# The Early Morning MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [September 30, 2013, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-morning-mmp/669986 "2013-09-30T06:32:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**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:** [October 1, 2013, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-morning-mmp/669986/81 "2013-10-01T00:25:09Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I’m of the Orthodox Chocolate Church. Those who believe in white chocolate are heretics! Burn them!😛 YES! BURN THE HERETIC!(we need fire for the s’mores;) ) **2.99** ,go for the wheelchair. Sounds like it’ll buy some happy time for IQ.🙂 **Spaz** , I found an old gas receipt. I paid $1.41 in '03. I wish I had that now.:eek: {{{{ **Midget** }}}} ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-morning-mmp/669986/82 "2013-10-01T00:34:03Z")
Finally did managed to get in touch with the person I was supposed to get in touch with. Yay. Why am I such a wreck sometimes. Remind me to bring my tin whistle downtown tomorrow if I can find it. Oh, and I am force-feeding you all white chocolate s’mores. :mad: Haha, I’m not really mad. I just think the mad smiley looks funny. :mad: 🙂 ---
**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:** [October 1, 2013, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-morning-mmp/669986/83 "2013-10-01T02:32:53Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > I wish I could just drive, period. It’s taking me forever to learn. I’ve now been “learning” for 2 years. May I ask your age? ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-morning-mmp/669986/84 "2013-10-01T09:31:40Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > May I ask your age? I’m 29 years old. Yes, I know I’m getting my license late in life. It’s because when I was younger, I was busy a lot of the time and didn’t have much money for driving lessons (and our family was quite poor and my parents couldn’t pay for me.) When I finally got a bit of money, I started learning to drive. Also, around here, public transit is pretty good, so not everyone absolutely needs a car to get around. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2013, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-morning-mmp/669986/85 "2013-10-01T10:10:45Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. _YAWN_ ‘Tis 64 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 86 for the day. The forecast for Sattidy says a high of 90. I guess Summer is peekin’ back in to say goodbye. **2.99** I say go for the wheelchair thingy for IQ. If y’all think it’ll make him happy to get to go outside for walks and you can afford it, then it’ll be worth it. **doggio** I’m impressed with your idea of burnin’ a heretic and makin’ s’mores by the fire. Makes it a kinda family type event. 😃 Ok, that’s all I got. Time for more caffiene and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, alas, irk purtification must commence. Happy Tuesday Y’all! ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-morning-mmp/669986/86 "2013-10-01T10:36:29Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > I’m 29 years old. Yes, I know I’m getting my license late in life. It’s because when I was younger, I was busy a lot of the time and didn’t have much money for driving lessons (and our family was quite poor and my parents couldn’t pay for me.) When I finally got a bit of money, I started learning to drive. Also,\*\* around here, public transit is pretty good\*\*, so not everyone absolutely needs a car to get around. Lucky. I’m going to try texting Irish Storyteller again tonight. I still haven’t heard back from him. I’m slightly annoyed by this. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-morning-mmp/669986/87 "2013-10-01T10:44:40Z")
Blurf. > [@swampbear](#): > > **doggio** I’m impressed with your idea of burnin’ a heretic and makin’ s’mores by the fire. Makes it a kinda family type event. 😃 Absolutely true story. Aeons ago when I lived in Virginny, the Brewtheran church I went to had a special Sunday School program, and for those that participates got this little blue vest pocket “The Lutheran Handbook”. The book is pretty jake. So, I get my copy, and what is the topic I see first upon opening? ‘How to avoid being burned at the stake’. For those of us that lead a juvenile adult existance, this tip is attributed to Martin Luther himself: If you are being vexed by the devil and can’t get rid of him, fart loudly. Well, I can clear a room demons and all… 😉 ---
**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:** [October 1, 2013, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-morning-mmp/669986/88 "2013-10-01T10:45:05Z")
Morning! {{ **FCMFIL** }} I was going to complain about the white chocolate advocacy, but then I remembered yesterday was International Blasphemy Day, so it’s probably allowed… 😉 I’m debating going swimming today. I haven’t for ages, but all the local pools have school classes taking up half the pool at the moment, that or Serious Fitness ones, and I’m not that serious. Hmm. By the way, not that anyone’ll care, but I actually managed 50+ catches juggling three clubs for the first time last night- only 5 years after I started going to that group\* 😃 \*I’ve not been actually trying to juggle clubs for that length of time. I’m not _quite_ that slow. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2013, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-morning-mmp/669986/89 "2013-10-01T12:09:30Z")
