# The Story Time MMP
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760
**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
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### Author:  [@inedible\_knapsack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inedible_knapsack)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/41 "2012-11-12T16:58:01Z")
> [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](#):
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> I propose **Thorny** for **A Nested Thorn**. And, you know, you can email **TubaDiva** and ask her to change your name for you.
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> I just ate a coffee flavored Luna Bar. YUCK!!! It didn’t say anything about coffee in the description. No, I don’t know why I kept eating but I can assure you it was GROSS!!!
:eek: I didn’t know this. I’ll have to do that. Tell you all what, I’ll pick one that’s still related to the nickname you all choose so as to maintain consistency.
I ate a Luna Bar once and it was awful. Like you, I kept eating it anyway 🙂
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### Author:  [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/42 "2012-11-12T17:06:16Z")
I don’t really remember having stories read to me as a kid. I know I started reading around age four. I read a lot of Grimms Fairy tales (an old, old book that I got in Germany) and then progressed from there. I read Pippi Longstocking, Nancy Drew, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and several other books when I was around six or seven. From then on, I got into historical type novels, although I was always given adolescent stories from about 9 through 10 or so. I preferred other types of books, but read those too because I read just about anything I could get my hands on.
I read a lot and was a frequent visitor to the library.
I still love reading, but don’t seem to get much time for it anymore. ☹
It’s a cold, wet dreary day here. I’ve got my slow cooker going and am making split pea soup with ham. I haven’t made it in ages and I’m looking forward to it.
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/43 "2012-11-12T17:09:23Z")
Oh, I don’t want to share a children’s book. I want to tell the story my mom told me when I was a child.
Once upon a time, there was this louse.
This louse had a best friend, named Peter. (We’ll call him Peter. I’m sure his name was actually Pradeep or something.)
One day Peter and the louse decided to go traveling. Peter’s mom packed them each seven sandwiches for the road.
So they started traveling a bit, and the Louse said, “Peter, I am hungry.”
Peter said “Eat your sandwiches, then.”
So the Louse ate all his sandwiches.
Then they traveled on a bit further. And the Louse said, “Peter I am hungry.”
Peter said, “Ok, well, then, eat my sandwiches.” And the Louse ate all of Peter’s sandwiches.
They went on a bit further and saw a dog. And the Louse said, “Peter, I am hungry.”
And Peter said, “Why don’t you eat that dog then?” So the Louse ate the Dog.
Next time it was a horse. And then a cow. And the Louse ate them all.
Finally there were no more animals in sight. And the Louse said, “Peter, I am hungry.”
Peter said, “Well, why don’t you eat _me_, then?”
Whether Peter was being sarcastic or not we’ll never know, for the Louse said “OK!” and went ahead and gobbled up Peter.
So now the Louse was alone. He went on, and on, and soon came to a massive lake.
“I am really thirsty,” he said, and he got down on his hands and knees and began to drink and drink until he had drained the whole lake.
He sat back then, finally sated. But wait! “Ohhh, I’m really full,” he said.
POW! His belly exploded. Out came Peter. Out came the cow. Out came the horse. Out came the Dog, still barking. Out came Peter. Out came all fourteen sandwiches, intact.
Thus is the story of the Louse, and the story my mom used to tell me when I was little. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/44 "2012-11-12T17:15:52Z")
> [@swampbear](#):
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> Just wait until you’re forty. Then bathroom time will be like ten minutes after coffee time. :eek:
Last week I got to go from CDG to Dunkirk with two guys. When I asked for a pit stop, I was told “you’re just like a little kid… or a woman”. “Well, guess my mother will like to hear the news that there’s something in which I’m woman-like”.
