# The end of an era – a reflective MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [December 4, 2006, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799 "2006-12-04T10:18:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**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 5, 2006, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/101 "2006-12-05T10:01:46Z")
Good for you Haze. Now if only a certain other young lady would quit procrastinating and get that paper done. Sigh… kids these days. **FCM** we are indeed the room Mom and Dad. We have so many kids because we adopt all the strays that wander in. 😃 **Puggy** were y’all able to get Grampus in the nursing facility yesterday? I was wandering about this last night. Ok, off to caffiene up some more and read the paper. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/102 "2006-12-05T10:44:21Z")
Morning all! Did you miss me? Haze, looks like you’ve found your new name! Belated happies to **Snakey** , I think I missed your big day - was it fun? Did Mr SCL remember? I’ll ask Ophie to keep pedalling for your friend too, I have to pick her up from the [del]cat-house[/del] cattery after work tonight so she’ll be pleased to have something important to do besides sulking at us for leaving her there in the first place! **FCM** - great OP, I have very fond memories of learning polka many years ago when I was in my dancing days. I’m not sure I could keep up any more, although as I now have two new knee joints, they should work better than ever! My weekend was fun, but there was a decidedly dodgy moment when I came very close to strangling 'im indoors. Having given me definitions of ‘manclean’ and ‘mantidy’, on Friday he excelled himself with ‘man-organisation’. We were travelling to Antwerp and had planned to stay with his friend Gerard who has a flat over there. So, quite casually, as we were leaving the house, I asked him if he had all the phone numbers and info that he needed (we went through this before on a previous trip when he’d intended to meet up with some ex-colleagues, only to say that all the contact details were in his PDA…which was at home). At that point he happily told me that he didn’t have Gerard’s mobile number, there was no landline at the flat, Gerard probably wouldn’t receive his last email as he was working in Toulouse and was returning to Antwerp on the Friday evening. Errr…what time is Gerard arriving? No idea. Where are we meeting him, given that we don’t know the address of the flat? No idea. How will we contact him? No idea. How I managed to not strangle that bloke is still a mystery to me. Sorry, **FCM** , I have chocolate but I think I need it to get over the trauma! ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/103 "2006-12-05T11:09:13Z")
Cheeseincrust you guys do a lot of talking before Tuesday. I just wanted to say hello, I will do my best to catch up with all your chatter after breakfast. Mmmm, breakfast. ---
**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 5, 2006, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/104 "2006-12-05T11:53:19Z")
Speaking of breakfast, I’m having a bacon, egg and cheese biscuit. I thought about gettin’ another buttery bacony croissant but I decided to be nice to **MBG**. 😃 **Snakes** did you know we’re having a statewide runoff for Public Service Commissioner here in Jawja today? I think I already knew but forgot til I was listening to the news on the way in this mawnin’. I’ll do my best to remember to go vote for errr… dang, I have no idea who’s even runnin’ or why I’d vote for one over the other. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/105 "2006-12-05T12:15:12Z")
[QUOTE=Spatial Rift 47] Do gnat! 😛 So guess what I am. Go on, guess. Got it? I’m DONE. Done for the term. No more homework sets, or exams, or anything. Done. I just got back from Round 1 of our little celebration, and Round 2, which begins in just a few minutes, is watching _Chicken Run_. Good times, I know. And then I get to pack and spend tomorrow traveling. I’ll be setting out for the train station at 9:30 for an 11 am train (my ride wanted to leave earlier), then getting into NYC at 6:25 pm, and then taking a 7:15 bus and probably arriving home sometime around 8:30 to 9 pm. 12 hours of traveling. Excellent. [/QUOTE] I hate you with the burning intensity of 1000 suns. Or a candle. Or something… I still have the Paper to finish, and two classes to [del]sit through[/del] attend. And then–ROCK THE HOUSE, BABY! Or sleep… Off to work-get up, slackers! the day is fresh! ---
**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 5, 2006, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/106 "2006-12-05T12:24:18Z")
Welcome back **BooFae**! Did you have fun in spite of 'im indoors? Did you bring us chocolates? French fries? I hear those Belgians lurve their french fries. ICK!!! There’s one of those slimy, wormy, many legged things in my office! It just raised its head at me like it wants to eat me. :eek: Pardon me while I evict the evil lookin’ little squatter. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/107 "2006-12-05T12:37:12Z")
It’s very early. I woke up when Mr. Lissar left for work, read for an hour (re-read _The Blue Castle_), and now I’m bathed, dressed, and making tea. What the hell was I doing awake at 6? Right. I was afraid of a _Buffy_ monster. I am such a wimp. I may not be hungover on New Year’s, but I’ll probably be in Ottawa, with no internet access. Last year I wasn’t hungover, in spite of many drinks, but I was _freezing_, in a cottage with only wood heat and kindling. QD was hungover. Oh, wait, she _wasn’t_ hungover- she merely felt a trifle ill becasue of drinking three-quarters of a bottle of rum. 😃 Kill the bug, **swampy**! Kill the bug! Time for breakfast. Nachos. I want nachos. ---
