# The Fountain of Yoot. Guest MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [October 17, 2005, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fountain-of-yoot-guest-mmp/326582 "2005-10-17T12:24:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fountain-of-yoot-guest-mmp/326582/81 "2005-10-18T17:08:31Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > I blame it on the full moon. As a practicing Pagan (I’m gettin’ really good at it, too), I try not to blame everything on the full moon, but today I’m going to go ahead and do it. There was a Dunkin’ Donuts mixup today, and I was given _shudder_ _hazelnut_ coffee. As a result, I have not been operating properly all morning. This would never have happened at the waning quarter. ---
**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 18, 2005, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fountain-of-yoot-guest-mmp/326582/82 "2005-10-18T17:12:12Z")
That is Og’s punishment upon you **Drae** for drinking non-coffee flavored coffee. Am I the only person in the world that likes the taste of regular ol’ coffee? ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fountain-of-yoot-guest-mmp/326582/83 "2005-10-18T17:24:15Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > That is Og’s punishment upon you **Drae** for drinking non-coffee flavored coffee. Am I the only person in the world that likes the taste of regular ol’ coffee? It was supposed to be regular coffee-flavored. The heretics thwarted me, you see. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fountain-of-yoot-guest-mmp/326582/84 "2005-10-18T18:07:08Z")
It’s good to be back. I haven’t been unwell _per se_ (okay, I had bronchitis that reactivated my asthma and convinced my Mom and almost my doctor that Kali was not a good idea, but after wheezing for a couple of months we got it under control. I say it’s gone for good again, my doctor says wait to see what kind of chest problems you have this winter. And no, my chest is rarely a problem, except when I play golf or dress in armour.) Anyway, there are times when my capacity for social interaction deserts me and I try to prove John Donne wrong. He wasn’t wrong, of course, and the island grows ever smaller until it and I threaten to disappear altogether. But luckily, like the cat, I come back. Or more precisely, I am brought back and I’ll leave it at that because the metaphor of a bridge of friends is just a little too solemn for this forum. Please, as much as I’d like to get lost in past MMPs, I really need to get some work done, so please, will someone tell me about **Rue’s** job? Have Soupo and Katcha become latchkey kids? And what about the dog? (Gods forgive me, I’ve forgotten the dog’s name. Lucy? Somebody has a dog named Lucy. Or is it a cat? The curly-haired girl had a cat seemingly without bones, but I don’t remeber if it was Snoopy or Linus that was troubled by this fact.) The Fountain of Yoots is where the two yoots got their sodas before they got put in jail. And if you throw three coins into it, you are restored to youth looking like Clifton Webb or Dorothy McGuire. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fountain-of-yoot-guest-mmp/326582/85 "2005-10-18T18:07:16Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > That is Og’s punishment upon you **Drae** for drinking non-coffee flavored coffee. Am I the only person in the world that likes the taste of regular ol’ coffee? Coffee should taste like coffee. Beer should taste like beer. There is no need to ever make them taste differently. The GF likes hazelnut coffee. We make sure that it is kept far away from the regular coffee, because once I made myself some hazelnut, and it didn’t go down well. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fountain-of-yoot-guest-mmp/326582/86 "2005-10-18T18:13:41Z")
I have received an unofficial promotion, of sorts. See, whenever we have a trade show, somebody has to make thousands of copies of our show specials. This person is usually called the Copy Bitch, but the title passes from person to person, depending on who’s closest to the copier, at lunch, et cetera. Today, the Official Copy Bitch informed me that I was the Copy Geisha. I think that’s an upgrade, myself. ---
**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 18, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fountain-of-yoot-guest-mmp/326582/87 "2005-10-18T18:25:31Z")
> [@Kallessa](#): > > It’s good to be back. > Please, as much as I’d like to get lost in past MMPs, I really need to get some work done, so please, will someone tell me about **Rue’s** job? Have Soupo and Katcha become latchkey kids? And what about the dog? (Gods forgive me, I’ve forgotten the dog’s name. Lucy? Somebody has a dog named Lucy. Or is it a cat? The curly-haired girl had a cat seemingly without bones, but I don’t remeber if it was Snoopy or Linus that was troubled by this fact.) Ok, see, The Little Woman got laid off but that’s ok cause she has this gig she can do from home making, as I recall, a pretty good chunk o’ change itself. However, that meant the DeDay household was without stuff like health insurance. So, **Rue** got a job (started last week) at a veterinary clinic, which is a place that takes care of sick animals, not veterans in case that confuses ya. So, since **Rue** is now a full-time career man, posting the MMP has gotten kinda hard, so we’ve been guest posting MMPs as of late. Monday - Wednesday are especially busy times in the veterinary world it seems. **Rue** does indeed have a dog named Lucy. In addition there is now a dog named Brody which we’ve seen one picture of. He’s a cute lil’ ol’ booger! So, now The Little Woman is the SAHP and **Rue’s** the working man. Oh and **Katcha** is now a kindergartner. _Sniff_ They grow up so fast! _Sniff_ Everybody else feel free to chime on in with any little tidbits I might have missed. