# The Early Worm Gets the Bird -- an East of Greenwich MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [October 28, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161 "2012-10-28T22:36:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/41 "2012-10-29T15:05:29Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **lieu** I hereby elevate you to the title of “The Good Uncle.”😃 I’m glad your nephew and you had such a great talk. I’m sure he feels good knowin’ he has your support and understanding. > > Feel better **WetOne**. > > **MOOOOOOM** it’s soundin’ kinda ick up your way. Go Home! Um… **Swampy** stole my post! He did, he did he did!! ---
**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:** [October 29, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/42 "2012-10-29T15:08:45Z")
The rain has eased a wee bit and I’m taking advantage of that and heading home. Here’s hoping nothing falls on my car enroute… ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/43 "2012-10-29T15:13:28Z")
Now none of you are swordfish fishermen, right? ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/44 "2012-10-29T15:17:07Z")
swordfishermen. I like the word! Also, I just bent down to pet Mouse and dunked my hair in my coffee. Today’s gonna be eeeenteresting, I can tell. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/45 "2012-10-29T15:22:18Z")
I wanna start a meme: Sandy is the zombie apocalypse. Zombies are dead, therefore they’re cold. Sandy is cold, and that makes her a zombie hurricane. Since the press is covering this as OHMYGAWDWEREGONNADIE!!!, this is apocalypse by zombie… ---
**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 29, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/46 "2012-10-29T15:28:09Z")
I thought Sandy was going to blow me away, or drop a tree on me, or drown me. But now she’s going to eat my brains, too. AAAAIIIEEEEEEEEE!!! ---
**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 29, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/47 "2012-10-29T15:34:35Z")
Would you be insulted if, durin’ a zombie apocalypse, hoardes of zombies all out lookin’ for brains kept walkin’ right past you? 😃 **gigity** be safe out there! **MOOOOOOM** be sure to stop at the store for extra tp, milk, bread and cookies. I got an email statin’ that our national office, located in beautiful downtown Arlington, VA and all our northeast offices have closed and will remain closed through Wednesday. Well, duh! Why the heck did they even open at all today! Seriously. Go home and be safe. Everybody else in the path of the storm, be safe and appropriate/inappropriate appendages crossed for minimal damage, power outages etc. In other news, I’m hongry! ---
**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 29, 2012, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/48 "2012-10-29T16:11:50Z")
**StickyBuns** send 'em to their room without supper! That’ll show those whippersnappers. Oh wait, they’re college students. Send 'em to their room without their kegger! 😃 **N.O.L.** is et. Leftover chikin, green beans and oven roasted **N.O.T.**'Twas good. By special request dindin shall be pancakes and burly butcher bacon which I shall fry while fully clothed you preverts. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/49 "2012-10-29T16:16:34Z")
I’m home and I just finished some leftover pizza for lunch. \*\*FCD \*\*is home from his Dr appt, vegging on the couch and watching TV. I didn’t stop enroute, and I don’t have cookies, but I’ll be making an apple crisp later on. And we have ice cream, so there’s that. The rain eased a bit, but it’s starting again and the wind is starting to gust. Ziva is at the window watching the soggy outdoors. I’m sure she’s glad to be inside, altho she’s never been allowed outside, so what does she know?? Taz, on the other hand, is running around the house thundering like a herd of wildebeesties! Crazy cat! I wish our fireplace insert was installed already - it’s just damp enough that a fire would be nice. Oh well, next week… ---
**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 29, 2012, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/50 "2012-10-29T16:26:30Z")
There’s still time to run to the sto’ for cookies. How can you remain so calm when you are clearly without one of the basic supplies needed to survive a huge storm and/or zombie apocalypse. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2012, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/51 "2012-10-29T16:29:30Z")
Why should I buy cookies? I have all the ingredients for oatmeal raisin cookies, or sugar cookies, or snickerdoodles… I laugh at store-bought cookies!! ---
**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 29, 2012, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/52 "2012-10-29T16:34:42Z")
Then get off teh intartoobZ and get busy makin’ cookies before you lose power! Need I remind you, yet again, there is a major storm and/or zombie apocalypse brewin’! 😛 ---
**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:** [October 29, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/53 "2012-10-29T16:43:14Z")
Yeah, I’ll get right on that. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/54 "2012-10-29T16:49:08Z")
Blurf ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/55 "2012-10-29T16:56:11Z")
What I meant to say is that the person who I believe is the culprit just emailed me to say she doesn’t _think_ it was her. So why couldn’t she tell me what her freaking strategy is so that I would know for sure? I just emailed her back again. :mad::mad::mad::mad: ---
**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 29, 2012, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/56 "2012-10-29T17:00:24Z")
I’m glad I was finally able to talk some sense into ya **MOOOOOOM**. 😛 **StickyBuns** you just can’t fix teh stoopid. If there is any justice she will be caught in a major catastrophe and/or zombie apocalypse with without bread, milk, tp or cookies. Then again the zombies would walk right past her so she’d be safe from zombies. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/57 "2012-10-29T17:01:13Z")
Zompocalypse! I like it 🙂 And now I want cookies. ---
**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 29, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/58 "2012-10-29T17:38:40Z")
Philadelphia area is seeing now \*real & serious consequences \*from the storm. Because of 24-7 “we’re in the middle of a hurricane” coverage, the regularly scheduled [del]dope[/del] soap operas have been :eek: moved to another channel :eek: Currently windy but not raining. ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/59 "2012-10-29T18:02:58Z")
Ok, group work disaster averted. I have completed my part and washed my hands of the rest of it. Now on to bigger and better things. Ha! Just as I was typing that I got another lousy email. :rolleyes: ETA: Apparently EVERY SINGLE THING THAT I’VE DONE has also been done by someone else (after I already did it). ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161/60 "2012-10-29T18:21:21Z")
So, to summarize, originally I was supposed to do the intro and the conclusion and come up with a strategy activity to talk about and demonstrate. After having already completed all of these things early (because occasionally I’m not a slacker), as of right now, someone else is now covering what was going to be the introduction. Someone else also is now describing my strategy activity. This now leaves me with leading the class in a demonstration of the strategy that someone else has described and the conclusion. I’m so freaking glad that I got finished with all of this early so that I could still be working on it now. :smack::dubious::mad: Honest, I’m done talking about this now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-early-worm-gets-the-bird-an-east-of-greenwich-mmp/639161.md?page=4)