# Tales of a Louse - Tall Tales in the MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [February 27, 2006, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-a-louse-tall-tales-in-the-mmp/346303 "2006-02-27T12:53:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-a-louse-tall-tales-in-the-mmp/346303/41 "2006-02-27T18:08:46Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > I would argue vehemently that this should be Colin Firth, but if you go for Matthew, that leaves Colin for me…num. Who needs chicken soup? Pierce Brosnan, please. You can have both Colin and Matthew. Or these days, maybe Ralph Fiennes. ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-a-louse-tall-tales-in-the-mmp/346303/42 "2006-02-27T18:11:17Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **Drae** the dress is tres chic. I especially like the what looks to be beaded wrought iron on the bodice. 😃 I like the big swoopy train. To me it ain’t a wedding dress without a big swoopy train. Hey, that was me! :mad: 😛 They made me try it on at work… if everyone’s really nice, maybe I’ll post the pix. ---
**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 27, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-a-louse-tall-tales-in-the-mmp/346303/43 "2006-02-27T18:19:03Z")
I had cheesy grits with breakfast yesterday. Delish. Still needed butter, though. _Cinderella_ agreed. The pot was a bit of a bitch to clean, though. 😃 ---
**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 27, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-a-louse-tall-tales-in-the-mmp/346303/44 "2006-02-27T18:28:09Z")
By the way… I’m leaving in about 30 minutes for my final-round interview at Harvard. I’m nervous and excited. Wish me luck! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-a-louse-tall-tales-in-the-mmp/346303/45 "2006-02-27T18:33:49Z")
> [@Winston Smith](#): > > By the way… I’m leaving in about 30 minutes for my final-round interview at Harvard. I’m nervous and excited. Wish me luck! Good Luck, **Smitty** ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-a-louse-tall-tales-in-the-mmp/346303/46 "2006-02-27T18:37:46Z")
Knock 'em, dead! Straighten your tie. Here, have a mint. Go pee. Wash your hands. Deep breath and enter the office…go you! ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-a-louse-tall-tales-in-the-mmp/346303/47 "2006-02-27T18:40:58Z")
Best of luck to you **Smitty!** We’re all pulling for you. **taxi,** that’s a beautiful dress! You will post pictures, right? ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-a-louse-tall-tales-in-the-mmp/346303/48 "2006-02-27T18:41:35Z")
**taxi** , I’m nice, dammit! 😃 Pictures, please. **smitty** , break a leg! (Not really…just don’t want to jinx it…oh, nevermind!) I will take Orlando Bloom even if I am waaaay too old for him. It’s my fantasy, dammit! And he has that lovely accent. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-a-louse-tall-tales-in-the-mmp/346303/49 "2006-02-27T18:43:05Z")
Good luck, **Winston**! _smooch_ I’ll take Paul Bettany as well if nobody else is having him… ---
**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 27, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-a-louse-tall-tales-in-the-mmp/346303/50 "2006-02-27T18:43:58Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > Knock 'em, dead! Straighten your tie. Here, have a mint. Go pee. Wash your hands. Deep breath and enter the office…go you! No tie. I’m wearing navy Cords and a checked button-down shirt. I wore a suit to the first interview, khakis, blue botton-down w/tie to the second, and no tie to the final round. It’s a good thing there aren’t many more iterations of interviews. I’d eventually show up in a Swim Suit. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-a-louse-tall-tales-in-the-mmp/346303/51 "2006-02-27T18:44:32Z")
are we diviying up? I’ll take Hugh Jackman ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-a-louse-tall-tales-in-the-mmp/346303/52 "2006-02-27T18:50:11Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > are we diviying up? I’ll take Hugh Jackman This is the MMP, remember? No rules. I’m gonna take two…I also want Kurt Russell. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-a-louse-tall-tales-in-the-mmp/346303/53 "2006-02-27T18:54:20Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > A cute one, but still a louse. ::sigh::, why do we never get pictures of him?! I’ve given everyone pictures of Anagramless Guy. (side note: my 12 oclock let out way early, I’m not going to my 1 oclock, and I have two big assignments due in the next two days. I’m of course on the SDMB.) ---
