# The Happy, Happy MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [July 15, 2013, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-happy-mmp/663545 "2013-07-15T10:08:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-happy-mmp/663545/341 "2013-07-20T17:01:06Z")
> [@sahirrnee](#): > > I think I will get Chinese food today. > Wonton soup is good for a sore throat, egg rolls with hot mustard is good for a stuffy head and ginger is good for the tummy. My husband thinks hot and sour soup is a good bet when ill. I personally don’t care for the stuff, being a spice wimp who isn’t that fond of vinegar. 🙂 The Princess got very persistent about getting her breakfast, then snubbed it. Brat. Not 100% sure I want to go to that church picnic today, since it’s supposed to be over 100F, and I don’t really enjoy heat, but DH (normally a hermit) is actually wanting to go, so we probably should. Need to figure out getting us both in gear. The whole job-hunting thing is getting discouraging. Also having culinary woes. I’m attempting to duplicate a goodie available at a local dim sum place. I’ve managed to ID it as basically a “pearl ball” with shrimp stuff for filling instead of pork. Bought the correct rice and some prefab shrimp balls, cannot get the soaked rice to adhere to the balls. ---
**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-happy-mmp/663545/342 "2013-07-20T17:42:47Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > Also having culinary woes. I’m attempting to duplicate a goodie available at a local dim sum place. I’ve managed to ID it as basically a “pearl ball” with shrimp stuff for filling instead of pork. Bought the correct rice and some prefab _shrimp balls_, cannot get the soaked rice to adhere to the balls. [Butt-head]huh-huh-huh. She said shrimp balls. [/BH] I was wondering about [this 'advice’](http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-order-chinese-food-2013-7)from Business Insider. Why they are offering advice on unusual take-out Chinese dishes, I don’t know, but they don’t provide a transcript (which is why I hate watching videos for anything I might actually care about), and I don’t know if it’s worth trying to figure out which ones I might like and then, pause, scribble, pause, scribble . . . Thanks (if you happen to know, I stop at the second one). ---
**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:** [July 20, 2013, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-happy-mmp/663545/343 "2013-07-20T18:00:13Z")
‘Tis a rainy, dreary day here in south Jawja. We have “occasional thundershowers” predicted throughout the afternoon. Thus no cee-mint pond time. No yahd mowin’ either as 'tis all wet outside. I have done some laundry so some productivity has been accomplished. **sari** , the mention of **Jim** , **Spidey** , **flytrap** and _The Full Monty_ all in one sentence is well… :eek: 😃 ---
**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:** [July 20, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-happy-mmp/663545/344 "2013-07-20T18:43:42Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **sari** , the mention of **Jim** , **Spidey** , **flytrap** and _The Full Monty_ all in one sentence is well… :eek: I dunno - having met **Spidey** , I’d exclude him from the :eek: tho I can’t address the other 2. Pictures don’t count… I cut out a stencil for a stylized crab. When \*\*FCD \*\*is done with his stencil, I’ll try mine out. Here’s hoping… ---
**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:** [July 20, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-happy-mmp/663545/345 "2013-07-20T19:22:10Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > Bought the correct rice and some prefab shrimp balls, cannot get the soaked rice to adhere to the balls. Sweet sushi vinegar is supposed to make rice sticky. Stick more to my hands than anything else, though. 🙂 I gave some pulchers to the LFS and got some live and base rock. Cool! ---
**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:** [July 20, 2013, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-happy-mmp/663545/346 "2013-07-20T20:35:08Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I gave some pulchers to the LFS and got some live and base rock. Cool! You gave fish to the London Film School and in exchange got some rock cds? How strange! ---
**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:** [July 20, 2013, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-happy-mmp/663545/347 "2013-07-20T20:43:06Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > You gave fish to the London Film School and in exchange got some rock cds? How strange! Dear Benson…Jim and Spidey said they will take you out to a sandbar for your birthday where some fellas skinny dip to go fishing. Something about marinating chicken in salt water, so I guess there will be a cook out, too. 🙂 Guys, check out Rosie’s very attractive picture of she and her sister on Facebook. Two very pleasant to look at girls. 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 20, 2013, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-happy-mmp/663545/348 "2013-07-20T21:25:49Z")
Mrs. Plant (v.3.0) has apparently come across a red neck web cookbook. WD-40 Chow Chow. Moses and Aaron on a stick! ---
