# The Just To Tick Everyone Off MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [April 29, 2013, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982 "2013-04-29T03:23:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**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:** [May 1, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/181 "2013-05-01T13:53:26Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > \*\*sari \*\*- I’ll probably be stopping close to your neck of the woods on my way home. We need salt for our aquarium and we go to [this place](http://www.houseoftropicals.net/map-directions.html) to get it because they’ve got good prices, and it’s often an excuse to drive to GB. 😃 So I’ll wave from my salt stop! GB, the armpit of AA county! Can you believe a recruiter told my niece (who was living in GB at the time) to use a different address on her resume because GB has such a bad reputation? Yippee! The HFH just left and once again I am HOME ALONE! ---
**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:** [May 1, 2013, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/182 "2013-05-01T14:40:19Z")
Well, it certainly took long enough! But I’m showered and dressed, and I’m thinking about going out to get some lunch. I’m thinking Bert’s. I think I shall! 😃 ---
**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:** [May 1, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/183 "2013-05-01T15:36:22Z")
I’m up and at irk but I still haven’t eaten or anything. Just remembered half day for the Sah-kid today so he will be home in am hour. I have to walk hell-pup today, and tomorrow. She’s really not a bad dog, just 100 pounds of puppy is too much puppy. The SO or soon to be ex-SO sent me a text yesterday asking it I was ok. I still haven’t answered because I don’t see much point in continuing in something that obviously isn’t going to work. I’m not angry anymore, I’m not sad anymore, I just don’t care. I keep waiting for it to hit me and I’m not feeling much of anything other than that a weight has been lifted off me. ---
**Author:** ![Jynxster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jynxster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jynxster)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2013, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/184 "2013-05-01T15:59:34Z")
I have been practicing giving a training presentation all day. I feel like I sound like the teacher from Charlie Brown. Whaw-whaw-whaw. Everyone is going to fall asleep from boredom. I don’t blame them. It _is_ boring and extremely repetative. I basically repeat verbally all the instructions I have written down. I wish I could just email out the instructions and spreadsheet and tell them to call me with any questions, but the boss wants it this way. Blergh! ---
**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:** [May 1, 2013, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/185 "2013-05-01T16:11:14Z")
\*\*Jynx \*\*- use puppets! You’re welcome! 😃 Back from grabbing a burger at Bert’s and filling my car. Guess I can’t put it off any longer - I have to clean the porch railings. Sometimes being a responsible adult just sucks. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2013, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/186 "2013-05-01T16:30:00Z")
> [@Jynxster](#): > > I have been practicing giving a training presentation all day. I feel like I sound like the teacher from Charlie Brown. Whaw-whaw-whaw. Everyone is going to fall asleep from boredom. I don’t blame them. It _is_ boring and extremely repetative. I basically repeat verbally all the instructions I have written down. I wish I could just email out the instructions and spreadsheet and tell them to call me with any questions, but the boss wants it this way. Blergh! OMG good luck! I have to give one of those training presentation thingies on the 9th so I feel your pain ---
**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:** [May 1, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/187 "2013-05-01T16:43:30Z")
Tonight is weigh-in for a month long weight loss challenge. The Boy has gathered together a group of six who all tossed in $20. I think it’s winner take all, to be calculated by percentage. In related news, I discovered that it’s easier to get up a little early if I know that the thing I’m getting up early for is a big waffle breakfast. The Boy went all out on the group challenge setup. He decided it would be more fun to have a little treasure chest as the prize. The only one he could find was at a craft store. So he bought that, stained it, then went to the bank to ask for $120 in Sacagawea dollars, because they’re gold. Well, goldish. He said the teller looked at him strangely until he explained what he wanted them for. Then she was all excited and thought it was cool and went rummaging in the vault. So I’m up and very full. And $120 in coins doesn’t make as big a pile as I’d have expected. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2013, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/188 "2013-05-01T16:58:12Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > \*\*Jynx \*\*- use puppets! You’re welcome! 😃 Or a thick textbook. Hold it up high & drop it. When it hits the floor with a WHOMP everyone will suddenly be awake again. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2013, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/189 "2013-05-01T17:06:30Z")
I’m on the crew boat ride to port now! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2013, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/190 "2013-05-01T17:28:53Z")
Well that was cool, in the courtyard at work they brought in a bunch of organic vendors, a vegetable stand, honey, soaps, candles, teas, goat milk products, bird houses, jerky, etc. Got some great stuff for Mom’s (Wife’s) Day, heirloom tomatoes, plus two veggies were free so a honeydew and a pineapple. Nice. ---
**Author:** ![sangfroid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@sangfroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sangfroid)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/191 "2013-05-01T17:38:26Z")
Back from (sorta) half-day irk. I was so blurfed out this am (5 am, to be precise), that I misspelled ‘irk’ as ‘ick’ in my early post. Kind of the same sentiment though, no? > [@Jynxster](#): > > …I have been practicing giving a training presentation all day. I feel like I sound like the teacher from Charlie Brown. Whaw-whaw-whaw. Everyone is going to fall asleep from boredom. I was a regional trainer at work in several disciplines a number of years ago, and I swear **Jynx** , this is exactly how I felt about certain training modules. Right down to the Charlie Brown thing. You can just see the lights go out in people’s eyes. And I also tried to convince the powers that be that were better ways of doing said training, but they would have none of it - they are _The Powers That Be_, after all. If it’s my idea, it cannot be wrong and all that. _::sigh::_ Good luck. ---
