# The Official unofficial-start-of-summer MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [May 27, 2013, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456 "2013-05-27T10:26:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/181 "2013-05-29T20:01:36Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > I’ve been told if you need to reset your life you press your belly button. No wonder VWife has it so bad. She doesn’t have a belly button. Seriously. VunderKind was a C-section, and she developed a hernia from it. When it was repaired, she lost her BB. The good news is the surgeon put it in the Navel Reserve. ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/182 "2013-05-29T20:08:32Z")
Hi folks! Happy Hump day to you all. **FCM** , my cousin wrenched her back the other day and she used a salon pas patch on it and the heat really helped the muscle relax, I guess. I don’t know if you’ve tried anything like that or not, but it might help some. We -finally- got the swamp cooler turned on and have been comfortable, even to the point of it becoming a bit too cool (shhh… ) and we’ve had to turn it off for a while. At any rate, it sure felt good to be comfortable again. Even with the very low humidity, hot is still HOT. _laughs_ If you know what I mean! I am looking for new (to me) books to read. I enjoy historical romances, mystery and suspense, and will even read non-fiction or biography on occasion. Any recommendations will be gratefully welcome. 🙂 Guess that’s about all for now. Hope everyone is holding up okay. {{{{{{{{{ **Taters** }}}}}}}}}; sorry about the furlough letter. ☹ Keeping you in my thoughts and prayers. ---
**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:** [May 29, 2013, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/183 "2013-05-29T20:09:09Z")
I just got to try out my new carpet shampooer. I think it works OK - we’ll see when it dries. Supper tonight will be grab whatever. A tree guy came to the door - \*\*FCD \*\*asked him about grinding our 17 stumps. He says they get $100 per stump. We passed. Even if we were both still working, that’s a ridiculous amount, IMHO. It’s 88-freekin’-degrees out there. ugh. ---
**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:** [May 29, 2013, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/184 "2013-05-29T20:43:58Z")
Howdy from da cave! I am awaitin’ the arrival of [del]gut bombers[/del] Krystal Burgers via OYKW. Haven’t had ‘em in a loooooooooooooooong time so I’m kinda lookin’ forward to eatin’ 'em even if the results can be, shall we say, somewhat unpleasant. 😃 Evening Prayer over to the church house tonight. Lookin’ forward to that. ---
**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:** [May 29, 2013, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/185 "2013-05-29T21:14:37Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Why was her car taken away? My mom had her car taken away because she was driving too slowly, or so I heard. She’d been getting into a lot of (minor…?) accidents lately, so she was probably being over-cautious. Apparently the car is now at a police station, but my mother’s actual driver’s license hasn’t been taken away. * * * I usually like my job, but today I screwed up spectacularly, due to my being bad at remembering names. I guess it can be somewhat easy to confuse two people with each other. Well, today I royally effed up and managed to mix up not two people, but _three_. Wow. Just wow. On the upside, today I taught my boss a new English expression. At work, we all talk to each other in French. My boss was saying to me in French, does it ever happen to you that you just suddenly forget something you just thought you knew, or you just can’t remember something? I said that in English, we have an expression for that, but it’s not very polite. She asked me to tell her anyway, so I said it was called a “brain fart.” She found that hilarious. 🙂 Yesterday’s bass clarinet performance at work went very well! 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 29, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/186 "2013-05-29T21:35:56Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > I’ve been told if you need to reset your life you press your belly button. No idea if it makes an audible click or anything so just kinda press and wiggle it around a little bit. Now mine’s not bad at present (and I hope yours isn’t either!) so I think I’ll hold off until it gets all sucky but it’s comforting to know it’s there if we need it. > > Just behind the lint. Hmmm I heard that if you unscrew your belly button your butt falls off. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/187 "2013-05-29T22:01:22Z")
two more days until the weekend and someone cranked the humidity up to elebenty! ---
**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:** [May 29, 2013, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/188 "2013-05-29T22:20:02Z")
I think it’s knitting time… ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/189 "2013-05-29T22:27:06Z")
I decided to start Maternity leave early. I was going to wait until Monday, but something tells me I need to start now. ---
