# The MMP People Finder (MMP) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [January 28, 2008, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-people-finder-mmp/435285 "2008-01-28T05:10:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-people-finder-mmp/435285/41 "2008-01-28T17:40:21Z")
[QUOTE=gotpasswords] There’s been a video clip showing up here and there on the “extreme videos” TV shows of a firefighter that was approaching a house (think there was a gas leak in this one), and just as he turns to enter or look into a window, he pauses a fraction of a moment while his training kicks in, flips down a face shield and then the house promptly explodes. [/QUOTE] I saw that at home with the wife. Never having seen it before, I told her exactly how and why the house exploded (trapped gasoline fumes). She’s still mad at me for ripping all the inaccuracies in _Ladder 49_, too, and I liked the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-people-finder-mmp/435285/42 "2008-01-28T18:33:27Z")
**Ottawa, Ontario, Canada** for me (although I’m across the river in Gatineau, Québec right now, as I’m posting from the office while finishing my lunch). Dropped into the local Loblaw’s on Saturday to get cat food, and noticed that they had their PC brand spiral-sliced hams on sale. Got a 5 kilo / 11 pound ham for $10.72, and had a delicious Sunday supper and fried ham for breakfast this morning, with another umpteen meals left to go. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-people-finder-mmp/435285/43 "2008-01-28T18:34:33Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] See my location field. Well, Ok, that’s vague. I’m outside of Albany. Cohoes, NY if you want to be precise. [/QUOTE] 'Scuse me lady, do we know you??? 😛 Beebs, if I look out my office window, I see a big Google placemarker thingee, so you nailed it. In fact, on edit, that thing is probably a well hit driver from my backyard. ---
**Author:** ![Most\_Creative\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Most\_Creative\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Most_Creative_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-people-finder-mmp/435285/44 "2008-01-28T18:37:02Z")
You can put me down in Rochester, MN. What a neat idea **beebs**! I’m here working today. Nothing new or exciting to report. Bah, I’m boring. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-people-finder-mmp/435285/45 "2008-01-28T18:37:07Z")
I’m eastern central, I guess. Toronto, Ontario. South east part of the city, if you’d like to drop in. And get thrown up on by the cats or the baby. Subscribing to the thread, and saying hello! ---
**Author:** ![ems](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-people-finder-mmp/435285/46 "2008-01-28T19:21:35Z")
Vroom drive by! Bakersfield, CA is my location! ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-people-finder-mmp/435285/47 "2008-01-28T19:31:08Z")
I’m going to have to go to sleep early tonight… well, earli_ **er** _, anyway… since I have to get up at 6 tomorrow AM to spend a day on Reserves’ Duty. So I’ll probably be scarce tomorrow… Hi, \*\*Meeks \*\*-- long time no see, here! 🙂 \*\*Haze \*\*-- wait, you’re serving beer or w(h)ine? 😕 Never mind, I’ll take whatever you’re offering… 🙂 \*\*VBob \*\*-- your stories never fail to amaze me. And once again (it’s never too many times) – thank you for the time, effort and personal risk you volunteer for other people! \*\*Spaz \*\*… it probably makes me an evil person, but your story about the “spare” WTC cracked me up… ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-people-finder-mmp/435285/48 "2008-01-28T19:41:58Z")
Hello all. I tried to stop in earlier this morning to say hello and happy birthdays (looks like I missed a couple last week. Sorry. **bs2k** I’m in Chesapeake, Virginia. At the northeast corner of that really big patch of green on the map (aka The Great Dismal Swamp.) ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-people-finder-mmp/435285/49 "2008-01-28T19:46:33Z")
Norwalk, CA. Representin’, y’all! I’m home with a cold. I got up long enough to get the Princess ready for school, called in sick to work and went back to sleep. Woke up again at 10 am, took a DayQuil with coffee, and am currently sitting here in my sweats feeling like crap. At least it’s not raining anymore. ---
**Author:** ![BanjoPup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BanjoPup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BanjoPup)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-people-finder-mmp/435285/50 "2008-01-28T19:49:06Z")
I’m up north of Pittsburgh in a town called Ellwood City. Note the horse racetrack that makes up the center of town. ---
