# 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:** 14
**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:** [May 3, 2013, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/261 "2013-05-03T00:32:02Z")
home on time. Having a martini and some chicken sausage. ---
**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 3, 2013, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/262 "2013-05-03T00:39:28Z")
irk irk irk and it’s irksome :::sigh::: Breaking up is hard to do. ---
**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 3, 2013, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/263 "2013-05-03T01:01:49Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > _ **I’m HOOOOOOOOOOOME!!** _😃 Sweet Jesus! Swampy! The coasters! Where the hell are the coasters? Hi, Mommmm. So, tell us about the coas…fishies and salt. I’m thinking about starting saltwater in the 100 gallon tank. Swampy, Moses and Aaron on a Stick, FIND THE COASTERS! ---
**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:** [May 3, 2013, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/264 "2013-05-03T01:16:40Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Swampy, Moses and Aaron on a Stick, FIND THE COASTERS! Psst! We fired 'em off in the Nerf Disc Blaster, remember? ---
**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 3, 2013, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/265 "2013-05-03T01:30:12Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > > [@Filbert](#): > > > > there was a drunk guy pissing on the garden path. > > Are you in Britain, or here in North Little Rock, Arkansas, USA? THIS is why you should climb into a stamped box addressed to Guam. _They_ have indoor plumbing there, you uncouth, heathen (& apparently schnockered) Arkansinian (is too a word)! :eek: Upon further reflection, the downs outweighed the ups, the day sucked. ☹ ---
**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 3, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/266 "2013-05-03T01:42:41Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > _They_ have indoor plumbing there, you uncouth, heathen (& apparently schnockered) Arkansinian (is too a word)! :eek: The hell it is. Find the damn coasters. The nerf blaster was **YOUR IDEA** , after all! I got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2013, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/267 "2013-05-03T01:59:33Z")
Jeepers. Here, use my coasters. Can’t leave you guys alone formore than five minutes. ---
**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 3, 2013, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/268 "2013-05-03T02:06:50Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > The hell it is. > > Find the damn coasters. The nerf blaster was **YOUR IDEA** , after all! > > I got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals. NO, the marshmallow gun was my idea. (But only because we’re indoors & don’t want to put holes in the walls with the spud gun.) The coasters were used as mini shields from the bullets & then flung like ninja stars at the shooter when they went to reload. I used to shoot OBL with a MMM-caliber\*\* gun. He’d jump up & down waiting for me to fire it at him, then cringe when I did pull the trigger, only to joyfully eat the ‘bullets’ & start the jumping up & down step all over again. \*\* (Mini-MarshMallow) ---
**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 3, 2013, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/269 "2013-05-03T02:34:47Z")
Speak to Dogbutler. Quickly. Where the hell is Swampy? He can talk Mommmm out of anything… ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/270 "2013-05-03T04:23:14Z")
TGIF. ---
**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/271 "2013-05-03T06:00:34Z")
Well is it that time of year again already? Followed another DWI for 40 minutes - never got a cop to catch up… Md State Police, Anne arundel County, Prince Georges Police… it was a long game of pass the buck. I think a story will happen eventually. Great video. Too bad I can’t share it yet. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2013, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/272 "2013-05-03T06:02:25Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > I may be going into labor. Is that exciting? Has she been baking long enough to be done enough for birth? If so, yes, this is exciting. If not, NO, BABY, STAY PUT UNTIL YOU’RE READY TO BE BORN. Long volunteer day, very tired. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2013, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/273 "2013-05-03T06:08:01Z")
A kitchen experiment: Materials: 3 bags of pears, 5 in each bag, all pears very like in size and (lack of) ripeness, two paper bags, one basket, one banana. Each bag of pears, once freed of the plastic they came home in, became a test group: #1 is the control group, in a basket on the kitchen counter. #2 is now wrapped in a paper bag. #3 is in a similar position to #2, but with a sacrificial banana included in their bag. The object of this is to determine whether the bag and/or banana make any difference in speed of ripening. Results will probably not start arriving until next week’s MMP. Does this qualify as a kitchen chemistry experiment or a kitchen biology experiment? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![sangfroid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@sangfroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sangfroid)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/274 "2013-05-03T09:31:40Z")