**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:** [May 29, 2013, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/190 "2013-05-29T22:32:07Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Not just teenaged boys. I recently asked my friend to go to the lumber yard & get a 2x4 to whap me for what I did. (&, no, **Flytrap** , there’s no need for you to volunteer to do that for me!) I think it would do most people good to have this done occasionally, some more occasionally than others. > {{{ **MG** }}} [Percussive maintenance](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PercussiveMaintenance) [for people](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DopeSlap)? Makes sense to me. 😉 ---
**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:** [May 29, 2013, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/191 "2013-05-29T22:33:39Z")
Best of luck, **Apes**! (Though I already wished you luck in your own thread. Well, I hope you get extra good luck, then. 🙂 ) ---
**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:** [May 29, 2013, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/192 "2013-05-29T22:33:58Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > No wonder VWife has it so bad. She doesn’t have a belly button. Seriously. > > VunderKind was a C-section, and she developed a hernia from it. When it was repaired, she lost her BB. The good news is the surgeon put it in the Navel Reserve. That was bad, **Bobbio**. We had Chik-Fil-A for lunch at irk. I spent the day trying to stay awake since I’ve not been sleeping much the last couple of weeks. I took a nap when I got home today. Everyone likes my new haircut. There would be pics, but I don’t have a camera that I can upload pictures from. I don’t seem to have that option on my phone anymore. 😕 ---
**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:** [May 29, 2013, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/193 "2013-05-29T22:45:29Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > at a local library (pronounced liberry) Lieberry. :rolleyes: I saw a license plate from Georgia on the way home. What is that green dingus in the middle? ---
**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:** [May 29, 2013, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/194 "2013-05-29T22:56:46Z")
Li **bear** y? 😉 ---
**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:** [May 29, 2013, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/195 "2013-05-29T23:10:43Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Li **bear** y? 😉 I’m pretty sure that Levon Helm pronounced library “lieberry”. 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 29, 2013, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/196 "2013-05-29T23:32:17Z")
So my mother calls me from the ocean. I told her the garbage disposal is working. She is all upset about the mice and wanted to know if while the HFH and her hounds are gone if I could borrow a cat. I don’t think it will work to borrow one if I even knew of one to borrow. So I have until Friday to figure something out before the HFH gets back. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2013, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/197 "2013-05-30T00:06:28Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Lieberry. :rolleyes: > > I saw a license plate from Georgia on the way home. What is that green dingus in the middle? If [this](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0f/Georgia_2007_license_plate.jpg)is what you saw, the green thing is the state. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2013, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/198 "2013-05-30T00:14:42Z")
> [@SpazCat](#): > > If [this](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0f/Georgia_2007_license_plate.jpg)is what you saw, the green thing is the state. That doesn’t look like [Georgia.](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Flag_of_Georgia_%2528U.S._state%2529.svg&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_%28U.S._state%29&h=177&w=284&sz=1&tbnid=bDtbFQF755rQzM:&tbnh=141&tbnw=226&zoom=1&usg=__k1g8qDrEiklXHbt-B7OoAO0A27w=&docid=lPen1bvnkVIYlM&itg=1&sa=X&ei=q5mmUcbwAoy40AH-j4CYCg&ved=0CKYBEPwdMA0) Looks more like Swampy short on TP. 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 30, 2013, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/199 "2013-05-30T00:15:44Z")
Yep it’s the state. The new Jawja license plate [looks like this.](https://www.google.com/search?q=new+georgia+license+plate&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=PJmmUb-dL4He8wSO_oCwDg&sqi=2&ved=0CDAQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=832#facrc=_&imgrc=MlppTlFZIaUq6M%3A%3BujWdc-5MNbn9sM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.whitecounty.net%252Ftc%252Fimages%252Fpics%252Fgeorgia-license-plate.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.whitecounty.net%252Ftc%252Finfo%252Fnew_ga_tag.htm%3B600%3B300) I think it’s butt ugly and way too busy. Nice Evening Prayer service over to the church house. I was Slackolyte tonight. I didn’t drop or forget anything. I consider that a good job. On that note, I think it’s time to go lie upon the bed and watch some teevee until sleepy time. Nitey Nite Y’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:** [May 30, 2013, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456/200 "2013-05-30T00:26:56Z")
The Peach State? Oy. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-unofficial-start-of-summer-mmp/659456.md?page=11)