Mrs. Plant (v.3.0) bought William Shakespeare’s _Star Wars_ for me. Extremely cool! ---
**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:** [October 1, 2013, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-morning-mmp/669986/90 "2013-10-01T12:10:42Z")
Happy Toosday! it is Tuesday right? It’s a beautiful sunny 57 degrees this morning with a projected high of 79. Today is pizza day and laundry day and deal with the remaining issues from yesterday day. **2.99** Go for the wheelchair. The problem with pets is they don’t stick around long enough. **Spaz** I grew up in a different time when we couldn’t wait to get away from our parents and home, and getting a drivers license was a rite of passage and a source of pride. Kids today are different. I was shocked at how many high school kids have their parents drive them to school. In my time we would have trudged through 6 feet of snow in howling winds and have a serial killed on our ass before we would have been ::gasp:: seen with our parents. His generation, not so much. Sah-son told me he doesn’t want to drive because it’s too much responsibility. He’s scared to death of having an accident. When I was his age I didn’t even think about responsibility, or at least not the way he does. Gas was under 50 cents a gallon when I started driving. I remember when I couldn’t get $5 worth in my tank.😃 **Doggio** you’re sweet 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![azraiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@azraiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/azraiel)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-morning-mmp/669986/91 "2013-10-01T12:46:44Z")
Good morning! (((Hugs))) to **FCM** and **2.99** , and thoughts for **FCMFIL** and **IQ**. Sorry for the abrupt introduction and subsequent absences. Last couple a months have been stoopit busy. I’ve been training people to take calls for the ACA Marketplace. We went live today, and it’s lookin’ crazy. I woke up way too early today, and thought to check the [website](https://www.healthcare.gov/). Account creation overloaded. Web chat backed up more than 30 minutes (I didn’t wait any longer). Heaven knows what kind of chaos I’m going to walk into at work today. Oh well. Job security if more butts are needed in more seats. And oh yeah. _blurf_ ---
**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:** [October 1, 2013, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-morning-mmp/669986/92 "2013-10-01T12:50:04Z")
IT’S HOCKEY SEASON!!! W00T!:D:D > [@VunderBob](#): > > Blurf. > > Absolutely true story. > > Aeons ago when I lived in Virginny, the Brewtheran church I went to had a special Sunday School program, and for those that participates got this little blue vest pocket “The Lutheran Handbook”. The book is pretty jake. > > So, I get my copy, and what is the topic I see first upon opening? ‘How to avoid being burned at the stake’. For those of us that lead a juvenile adult existance, this tip is attributed to Martin Luther himself: If you are being vexed by the devil and can’t get rid of him, fart loudly. Well, I can clear a room demons and all… 😉 So chili with beans is God’s chosen food?😃 **sari** , awww. ; blushes : ---
**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:** [October 1, 2013, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-morning-mmp/669986/93 "2013-10-01T13:03:00Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Blurf. > > Absolutely true story. > > Aeons ago when I lived in Virginny, the Brewtheran church I went to had a special Sunday School program, and for those that participates got this little blue vest pocket “The Lutheran Handbook”. The book is pretty jake. > > So, I get my copy, and what is the topic I see first upon opening? ‘How to avoid being burned at the stake’. For those of us that lead a juvenile adult existance, this tip is attributed to Martin Luther himself: If you are being vexed by the devil and can’t get rid of him, fart loudly. Well, I can clear a room demons and all… 😉 So there is an upside to being lactose intolerant An apple a day may keep the doctor away but with a bowl of ice cream I can send the devil himself screaming for cover. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![azraiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@azraiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/azraiel)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-morning-mmp/669986/94 "2013-10-01T14:40:48Z")
Just received the “All hands on deck” email. Which means that every rep, supervisor, manager, trainer, and anyone with any inkling of the ACA is to find the nearest phone and take calls. Doesn’t matter if you’ve not taken a call in years (senior management), your butt is on the phones. Metrics can wait. Gonna be a hell of a night. Ima try to grab a few more hours of sleep before my shift starts. I may need a beeverage or two when I get off work tonight. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2013, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-morning-mmp/669986/95 "2013-10-01T15:47:57Z")
