# The Late Night MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [July 13, 2015, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-mmp/725020 "2015-07-13T05:00:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**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 17, 2015, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-mmp/725020/261 "2015-07-17T23:45:08Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > I ate a huge-ass chocolate bar and am now filled with chocolate and regret. That will teach you to diss people. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-mmp/725020/262 "2015-07-17T23:49:24Z")
I feel a bit better now, though Iā€™ve had to dose myself with ginger ale. Maybe Iā€™ll get out a soda water or some such thing. Or regular water. ---
**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 17, 2015, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-mmp/725020/263 "2015-07-17T23:51:48Z")
Worked, did laundry, walked the dog ,napped. Now Iā€™m making a quick dinner. Mesquite chicken, paprika rice ,and corn with tomatoes and red pepper. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > \*\*sari \*\*- do you think if you had a deep, masculine voice, the cable company wouldnā€™t jerk you around? After all, youā€™re just a girl - what do you know about routers?? I got jerked around by AT&T UVerse for a year, and Iā€™m very manly. Sometimes middle management doesnā€™t want to spend $ to fix a problem. > [@kopek](#): > > This one was almost as good but luckily no injury was involved. The project for today was removing a trellis that the long-late grandfather-in-law built on one side of the porch. The problem with this one was that the honeysuckle never really took and rather than growing up the trellis is just kept growing around the porch rail and swing. And provided a highway for ants. The core issue is this man overbuilt things on a monumental scale. If a 2 inch pipe was 5 times what was needed, he would use a 4 inch pipe. And just driving things into the ground? Donā€™t be silly. Dig a posthole, then drive it in the ground, then fill the hole with concrete. > > So anyway ------ I get the latticework cut away. I get that and the few plants bagged up. I get the brackets off the side of the porch and porch roof. I get the uprights cut down to about 4 feet and all that straightened up. So that leaves two posts that I KNOW are going to be \*#@^& to get out of the ground. This is a little narrow area between the porch foundation/coal cellar and the walkway between our house and the next. I could dig this out but ----------- I have mentioned I own a Harley right? > > I removed the back fender off the Sportster quick, disconnected the lights, wrapped a tow strap around the frame and around the pipes one at a time and just pulled. A little tire smoke here and there but surprisingly enough it worked. Didnā€™t even make the clutch smell any. I would say I made the right call as these things were in to about 4 feet with concrete for about two of it. > > I have some wine chilling and shortly I hope to enjoy the swing without ants crawling on me. And a cigar. Have to make up for not smoking the tires heavy some way, right? : grunts in manly appreciation : > [@EmilyG](#): > > I ate a huge-ass chocolate bar and am now filled with chocolate and regret. Still not a bad Friday evening.šŸ˜ƒ > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I am not English! My family is from Poland - 100%!!! šŸ˜› English as in ā€œNot Amishā€, not English as in ā€œGod Save The Queenā€ ---
**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 17, 2015, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-mmp/725020/264 "2015-07-17T23:55:43Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > English as in ā€œNot Amishā€, not English as in ā€œGod Save The Queenā€ I know thatā€¦ sheesh! šŸ˜› And on that note, I think itā€™s time for ice cream and reclining. _ **MWAH!!** _ ---
**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 17, 2015, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-mmp/725020/265 "2015-07-17T23:57:02Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > English as in ā€œNot Amishā€, not English as in ā€œGod Save The Queenā€ I am surprised that some one of yourā€¦intellectual capabilitiesā€¦understands that. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-mmp/725020/266 "2015-07-17T23:59:40Z")
I have [this music](http://music.cbc.ca/#!/play/artist/Taktus/album/Glass-Houses-for-Marimba) playing now. I find it quite nice as background music. Very calming. Still doing research. ---
**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 18, 2015, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-mmp/725020/267 "2015-07-18T00:14:23Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > I have [this music](http://music.cbc.ca/#!/play/artist/Taktus/album/Glass-Houses-for-Marimba) playing now. I find it quite nice as background music. Very calming. > > Still doing research. Apparently I am forbidden to listen because I am not in Canada. Have those fellows not heard of The Band? :dubious: ---
**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 18, 2015, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-mmp/725020/268 "2015-07-18T01:03:03Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Apparently I am forbidden to listen because I am not in Canada. > Have those fellows not heard of The Band? > :dubious: I can listen. Maybe they just donā€™t want your sort in the True North, eh?:p;) ---
**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 18, 2015, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-mmp/725020/269 "2015-07-18T01:36:57Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > I can listen. Maybe they just donā€™t want your sort in the True North, eh?:p;) [Levon Helm](https://www.google.com/search?q=levon+helm&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8) is from Arkansas. Very, very tacky of those Canucks. Snidely Whiplash, all of them, save Emily. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-mmp/725020/270 "2015-07-18T02:41:30Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I am not English! My family is from Poland - 100%!!! šŸ˜› Same difference actually ā€“ which is why my family is still being shunned by some of the Stohlfutz clan for something our Grandfather did. (Old Man S kept calling him English. He was not just Siberian but had an almost pathological hatred for anything remotely English (other than the Irish who hated the English as much as he did). Old Man S used the E-word one too many times and Grandpap popped him a serious one right on the schnozz. There are still parts of Lancaster County where we use the Old Wenchā€™s maiden name.) > [@dogbutler](#): > > : grunts in manly appreciation : The wine may have tarnished the manly thing a little though. šŸ˜‰ > [@dogbutler](#): > > English as in ā€œNot Amishā€, not English as in ā€œGod Save The Queenā€ Dame Edna??? I didnā€™t know she was in peril!!! šŸ˜ƒ (The OW visited something she came across in London called the Udderbelly Festival. And people wonder why weā€™ve lasted so long.) ---
**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 18, 2015, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-mmp/725020/271 "2015-07-18T03:21:43Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > This one was almost as good but luckily no injury was involved. The project for today was removing a trellis that the long-late grandfather-in-law built on one side of the porch. The problem with this one was that the honeysuckle never really took and rather than growing up the trellis is just kept growing around the porch rail and swing. And provided a highway for ants. The core issue is this man overbuilt things on a monumental scale. If a 2 inch pipe was 5 times what was needed, he would use a 4 inch pipe. And just driving things into the ground? Donā€™t be silly. Dig a posthole, then drive it in the ground, then fill the hole with concrete. > > So anyway ------ I get the latticework cut away. I get that and the few plants bagged up. I get the brackets off the side of the porch and porch roof. I get the uprights cut down to about 4 feet and all that straightened up. So that leaves two posts that I KNOW are going to be \*#@^& to get out of the ground. This is a little narrow area between the porch foundation/coal cellar and the walkway between our house and the next. I could dig this out but ----------- I have mentioned I own a Harley right? > > I removed the back fender off the Sportster quick, disconnected the lights, wrapped a tow strap around the frame and around the pipes one at a time and just pulled. A little tire smoke here and there but surprisingly enough it worked. Didnā€™t even make the clutch smell any. I would say I made the right call as these things were in to about 4 feet with concrete for about two of it. Growing up, my buddyā€™s house is a 2-car wide, straight-in driveway, with a 2-car garage at the end of it. There were separate doors, with a post between them. In front of the post was a bush/shrub/small tree. It died. (awww). His dad tried to remove it; however the roots had obviously grown under the blacktop. He hooked a tow rope to their riding mower, which was pretty kewl as Iā€™ve never seen a mower do a wheelie before (or since). However, the bush/shrub/small tree didnā€™t budge. ā˜¹ Not to be defeated, he disconnected the the mower & tied the end of the rope to the tow hitch on the SS Bonneville. He then got in the car, put it in gear, & slowly stepped on the gas, &ā€¦nothing. ā˜¹ A little more gas, the bush/shrub/small tree bent a little butā€¦that was it. ā˜¹ A little more gas & the driveway _finally_ gave up. The bush/shrub/small tree went _over_ the car, _over_ the rest of the driveway, & most of the way _across the street_ before returning to Earth. :eek: Thus endeth the story of the first bush/shrub/small tree in low-Earth orbit! :o :smack: šŸ˜ƒšŸ†’ ---
**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 18, 2015, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-mmp/725020/272 "2015-07-18T04:03:22Z")
LOL! Would have been something to see (at a safe distance). Itā€™s been an unusual evening over here. We noticed the AC wasnā€™t working well at all, and it kept growing a layer of ice. Handy Hubby to the rescue. šŸ™‚ Note a few minor details: this is the first place Iā€™ve lived in that had central heating/AC. DH is an apprentice electrician (in need of a job), with no actual training on HVAC, but with good mechanical and analysis skills, plus a healthy sense of his own abilities and limitations in repair situations. DH managed to get a cover off that I wouldnā€™t have thought would come off, and found a lot of dust, which he removed. He then took it into his head to check out the underside of the unit, which required opening the ā€œdoorā€ (I donā€™t know the correct name for this) the filter lives behind, removing the filter, then sliding into the opening in a way rather like going under a car. He discovered YEARS of dirt and gunge and ick, that heā€™s quite certain pre-dated our moving in. (Note that some time after we moved in, we discovered there was no filter installed, which I hadnā€™t known to look for. This was corrected, and weā€™ve been keeping up on filter maintenance since then. We just renewed our lease and are going into our fourth year in this apartment.) Much cursing, vacuuming, spraying, and scrubbing later (with the cat locked in the bedroom to keep her from ā€œhelpingā€), he reports that he got it about as clean as he reasonably could, and the AC is now running. No detectable icing up, and we should be down to a temperature at which I should be able to sleep fairly soon. DH even thinks that the cleanup should help our power bill by improving the systemā€™s efficiency. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-mmp/725020/273 "2015-07-18T04:21:42Z")