**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 28, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-people-finder-mmp/435285/51 "2008-01-28T19:54:38Z")
Afternoon y’all! Sneakin’ in a post whilst takin’ a break from work. Gotta get back shortly. **BBBobbio** what **Special1** said. You do good stuff. Hi, bye, yay, boo, congrats, aww, hugs as needed. Later Y’all! ETA: First on page two. YAY! ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-people-finder-mmp/435285/52 "2008-01-28T19:58:06Z")
Ugh. I need to become better organized - I got by last semester well enough, but teaching 6 classes makes improvisation difficult. I planned to start off my afternoon class with a writing assignment but by the time it rolled around it completely slipped my mind. I suppose I should start using post-its. I think the thing about teaching 6 classes is that by the time you’re done teaching you’re too tired to do anything else. At least my days are over early. :: stumbles off home :: ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-people-finder-mmp/435285/53 "2008-01-28T20:09:31Z")
**LiLi** –never mind the cats and the baby—are YOU still throwing up? 🙂 Class in 8 minutes. I suppose I’d better go. I had to get Fun Neighbor over to help me with the Roman shades–I could not get the drill to bite. He did and showed me–I just have to get all medieval on the lintel’s ass. Ok by me. 2 shades are up, but now I have to go be a student. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-people-finder-mmp/435285/54 "2008-01-28T20:12:31Z")
I forgot my location – Ketchum, Idaho. Right next door to Sun Valley. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-people-finder-mmp/435285/55 "2008-01-28T20:34:26Z")
Happy Monday, all! **beebs** , you can stick my little marker in Helen, MD. Even though my mailing address is Mechanicsville, I’m maybe half a mile from the Helen Post Office. Makes it convenient when I want to mail stuff or buy stamps, but if I have to go sign for something, I need to drive about 7 miles into Mechanicsvills. Such is life in the boonies. Another pain in the butt day. One part of my job involves making maps, sorta. I actually start with an electronic version of a map and extract stuff from a data base and insert it on the map based upon what our customers want. It’s a pretty easy task, except these days. The mapping software is particularly wonky, and I’ve found out it’s not just me. Like today - I started a new map, got all the data points on it, then went back to edit the graphics in order to make it more user friendly. 'Cause I’m nice, dammit! But halfway thru, I did a refresh, and every single data point had disappeared! :mad: So I put in yet another trouble call and started working on a different map. Then Tom came over. He wanted to ask me what the abbreviation Cpt. meant - it’s captain, as in a junior officer in the army or air force. (Navy and Marines abbreviated it Capt.) Easy answer. Short and sweet, right? Yeah, right. 40 minutes later, Tom finally left. I heard all about a job he had in Saudi Arabia in the 60s (he’s a really old fart), about how his dad never learned to read, about some troubled kid he and his wife fostered, about his grown daughters, about his boss, about Tom Clancy, and Morgan Freeman and my eyes started to glaze over and I may have had a stroke or something. GAH! I need to rig up a secret button that will cause my phone to ring on demand… Welcome, new cool kids! Belated Happy B-day to **No-Tag**! Hugs and gropes, just for the heck of it. Is it Firday yet?? ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-people-finder-mmp/435285/56 "2008-01-28T20:43:00Z")
Interesting OP, **Beebs** (Can I call you Beebs?). I am, in a more general sense, located in the Greater Toronto (Ontario) area – I think one of the only two here (in the MMP), actually. So this weekend was … eventful. I got **MindWife** a [new](http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l313/Angellove_010/Misc/100_0627.jpg) [laptop](http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l313/Angellove_010/Misc/100_0628.jpg). She’s happy with it. It’s purdy, big, and has a cool adjustable docking station. Somehow we managed to arrange for and sell her old laptop and take delivery of her new one all within a couple of hours of each other, so it worked out quite well. I’m also trying to sell my previous Treo phone on Kijiji (since it worked out so well for the old laptop) but that’s proving to be more … _interesting_. One guy left me his number and I called him. He was trying to talk me down