Good morning, Been listening to the scanner here in Annapolis before work. The Annap PD is busy enforcing the newly upgraded Maryland laws on seat belts and cell phones as primary offenses. They have a sting somewhere in the city on a dual lane road (I think it’s Rowe Blvd) where they are calling out an offender every 15 seconds… “Blue taxi with a Blackberry, left hand!”, “Box van, no belt!” etc. Unfortunately I also heard “Black Explorer, cell phone in right hand - oh wait, he’s sworn, nevermind!” which is to say law enforcement doesn’t have to play by the same rules, even off duty (there are very, very few Explorers in service as police vehicles around here so the officer in the Explorer was in his own car off duty). That doth annoy. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-morning-mmp/669986/96 "2013-10-01T16:30:50Z")
blurf ---
**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:** [October 1, 2013, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-morning-mmp/669986/97 "2013-10-01T18:01:04Z")
I’ve had my lunch, haven’t done much of anything else. I should be ashamed of myself but I feel blurfy. I think I pissed my mother’s bf off, I don’t know if h heard me or not. I know he heard the part about people needing to mind their own business. However, he and my mother went out to dinner and he brought home the leftover dinner rolls - as he always, and usually he forgets all about them until they mold anyway. So he asked my mother to put them in a storage baggie, which she did and then tossed back downstairs to him. So his mouth starts with _why did she put them in a freezer bag, he asked her to put them in a storage bag_, and then she goes to the cabinet and pulls out the box and says _the box says storage bags, it’s not a freezer bag_ WTF??!! So I asked what is the difference between a storage bag and a freezer bag (and yes I know that the freezer bags probably cost a few cents more and are probably a heavier plastic but in the overall scheme of things WHO CARES?!) So my mother answers that _one says storage on the box and the other one says freezer_ and I said _what it is with these anal people worrying over every little thing and don’t they realize that they get on the nerves of those of us who are not so anal?_ JFC on a PS, it’s a plastic baggie! Either way it will keep the damn rolls contained until they turn green. This is why I avoid these people, they nit pick everything down to the tiniest detail. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2013, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-morning-mmp/669986/98 "2013-10-01T19:42:03Z")
Howdy from da cave! More \ butt ‘n buns \ with coleslaw for dindin. I have some chikin’ boobs 'n thighs on to boil which shall get turned into a chikin pot pie for tomorrow’s and Thursday’s dindin. YUM! I shall assemble everything but the bizkit crust tonight and tomorrow put the crust on and bake. Easy Peasy. **sari** once again, you need to get outta there soonest. I know it’ll happen in time but really, the sooner the better for your sanity. If farts keep Satan away then OYKW and I are bound for sainthood for sure. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-morning-mmp/669986/99 "2013-10-01T19:54:50Z")
Pearl has arrived, as expected she is IMO beautiful. She plays well and I am happy. Mumpers meet Pearl [http://s1329.photobucket.com/user/CaptKirk1970/media/Pearl/utf-8BSG91c3Rvbi0yMDEzMTAwMS0wMDAxNS5qcGc\_zps7728c070.jpg.html](http://s1329.photobucket.com/user/CaptKirk1970/media/Pearl/utf-8BSG91c3Rvbi0yMDEzMTAwMS0wMDAxNS5qcGc_zps7728c070.jpg.html) 🙂 **Jim** PS Sorry for the crummy pic ---
**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:** [October 1, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-morning-mmp/669986/100 "2013-10-01T20:13:46Z")
> [@Capt\_Kirk](#): > > Pearl has arrived, as expected she is IMO beautiful. **She plays well** and I am happy. > > Mumpers meet Pearl > > [http://s1329.photobucket.com/user/CaptKirk1970/media/Pearl/utf-8BSG91c3Rvbi0yMDEzMTAwMS0wMDAxNS5qcGc\_zps7728c070.jpg.html](http://s1329.photobucket.com/user/CaptKirk1970/media/Pearl/utf-8BSG91c3Rvbi0yMDEzMTAwMS0wMDAxNS5qcGc_zps7728c070.jpg.html) > > 🙂 > > **Jim** > > PS Sorry for the crummy pic We need [del]pix[/del] video of it being played. Hey, mebbe we could use WebEx or GoToMeeting to get you & **Midget** to do a concert. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-morning-mmp/669986.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-morning-mmp/669986.md?page=6)