# The settlers MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [May 25, 2015, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-mmp/720779 "2015-05-25T09:55:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**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 26, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-mmp/720779/81 "2015-05-26T20:02:20Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > I have a Stouffer’s lasagna in the oven. Don’t Judge! > > **flytrap** are you takin’ cookin’ lessons from Satan? 😛 Nooo, but apparently you have. 🙂 ---
**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 26, 2015, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-mmp/720779/82 "2015-05-26T20:03:54Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > they separated the boys from the girls and we watched a filmstrip about periods. No idea what the boys were taught. Nor do I. The girls got in in the fifth grade, boys in sixth as I recall. Some of us were trying to stand on each others shoulders to see into the auditorium windows. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-mmp/720779/83 "2015-05-26T20:07:49Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > . . . Lately I’m more different though. Instead of just the military aspect, I like to remember all the people who have touched my life. . . . I like that. Thanks for the suggestion. > [@kaiwik](#): > > I just saw on fb that our **herbs** has passed away. I will miss her cheerfulness and friendship, and insights into life in New Mexico. > > Fly high Ruthie, may your spirit be in peace. So sad. One more person to be remembered. * * * Are we still answering the where do you live question? I’m two miles north of downtown. This last weekend, friends and family came over and replaced the siding on the front of my house. This is The Last Wall. We’ve been doing one wall a year and this finishes the job. I now have insulation in all of my walls. I now also have all modern windows, as opposed to wooden ones with counterweights in the walls. You know, the kind that always have a draft coming through them. I expect my utility bills will drop a little. I’m looking forward to it. This year instead of making the windows smaller, we used all the room that the counterweights and sills took up and made the front windows bigger. It makes the room a lot brighter. Of course, now I need to get drapes. Sixteen year old granddaughter got to use power tools for the first time. She also got to go up in the scissor lift to paint and caulk. Was nervous at first but ended up comfortable enough to use the up/down controls. Still work to do, but the conversion is complete. Wheee! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-mmp/720779/84 "2015-05-26T20:08:45Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > You are an evil, evil man!!! 😃 > > I don’t think there was any senior pranking when I was in HS - if there was, I never heard about it, but I was pretty low key back then. I’m not a fan of mean pranks, but I have no problem with fun stuff - like everyone showing up with purple face paint or something. > > My poor daughter - last week of school and she’s teaching sex ed to 7th graders. Last year, she started the class by repeating “Penis - Vagina - Penis - Vagina” over and over again, telling the kids to get the giggles out of their system. She’s a better person than I am - no way I’d want to deal with that curriculum with that age group. Heck, way back when I had sex ed, they separated the boys from the girls and we watched a filmstrip about periods. No idea what the boys were taught. But it was a Catholic school, so you know they weren’t going to tell us about putting tab A into slot B… :eek: > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Nor do I. The girls got in in the fifth grade, boys in sixth as I recall. > Some of us were trying to stand on each others shoulders to see into the auditorium windows. In my elementary school, the three sixth grade classrooms were on the second floor. I think the boys had an extra round of shop while we girls sat thru the gawd-awfulest-ly acted docudrama about menstruation that was ever created. The gist of it was that 12-yo Suzie couldn’t have that pretty red dress for the party because it was too grown up for her. Then at the end of the film "Mom! Mom! Guess what? " “What, darling?” the Mom replied knowingly “I can wear the red dress now!” “I know, dear.” ---
**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 26, 2015, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-mmp/720779/85 "2015-05-26T20:12:47Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > The gist of it was that 12-yo Suzie couldn’t have that pretty red dress for the party because it was too grown up for her. Then at the end of the film "Mom! Mom! Guess what? " “What, darling?” the Mom replied knowingly “I can wear the red dress now!” “I know, dear.” I am trying to recall the title of a biography where a Saudi girl was taken to buy her burka by her sisters when she reached menarche. ---
**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 26, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-mmp/720779/86 "2015-05-26T20:15:05Z")
Did they show you guys any of the driver education films? They were about twenty years old, and ended in horrible wrecks with slabs of meat strewn about the road. One of the girls in the auditorium, upon seeing the drunk driver staggering out of his car, cried out, “Daddy!” ---
**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 26, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-mmp/720779/87 "2015-05-26T20:59:13Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Crickets are better, because they will die instead of breed. One year when I was still in school, the swimming pool had about 3 dozen goldfish dumped in. It wasn’t me, because I was just a sophomore when it happened. When I was in Governor’s School at Salem College one of the In-Charge folks told us on the first day “There are six goldfish in the koi pond. There had better still be six goldfish at the end of the session.” I has a sad about **herbs**. ☹ ---
**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 26, 2015, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-mmp/720779/88 "2015-05-26T21:01:46Z")
RIP, **herbs**. ☹ ---
