# Soon be Turkey Day - a winding-down MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [December 21, 2015, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993 "2015-12-21T09:42:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/21 "2015-12-21T18:33:20Z")
And, oh yeah, it’s not Turkey Day this year - we decided we’re having slow-cooker corned beef and cabbage. Because we can. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/22 "2015-12-21T19:00:26Z")
We are having Cornish Hens, dressing, gravy, turnip greens, cranberry sauce and I think that is all. One of my employees made me a banana cream pie with some homegrown bananas I bought her. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/23 "2015-12-21T19:19:12Z")
We’re having turkey and baby back ribs. For some reason, my husband’s family considers ribs to be a Christmas treat. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/24 "2015-12-21T20:03:46Z")
The windows are open and the fresh air is making the apartment smell clean. Lunch was et. Nappage may occur or it may not. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/25 "2015-12-21T20:08:04Z")
I declare irktime over. YAY!!! In a little while I shall head over to the church house to get things done for steak night. 'Tis gloomy out. Rain is expected to begin tonight and be heavy. We could get as much as eight or nine inches of rain in the next twenty four hours. :eek: I have no idea what I shall be feastin’ upon on Crimmus Day. I’m hopin’ it’s chikin pie cause I lurves me some chikin pie. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/26 "2015-12-21T20:24:51Z")
Well, rats - looks like we could be driving in rain all the way tomorrow, which could make for a slower trip. ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/27 "2015-12-21T20:31:26Z")
Well that sucks **Moooommm** Y’all do be careful. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/28 "2015-12-21T21:04:15Z")
Can I still has a blurf after lunch? Not enough sleep, I think. Plus deadlines. Raining. ``` Trying soylent (tm) for breakfast and lunch. On the up side, my traffic cone shaped cookie cutter came in. ``` But I may not have enough time to bake the cookies and bring them to work before everyone is off. I’m the only person not taking time off around the day. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/29 "2015-12-21T22:28:03Z")
Huzzah, huzzah! Our replacement credit cards showed up just in time! That’s a relief - having to keep track our how much was left in checking was just sooooooooooooo stressful! 😃 I do think it was foolish of them to send the PINs at the same time - separate envelopes, but still - dang!! Not that it really matters - we don’t use the PINs, and I think I’ll change them anyway, just because. Still gotta pack. Higgs is being bathed so she won’t stink any more. The timer on the light works - yay! Now our house will look occupied in the evening. ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/30 "2015-12-21T23:16:35Z")
Home finally. tahred. I am getting a new toilet seat. One of ours broke so I ordered one from Amazon and was surprised to see that I could have had it gift wrapped :eek: Anyway it will be here on the 23rd. Just in time for Christmas 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/31 "2015-12-22T00:13:12Z")
Time to log off and pack. _ **MWAH!!** _ ---
**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:** [December 22, 2015, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/32 "2015-12-22T00:26:13Z")
**yeller** , will your traffic cone cookie cutter double as a Santa hat cookie cutter? 😛 I drove home and did errands in the rain. When I stopped at the pharmacy, , my copay was wayyyyy more than I had planned. It seems that my PCP wrote a script for five times as much insulin as I actually take. Since I’m on a sliding scale, it would hav been two year’s worth, 1.5 years worth after the expiration date. They kindly repackaged it in a fourth sized package. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2015, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/33 "2015-12-22T01:54:54Z")
Howdy Y’all! Home from men’s night over to the church house. A good time was had by all. There was a bigger crowd than anticipated, but it was all good as there was enough sallit, baked N.O.T., and bizkits, but da bear had to scramble to get more plates, forks, steak knives (fortunately we had enough of those), and bowls for everybody. The clean up crew was right on spot as well, so as we left everything was cleaned up and the dishwasher was doin’ its thang. Mayhaps I shall be gentleman enough and make a trip over tomorrow and empty the dishwasher so that those who are there for the Christmas Eve brunch won’t have to do so. In other news, the rain is almost upon us and it looks like a very soggy Tuesday, Wednesday, and into Thursday time for us, but with much warmer temps. **MOOOOOOM** it does indeed look like it’ll be rain for y’all all the way to Flahrduh. Y’all be safe! I shall now go check out a couple other things on teh intartoobz and then call it a night. Nitey Nite Y’all! ---