in price (it’s already an awesome price, but some people are never satisfied) because he’s all the way up in pickering and he’d like a price break for gas to pick it up. I told him I’d let him know and left it at that. Shortly after I got hold of a guy who really, really, _really_ wanted it, would pay asking price, and would pick up Monday (today) if only I’d hold it. I agreed. Then the first guy calls back and says he really, realy, _really_ wants it. I tell him it is already pending to the second guy and he is paying asking price. He tells me he really, really, really, _reallyreally_ wants it, but can I just give him a price break for gas pretty please? I verbally point him again in the direction of Mister Pay My Asking Price. He offers to take it – like, _now_. Tonight (last night) But, you know, $10 off for gas? He has to travel far you know… This morning someone else E-Mailed me about it. Six times. This is on top of “I’ll give you $100 for it” (asking price is $180) and “how can I see the item?” (sum and total of message – and phrases like “the item” when referring to something very specific screams “scam”) and suchlike. I can only imagine that people who use Craigslist get it worse… **Mika** - MEEKS! Where have you been? Your absence has been felt. Or is that _not_ felt? Well, either way, it has been conspicuous. 🙂 Is it quittin’ time yet? I’d like to be home with my monkey and my dog.[sup]\*[/sup] [sub]\* Ten points, whoever gets the reference.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-people-finder-mmp/435285/57 "2008-01-28T20:46:48Z")
**Mooom** , give Tom [this website](http://www.military-quotes.com/ranks/army-rank-insignia.htm) and he’ll never need to bother you for rank abbreviations again. (This page is for Army; there are links on the left to the other services.) I use it constantly because I do a lot of DODIG work and each service wants it done differently. Of course. And when they’re interviewing people in a mixed-service location, it makes it real fun to figure out which set of abbreviations to use. :rolleyes: Although if my experience with guys like Tom is anything to go by, he’ll find another excuse to talk your ears off in any case… Speaking of work, I’ve been puttering along with this one not-very-long-but-very-dull job that’s not due till later this week – and then all of a sudden today I got two WHOPPING jobs dumped on me simultaneously. One is another of those Smithsonian interviews, this one from 1980, which I can only hope is as interesting as the last one; the other is, fortunately, one of my favorite recurring jobs (a national board meeting) that tends to go very quickly because I’m so familiar with all the people, plus the reporter always does a great job. But I’m kind of reeling, going from famine to feast literally in the space of an hour. I really wish the universe would figure out a way to level off my workload sometimes! ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-people-finder-mmp/435285/58 "2008-01-28T21:22:55Z")
Weird. We’re on the world’s longest break from class. Going on 20 minutes and counting. I’m arguing in class with these 20-somethings who think–well, never mind. back to class go I. More later, if I remember or have the ambition to write it all out. ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2008, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-people-finder-mmp/435285/59 "2008-01-28T22:35:42Z")
Whew… finally home! Haven’t done grocery shopping yet either. I’d like to go to a Trader Joe’s but will have to have transportation to go there & back (and not public! LOL). Thanks, **Swampy** and **Doggio** for the info on **SCL** ; I knew she was probably busy RL, just glad to hear that she’s still there and doing okay. We’re having spaghetti and meatballs w/salad and garlic bread for supper, woo hoo! That’s all I got. And no, it is not (unfortunately!) Firday yet … ---
**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:** [January 28, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-people-finder-mmp/435285/60 "2008-01-28T22:38:48Z")
**MamaTigs** , we have posters all over the building with all the services ranks and such. We just didn’t have one right in front of Tom’s face. :rolleyes: Just had a yummerrific supper - broiled tuna steak and 4 different veggies (I was cleaning out the bags o’little bits in the freezer) - sugar snap peas, italian green beans, broccoli crowns, and corn. Very tasty. Now for an evening of chill… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-people-finder-mmp/435285.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mmp-people-finder-mmp/435285.md?page=4)