# The Start of The Irk Week MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [March 28, 2011, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-start-of-the-irk-week-mmp/576235 "2011-03-28T10:17:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**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:** [March 30, 2011, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-start-of-the-irk-week-mmp/576235/81 "2011-03-30T14:31:36Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > I think I speak for all of us when I say: you’ve been missed. > > 😛 So, did it happen or not…? Inquiring [del]eyes[/del] minds need to know! > [@Nava](#): > > Is Switzerland mediterranean? Apparently it’s getting to be “Mediterranean” enough that the felt the need to ban Minarets, a couple years back… :rolleyes: > [@taxi78cab](#): > > Does anyone else have a friend who just has bad luck? My mom’s expression for it is “If she didn’t have bad luck, she wouldn’t have any luck at all.” Sorry for your friend, **Taxi** ☹ I don’t know people like that, but Yiddish has a name for them: “_Shlemazel_”. The difference between a _[Shlemiel](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shlemiel)_ and a \*[Shlemazel](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shlemazel) \*is that the _Shlemiel_ always spills the soup in the _Shlemazel_’s lap. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-start-of-the-irk-week-mmp/576235/82 "2011-03-30T14:39:19Z")
Ah, the Shlemiel is a gafe, and the Shlemazel is a gafado. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-start-of-the-irk-week-mmp/576235/83 "2011-03-30T14:44:38Z")
Still sending love and prayers to Gnat and the Lissar family. > [@Noone\_Special](#): > > I don’t know people like that, but Yiddish has a name for them: “_Shlemazel_”. The difference between a _[Shlemiel](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shlemiel)_ and a \*[Shlemazel](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shlemazel) \*is that the _Shlemiel_ always spills the soup in the _Shlemazel_’s lap. But why did they put, “Hasenpfeffer Incorporated” at the end of it? 😃 ---
**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:** [March 30, 2011, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-start-of-the-irk-week-mmp/576235/84 "2011-03-30T14:49:18Z")
Howdy Y’all! Takin’ a break and checkin’ in. Apparently I have made my irk nemesis’s irk more irksome because her supervisor is makin’ sure said nemesis is actually doin’ her job. So, I have made irk more irksome for someone who irked me. 😃 ‘Tis dreary and stormy out with tornado watches in effect. This has been your late mornin’ south Jawja weather report. Later Y’all! ETA: HEE **Annie**! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-start-of-the-irk-week-mmp/576235/85 "2011-03-30T14:52:28Z")
Welp, time to start looking for a new job. Not bad, really: it’s been a whole year (which looks quite round in a resume, lots of jobs in my sector are for months or weeks), it’s been a pretty decent run, and I was starting to get a real bad case of itchy feet. Hopefully the next one will qualify as “not bad” when it ends, too. The two weeks’ warning put me at Easter; I’ll have to speak with the owner of my flat about whether I keep it for May or not. I’d rather clean out at the end of April, but strictly speaking the contract includes May. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-start-of-the-irk-week-mmp/576235/86 "2011-03-30T14:56:15Z")
Just checking in… busy this morning. Rosie’s sig all around! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-start-of-the-irk-week-mmp/576235/87 "2011-03-30T15:12:55Z")
**Nava** , Escondido is aptly named because it sits in a bowl-shaped valley, hidden from the rest of the world. Oh boy, the work related excitement abounds. I get a break from [del]watching paint dry[/del]observing software testing to sit in a weekly meeting that I am privy to. That one is like watching corn grow. And you thought business travel was adventurous. ---
**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:** [March 30, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-start-of-the-irk-week-mmp/576235/88 "2011-03-30T15:59:45Z")
… and in the “funny intentional mistranslations” department my new favorite is: “Yo no soy marinero soy capitan” -\> “Don’t marinate the captain in soy sauce” 😃 (from [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=13631170#post13631170), posts 20 and 21) ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-start-of-the-irk-week-mmp/576235/89 "2011-03-30T16:36:44Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > Sorry for your friend, **Taxi** ☹ > I don’t know people like that, but Yiddish has a name for them: “_Shlemazel_”. The difference between a _[Shlemiel](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shlemiel)_ and a \*[Shlemazel](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shlemazel) \*is that the _Shlemiel_ always spills the soup in the _Shlemazel_’s lap. I guess if there are words for it, at least in Yiddish and Spanish, it’s relatively common. ::sigh:: ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-start-of-the-irk-week-mmp/576235/90 "2011-03-30T16:40:35Z")