WhenI was a teen, Sis and I were helping Dad tear down an old house (slave labor, yanno). When we got it down to the frame, he climbed up the extension ladder, hooked the log chain around the intersection of the main vertical and horizontal beams, came down and hooked the other end to the truck for the final tear down. He put his old truck in granny and inched forward. Just about the time the frame began to move forward, the log chain snapped. It laid tracks over the hood of his old green truck and cracked the windshield. Sis and I learned some colorful new vocabulary that afternoon. The production of _Into the Woods_was good, if modified. It was performed by a youth theatre troupe, so was toned down, but still excellent. I also got a mini tour of the second floor by one of the managers during intermission. Now, itā€™s time to hit the hay. ---
**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 18, 2015, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-mmp/725020/274 "2015-07-18T10:19:01Z")
[Classic video of a bunch of guys trying to pull down a branch with their car.](https://youtu.be/gC3QoitvQCc) I think thatā€™s a rear-wheel drive too. Ouch! ---
**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 18, 2015, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-mmp/725020/275 "2015-07-18T10:24:34Z")
Iā€™m pretty sure this thread is the reason I was dreaming about Amish guys wearing bald wigs. Very strange night. But Iā€™m up, breakfasting, caffeinating, and trying to keep things quiet so \*\*FCD \*\*can sleep a bit more. When I hear him in the shower, Iā€™ll clean the kitchen, then go shower myself. Iā€™ve got to finish packing the car, then I can hit the road. Somewhere in there, Iā€™ll need to water my new grass patches. Much excitement in store this afternoon. After I get to Momā€™s and check out the light and extension cord situation, she and I will go to Home Depot for stuff. Then Iā€™ll install her new lights and either repair or replace her extension cord, depending on which cord it is. She had one that I told her to throw away last year - the damned thing was a fire hazard. Iā€™ll also have to put AdBlock on her computer - she said pop-ups are driving her crazy. While Iā€™m at it, Iā€™ll run a few clean-up programs for her. Then tomorrow is the party - mostly family, but some friends. Weather permitting, weā€™ll be out around the pool. Iā€™m hoping I can bail after a couple of hours, especially considering Iā€™ll have been there overnight. We shall see. Yesterday, I got a couple of emails from my very first boyfriend - he had scanned some photos of me from when we were in Memphis for our early electronics training. OMG - was I really that young?? Theyā€™ll appear in upcoming TBT posts on FB. And so begins another day. Happy Saturday!! ---
**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 18, 2015, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-mmp/725020/276 "2015-07-18T10:26:18Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > [Classic video of a bunch of guys trying to pull down a branch with their car.](https://youtu.be/gC3QoitvQCc) > > I think thatā€™s a rear-wheel drive too. Ouch! I once saw a video - maybe on Americaā€™s Funniest Home Videos - of a guy pulling down a tree using his truck. His rope was a little short. He pulled the tree right down on the cab of the truck. :smack: ---
**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 18, 2015, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-mmp/725020/277 "2015-07-18T10:30:34Z")
Up, caffeinated, off to work. **Moooommmmmm!** , you were dreaming of **Ruble** doing a Yul Brenner impersonation?: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:** [July 18, 2015, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-mmp/725020/278 "2015-07-18T10:46:21Z")
Iā€™m pretty sure Yul Brenner never had an ill-fitting plastic scalpā€¦ šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-mmp/725020/279 "2015-07-18T11:25:56Z")
Itā€™s my last day before I go away. Much to be done. We have to board the cat, and Iā€™m worried about it, but I hope itā€™ll go fine. ---
**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 18, 2015, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-mmp/725020/280 "2015-07-18T11:37:37Z")
Good Morninā€™ Yā€™all! Up and caffeinatinā€™. _YAWN_ 'Tis 75 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 95 for the day. Gonna be hawt but interestinā€™ly enough, the humidity is kinda low for around here. I noticed the grass is not wet. Todayā€™s plan include staginā€™ the Parish Hall over to the church house for VBS, the gettinā€™ of ice since Iā€™m there, and some quality cee-mint pond time. JDD and Partner are cominā€™ over to hang and we shall grill steaks for dindin. Iā€™m lookinā€™ forward to an afternoon of chillinā€™ and grillinā€™. I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy demands sustenance. Then, I must purtify enough to be presentable. Happy Sattidy Yā€™all! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-mmp/725020.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-late-night-mmp/725020.md?page=15)