**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:** [December 22, 2015, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/34 "2015-12-22T02:22:31Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Are you the guys that almost always damage my aquarium salt shipments from Foster & Smith? :dubious: Your supplies ALWAYS get damaged? That sounds fishy to me. Maybe you angered someone at F&M and they are doing it on porpoise. 😃 > [@Spiderman](#): > > Skeet/target shooting perchance? I’m thinking we’ve got a catapult large enough to launch a shark; shouldn’t take much to retrofit it to launch a person. I’ve fired rubber chickens out of my mortar ----- I could be talked into getting something capable of launching someone/something else. We could take turns re-enacting History of the World Part I and yelling “PULL”! ---
**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/35 "2015-12-22T02:30:01Z")
Good evening everyone. If you get a chance [watch the Space X launch from tonight and see the world change](https://youtu.be/O5bTbVbe4e4). They managed to safely land the first stage. I will be working a 6 day week myself, and work pretty steady, long days. Such is life working TV. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2015, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/36 "2015-12-22T03:41:06Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Your supplies ALWAYS get damaged? That sounds fishy to me. Maybe you angered someone at F&M and they are doing it on porpoise. 😃 Porpoises are not fish, Dumb Ass, they are mammals, like you and I, and apparently more intelligent than you. :dubious: Obligatory Smiley Face. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2015, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/37 "2015-12-22T03:44:39Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > On the up side, my traffic cone shaped cookie cutter came in. > > But I may not have enough time to bake the cookies and bring them to work before everyone is off. I’m the only person not taking time off around the day. You could still bake 'em & then send 'em to me. 🙂 > [@kopek](#): > > Your supplies ALWAYS get damaged? That sounds fishy to me. Maybe you angered someone at F&M and they are doing it on porpoise. 😃 Whale-y, that’s the best you can do? > [@kopek](#): > > I’ve fired rubber chickens out of my mortar ----- I could be talked into getting something capable of launching someone/something else. We could take turns re-enacting History of the World Part I and yelling “PULL”! You are a sick & twisted individual. When are you making out my way to go drinking? ---
**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:** [December 22, 2015, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/38 "2015-12-22T03:45:42Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Porpoises are not fish, Dumb Ass, they are mammals, like you and I, and apparently more intelligent than you. > :dubious: Obligatory Smiley Face. Awww, is someone being crabby? ---
**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:** [December 22, 2015, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/39 "2015-12-22T04:50:13Z")
I worked, I came home. I’m drinking a beer, and making spicey chicken stir fry forlate dinner. > [@Buttercup\_Smith](#): > > We are having Cornish Hens, dressing, gravy, turnip greens, cranberry sauce and I think that is all. One of my employees made me a banana cream pie with some homegrown bananas I bought her. I did a Cajun style Cornish Hen dinner one year(Blackened Hen, red beans and rice, green beans with ham and cornbread and jalapeno cornbread) > [@Buttercup\_Smith](#): > > Home finally. tahred. > > I am getting a new toilet seat. One of ours broke so I ordered one from Amazon and was surprised to see that I could have had it gift wrapped :eek: Anyway it will be here on the 23rd. Just in time for Christmas 😃 I now have an urge to order random, weird items from Amazon ,and have them giftwrapped. > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Porpoises are not fish, Dumb Ass, they are mammals, like you and I, and apparently more intelligent than you. > :dubious: Obligatory Smiley Face. So incorrect sea life puns make you eel? > [@Spiderman](#): > > Awww, is someone being crabby? Nah, he’s just haddock enough tonight. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/40 "2015-12-22T08:06:05Z")
I’ve occasionally wondered about the worldwide calamity that would happen if my employer shut down for Christmas break. But, since we’re what’s called a G-SIB or global systemically important bank, that’s not gonna happen. What else isn’t gonna happen is me going to work next week. Why is everyone floundering around? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993.md?page=3)