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fountain-of-yoot-guest-mmp/326582/88 "2005-10-18T18:32:45Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Everybody else feel free to chime on in with any little tidbits I might have missed. **Rue** still doesn’t trust garden gnomes. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fountain-of-yoot-guest-mmp/326582/89 "2005-10-18T20:03:16Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > Depends. > > What did you do with **welby**? **Ex** , darling, haven’t you come to grips with the fact that **welby** was just a figment of your imagination and we all played along to avoid upsetting you? C’mon, a grown man running around in a tablecloth? Just your mind playing tricks on you. Really. Go lay down for a while, in time you’ll feel better. Unless **welby** really does exist . . . but then who is it that **Ex** keeps imagining and how did we all get caught up in it? No one trusts gnomes. Gnomes are known for their nebulous relationship with the truth. Don’t trust 'em. Not a gnome, no way, no how. No gnomes. ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fountain-of-yoot-guest-mmp/326582/90 "2005-10-18T20:08:17Z")
The dark chocolate Hershey’s Kisses are EVIL. You have one… and then you have to have another… and another and anotherandanotherandanother. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fountain-of-yoot-guest-mmp/326582/91 "2005-10-18T20:53:33Z")
So it’s your contention that I just _imagined_ the tie-dyed tablecloth and green face paint. Is that it? I suppose it’s possible. I haven’t been at all well lately. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fountain-of-yoot-guest-mmp/326582/92 "2005-10-18T20:55:46Z")
Just because it seemed to need it, [a gallery with a picture of the Fountain of Ute](http://gs3chansons.tripod.com/id6.html) (second picture down on the left). ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fountain-of-yoot-guest-mmp/326582/93 "2005-10-18T21:02:53Z")
Mostly because NO ONE has said it yet… What is a Yoot? -or- What is a Ute? (in light of Polycarp’s submission) ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fountain-of-yoot-guest-mmp/326582/94 "2005-10-18T21:15:58Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Just because it seemed to need it, [a gallery with a picture of the Fountain of Ute](http://gs3chansons.tripod.com/id6.html) (second picture down on the left). Poly, glad to see you 'round these parts… ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fountain-of-yoot-guest-mmp/326582/95 "2005-10-18T21:40:14Z")
Hershey’s now has **dark** chocolate kisses? I’m in trouble. Serious trouble. ---
**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 18, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fountain-of-yoot-guest-mmp/326582/96 "2005-10-18T22:00:09Z")
> [@scout1222](#): > > Mostly because NO ONE has said it yet… > > What is a Yoot? > > -or- > > What is a Ute? (in light of Polycarp’s submission) Hmmm… maybe **Polycarp’s** onto sump’n. Maybe the tour guide thought he was in Salt Lake City! **scout** a Ute is a Native American from the west. A yoot is somebody who’s under the age of say, twenty-five. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fountain-of-yoot-guest-mmp/326582/97 "2005-10-18T22:18:02Z")
[sub]I was making a My Cousin Vinny reference. But you knew that…right?[/sub] ---
**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 18, 2005, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fountain-of-yoot-guest-mmp/326582/98 "2005-10-18T22:19:47Z")
> [@Ellen Cherry](#): > > **FCM** I meant to remark yesterday about your pottery class. _(snerk … I just accidentally typed “potty class” … snerk_. I am looking forward to taking a class someday soon because … I _DO_ have a kiln! Isn’t that the most unbelievable thing ever? What happened is, my husband had a girlfriend years ago that had a kiln, and she moved to California and it was too big to take it with her, so she left it with him! So me, the wife, now has the old girlfriend’s kiln, and I’m not ashamed to admit it. Hee hee. Anyway, beings that we have it, I’d like to learn to make stuff and fahr it in my very own kiln! Wow - when my sweetie’s ex took off, all she left was a bunch of Tupperware - she used to sell it. I wasn’t too proud to use it - in fact, I’m still using it, as is my kid. But I wish she’d left a kiln now… you lucky duck! ---
**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 18, 2005, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fountain-of-yoot-guest-mmp/326582/99 "2005-10-18T22:21:42Z")
> [@lightingtool](#): > > lightingtool’s perfect salmon recipe:\ Sounds good - almost good enough to make me clean the grill… Wonder how it would do in the toaster oven? ---
**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fountain-of-yoot-guest-mmp/326582/100 "2005-10-18T22:29:49Z")
Okay, I’ve read a bit, searched a bit, and am feeling out of the loop. What’s “MMP”? 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fountain-of-yoot-guest-mmp/326582.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fountain-of-yoot-guest-mmp/326582.md?page=6)