I have no idea what books if any did my parents read to me when I was little, or what tales they told me. I remember having to kneel to say my prayers (Lord’s Prayer, Hail Mary, Glory); I remember that when I was 6 or so I went through a phase of playing at being Wendy (from Peter Pan\*) because I wanted soooo bad to fly away (Mom says when I was going everywhere with my arms extended I wouldn’t answer to my name, only if I was called Wendy). I remember that Middlebro liked getting different tales, and liked it if you varied the telling (he enjoyed trying to guess), whereas Littlebro was enamored of the Three Little Piggies and wanted it told His Way - as soon as you made a mistake, he’d take over; so long as you let him and didn’t turn it into a contest of wills it was actually pretty restful, more than once I almost fell asleep half-sitting on his bed.
I remember a ton of Enyd Blyton books (the Hollister, the Twins…); the full Three Investigators series is still at Mom’s (labeled “future reading material for grandchildren”). Dad loved Just William - I found it funny when I discovered Richmal Crompton was a woman, there seems to be a lot of childhood favorites of Dad’s and my uncles which were written by women. The first favorite (by the age at which they discovered his works) who was male was Jules Verne, toe to toe with Emilio Salgari.
- and boy was I pissed when I finally got my hands on a non-Disney copy of the book and discovered an intense desire to strangle Peter.
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### Author:  [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/45 "2012-11-12T17:20:36Z")
> [@Silver\_Tyger](#):
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> Blurf.
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> I read just about anything I could get my hands on as a kid. The Narnia Chronicles were always a favorite, along with Behind the Attic Wall and The Castle in the Attic.
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> My stupid brain has come up with ANOTHER story. Stupid brain, let me finish writing the other three first!
Narnia! I bought the complete set again a few years ago because I lost mine as a child. I am hoping to sneak it into my children’s psyche as well by letting them discover it. 😛
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### Author:  [@inedible\_knapsack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inedible_knapsack)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/46 "2012-11-12T17:24:33Z")
**Anaamika** , that’s an awesome story! What’s the moral? Don’t eat your best friend and drink a lake or you’ll explode?
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### Author:  [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/47 "2012-11-12T17:38:01Z")
Man, you guye reminded me of some of the ones I had forgotten, Shel Silverstien, for example & Barenstien Bears,& Anastasia… (BTW, **Swampy,** I have one of the Homer Price Books!) Plus more that I never heard of & want to check out. (Beany Malone!) Also, I’m glad I’m not the only one who still likes to read Children’s books!
**Spidey,** I have GOT to show him that!
Welcome, \*\*Nested Thorn \*\*(Nettle is good. I also like Thistle!)
**Anaamika** that was a Lousy\* story 😃
Anyhoo, you guys have some GREAT picks, & it’s funny what we remember reading & how it shapes us. Now, I suppose I really must Do something productive… Happy Monday!
\*Sorry, couldn’t help the play on words, I actually think it’s pretty cute. Don’t hate me!
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/48 "2012-11-12T18:14:10Z")
First let me say, I haven’t read posts since my last one yet. I promise to catch up.
Second, nothin’ says early afternoon buzz like gulpin’ down an almost entire Chalice of Sacramental Wine. I think everyone who took Communion at this mornin’s funeral Intincted (dipped the Host into the Sacramental Wine) thus leavin’ a full Chalice. That left me, the assistant, with the task of drinkin’ about fourteen ounces of Wine. I seriously had to go in the kitchen and find myself a little sump’n to nosh on before I drove back to da cave.
I need a Sacramental Wine assisted nappy poo.
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2012, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/49 "2012-11-12T18:58:48Z")
Looks like the Decision has been made. New pup is (probably) called Wanda. She just met Cozmo. She’s kicking his ass! 😃
If they gave us the correct birth date on the papers, she’s almost 16 weeks old. On Weds, we take her to our vet and discuss spaying and chipping and stuff. And that’s the puppeh update.
😃
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### Author:  [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2012, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/50 "2012-11-12T19:04:14Z")
But…but…that’s a \*\*fish \*\*name!
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2012, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/51 "2012-11-12T19:04:15Z")
I thought for sure you’d have a fish named Wanda.
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### Author:  [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/52 "2012-11-12T19:16:21Z")
I think my favorite story was about a red bone hound that was abandon as a pup and raised by a wolf named King.
