# The hot and soggy MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [July 8, 2013, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hot-and-soggy-mmp/662929 "2013-07-08T10:39:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hot-and-soggy-mmp/662929/41 "2013-07-08T16:15:43Z")
> [@sahirrnee](#): > > so what happened to the board > > all of a sudden the font has changed again and it is in teeny tiny type _Looks normal to me._ ---
**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 8, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hot-and-soggy-mmp/662929/42 "2013-07-08T16:18:32Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > _Looks normal to me._ Looks like this to me ---
**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 8, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hot-and-soggy-mmp/662929/43 "2013-07-08T17:08:31Z")
> [@sahirrnee](#): > > Looks like this to me Try [this.](http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110908173817AA518Gj) ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hot-and-soggy-mmp/662929/44 "2013-07-08T17:08:45Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > In other news, I saw a work at home opportunity that made me go hmmmmm… I am not job searchin’ but ya know how it is when sump’n catches your eye. I think I shall pursue a bit just to see what it’s all about. “Cook crystal meth for fun and profit in the privacy of your own kitchen…” ---
**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 8, 2013, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hot-and-soggy-mmp/662929/45 "2013-07-08T17:14:39Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Try [this.](http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110908173817AA518Gj) It only changed on the SDMB, everywhere else it stayed the same. ---
**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 8, 2013, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hot-and-soggy-mmp/662929/46 "2013-07-08T17:33:07Z")
> [@sahirrnee](#): > > It only changed on the SDMB, everywhere else it stayed the same. You go places on the web besides the SDMB? 😕 I think it just does text. You can change your screen resolution, but that doesn’t usually happen accidentally. ---
**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 8, 2013, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hot-and-soggy-mmp/662929/47 "2013-07-08T18:03:21Z")
I got the fisheries job! Happy Dance!!! 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 Training on Weds, and I start on Monday. 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hot-and-soggy-mmp/662929/48 "2013-07-08T18:09:33Z")
I have no conversation starters. And little poetry. Although I do have [Jabberwocky](http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/jabberwocky.html) memorized. Usually not a good thing to start a conversation with. Could be considered fair warning, though. To paraphrase Arlo Guthrie\*, what I do have is insulation. And new siding and double paned windows and six new electrical outlets. On the east side of the house. Due to tree and driveway placement, that’s the side of the house that gets the most sun in the summer. That’s where it bakes. So huzzah, I say, for insulation. And many thank yous for the friends and relatives who worked so hard through the holiday and weekend to make it happen. - from the talking preamble of one version of Gabriel’s Lament (I’m finding it called GABRIEL’S MOTHER’S HIGHWAY BALLAD #16 BLUES - Hmmm.) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hot-and-soggy-mmp/662929/49 "2013-07-08T18:15:05Z")
Yay for you, FCMom! Good going! Now THAT’s a conversation starter! ---
**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 8, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hot-and-soggy-mmp/662929/50 "2013-07-08T18:43:43Z")
**MOOOOOOM** YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY for gainful employment and not bein’ a drain on society! 😛 It does sound like it’ll be a fun gig. > [@bobbio](#): > > “Cook crystal meth for fun and profit in the privacy of your own kitchen…” You saw the same job postin’? Must be nationwide! 😃 As to the work at home opportunity it is from a legit source. I know I sound kinda cryptic right now but I want to know a little more first before I do anything like actually pursue it. I figure it does not hurt to take a look. > [@sari](#): > > The only thing I remember from the Canterbury Tales, and I think that is where it is from although I could be wrong… > Is something about a guy wanting a kiss from a certain woman so he climbs a ladder to her window. She tells him if he wants a kiss he has to close his eyes and she turns around, lifts her skirt and spreads her cheeks. Then he goes on in praise of her sweet tasting lips or some such thing. Chaucer at his finest! 😃 **Limey** that may well be the first time evar maters, loom and watermelon have all been mentioned in the same sentence. It’s all so stream of consciousness! Yay for insulation and other shiny new house stuff **yeller**! ---
**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 8, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hot-and-soggy-mmp/662929/51 "2013-07-08T18:57:01Z")
Oh yeah - conversation starter: \*Wanna know about my crabs??? \* :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hot-and-soggy-mmp/662929/52 "2013-07-08T19:05:00Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I got the fisheries job! Happy Dance!!! 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 Training on Weds, and I start on Monday. 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 Well, I got an anemic raise today. Considering the company gave out 0 corporatewide the past 2 years, it was pretty good… ---
