a do-it-yourself colonoscopy. Does it find polyps? That’s mostly why my gastro guy wants to look up my nethers every 5 years or so. Well, I could stand to hear a little more, **Bumba** 🆒😉 Don’t know much about it, but I have no family history of colon cancer or diseases and my 55-year ‘scoping’ was clean, so I’ll try it and report. **Sunny!!** Don’t be a stranger round here. **Scribe** , interesting story (and didn’t know you were a lady) but I have nothing in terms of shared experience to comment on it. Just live the life you are most comfortable with, get help if it becomes uncomfortable, and just enjoy the company of us crazy people here in the MMP. Need to get some dinner here in a minute (no soccer due to all the rain) and then get about some serious internettin’. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2019, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneezing-all-over-the-mmp/832208/23 "2019-04-08T23:02:50Z")
**swamp** , I feel your ACHOO pain on the tree pollen. **Mooom** , I’m surprised sunny Merrylande doesn’t have trees doing the dirty yet. We have a similar climate here in Tennessee and have been seeing tree buds for a month. **bumba** ,I like your sense of mischief. 😛 Welcome back **sunny**! Akiko pup sounds like she’s growing up to be a smart pupper. It’s been a busy day. My boss is out until Wednesday, my manager’s replacement isn’t due to start until the 22nd, the other manager in my department began training for her new position today and I had to be the grown up in the department. :eek: Other than that, laundry is washing/drying, the floors are vaccuumed and supper is being et. I’m trying to find a tax preparer to take my paperwork to since the company didn’t sponsor the tax bus this year. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2019, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneezing-all-over-the-mmp/832208/24 "2019-04-08T23:18:29Z")
\*\*Red \*\*- trees are just starting to bud, so pollen won’t be too far behind. We’re having a nice thunderboomer rain right now - those are great for pollen abatement. SIL has gotten home, so I’m off Roxy duty. I’m thinking this will be an early night - I was dozing off a few times holding the baby. All this fresh air is kicking my butt! I checked my work email - there will be work waiting for me tomorrow - Doug, Josh, and Baby Engineer all came thru. Guess that means I should get some good sleep tonight. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneezing-all-over-the-mmp/832208/25 "2019-04-08T23:19:56Z")
Ripple got jumped at the park today. He handled it well. He backed up, looked at the other dog with his _you are a bit of an asshole aren’t you_ look, shook himself, and trotted off. So much for shar pei aggression. It’s cooling off quickly this evening, and suppose to rain. I hope so, I didn’t water the garden today. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneezing-all-over-the-mmp/832208/26 "2019-04-08T23:31:47Z")
**Bumba** if you’ve had polyps or have a family history of colon cancer, you have to do the full test. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneezing-all-over-the-mmp/832208/27 "2019-04-08T23:35:59Z")
its basically a poop test where they test for certain enzymes and if there present you go in for the camera test …… although its had mixed results ive heard …. ---
**Author:** ![Anxious\_Squirrel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anxious_squirrel/32/1083_2.png) [@Anxious\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anxious_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneezing-all-over-the-mmp/832208/28 "2019-04-08T23:53:27Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Well, I could stand to hear a little more, **Bumba** 🆒😉 > > Don’t know much about it, but I have no family history of colon cancer or diseases and my 55-year ‘scoping’ was clean, so I’ll try it and report. > > **Sunny!!** Don’t be a stranger round here. > > **Scribe** , interesting story (and didn’t know you were a lady) but I have nothing in terms of shared experience to comment on it. Just live the life you are most comfortable with, get help if it becomes uncomfortable, and just enjoy the company of us crazy people here in the MMP. > > Need to get some dinner here in a minute (no soccer due to all the rain) and then get about some serious internettin’. Thanks! I worried if maybe it was too much information. I’m still learning people’s nicknames. Is yours Steele? ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneezing-all-over-the-mmp/832208/29 "2019-04-09T00:18:15Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > and my head doesn’t help matters That could describe a number of Mumpers. > [@swampbear](#): > > I’m gay… \*\*WHAT??? Swampy’s gay??? \*\* \*IJNGO > [@Bumbazine](#): > > I am intrigued. This is the first I’ve ever heard of a do-it-yourself colonoscopy. It’s really quite [simple](https://thoughtcatalog.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/headupass.jpg?w=786&h=786) We is in full bloom for the Japanese Cherry trees; got some pics & then ended up walking into Da Hood…w/ my good camera. :eek: but made it home w/o incident. ETA: There is something flying…in the house. I think it’s a stink bug that’s circling the chandelier, but soon to be circling the drain. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneezing-all-over-the-mmp/832208/30 "2019-04-09T00:19:06Z")
A Little Rock social worker specializing in anger management is accused of fatally shooting a former Saint Mark Baptist Church pastor and injuring his wife in their west Tennessee apartment on Thursday, authorities said. [OH-Kay.](https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/apr/08/little-rock-social-worker-arrested-fatal-shooting-/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Afternoon%204-8-19&utm_content=Afternoon%204-8-19+CID_d068c7aa5629d550d14cc40fc3897e46&utm_source=Email%20Marketing%20Platform&utm_term=READ%20MORE) “You broke my heart,” She was reloading the magazine when the cops showed up. Memo to self: Always carry two extra mags. However, there is good news here. Memphis cops did not kill a Black Person who committed a crime; they shot her with a bean bag shotgun. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneezing-all-over-the-mmp/832208/31 "2019-04-09T00:19:43Z")
> [@TheMysteryWriter](#): > > Thanks! I worried if maybe it was too much information. I’m still learning people’s nicknames. Is yours Steele? It’s usually **MetalMouse** or **Rusting Rat** , but I like that; **Rustington Steele**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneezing-all-over-the-mmp/832208/32 "2019-04-09T00:40:36Z")
Howdy Y’all! Home from Vestry meetin’ over to the church house. ‘Twas the rollickin’ time it always is. 😃 Actually been home for about forty-five minutes but took care of a couple things before comin’ in here. I know. I need to work on my priorities. Tomorrow I shall head over there to perform a kind of solemn [del]church janitor[/del] Junior Warden duty of placin’ a plaque on a columbarium niche. Not a hard task, two screws, two endcaps, and a phillips head screw driver. Then I get to call a family member and report the plaque is in place. Here’s a weird fact. The blank plate that I will remove can be returned to the manufacturer of the columbarium niches for a thirty-five dollar refund. I learnt that this evenin’. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2019, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneezing-all-over-the-mmp/832208/33 "2019-04-09T01:25:44Z")
**Scribe** , mostly **metalmouse** , the name comes from a Science Fiction series I’m fond of. And don’t worry, I’ve been here over a year and a half and I’m still learning names. (Oh, and when you’re not ignoring **Spidey** , just step away slowly… **flytrap** , that’s an interesting post, but I suspect you had a different thread in mind. **Shady** , the doc seem to have confidence in it, so I’ll report to the Mumpers once I try it. **Sari** , glad Ripple was a cool-headed pup. To celebrate my check-up at the Doc’s I went to Logan’s Roadhouse and consumed a Meatloaf dinner, which was probably not good for my overall health but sure did taste good. Still dripping rain outside but the tunder-boomers seem to have moved on. All y’all take care. ---
**Author:** ![Anxious\_Squirrel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anxious_squirrel/32/1083_2.png) [@Anxious\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anxious_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneezing-all-over-the-mmp/832208/34 "2019-04-09T01:41:49Z")
**metalmouse** That’s super cute. I like it!!! I’m close to 10,000 words and have 4 murders so far. The kitty has been sleeping all day in the round flower pot on the front porch. I made macaroni & cheese, the big box, so that takes care of the next 3 meals. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneezing-all-over-the-mmp/832208/35 "2019-04-09T01:56:20Z")
lol rat I once celebrated a 25 pound weight loss with a 4 hour pig out at hometown buffet id been on a 15 k a day diet for a month …… ---
