# 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:** 14
**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 4, 2014, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/261 "2014-01-04T15:06:01Z")
I grew up in Maryland, and I NEVER considered myself a southerner. But I also don’t keep fighting the Civil War, as my family didn’t even arrive in the states till the early 1900s. It wasn’t my war. 😛 I just realized - last July would have been my maternal grandmother’s 100th birthday. She was of the first generation on that side of the family born in the US. My dad and his sibs (except Aunt Stella) were the first on his side of the family - mostly born in the 20s (Dad was born in 1930.) It occurs to me that I could be one of this immigrants the right wing whines about. 😃 ---
**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 4, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/262 "2014-01-04T15:20:27Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I grew up in Maryland, and I NEVER considered myself a southerner. Of course not. When R.E. Lee’s army came through Maryland, he made his guys pay for everything-with Confederate money. 🙂 What was The Band’s fascination with the Southern US? They were all Canadian, save for Levon Helm. ---
**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 4, 2014, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/263 "2014-01-04T15:22:52Z")
I survived a trip to :eek: Wally\*World! :eek: I went all by myself. A certain somebody said he’d believe he’d pass on goin’, but be waitin’ with the nerve tonic when I got back. Apparently I have taken up with a clown. 😃 Anywho, I am now in possession of a sto’ _boughten_ (oh like y’all thought I’d resist that!) cheese ball. I got a few other things as well (they had some nice parsnips). Plus, the all important beer for tonight. I decided on some Yuengling so’s we can share with YP. He likes Yuengling and so do we. I was goin’ to get an eight ounce thingy of extra sharp cheddar cheese and make cheese thangs but the cheese ball was actually cheaper than the cheddar cheese. So I decided it was fate. Plus, I already have good crackers here at da cave. Now I have pasta cookin’ in chikin broth (I boiled some boneless chikin boobs earlier this mornin’) and shall at some point put together a chikin pasta sallit for tomorrow. Go Me! ---
**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 4, 2014, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/264 "2014-01-04T15:30:20Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Of course not. > When R.E. Lee’s army came through Maryland, he made his guys pay for everything-with Confederate money. 🙂 So what about your previous declaration about the Mason-Dixon line??? Get your story straight, man!! 😛 ---
**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:** [January 4, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/265 "2014-01-04T15:44:57Z")
I have a craving for some collard greens so it’s off to the store for that and the makings for chicken and dumplings. It is raining here so it’s a good day to cook. Hard to believe how cold it is in some places. Thanks for the tutorial on flour **GT**. I never knew flour was so complicated. And temperamental. Have a great day all. ---
**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 4, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/266 "2014-01-04T15:51:50Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > So what about your previous declaration about the Mason-Dixon line??? Get your story straight, man!! 😛 Maryland was “somewhat disposed to the Southern states” according to that inarguable source, Wikipedia. 🙂 Northern Arkansas was pro Union, but we don’t wave that fact about. > [@Swampy](#): > > He likes Yuengling and so do we. I have never Yuengled in my life. I’m pretty sure that one can be arrested for it over here. ---
**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 4, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/267 "2014-01-04T16:10:45Z")
The only place I’ve come across ‘boughten’ before is in the Little House on the Prairie books. I think you’re only allowed to use the word if you made your house and over 80% of the stuff in it yourself. ---
**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 4, 2014, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/268 "2014-01-04T16:14:21Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > I decided on some Yuengling so’s we can share with YP. He likes Yuengling and so do we. All y’all are smart people. > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I have never Yuengled in my life. > I’m pretty sure that one can be arrested for it over here. No comments from the Peanut Gallery!😛 ---
**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:** [January 4, 2014, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/269 "2014-01-04T16:18:18Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Looks like I’m the, ummm, “winner” as I only need one finger to display the [temperature](http://www.flickr.com/photos/74663312@N08/11751912236/). :eek: And I think I can guess which finger you’re using. 😉 Must figure out how to convince husband and cat that 7am does not qualify as “sleeping in”. (grumble) ---
**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 4, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/270 "2014-01-04T16:40:09Z")
Boughten can be used when it’s used as ‘store boughten’ because then it’s not a word, it’s part of a phrase or something like that anyway. My ex hubbie was from Pa and his family wanted to know why I didn’t have a southern accent what with me being from the south and all. It was also one of the reasons they didn’t like me, the other two being that I was raised Catholic and I owned a horse. Anyway, I had one parent from above the MasonDixon line and one parent from below it, they met in the middle and here I am. Although I’ve never understood why WV is considered to be a southern state. **Spidey** which finger? ---
**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 4, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/271 "2014-01-04T16:44:15Z")
Back from my first errand - to the post office! Laundry is all done, folded, and put away. I’m having a sammich before going out again on the rest of my errands. I had to get to the PO because it closes at noon, but I wasn’t ready to do the other things. Temp is all the way up to 28° here - a veritable heat wave! 😃 Next frosty snap is Monday night, when it drops into single digits again. I am not amused. C’mon spring!!! ---
**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:** [January 4, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/272 "2014-01-04T16:59:27Z")
Projected highs all week in the 60s here in Sacramento (although we do have a couple of nights scheduled to get below freezing. ---
**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 4, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/273 "2014-01-04T17:47:01Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Back from my first errand - to the post office! Laundry is all done, folded, and put away. I’m having a sammich before going out again on the rest of my errands. I had to get to the PO because it closes at noon, but I wasn’t ready to do the other things. > > Temp is all the way up to 28° here - a veritable heat wave! 😃 Next frosty snap is Monday night, when it drops into single digits again. I am not amused. C’mon spring!!! it’s 34 here. : runs around in flip flops and shorts : ---
**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 4, 2014, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/274 "2014-01-04T17:58:12Z")
\*\*doggio \*\*- it doesn’t count when you do that indoors! 😛 ---
**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 4, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/275 "2014-01-04T18:10:35Z")
On Monday the forecast calls for rain/icy rain/wind with a high of 38 and a low of 15 overnight. This is not acceptable. ICK! Pasta sallit has been made. We sampled some for N.O.L. I done good! 😃 Personally I love to Yuengling, especially at night. ---
**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 4, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/276 "2014-01-04T19:15:09Z")
Errands have been run. I guess I can’t put it off any longer. Gotta go do the water change. Dammit. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/277 "2014-01-04T19:36:03Z")
I thought **FCD** was the fish fan in the family. Why isn’t he doing that? ---
**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 4, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/278 "2014-01-04T19:52:29Z")
**Rosie** FCD is off tendin’ to the parental units. **MOOOOOOM** has been duly instructed on how to do a water change. He thoughtfully made sure she has enough to keep her busy and off the streets while he is away. 😃 ---
**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 4, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/279 "2014-01-04T19:59:32Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > No comments from the Peanut Gallery!😛 I can see the next volume in the \*Rosie, the Cute Snow Bunny \* series featuring the Evile dogbutler rather than Farmer Rabinowitz. :dubious: ---
**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 4, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469/280 "2014-01-04T20:03:18Z")
[QUOTE=Sahirrnee;16984313 Although I’ve never understood why WV is considered to be a southern state. [/QUOTE] I would guess people see them as being culturally Southern. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meandering-musing-mmp/677469.md?page=15)