**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:** [July 8, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hot-and-soggy-mmp/662929/53 "2013-07-08T19:13:47Z")
I got my tomatoes sort of situated. I’m propping them up on sticks. I’m considering tying them up and then tying the strings on the windowsill inside. They’re in a bad place for tying up. I can’t use my deck chair until winter since it’s propping one of the vines up. Yeah, my tomatoes kind of got away from me this year. I’m contemplating drinking all the coffee today. SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hot-and-soggy-mmp/662929/54 "2013-07-08T19:20:57Z")
Today is taking a very long time. I have decided that sometime very soon, I am going to have myself some kind of luxurious spa weekend. I’m talking mud baths and fluffy robes they charge you a hundred bucks for when you “accidentally” take them home. I had been thinking I’d go alone and have myself some recharge time, but then it occurred to me that I’d get wicked bored with nobody to talk to, so now I’m considering taking Roomie with me. I want cucumbers on my eyes and disgusting seaweed wraps and fancy towel-turbans. These places have to exist somewhere outside tv shows, right? ---
**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 8, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hot-and-soggy-mmp/662929/55 "2013-07-08T20:27:02Z")
[Rampant Crime](http://www.katv.com/story/22784616/benton-man-allegedly-stole-jewelry-sausage-biscuits) in Arkansas. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2013, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hot-and-soggy-mmp/662929/56 "2013-07-08T20:43:57Z")
In rapid succession I managed to smash my right thumb and take a small chunk out of my left index finger. I think this makes it time to take a break. ---
**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 8, 2013, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hot-and-soggy-mmp/662929/57 "2013-07-08T21:00:14Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Maybe this week’s theme can be conversation **starters**. > > GO! Conversation starters; not enders but STARTERS! Neither of the below two examples are part of the [101 Conversation starters](http://www.conversationstarters.com/101.htm) :smack: :rolleyes: > [@swampbear](#): > > Conversation starters, heh. When I was a wee freshbear in college, we had to learn the first eighteen lines of the _Prologue to The Canterbury Tales_ in Middle-English. Our professor said we had to do it for two reasons: because he said so, and because one day we will be at a cocktail party and can use the recitation as an icebreaker. > > **Spidey** the wimmen will line up when you do this! 😃 > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Oh yeah - conversation starter: \*Wanna know about my crabs??? \* :eek: How \*dare \*you derail the MMP! 😛 ---
**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 8, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hot-and-soggy-mmp/662929/58 "2013-07-08T21:18:59Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > How \*dare \*you derail the MMP! 😛 There is the center of a Great Sausage Biscuit Theft Ring in my Fair State and you babble about conversation starters? How can one converse if one cannot eat?!? Swampy, I beg you, get your minion under control! ---
**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 8, 2013, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hot-and-soggy-mmp/662929/59 "2013-07-08T21:24:00Z")
I hate being on hold. If my call’s really so important, how about answering it? Yeah, yeah, I know, they’ve got a lot of other callers. I’ve worked in call centers, I understand about queues and all that. It just starts feeling like taunting after fifteen minutes of “your call is very important to us”, yadda yadda. ---
**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 8, 2013, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hot-and-soggy-mmp/662929/60 "2013-07-08T21:52:09Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > There is the center of a Great Sausage Biscuit Theft Ring in my Fair State and you babble about conversation starters? How can one converse if one cannot eat?!? Quick! Someone get **Flytrap** some extra large snausage biskits, or some Willy Wonka extra chewy bubble gum. We need to keep his mouth full, & then remind him it’s not polite to talk that way…at least until _my_ (pointy stick wielding) minions arrive! 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hot-and-soggy-mmp/662929.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hot-and-soggy-mmp/662929.md?page=4)