> [@Ann\_Onimous](#): > > Still sending love and prayers to Gnat and the Lissar family. > > But why did they put, “Hasenpfeffer Incorporated” at the end of it? 😃 Because “Hasenpfeffer, LLC” didn’t flow? ---
**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:** [March 30, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-start-of-the-irk-week-mmp/576235/91 "2011-03-30T19:22:17Z")
Home from irk. 'Tis cool and rainy. I’m also hongry. I think a PB&J will hold me over til soup 'n sammich time. That is all. ---
**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:** [March 30, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-start-of-the-irk-week-mmp/576235/92 "2011-03-30T19:47:18Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > [Scarlett O’Hara] After all, tomorrow is another day! [/Scarlett O’Hara] Good grief, **swampy** , could you be any gayer?!?!? :D:D:D:D:D It’s grey and drizzly and cold and icky here. Who the _&_@(^%$\*\>#+ \*stole spring?? I am neither pleased nor amused and I demand this situation be rectified immediately, dammit!!! :mad: Poke tenderloin marinating in teriyaki at the moment. I’m going to steam some rice and cook up some sort of vegetable matter to go with it. Mebbe green beans? I’ve got a load of jeans in the washer, and I hope to do another load of something before the evening is out. C’mon, Fiday!!! ---
**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:** [March 30, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-start-of-the-irk-week-mmp/576235/93 "2011-03-30T20:26:03Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Good grief, **swampy** , could you be any gayer?!?!? > :D:D:D:D:D Oh now that’s just mild gay. Quotin’ large patches of the script from _Steel Magnolias_, now that’s gay! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-start-of-the-irk-week-mmp/576235/94 "2011-03-30T20:33:51Z")
I spotted a geeky t-shirt at lunch. On the front: “Schroedinger’s cat is alive.”; on the back: “Schroedinger’s cat is dead.” 😃 ---
**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:** [March 30, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-start-of-the-irk-week-mmp/576235/95 "2011-03-30T21:57:39Z")
How cool are [these](http://www.buzzfeed.com/bizzybee712/the-best-cat-furniture-towers-k16)?? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-start-of-the-irk-week-mmp/576235/96 "2011-03-30T22:31:55Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > How cool are [these](http://www.buzzfeed.com/bizzybee712/the-best-cat-furniture-towers-k16)?? Waaaaaaaaay Cool! 🆒 I’ll take one of each to go, please. Smokey needs little variety in her life. ---
**Author:** ![surrounded\_by\_literalists](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@surrounded\_by\_literalists](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/surrounded_by_literalists)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-start-of-the-irk-week-mmp/576235/97 "2011-03-30T22:46:15Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > Well, I’m betting on the bacteria – they’ll grow no matter **what** you do to them… But don’t you see? When you want them to grow, the little turds just up and die. I have had this class, and nothing kill bacteria like expecting them to colonize into neat, tidy, single colonies. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-start-of-the-irk-week-mmp/576235/98 "2011-03-30T23:29:06Z")
> [@surrounded\_by\_literalists](#): > > But don’t you see? When you want them to grow, the little turds just up and die. I have had this class, and nothing kill bacteria like expecting them to colonize into neat, tidy, single colonies. Yes. And the two of the five organisms I set up didn’t grow so I had to change experiments on the fly. Buggers. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2011, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-start-of-the-irk-week-mmp/576235/99 "2011-03-31T00:01:34Z")
So, bacteria is like cats. Won’t come when called? 😃 Home from Evening Prayer and soup 'n sammich. 'Twas good. Tortellini soup with chikin sallit and pimento cheese sammiches. MMMMMMMM… Now I shall go lie upon the bed and watch teevee 'til beddy bye time. Nitey Nite Y’all! ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-start-of-the-irk-week-mmp/576235/100 "2011-03-31T00:34:36Z")
Hmmm, **SO** , somehow when I read it, it sounded like the time change was Wednesday night. Thursday night I can kinda understand. It had the temerity to snow today. Although I am refusing to recognize the existence of snow as Spring has sprung and there should be sunshine and flowers and stuff. 😃 I’m tired, but just need to make it through tomorrow before I get a long weekend. (I’m taking both Friday and Monday.) \*\*rosie’s \*\*sig to all I’ve missed. Gotta knit for a while and then figure out what else I’m supposed to be doing. Hugs. GT [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-start-of-the-irk-week-mmp/576235.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-start-of-the-irk-week-mmp/576235.md?page=6)