**Author:** ![Jynxster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jynxster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jynxster)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2013, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/192 "2013-05-01T17:40:05Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > \*\*Jynx \*\*- use puppets! You’re welcome And thus Andy Application , Sara System and Barney Budget were born. Little did they know Andy Application was a former childhood-tv puppet who couldn’t find work for years because of drug and alcohol abuse. The training that he was giving was so boring that he was forced back into mind-altering drugs just to give a little depth to the presentation. He just wasn’t aware of how deep in he would go into his drug induced haze while giving the presentation, the laser pointer kept turning into a six-eyed cat and he had a slight phobia of cats. Phrases like “And in this field here you enter..” were punctuated by large screems of AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" followed by, “Now where was, I…oh yes budget”. Sara System had a terrible spitting problem and no one would sit with in 10 feet of her in a conference room. Unfortunately the training was full of many alliterative phrases such as “similiar system statistics” and “alternative application association”. Luckly for the trainees she will be giving this training via telecon, however her fellow co-workers must cram into the only conference room available, a 3x5 room with no windows. If they don’t remember their rain coats and fashionable rubber booties that day they will be in trouble or wet, very, very, wet. Barney Budget was an older puppet. He had been around, if you know what I mean. He had been through 2 puppet wars and the Battle of the Strings vs Hands vs Socks vs Gila Monsters. He had a been-there done-that type of attitude and wasn’t afraid to share it. He also had a tendancy to off-road during the training. He would have his script in front of him but would frequently veer off into telling war stories. “Did I ever tell you about the time I was knee deep in, oh wait I am a sock puppet, I don’t have knees, thread deep in the depths of the k-martian swamp of no hope, surrounded by nerf-gun-toting v-necked hanes t-shirts with torn packaging? There was this one shirt, must have been a XXXXXXXXXXXXXXL size that tried to creep up on me from behind. But I smelled it. Worn and returned under shady circumstances will give it away everytime. Plus the red lipstick on the collor was easy to spot as well. I raised up my gatling gun loaded with 10,000 rounds of bleach capsules and smoked that sucker back into the pre-treat era. Thats also where I lost my eye. Anyone want to see the scar?” I think this is a FANTASTIC idea. _runs away to liberate single socks from the mis-matched clothing drawer_ ---
**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:** [May 1, 2013, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/193 "2013-05-01T18:17:07Z")
Eons ago, I had to sit thru a really dry presentation. The information was really quite good and helpful, but there was no way to make it interesting. About halfway thru, a slide came up of an adorable basset hound puppy - all ears and sad eyes - with a gun held to its head. It read: \*“Stay awake or the dog dies!” \* :eek: It definitely woke us all up! 😃 ---
**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:** [May 1, 2013, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/194 "2013-05-01T18:27:17Z")
Of yeah, forgot to say - I’ve finished scrubbing the railings on the porch - whew, what a job! When \*\*FCD \*\*gets home, we’ll take the new furniture out there. Then I’ll take some pics. Meanwhile, I’m taking a break. Whew! ---
**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:** [May 1, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/195 "2013-05-01T19:19:57Z")
I couldn’t wait -[I did it myself!](http://s72.photobucket.com/user/fairychatmom/media/P5010260_zps7f73378a.jpg.html) 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/196 "2013-05-01T20:36:20Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I couldn’t wait -[I did it myself!](http://s72.photobucket.com/user/fairychatmom/media/P5010260_zps7f73378a.jpg.html) > > 🆒 The red is fabulous! ---
**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:** [May 1, 2013, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/197 "2013-05-01T20:40:58Z")
Is that a dog? 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 1, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/198 "2013-05-01T20:44:04Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Eons ago, I had to sit thru a really dry presentation. The information was really quite good and helpful, but there was no way to make it interesting. About halfway thru, a slide came up of an adorable basset hound puppy - all ears and sad eyes - with a gun held to its head. It read: \*“Stay awake or the dog dies!” \* :eek: > > It definitely woke us all up! 😃 Was in a traffic systems seminar, once. I don’t know if they were pre-programmed, or if the presenter had a button he could push. But just about when we were starting to nod off, a little video clip of a car crash, with full sound, would pop up. That gets your attention. We made him run each one two or three times. Just to get all of the educational information out of them. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/199 "2013-05-01T20:49:07Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > We made him run each one two or three times. Just to get all of the educational information out of them. Always a mistake to let you ans Swampy sit together. :dubious: ---
**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:** [May 1, 2013, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/200 "2013-05-01T20:52:47Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > The red is fabulous! I’m really happy with it. Originally, we were looking at green, then we considered non-covered cushions that I would do myself, but I like red. 😃 And the color isn’t nearly as violent as it looked on the website. We were sitting out there just a bit ago and I decided to put a harness on Taz and take him out. He didn’t like the harness. But I don’t want him out otherwise - he’ll probably run off. So he either goes on a leash and yells at us or he sits inside and yells at us. Silly cat! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982.md?page=11)