**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 26, 2015, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-mmp/720779/89 "2015-05-26T21:19:59Z")
**BigKitty** you went to skool to be a goobenor? I always thought goobenors crawled out from under rocks. 😃 Dindin has been ingested. ‘Twas good and there’s leftovers for both our N.O.L.s tomorrow. OYKW is preparin’ himself to take a soak in the tub. All is well. Oh and maybe it will rain. ---
**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 26, 2015, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-mmp/720779/90 "2015-05-26T21:42:36Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **BigKitty** you went to skool to be a goobenor? I always thought goobenors crawled out from under rocks. 😃 > > Dindin has been ingested. ‘Twas good and there’s leftovers for both our N.O.L.s tomorrow. OYKW is preparin’ himself to take a soak in the tub. All is well. Oh and maybe it will rain. No, this was an artsy-fartsy thing. I wouldn’t lower myself to dabble in politics. ---
**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 26, 2015, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-mmp/720779/91 "2015-05-26T22:22:13Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Howdy from da cave! I survived the irk day. YAY! ‘Tis gettin’ rainy out and I hope it does it all evenin’. I have a Stouffer’s lasagna in the oven. Don’t Judge! There shall also be green sallit and garlic bread. > > **flytrap** are you takin’ cookin’ lessons from Satan? 😛 I think Satan might be impressed with this concept. 🙂 Nothing wrong with the Stouffer’s people, IMO. They make some easy and tasty meals for the tired worker/student. Have you tried the Cheesy Garlic Lasagna? (Only available in the “family size”, darn it.) Very good stuff. ---
**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 26, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-mmp/720779/92 "2015-05-26T22:32:05Z")
I had my trust changed today to take my nieces out of it. They will still inherit if Sah-son predeceases me without issue. However, now I don’t need their signatures to get it notarized. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2015, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-mmp/720779/93 "2015-05-26T22:55:13Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > I has a sad about **herbs**. ☹ Me too. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2015, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-mmp/720779/94 "2015-05-26T22:57:16Z")
**Sari**. You will be around a long long time yet but it’s good to be prepared. When is surgery? ---
**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 26, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-mmp/720779/95 "2015-05-26T23:19:45Z")
> [@Buttercup\_Smith](#): > > **Sari**. You will be around a long long time yet but it’s good to be prepared. When is surgery? I hope I will be anyway, but I do want to have everything in order. Not that I have anything to leave lol. It’s been moved to June 17. I am dreading it, but I am also hoping it will ease the back pain and the feeling that I have a boulder in my belly. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-mmp/720779/96 "2015-05-26T23:51:50Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > You are an evil, evil man!!! 😃 > > I don’t think there was any senior pranking when I was in HS - if there was, I never heard about it, but I was pretty low key back then. I’m not a fan of mean pranks, but I have no problem with fun stuff - like everyone showing up with purple face paint or something. > > My poor daughter - last week of school and she’s teaching sex ed to 7th graders. Last year, she started the class by repeating “Penis - Vagina - Penis - Vagina” over and over again, telling the kids to get the giggles out of their system. She’s a better person than I am - no way I’d want to deal with that curriculum with that age group. Heck, way back when I had sex ed, they separated the boys from the girls and we watched a filmstrip about periods. No idea what the boys were taught. But it was a Catholic school, so you know they weren’t going to tell us about putting tab A into slot B… :eek: We probably watched the same film. Sister Claude, who sat behind Moses in the third grade, came in to make sure that Sister Francis (a very young nun that all of the boys had a crush on) didn’t explain too much. My friends who went to public elementary school got the same film, IIRC, provided by Kotex. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-mmp/720779/97 "2015-05-26T23:55:37Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Did they show you guys any of the driver education films? > They were about twenty years old, and ended in horrible wrecks with slabs of meat strewn about the road. Yep, “Signal 30” was the series they showed us. At age 17, it made me think about being careful about my driving for at least 40 minutes… And not to surprising, if you’re into death, some of them are on You Tube… [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_VKOoenqbOk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VKOoenqbOk) > [@](#): > > One of the girls in the auditorium, upon seeing the drunk driver staggering out of his car, cried out, “Daddy!” You made that up, didn’t you? :D:cool: ---
**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 26, 2015, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-mmp/720779/98 "2015-05-26T23:58:42Z")
AIR the closest I came to sex ed. in public skool was the p.e. coach in the eighth grade tellin’ all the boys how to avoid jock itch. Soap, water, and thoroughly dryin’ off played a big part. And on that note, 'tis time to go cuddle upon the bed and watch 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 27, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-mmp/720779/99 "2015-05-27T00:48:00Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > You made that up, didn’t you? :D:cool: No, by G-d, she told me about it at church. :dubious: ---
**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 27, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-mmp/720779/100 "2015-05-27T00:52:26Z")
> [@missred](#): > > We probably watched the same film. Sister Claude, who sat behind Moses in the third grade, came in to make sure that Sister Francis (a very young nun that all of the boys had a crush on) didn’t explain too much. My friends who went to public elementary school got the same film, IIRC, provided by Kotex. 😛 Ah yes, I remember watching The Film and then all us girls getting our very own wrapped up Kotex pad. :rolleyes: So guys, I’ve been wondering for years: what film did you have to watch when they herded all of us girls out of the room? Was it about sports? I bet it was about sports. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-mmp/720779.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-mmp/720779.md?page=6)