# The Story Time MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [November 12, 2012, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760 "2012-11-12T05:37:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![ems](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/381 "2012-11-18T14:14:45Z")
Up and coffeed. **mr ems** is in the shower the we are headed for brekkie and grocery store to beat the post church crowd to gather up the stuff for Thanksgiving and food to feed us for a couple of days. Then it is Christmas decorations and outside lights time! šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/382 "2012-11-18T14:40:21Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **Herbs** ask and ye shall receive. This is really an easy peasy recipe. > > **Easy Sweet N.O.T. Biscuits** > > 1/2 cup of cold butter or 1/2 cup margarine (if you must) cut into pieces > 2 1/2 cups biscuit mix (notice how I cleverly say this generically as if no one would know what I really mean) > 1 cup of canned (ick!) or cooked sweet **N.O.T.** > 1/2 cup milk > > Cut butter into biscuit mix until crumbly. One can do this with a fork or be like me and get in there with your hands. Do flour your hands first but yā€™all should already know to do that, right? > > Combine the sweet **N.O.T.** and milk. Add to the biscuit mix, stirring with the fork just until moistened. Turn dough onto lightly floured surface and knead 4 to 5 times. Again, or be like me and get in there with your hands. See hand flourinā€™ comment above. > > Pat or roll out the dough to 3/4 inch thickness and cut with 2-inch round biscuit cutter. Or just roll ā€˜em out and press down with your hands like me. Again, see hand flourinā€™ comment above. > > Place on large ungreased cookie sheet bake at 450Ā°F for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden. I trust yā€™all read recipes before yā€™all start so this is the place I will mention you should have already turned your oven on to preheat. Yā€™all knew this though, right? > > Thus endeth the cookinā€™ lesson. You mean **BISQUICK?** I just rolled my keester out of bed, and I am already filled with much :grrrrrrrrrrr: for the day. I use insulin, and I made sure to order some before I left for Sandy Yeggo so it would be here before I got back. It wasnā€™t, and the pharmacy showed that it shipped on the 14th. OK, cool, itā€™ll be here on Friday the 16th. It wasnā€™t. When I woke up this morning, Sunday, there was a white cooler on the porch. That means FedEx stopped sometime after 5 last night, and the sumbitch didnā€™t even bother to ghostknock the door. The only thing keeping me from going completely apeshit on both FedEx and the pharmacy is the ice bags inside the cooler still had a little bit of solid to them, and it was cold outside last night anyway. :mad::mad::mad::mad: and :rolleyes: ---
**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:** [November 18, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/383 "2012-11-18T14:41:01Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Drive through Tennessee sometime. šŸ™‚ Drive from Pirateville NC to Hippy Hollow. In a car with no cruise control. My sinuses hurt because the air is dry. But my spider plant is blooming! I didnā€™t know they did that. ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/384 "2012-11-18T16:16:53Z")
Thank you **Swampy** for the recipe, I knew I could count on you!! I have already had several ham biscuits, though, on regular dough biscuits. LOL I couldnā€™t hold out, sorry. šŸ™‚ And so sorry about that FedEx delivery person, **BBBBBobbio** ; donā€™t they know how bad it is to leave medications outside?! Geeze louise! Happy Sunday all. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/385 "2012-11-18T16:53:03Z")
Couples shower was a blast, much to my surprise. No bevy of single ladies but catering by James Coney Island and tons of beer. Turns out that the Brides parents both grew up in the small west Texas town I lived in, small world. Thats all I have for ya Happy Sunday all **JIM** ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/386 "2012-11-18T17:02:26Z")
Third attempt at posting - I just wanna say screw it!! šŸ˜› Last nightā€™s leftovers have been augmented with veggies and a nice pot of veggie-beef soup is simmering on the stove. Itā€™s so \*\*FCD \*\*has something easy for supper while Iā€™m gone - he doesnā€™t cook. [Ninja](http://s72.photobucket.com/albums/i178/fairychatmom/?action=view¤t=Ninjaatrest.jpg)is hanging with me while her daddy is working in his wood shop. She is truly a ninja - or at least an escape artist. Twice yesterday, she managed to get out of her pen - sheā€™s either climbing or jumping. She spent the night under the covers sharing **FCD** ā€™s pillow. Yeah, sheā€™s spoiledā€¦ :rolleyes: I need to run to CVS and then fill my car and get some cash for the trip. Then pack for 2 nights while hoping Iā€™ll be coming home on Tuesday. I do not want to deal with traffic on Weds, plus I have pies to bake! Thatā€™s all I recall despite writing the previous posts twice. Happy Sunday. Hope this one works. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/387 "2012-11-18T17:32:32Z")
Our son made it home 25 minutes after we left to go to our friendā€™s good-bye gathering. He called us when he got in the door and I could hear the dogs just going beserk because their boy was home. We had a nice time at the get together and had a great dinner too. We hung out there chatting for awhile and then left around 9:30 or 10:00 to come home. When we got home, we chatted with our son, and then watched a movie with him. Iā€™m making a nice prime rib roast for dinner today and my daughter and her fiance are coming down. Itā€™s just going to be us and the kids today and Iā€™m looking forward to it. Iā€™d like to get my dogsā€™ kennel roof done, but I donā€™t think itā€™ll happen today. Weā€™ll see. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/388 "2012-11-18T18:00:57Z")
Have posted the sweet NOT biscuit recipe to the blog. Already started painting. Am doing last part of foundation and some touch ups. Am going to patch the threshold and trim between the storm and entry doors next. Woo hoo. Read, but didnā€™t retain, so here are some all-purpose hugsā€¦ GT ---