**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:** [July 20, 2013, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-happy-mmp/663545/349 "2013-07-20T21:52:18Z")
Hey everyone! Off to go work with the hippies, happy Saturday or Sunday for our Eastern Mumpers **Jim** ---
**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:** [July 20, 2013, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-happy-mmp/663545/350 "2013-07-20T21:55:40Z")
Hockey was fun, had luch with friends at the Bistro afterwards. And I have tomorrow off too!😃 Bless your heart, **flytrap**. Redneck is one word. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2013, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-happy-mmp/663545/351 "2013-07-20T22:03:51Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > Hockey was fun, had luch with friends at the Bistro afterwards. And I have tomorrow off too!😃 > Bless your heart, **flytrap**. Redneck is one word. I used to know a girl named Luch. She was a redneck. 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 20, 2013, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-happy-mmp/663545/352 "2013-07-20T22:08:58Z")
Time to assume the position. We shall see what tomorrow brings. _ **MWAH!!!** _ ---
**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:** [July 20, 2013, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-happy-mmp/663545/353 "2013-07-20T23:11:47Z")
It’s been rainy off and on all afternoon. Thus a lazy day at da swampcave. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2013, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-happy-mmp/663545/354 "2013-07-20T23:12:34Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > Hockey was fun, had luch with friends at the Bistro afterwards. And I have tomorrow off too!😃 > Bless your heart, **flytrap**. Redneck is one word. Well There is a difference between having a red neck and having a redneck. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2013, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-happy-mmp/663545/355 "2013-07-20T23:33:38Z")
> [@sahirrnee](#): > > Well > There is a difference between having a red neck and having a redneck. This is true **sari** I’ve had both a red neck and a redneck. I liked the redneck better. 😃 ---
**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:** [July 20, 2013, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-happy-mmp/663545/356 "2013-07-20T23:55:36Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > This is true **sari** I’ve had both a red neck and a redneck. I liked the redneck better. 😃 I prefer the rednecks, too.😃 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-happy-mmp/663545/357 "2013-07-21T00:55:48Z")
Today marks the one year passing of Aurora and our friend Gordon Cowden. If time heals all, we’ve not yet had enough. His funeral sheet sits behind me now, the one that we read and sang from during the service in Austin afterwards with his family. I see it most every day and while it’s become familiar there, it still will never be something that does not at times catch me completely off guard, questioning once again if it could really be real, if hopefully there wasn’t some mistake. Gordon was a good kid. Younger brother to one of my favorite friends in the world, he simply was the freckle faced version of my best bud. Everyone I talked to at the funeral, his four kids, his ex, his later friends and co workers showed he’d remained just as good and honest and true as he’d ever been in the years since I’d seen him last. I can’t begin to tell you everything good about him. Nor could any one person. But he touched so many in such a positive way. I think about this younger brother of a friend and wish for me and anyone I know to have reached his level of character and class. Gordon was a keeper, a fine person, and we miss him. A lot of us will quietly celebrate his life today. If you know someone like Gordon, you too are truly blessed. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2013, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-happy-mmp/663545/358 "2013-07-21T00:58:31Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > This is true **sari** I’ve had both a red neck and a redneck. I liked the redneck better. 😃 There are gray rednecks? :dubious: ---
**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:** [July 21, 2013, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-happy-mmp/663545/359 "2013-07-21T01:06:38Z")
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**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:** [July 21, 2013, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-happy-mmp/663545/360 "2013-07-21T01:36:37Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I dunno - having met **Spidey** , I’d exclude him from the :eek: tho I can’t address the other 2. Thanks! I needed that today. ☹ > [@swampbear](#): > > This is true **sari** I’ve had both a red neck and a redneck. I liked the redneck better. 😃 I don’t wanna know, _please_ don’t elaborate. :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-happy-mmp/663545.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-happy-happy-mmp/663545.md?page=19)