**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:** [February 27, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-a-louse-tall-tales-in-the-mmp/346303/54 "2006-02-27T19:04:26Z")
> [@taxi78cab](#): > > Hey, that was me! :mad: 😛 > > They made me try it on at work… if everyone’s really nice, maybe I’ll post the pix. Ok, get this stuff right. **Drae** bought a bell tower. **Taxi’s** gettin’ married to **KeithT** and wearing beaded wrought iron. :smack: GOOOOOOOOOOOOO **Smitty**!!! Knock 'em dead! Well, not literally cause then you’d be arrested for murder or sump’n rather than get the job, but well, just do good! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-a-louse-tall-tales-in-the-mmp/346303/55 "2006-02-27T19:15:37Z")
> [@Tupug Anachi](#): > > This is the MMP, remember? No rules. I’m gonna take two…I also want Kurt Russell. 😃 oh, no. I will have to discuss that with you. Also - no dibs on Scott Bakula, Dennis Quaid, Paul Rudd, or Ace (American Idol) I’ve had my eye on them for years (well, weeks where Ace is concerned) ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-a-louse-tall-tales-in-the-mmp/346303/56 "2006-02-27T19:20:05Z")
We are all agreed that Ewan MacGregor belongs to no one women, right? Good? Good. I will also add young Liam Neeson to my list, thankyouverymuch. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-a-louse-tall-tales-in-the-mmp/346303/57 "2006-02-27T19:25:00Z")
I forgot to say I went to Target today at lunch. I needed to get out and so I was entrusted with a mission of the utmost importance… go get a printout of a baby gift registry. See, our CFO’s wife is just before birthin’ up a little baby girl. Like any time now. That means they’ll have one of each cause they already have a boy. So, I went to Target, printed out said registry, bought this little three pack thing of baby body suits (pink and yellow with little butterflies. AWWWWWW… it was on the registry), bought the official office baby card and bought a gift card. Total price of the mission… $43.89. Pretty good huh! See, what we’re doing here is people are coughing up a few bucks each and the power shoppers (my pet name for three of the ladies here. fits ‘em well!) are going to make up a baby basket full of little stuff on the registry. The baby body suits are my contribution, since I was there and all, I just decided to purchase rather than chip in the bucks. The gift card is an extra gift from me cause CFO and his wife live in my neighborhood so we all kinda know each other outside of work, so I wanted to do somethin’ personal and I figured a gift card would come in handy a little ways down the road. I also had some KFC. I wish I hadn’t cause _somebody_ called me a bit ago to say he’s making dinner. Chicken and rice. So, he has deloused a bit now. I mentioned how I want cookies. Betcha he goes to the store and gets me some cookies. 😃 So, it’s gonna be spend the night night at his house tonight. YAY for spend the night night! ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-a-louse-tall-tales-in-the-mmp/346303/58 "2006-02-27T19:29:30Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Ok, get this stuff right. **Drae** bought a bell tower. **Taxi’s** gettin’ married to **KeithT** and wearing beaded wrought iron. :smack: 😃 OK, here’re the pix of me at the office (lovely file cabinets, aren’t they??) in the [gown](http://photobucket.com/albums/v685/taxi78cab/WeddingGown/). I really need to learn to stand up straighter! I think it’ll look better with low heels than barefoot. Do you think I should look into getting a pair of disposable contacts just for the day and for pix? I always wear glasses, but I’d kinda like my wedding pix not to have glasses in them. I don’t want to look different from “me” but I just don’t like the dressed up look with glasses. What say you MMPers? (I’m also thinking I should have a pair of contacts around then anyway so when we go snorkeling on the honeymoon cruise, I can actually see! So I may have some contacts anyway. But is it wrong not to be me and accept that I wear glasses and that’s just the way it is?) ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-a-louse-tall-tales-in-the-mmp/346303/59 "2006-02-27T19:37:06Z")
Beautiful dress, **taxi.** I say do whatever makes you feel happy regarding whether to wear glasses or not. If you don’t want to wear your glasses, get some contacts. Frankly, sometimes I wish I had contacts. I get really tired of seeing my face behind specs. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-a-louse-tall-tales-in-the-mmp/346303/60 "2006-02-27T19:38:07Z")
the dress looks great. I wouldn’t worry about the glasses - but if you’re going to get contacts anyway, then yeah, I’d do that soonish so you can get used to them. (Wearing the for the first time on the honeymoon may prove to be distracting) Can you go snorkling with contacts? How will you wear your hair? In an ultra modern up-do? or something classic? I’d like to suggest, with that dress, you go for a turn of the (20th) century Gibson Bun [like this](http://www.maxwigs.com/Costume-Wigs-c11/Gibson-Girl-Deluxe-Wigs-p1480.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-a-louse-tall-tales-in-the-mmp/346303.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-a-louse-tall-tales-in-the-mmp/346303.md?page=4)