**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:** [April 9, 2019, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneezing-all-over-the-mmp/832208/36 "2019-04-09T02:04:09Z")
Bless you, **swampy**! Spring has sprung all over the Pacific Northwest and the pollen is drifting in yellow clouds on the breeze. I have been loading up on all the anti-allergy meds save for one, my prescription strength flonase. That’s one I use year 'round and haven’t been able to since December. I believe it was **Scribe** who mentioned TMI, well, here is some! The steroid in the Flonase caused a sore in one of my nostrils, and being prone to staph, well, it’s been rather awful and I still have a sore in my nose. The most irritating part for me is that I am an inveterate scab picker, (OCD) but I cannot get at the scab in my nose! Rawr! I believe that I have gotten ahead of myself when I was ordering plants and tubers. So far I have received three raspberry pink delphiniums (to go with the blue, lavender, and white delphiniums I already have), five carnations, and a Rose of Sharon aka a hardy hibiscus, in blue. I have several more perennials coming, along with twenty dahlia tubers. I have five dahlia tubers from last summer. If all goes well, it will be a dahliariffic summer! In the meantime, I have weeding to do. So. Much. Weeding. I don’t remember if I told you guys, but I lost the last of my Kodiak home bred Pomeranians two years ago, Satine left me while in my hands as I was giving her sub cu fluids, and it truly broke my heart. Last year one of my friends from Alaska let me know that she had a female she was retiring, so I now have Arctic Poms Covered in Kisses, call names Smoochie, Little Girl, and Kissy Face. She is an eight year old black and tan, but she is wolf sable factored so her bib and part of her tail are silver. Kissy is a wonderful, sweet-tempered and funny girl. My heart needs a Pommie around. Well, I have laundry to fold, so for now, I’m in the wind! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneezing-all-over-the-mmp/832208/37 "2019-04-09T04:56:24Z")
> [@TheMysteryWriter](#): > > Miss Patches got to spend her first night outside last night because my dad accidentally let her out, and I assume couldn’t find her again. I bet she had fun. She loves outside soooo much! And she gets shut inside on Sunday mornings cos she likes to walk into the church and meow during services. Now she’s eating her last breakfast and doesn’t seem any worse for the wear. Just very hungry!!! I know its an old church joke but ---------- I know a church that actually lived through it. They had a mouse in the church who sort of did a couple run-throughs several Sundays in a row. It got to almost be something people looked forward to; the little dart of brown followed by a few eeeeks :eek: from people in the pews. So they made him an official member of the congregation ------- and his/her attendance started to drop off. So next was electing Mr Mouse to Council. And the mouse was never seen again. They have a small mouse statue in the entrance-way in memory and tribute. 🙂 > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > **ruble** , haven’t heard many new stories from Da Jungle; things settling down there or just a new bunch getting broken in? One is shaping up; the rest are probably hopeless. One manager wrote a friend a final/third warning (for the first offense; go figure) for fixing a pallet the same day another manager gave another friend a big reward for fixing a pallet. :smack: We had a roundtable with the Idiot-In-Chief the same day and sort of questioned WFT??? and didn’t get fired for it -------- yet. But there is always tomorrow. The lack of any sort of common ground between the bosses makes it tough on us. Like tonight, it started with one and one “standard work” and then an hour and a half in we had to move to the relief-bosses version of “standard work”. It makes it ---------- interesting. I got to shine a little tonight; we had 2.5 trailers worth of things headed for Maryland and only 2 trailers to put it on. So I went all old-school stacking like our original Site Lead taught us and fit it all on 1.5 trailers. Logistics was MUCH happy with me. I’ll end up screwed some way; Da Jungle loves to punish success. But it made me all nostalgic for the Early Days. (2014 🙂 ) > [@Spiderman](#): > > \*\*WHAT??? Swampy’s gay??? \*\* > \*IJNGO Somehow I expected that. We could try that with our Newbie but somehow \*\*WHAT??? Scribe’s asexual??? \*\* doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. 