**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:** [November 18, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/389 "2012-11-18T20:31:01Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > You mean **BISQUICK?** **COULD BE BBBOBBIO!!!** Also, Iā€™m with ya on the grrrrrrrrrr re the insulin. Stoopid X Infinity! **MOOOOOOM** fwiw I canā€™t get the pic of Ninja to show up. Maybe she really is a ninja! šŸ˜ƒ Today I have deheathenated, been to the stoā€™, had **N.O.L.** at the Chinese [del]hog trough[/del] buffet place, cleaned, torn and placed collard greens in biiiiiiiiiiiig ziplock bags for cookinā€™ Wednesday, made two iron skillets of cornbread to be turned into cornbread dressinā€™, washed, dried and put away a load of dainties and even managed a little nappage. I feel so productive! Yay for son makinā€™ it home **Taters**! Yay for fun at the couples shower **Jim**! **gt** are you paintinā€™ every square inch of Columbus or sumpā€™n? I mean lately it seems youā€™re _always_ paintinā€™. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/390 "2012-11-18T20:58:26Z")
Photobucket can be a pain sometimes - letā€™s see if this [link](http://s72.photobucket.com/albums/i178/fairychatmom/?action=view¤t=Ninjaatrest.jpg)is better. Iā€™s hongree. Dunno what I want, but Iā€™s hongree. dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/391 "2012-11-18T21:00:21Z")
I remember getting stuck using Medco for prescriptions when I was in Dubuque; they shipped me some insulin a couple times and got it into their heads that this was important enough that theyā€™d require my signature to accept it, so of course, all I found when I got home from work was a post-it note on my door saying ā€œdurrā€¦ where u go?ā€. I checked the box saying ā€œDeliver it, stupidā€. Bear in mind this was on a Friday. In July. By the time I got the insulin Monday after work, it had probably been stored in the back of the truck at about 140 degrees all weekend; I called the hotline at Medco asking if this was a good idea and they said ā€œcrikey, no, send it back and weā€™ll send you more.ā€ And this time, I said, no special sign-for-it delivery. Just deliver it, mmkay? Also bear in mind this whole scenario happened more than onceā€¦ The second time, the person I talked to said ā€œIā€™ve never heard of the guys in shipping doing it this way!ā€ and I said, ā€œWell, now youā€™ve heard of them doing it TWICE.ā€ Yeah, not a big fan of Medco. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/392 "2012-11-18T21:11:41Z")
I see Ninja now! YAY!!! Sheā€™s so keeeeyoooote! The bad thing about cleaninā€™ collards is afterwards one smells like collards. Plus they are gritty so I had to clean the kitchen sink after I was done. Oh well, at least I know I have clean greens. Two, two gallon ziplock bags full even. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/393 "2012-11-18T21:20:33Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > Also, Iā€™m with ya on the grrrrrrrrrr re the insulin. Stoopid X Infinity! I managed to find a customer service number for FedEx, so I called to give them an earful. The response, paraphrased but not by much, was\* We revised the schedule to show delivery would be on the 17th, and it was. Not looking out the window is your problem, so bugger off.\* ---
**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:** [November 18, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/394 "2012-11-18T21:24:55Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > I managed to find a customer service number for FedEx, so I called to give them an earful. The response, paraphrased but not by much, was\* We revised the schedule to show delivery would be on the 17th, and it was. Not looking out the window is your problem, so bugger off.\* Sounds like FedEx to me. :rolleyes: Stoopid X Idiot X Infinity. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/395 "2012-11-18T21:40:51Z")
Chickim pahpie for dindin ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/396 "2012-11-18T22:18:43Z")
Gonna sign out for now - next time I post, Iā€™ll be in Johnstown, PA. Still need to pack. According to Google Maps, itā€™s 4.5-ish hours. Rah. Nighty-night all! _ **MWAH!!** _ ---
**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:** [November 18, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/397 "2012-11-18T22:35:08Z")
Have a safe trip **MOOOOOOM**! **Rosie** you have inspired me! I boiled up some chikin thighs, laigs and boobs soā€™s I can have some extra broth to make dressinā€™ and was cosiderinā€™ makinā€™ some chikin sallit but post about chikin pot pie inspired me to make up one for Tuesdayā€™s dindin. Tomorrow is menā€™s night over to the church house so I have steaks marinatinā€™ and beer chillinā€™ for that. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2012, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/398 "2012-11-18T22:40:00Z")
**Moooommmm** Have a great and safe trip. Ninja is so pretty and shiny. I have a little black Chihuahua and he is my heart. \*\*\*\*Rosieā€™s \*\*\*\* sig to allā€¦ **swampy** I am from Middle Georgia and Iā€™d bet our cornbread dressing is about the same. Will you post your recipe? ---
**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:** [November 18, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/399 "2012-11-18T23:09:56Z")
**Butters** my chikinā€™ ā€˜n dressinā€™ recipe courtesy of [The Mumper Recipe Blog](http://mumpersrecipes.blogspot.com/). If you have not already, bookmark this blog. It contains many, many, many, numilicious recipes from Mumpers. It even has a recipe for stuffed camel! šŸ˜ƒ Youā€™ll find my recipe for chikin ā€˜n dressinā€™ under main dish. Youā€™ll need to scroll several pages unfortunately. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/400 "2012-11-18T23:22:20Z")
Dang, too late for the edit window! **Butters** itā€™s also listed under side dishes which is easier to page through cause itā€™s shorter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760.md?page=21)