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### Author:  [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/53 "2012-11-12T20:22:00Z")
> [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](#):
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> It’s been a blurfy morning including a conversation with a woman at water aerobics about D’s passing which I swear (although I could have misheard her) ended with her saying “things could be worse.” Please tell me that I heard her wrong :dubious: because I know that she was _trying_ to be comforting.😃
Oh, it could totally have happened. I was sadly woeing my troubles to my mom a few days ago, and she interrupted me with “But so many people have it _soooooo_ much worse.” But, you know, I wasn’t trying to win a contest. I was trying to get a little frustration and unhappiness off my chest so it could evaporate.
However, I know my mom’s under stress, and one of her coping mechanisms is to tell herself that others have it sooooooo much worse. I guess it works for her.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/54 "2012-11-12T20:54:14Z")
> [@Taters](#):
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> But…but…that’s a \*\*fish \*\*name!
Poor little puppy.
The other dogs will laugh at her for being named after a fish.
☹
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### Author:  [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2012, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/55 "2012-11-12T21:00:33Z")
I guess I’m the only one who got The Fairy Odd Parents reference…
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### Author:  [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/56 "2012-11-12T21:03:21Z")
Howdy All! My favorite book was The Boxcar Children but what I remember most is a song my dear Mother sang us. It’s one she wrote:
My Mother said if I’d be good and watch the telephone
She would send me out to get a chocolate ice cream cone
So I did the things Mother said
Then she made some gingerbread
Then I went out, just me alone, just to get a chocolate ice cream cone
A little doggie came along and took a great big lick
Then I hit that mean old dog with just a little stick
Then he bit me, where I sat down, then he chased me all over town
Now I’m lost, can’t find my home
All because of that chocolate ice cream cone
Now I can hear it in her voice. I had the best Mama ever.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/57 "2012-11-12T21:17:55Z")
My first books were a set of Dr. Seuss books; my parents got a 12- or 20-book set to read to us. My brother’s a year older than I am, and when it was time to start reading to him, they started reading to me as well, so I started reading a year before anybody expected.
All the books have the Cat in the Hat logo on the cover, with “I can read it all by myself” in a circle around it; one night I pointed at it and read that out loud, and my mom said “Okay, go ahead.” Busted!
After I branched out to the local branch of the library, I read the Danny Dunn books, Centerburg tales, Vip Throws a Party, puzzle books, the Beverly Cleary novels, Tom Swift, and those books about the boy who goes to the island full of dragons where he needs to have seven of everything in order to get through the adventure, and he just happens to have everything he needs in his pack.
Up, caffeinated, at irk otherwise. w00t.
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### Author:  [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2012, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/58 "2012-11-12T21:30:02Z")
I remember The Boxcar Children! I enjoyed those stories.
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### Author:  [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/59 "2012-11-12T21:32:10Z")
> [@Silver\_Tyger](#):
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> I guess I’m the only one who got The Fairy Odd Parents reference…
technically Cosmo and Wanda are goldfish when not in fairy form.
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2012, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-story-time-mmp/640760/60 "2012-11-12T21:33:59Z")
> [@Silver\_Tyger](#):
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> I guess I’m the only one who got The Fairy Odd Parents reference…
Good for you - that’s exactly where it comes from! In fact, if our daughter could have afforded it, she’d have gotten 2 pugs and named them Cozmo and Wanda. But she’s just got Cozmo, so we’ve got Wanda. And she’s already pushing him around! They’re a hoot together!
**lieu** , none of the current crop of fish have names. We’ve named them in the past, but they die, so we don’t name them any longer, and they seem to survive. 😃
It’s clouding over and we’re supposed to get rain tonight and into tomorrow. I’m glad I de-leafed the back yard yesterday. I’ve done 3 loads of laundry, and daughter is doing some of hers now. When she leaves, I’ll do a load of unders - such a exciting evening ahead!!
Such is life in FairyChatLand!
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