# The next MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [July 23, 2007, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-mmp/412813 "2007-07-23T05:10:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**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:** [July 26, 2007, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-mmp/412813/361 "2007-07-26T12:34:01Z")
[QUOTE=Heffalump and Roo] He’s not expecting me to think, is he? Because it’s way too early for that. [/QUOTE] What? Noooooo… **mental** activity is not exactly what I had in mind… ( **Rosie** , are you chaperoning? 'Cos if so, **stop it!!** ) ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-mmp/412813/362 "2007-07-26T12:43:17Z")
OK, well, I’m crawling back into bed. If anything besides sleep happens there, I’ll let you know. Ta, folks. Be back in a bit. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2007, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-mmp/412813/363 "2007-07-26T12:44:58Z")
[QUOTE=Heffalump and Roo] OK, well, I’m crawling back into bed. If anything besides sleep happens there, I’ll let you know. Ta, folks. Be back in a bit. [/QUOTE] Hey, seriously now, insomnia sucks! Hope you manage to get some more sleep after all. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-mmp/412813/364 "2007-07-26T12:50:19Z")
[QUOTE=Noone Special] ( **Rosie** , are you chaperoning? 'Cos if so, **stop it!!** ) [/QUOTE] is there _really_ a significant difference between chaperoning and voyeurism? ---
**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:** [July 26, 2007, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-mmp/412813/365 "2007-07-26T12:52:14Z")
Yeah yeah, morning morning morning rain blah sleepy morning blah meetings meetings letters letters union grievances meeting morning rain blah. I am one crabby\*\* SOMBG\*\*, leave me alone for a bit, 'k? I have an 8 am meeting with my contractor, whose a heckuva nice guy but who NEVER stops talking. Bleh. ---
**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:** [July 26, 2007, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-mmp/412813/366 "2007-07-26T12:52:34Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] is there _really_ a significant difference between chaperoning and voyeurism? [/QUOTE] Only if the chaperoning is done properly… (i.e., actually stops anything from happening) ---
**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:** [July 26, 2007, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-mmp/412813/367 "2007-07-26T13:10:11Z")
**LOUNE** , when doesn’t it take dynamite to drag you out of bed? I just got to work and I’ve been bad, lol. I’ve been eating healthier and trying to lose some more weight and have been good for the most part, but today someone brought in Bread Baker bread…I couldn’t leave their Blueberry Vanilla Bread alone…it was still warm from the oven too. mmmmmm… So now I gotta be better the rest of the day. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-mmp/412813/368 "2007-07-26T13:12:04Z")
[QUOTE=Noone Special] Only if the chaperoning is done properly… (i.e., actually stops anything from happening) [/QUOTE] moi? I would _never_ do that other than to give a few suggestions… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hastily\_Scrawled\_Message](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5daacb/32.png) [@Hastily\_Scrawled\_Message](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hastily_Scrawled_Message)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-mmp/412813/369 "2007-07-26T13:13:51Z")
rosie - I was NOT ignoring you! I’ve been having bandwidth/timeout problems. Any hoo, nice pic (is it SUPPOSED to be 3 disembodied heads, or am I still having bandwidth/timeout problems?) Roo - My bad - my audio dl site is, sadly, only for the blind, so a link would do you no good. :eek: hsm ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-mmp/412813/370 "2007-07-26T13:15:36Z")
Mornin’ all. Going to get coffee. Make! These! Allergies! Stop! I have been sneezing at everything, and let me tell you, that’s nothing to sneeze at. At the risk of starting up Bobbio, I wanted to share a joke with you guys I heard that I liked: Q: How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: Banana. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-mmp/412813/371 "2007-07-26T13:17:50Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] Q: How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: Banana. [/QUOTE] How many absurdists does it take to change a lightbulb? Two. One to fill the bathtub with brightly colored bicycles, and the other to paint the giraffe blue. eta: these are often interchangerable eata: the absurdists and surrealists, not the bicycles and the giraffe ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-mmp/412813/372 "2007-07-26T13:20:03Z")
HOLY SHIT, **Mindfield**!!! A woman walked past the office…as she went, she called out to the cafe people. She said “Hel- **LO**!” _In the exact tone and sound of your ice cream truck…_ I wonder what this means? ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-mmp/412813/373 "2007-07-26T13:20:17Z")
BioRosie, I couldn’t find it, so I’ll repost tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-mmp/412813/374 "2007-07-26T13:29:39Z")
**Rosie** , I looked at the lovely picture, as well. I picked you out right away (not looking at it right now, but you were in the top row on the left), and I remember knowing right away it was you because I’d drawn a picture of you before, rendered into my little MS Paint-people world. Like [this picture](http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/8898/mesatisfiedkg3.jpg) of me from **Cisco’s** old root beer float thread (too sleepy and late for work to hunt down the thread). It’s one of the few pictures that survived the crash. Everyone looks very happy in that picture. It made me smile. 🙂 Now, as for me, I need to dig out my Rockstar for the day. I get to go in early and open, so I can get done early. Free company tickets to the baseball game tonight! I get to go with my husband and BIL, and another co-worker. I wanna see Ichiro! I need to be down there in about ten minutes. I suppose I should get dressed now. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-mmp/412813/375 "2007-07-26T13:40:33Z")
[QUOTE=Anastasaeon] and I remember knowing right away it was you because I’d drawn a picture of you before, rendered into my little MS Paint-people world [/QUOTE] you did? have I seen it? when you get a chance, please post it for me. (I’m very vain :)) ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-mmp/412813/376 "2007-07-26T13:41:28Z")
Afternoon all - I’ve been having one of those insane days…you know the ones, where you really would have been better off staying in bed. **Rosie** - I saw your pic, very nice you look too! **VBob** - congrats on the test! Can you add me to the list of folks who missed the clip thingie you posted? I had to skim through some of the last MMP and a bit of this one so it was probably something in the pages I wasn’t paying enough attention to. Appropriate yays, boos, hugs and whatever elses to the rest of you…I need more caffeine before I can face the last half of the afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-mmp/412813/377 "2007-07-26T13:44:20Z")
[QUOTE=Lissla Lissar] Isn’t Shasta the name of the main character in _The Horse and His Boy_? [/QUOTE] Adding yet another piquant note to the sentence: sitting around enjoying Shasta in my underwear… And by all means, MILK that preggers thing to the hilt. After the Child is here, you will hear things like, after telling a friend (or your mother or MIL) that you were up all night with a screaming baby, “Oh, poor baby!” and it will NOT be intended for you. \ I am incredibly busy today, but less busy than I will be tomorrow. Oh, and the Husband woke me up this morning, waaaaay early for something else, but we ended up having yet another Talk. I am tired. and tired of Talks. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-mmp/412813/378 "2007-07-26T13:44:32Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] How many absurdists does it take to change a lightbulb? Two. One to fill the bathtub with brightly colored bicycles, and the other to paint the giraffe blue. [/QUOTE] How many real men does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None. Real men aren’t afraid of the dark. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-mmp/412813/379 "2007-07-26T13:45:40Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] Adding yet another piquant note to the sentence: sitting around enjoying Shasta in my underwear… [/QUOTE] Like it wet down there? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-mmp/412813/380 "2007-07-26T14:01:28Z")
[QUOTE=meeks] Q: How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: Banana. [/QUOTE] **LOUNE** screws in lightbulbs too? **Scribbles** , I’m not sure what your message meant, but thanks for checking. OK all, I’m up, I’m up. Much better now. Almost fully functional. Sleep is good. Good morning! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-mmp/412813.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-mmp/412813.md?page=20)