> [@sahirrnee](#): > > :::sigh::: > > Breaking up is hard to do. They say that - not sure who [_they_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbad22CKlB4) are sometimes, though… Man, I’m showing my age with that clip, ain’t I? (and best wishes to you, **sahirrnee** - it is hard, sometimes) No blurf this AM - shocked awake at 4 with upper leg cramps again - GAH! No irk until this afternoon, so I’m up and fiddling on ta interwebs until the hot tub heats up to 104°. I’m going to boil myself - and my traitorous thighs - into submission. Happy Friday, y’all… ---
**Author:** ![sangfroid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@sangfroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sangfroid)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/275 "2013-05-03T09:41:56Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > A kitchen experiment: > > Materials: 3 bags of pears, 5 in each bag, all pears very like in size and (lack of) ripeness, two paper bags, one basket, one banana. > > Each bag of pears, once freed of the plastic they came home in, became a test group: #1 is the control group, in a basket on the kitchen counter. #2 is now wrapped in a paper bag. #3 is in a similar position to #2, but with a sacrificial banana included in their bag. > > The object of this is to determine whether the bag and/or banana make any difference in speed of ripening. Results will probably not start arriving until next week’s MMP. > > Does this qualify as a kitchen chemistry experiment or a kitchen biology experiment? 🙂 Heh. I’ve long wanted to do a “ask the produce guy” thread. I think I’d be overwhelmed, though. Pears ripen from the inside out; growers tell you to “check the neck”, in other words, feel the neck (the stem end) of the pear for ripeness - when you feel softness at the neck, the pear is ripe. If you wait until the whole pear feels soft, it is quite likely overripe inside. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2013, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/276 "2013-05-03T10:03:09Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. _YAWN_ ‘Tis 64 Amurrkin out and rainy with a predicted high of _only_ 68 for the day. Thus it is about as warm as it’s gonna get all day. Tomorrow promises to be a rainy, stormy day as well. Still gonna do the fish fry though bein’ as I have nine pounds of catfish filets all thawed out. I bought 'em two weeks ago when they were on sale over to The Pig. **{{{Sari}}}** breakin’ up is always hard. **flytrap** I think the Sri Lankan spiders took the coasters as souvenirs. **Nettie** once said pears are ripened, poach 'em in a simple syrup and serve 'em with ice cream and chawklit sauce. YUM! **coldblood** yay for hot tub soak! I have a hot tub and love it especially on cold nights. Chilled champagne and a hot tub can be quite ummm… romantical. 😉 Now I need more caffiene and rumbly tummy wants to be fed. Then, alas, irk purtification must commence. At least it’s Firday! Happy Firday Y’all! ---
**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:** [May 3, 2013, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/277 "2013-05-03T10:31:39Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > Does this qualify as a kitchen chemistry experiment or a kitchen biology experiment? 🙂 Depends on how fast the pears ripen. ---
**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 3, 2013, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/278 "2013-05-03T10:39:38Z")
Good morning all! I did so want to sleep in, but someone was snoring up a storm, and rather than beat him with his own pillows, I let him sleep. Because I’m nice, dammit! 😛 It’s all of 48° here and we’re supposed to be sunny and 66° today. Pretty good for planting - I shouldn’t roast, so yay! I will wait till it’s into the 50s before venturing forth. Wonder if \*\*FCD \*\*will take me out to breakfast?? Today’s plan is planting - at least the pachysandra and the phlox. Anything over that is bonus. Oh, and I’ll need to unload everything from my car, just in case I need to use it for something. I do need to do my best to get it all planted this weekend - we’re promised rain most of next week. I see ibuprofen in my future… \*\*sari \*\*- it’s hard, but it sounds like it’s what you wanted/needed to do. Hang in there!! \*\*coldblood \*\*- thanks for the pear tip - I had never heard that before and I’m always reluctant to buy pears out of ripeness fear! :eek: Do I caffeinate, or do I wait to see if I’m being taken out to breakfast?? Decisions, decisions… ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/279 "2013-05-03T10:42:23Z")
Mornin’ Mumpers! Another ‘busy’ day over here- doin’ some gardening stuff, and not much else. It’s still sunny! I don’t know what’s going on! ---
**Author:** ![Sario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sario/32/18580_2.png) [@Sario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sario)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982/280 "2013-05-03T11:23:56Z")
Blurrrrrrffffffffft I think I need a sri lankan spider just to shock me awake. Or I could stick a fork in an electrical outlet, I haven’t done that in a while… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-just-to-tick-everyone-off-mmp/656982.md?page=15)