# Someone explain the MMP (Monday Morning Post) to me

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**Created:** [February 9, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-explain-the-mmp-monday-morning-post-to-me/343708 "2006-02-09T17:29:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-explain-the-mmp-monday-morning-post-to-me/343708/21 "2006-02-11T14:56:47Z")

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> [@C K Dexter Haven](#):
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> Sorry. If someone wants to submit a better explanation, I will be happy to amend… I take no ownership here.

Sorry **Dex** I meant that jokingly, and should have included a smiley or something. : thwack :

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**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2006, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-explain-the-mmp-monday-morning-post-to-me/343708/22 "2006-02-11T18:48:03Z")

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That’s the beauty of it!

It doesn’t _do_ anything!

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-explain-the-mmp-monday-morning-post-to-me/343708/23 "2006-02-13T03:52:19Z")

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> [@](#):
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> We’re not bound by rules (other than the rule, that there ARE no rules)

Isn’t that sort of Cretan?

The real irony is, the entire MPSIMS forum originated as a single thread, which (so I’ve heard) very much resembled the Monday Morning Post. What happens when the MMP subsequently becomes a forum itself? And what would the rambling thread in it be, then?

To paraphrase Dawkins, a forum is a thread’s way of making more threads.

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