😃 Sorry **Scribe** ----- Leviticus made me do it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Anxious\_Squirrel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anxious_squirrel/32/1083_2.png) [@Anxious\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anxious_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneezing-all-over-the-mmp/832208/38 "2019-04-09T05:14:39Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > I know its an old church joke but ---------- I know a church that actually lived through it. They had a mouse in the church who sort of did a couple run-throughs several Sundays in a row. It got to almost be something people looked forward to; the little dart of brown followed by a few eeeeks :eek: from people in the pews. So they made him an official member of the congregation ------- and his/her attendance started to drop off. So next was electing Mr Mouse to Council. > > And the mouse was never seen again. > > They have a small mouse statue in the entrance-way in memory and tribute. 🙂 > > One is shaping up; the rest are probably hopeless. One manager wrote a friend a final/third warning (for the first offense; go figure) for fixing a pallet the same day another manager gave another friend a big reward for fixing a pallet. :smack: We had a roundtable with the Idiot-In-Chief the same day and sort of questioned WFT??? and didn’t get fired for it -------- yet. But there is always tomorrow. The lack of any sort of common ground between the bosses makes it tough on us. Like tonight, it started with one and one “standard work” and then an hour and a half in we had to move to the relief-bosses version of “standard work”. It makes it ---------- interesting. > > I got to shine a little tonight; we had 2.5 trailers worth of things headed for Maryland and only 2 trailers to put it on. So I went all old-school stacking like our original Site Lead taught us and fit it all on 1.5 trailers. Logistics was MUCH happy with me. I’ll end up screwed some way; Da Jungle loves to punish success. But it made me all nostalgic for the Early Days. (2014 🙂 ) > > Somehow I expected that. We could try that with our Newbie but somehow > \*\*WHAT??? Scribe’s asexual??? \*\* > > doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. 😃 > > Sorry **Scribe** ----- Leviticus made me do it. 😃 _teeeheee_ Y’all are a riot. And thanks for the church cat and mouse story, I hadn’t heard it before. I would love to attend a church with a church cat. We don’t really have mice around here, but we do have rats, and Patches is very good at catching them. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2019, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneezing-all-over-the-mmp/832208/39 "2019-04-09T10:19:56Z")
Morning all! The trees have been gettin’ it on round here for a few months already, luckily I don’t appear to be allergic, so I only notice 'cos the bees like the pollen. It’s another day of car wrangling here in ol’ Blighty. This episode is ‘trying to sell the old one’. So far, the only offer I’ve had is from the local Facebook buy and sell group, from someone I suspect is about 17, who offered to swap it for a fish tank. Hopefully I’ll get a call back soon from one of the ‘We buy your car for £££’ online people, as the ‘We swap your car for fish tanks’ company never really got off the ground… It’s a nice sunny day, and I’d like to go out and make the most of it before the inevitable rain later, but I s’pose I’d better stay in and get on with stuff. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2019, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneezing-all-over-the-mmp/832208/40 "2019-04-09T10:49:48Z")
Late getting out of the house because daughter and SIL were late getting Roxy ready. It’s amazing how much more traffic there is 10 minutes later than I usually leave! My desk and chair were covered in papers, but several were for the guy who shares my desk, so my pile o’ stuff isn’t that bad. I’m about to dive in. After I finish my cottage cheese and pears. \*\*Kai \*\*- yay for puppehs!! New faces can never really replace the old ones, but it’s amazing how fast they can create their own niches in your heart! Happy Tuesday!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneezing-all-over-the-mmp/832208.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sneezing-all-over-the-mmp/832208.md?page=3)