# The meandering musing MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [December 30, 2013, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469 "2013-12-30T11:14:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**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:** [January 3, 2014, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/201 "2014-01-03T12:29:08Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > “Oh Bother!” > > Do you need lawyers, guns, and money? I don’t remember Winnie the Pooh saying that last part. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/202 "2014-01-03T12:47:53Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > And she lived happily everafter. > Farmer Rabinowitz, on the other hand, had visits from the Health Department, the IRS, his Banker, and his Mother-in-law. > He is doing fifteen to twenty in the state prison. And his mother complains that he doesn’t call, doesn’t visit… ---
**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:** [January 3, 2014, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/203 "2014-01-03T13:46:24Z")
Good luck BBBobbio. Today is trash day, if it weren’t for all the trash/recycling cans outside it could be a bit pretty with the snow. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2014, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/204 "2014-01-03T14:26:47Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > “Oh Bother!” > > Do you need lawyers, guns, and money? > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I don’t remember Winnie the Pooh saying that last part. As Piglet would’ve said - Oh dear. Oh, d-d-ddear dear. 🙂 Also, blurf. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2014, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/205 "2014-01-03T14:30:17Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > Didn’t work. There’s at least an inch out there. Here’s hoping it’s \*just \*snow with no ice underneath. > > I guess I’d better go out and dust off the old car now. It worked here, no snow, just a tad chilly. Late shift today, then off maybe the whole weekend. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/206 "2014-01-03T14:48:39Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > :grumble: > > **Mooooooooom** gets to play hooky, but I have to take my danged gall bladder to see the gastric quack at 0800 for a get acquainted visit. I wanna stay in bed! I was still asleep at 0800! 😃 In fact, I slept with Taz and Higgs plastered up against my side till 0820! I feel human again. 😃 Plus I’ve showered, dressed, breakfasted, boiled some eggs for egg salad, and [I took some pics of my yard](http://s72.photobucket.com/user/fairychatmom/library/2014%20snow?sort=3&sc=3&page=1). It’s a whopping 19°F at the moment. The likelihood of me venturing forth today is pretty small. I have plenty to keep me busy here, and enough eggs, milk, bread and TP to last at least thru tomorrow. So I’m good. 😉 What I lack is chocolate, except for some cocoa. That means I’d have to bake. To quote Pooh: Oh bother!! 😃 ---
**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:** [January 3, 2014, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/207 "2014-01-03T14:55:27Z")
On, bother! I need a lawyer, guns and money. Perhaps I may rip off Christopher Robin. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/208 "2014-01-03T15:03:00Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > What is it Pooh Bear says? > > Never mind. > > Oh, crap. > > I am in so much trouble! No more so than usual, sweetie. :evil smilie: > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > And she lived happily everafter. > Farmer Rabinowitz, on the other hand, had visits from the Health Department, the IRS, his Banker, and his Mother-in-law. > He is doing fifteen to twenty in the state prison. > [@Nava](#): > > And his mother complains that he doesn’t call, doesn’t visit… **doggio**! I need another keyboard! still snowing here. we’ve got about 7 inches so far. It’s going to be in the teens tomorrow, 46 and rainy on Monday, and in the single digits on Wednesday. WTF??? **BLURF!!!** ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/209 "2014-01-03T15:26:04Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I was still asleep at 0800! 😃 In fact, I slept with Taz and Higgs plastered up against my side till 0820! I feel human again. 😃 Oh, bite me. 😛 Oh joy, the fun begins in earnest. One of my many imagining sessions turned up sludge in my gall bladder, which becomes stones. Therefore, I now have a referral to a surgeon. Yay! On the downside, I have in short order an endoscopy, a colonoscopy, and an MRI. I so look forward to a chapped poop chute in the dead o’ winter. :rolleyes: ---
**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:** [January 3, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/210 "2014-01-03T15:44:14Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > One of my many imagining sessions turned up sludge in my gall bladder, which becomes stones. Therefore, I now have a referral to a surgeon. Yay! Congratulations, Vunderboob! Bob. Vunderbob. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/211 "2014-01-03T15:45:35Z")
Yanno, **BBBobbio** , it would have been easier to call in for a snow day rather than go thru all this for a few days off. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/212 "2014-01-03T15:50:57Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Yanno, **BBBobbio** , it would have been easier to call in for a snow day rather than go thru all this for a few days off. 😛 Why should I call in for a snow day when I had today off already? :rolleyes: Y’all should hear VWife doing her Nelson Muntz imitation as I explain today’s events and outcomes to her. 😛 -\> VWife. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2014, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/213 "2014-01-03T16:07:16Z")
I am now the proud owner of a small morello cherry tree 🙂 Unlike the previous one I bought, this one should actually be alive, too. I wound up getting the one I saw yesterday, as the place I was going to today- a local community group’s special fruit tree sale day- had only a few apple trees left when I got there, an hour and a half after opening time… It’s supposed to run for two days, and they’re not getting anything else in. Oops. That’s about as exciting as today’s likely to get, I think. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/214 "2014-01-03T17:18:51Z")
Well, that was productive. I vacuumed the carpets, spot cleaned the critter stains, emptied and refilled the dishwasher, took out the trash, and changed the recycling bag. So much productivity!! I think it’s time for lunch. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/215 "2014-01-03T17:21:39Z")
Yeowch Blurf Ow Yesterday, I got to melt bottles with an oxy/acetylene torch(Beer) Tend to a burn barrel while disposing of leaves(Rye) Watch a DVD of live ACDC(Jameson) I need friends who are less fun **Jim** ---
**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:** [January 3, 2014, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/216 "2014-01-03T17:58:43Z")
It’s payday and not one call about a missed check due to not turnin’ in a timesheet. :rolleyes: This borders on miraculous, y’all! In other news, N.O.L. has been et and it’s cold outside. The wind is blowin’ and brrrrrr! Oh well, back to irkstuff. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/217 "2014-01-03T18:03:52Z")
Laundry time before work. Congrats on the tree, **Nut**! ---
**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:** [January 3, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/218 "2014-01-03T19:38:28Z")
I hereby declare it the weekend. Thus mote it be. You may all leave your irkplaces now. Tell your bosses I said so. That should be reason enough. Really. Trust me. Would I lie to you? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/219 "2014-01-03T19:46:03Z")
Well, that was a nice surprise - I stopped by the store to pick up my consignment checks for Nov and Dec - $269! While I was waiting, I was looking at some other items on sale - some people are way too proud of their crafts - I saw a couple of fabric hats for $75 each! Yeah, it took time and they may think their time is worth a certain amount, but the fact that they were still sitting there tells me they think a bit too highly of their time. Or they’re trying to actually make money doing it. My goal is to not \*lose \*money, and in the grand scheme of things, I think I’ve about broken even. One thing I just noticed - none of the penguins sold! Last year, all but one went, but none this year. That sucks. I’m gonna pout now. 😛 ---
**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:** [January 3, 2014, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/220 "2014-01-03T19:54:00Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > I hereby declare it the weekend. Thus mote it be. You may all leave your irkplaces now. Tell your bosses I said so. That should be reason enough. Really. Trust me. Would I lie to you? - I never got the damn fortune cookies.\* :dubious: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469.md?page=12)