**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 5, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/108 "2006-12-05T12:46:38Z")
Mr. Icky bug is now outside. It’s 29 degrees outside but hey, it’s a bug. Bugs adapt. Besides I put him under some bushes. Bug can stay warm under the bushes. Or get eaten by another bug who likes that kind of bug for breakfast. He’s outta my office. That’s all I care about. Icky bug! We have frost this morning. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/109 "2006-12-05T12:51:50Z")
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn] Did y’all miss it when I selected **Haze** for her nickname? Get it, huh, huh? **_Purple_ Haze**? :: crickets:: [/QUOTE] I though Jimi Hendrix’ modem was a Purple Hayes… ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/110 "2006-12-05T12:53:19Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] will you ship? because I’ll buy [/QUOTE] Rosie dear, e-mail me off the list; I have an address available in my profile. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/111 "2006-12-05T13:01:02Z")
**swampy** , of course there are choccies but you have to get to them before **FCM** sees them in case she doesn’t want to share… I bought them from [Leonidas](http://www.leonidas-chocolate.com/) because they’re absolutely the best ones. I used to buy them from a little old lady who had a tiny shop on the corner of the Melkmarkt, you could go in there in the morning to order them and she would make the fresh for you, ready for the following day. Sadly the last couple of times I’ve been there, the shop’s been closed although the sign still hangs outside so I’m guessing she retired. I missed out on the french fries most of the time, Belgium’s got very little idea about vegetarians so most of the meals I had were pasta. But it was very good pasta! I’m all stocked up on beer and apple gin though… _hic_ ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/112 "2006-12-05T13:09:47Z")
done ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/113 "2006-12-05T13:25:54Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] done [/QUOTE] I won’t be able to reply until tonight, since the workplace has blocked the usual suspect netmail sites… ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/114 "2006-12-05T13:31:49Z")
[QUOTE=ScareyFaerie] Haze, looks like you’ve found your new name! [/QUOTE] Well, crap. I was going to suggest **HazMat** , not because it makes any sense, but more because of stuff I’m dealing with at work right now, and because of the danger that young, intelligent, attractive female graduate students present to me. Stop it, Ex. Just stop. You’re old enough to be her father. You were in grad school before she was born. You’re a broken down old middle-aged married man. Go hit yourself in the head with a brick, and leave the kids alone. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/115 "2006-12-05T13:33:45Z")
This just in: My cyberstalker is having a hissy fit because I’ve cut her off completely after moving in July. Boo-hoo. Where is that Marcus Vick smilie ( n!m ) that I can point in her direction? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/116 "2006-12-05T13:36:02Z")
[QUOTE=Exgineer] I was going to suggest **HazMat** [/QUOTE] I flirted with suggesting **WitchHazel** , after the Looney Tunes character… ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/117 "2006-12-05T13:36:32Z")
Besides, **Ex** , you’re married to _me_, too. Now it really is time for breakfast, and not time to watch any more YouTube. Really. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/118 "2006-12-05T13:45:13Z")
Cheez 'n bagels but it’s cold out there. 'Bout -7C (~23F) with a wind chill of something like -12C (~17F). _And_ we’re supposed to get something like 5cm of snow tonight. Frankly, the dusting we got last night that’s still on the ground is more than enough for me, but _nooo_. Gotta pile it on like there’s going to be a shortage. _sigh_ Well, I’m indoors, in my nice warm office, got my BurntVanillaCaramelHazelNutCoffee (not our **Hank** ) and the entire work day ahead. It was quite thoroughly busy yesterday, due no doubt to the inclement weather, and I expect it should be pretty busy again today. Busy is good. Gives me stuff to do and makes us money. **BooFae** - Never mind the liquor (or rather, save that for later) – didn’t you get any real Belgian chocolate? I mean, you go to Belgium, you’re pretty much obligated to bring back either diamonds or chocolate, and diamonds are too crunchy. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/119 "2006-12-05T14:06:57Z")
**MondoBongo** , Leonidas _is_ Belgian chocolate! It’s the place Belgians go to when they want something special. Antwerp is also full of diamond shops, there’s a big diamond district right by the station in the centre of the Jewish part of the city. Wandering round there on a Friday evening is quite fascinating. I did suggest to 'im indoors that he should be doing the diamond shopping but you know what men are like, selective hearing and all that. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799/120 "2006-12-05T14:19:50Z")
Being the dedicated muncher of foods that I am, last night I went to the store and got a couple croissants and this morning was up at 5, attempting to re-create the yummy incredibleness of the bacon greasy, buttery, eggy croissants. Eh, not bad, Not quite IT, but good anyway. It was minus 1 when I woke up this morning, now it’s up to a tropical 3 above! Where’s my sunscreen…? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-an-era-a-reflective-mmp/382799.md?page=7)