# Things I learned about Canada, eh? (MMP) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [May 1, 2006, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-about-canada-eh-mmp/354936 "2006-05-01T12:05:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-about-canada-eh-mmp/354936/181 "2006-05-04T14:31:28Z")
[QUOTE=chaoticbear] Of course! Well, maybe not with a female. [/QUOTE] \ Stop that! Just say yes, smile and move on. \ ain’t that just like a man…figgers it would be unilateral. Gay-humph. As if that gets him off the hook or sumpthin’. Tcha! Phoeey. \ ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-about-canada-eh-mmp/354936/182 "2006-05-04T14:34:38Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] regarding this new definition of flirting - will you guys “return the flirt”? [/QUOTE] That’s a very valid question. Why “flirt” at all if you’re not going to “flirt” back? This is one of those topics you should _not_ get me started on. :dubious: I’m so glad it’s Thursday. Not because there’s anything exciting about today, but just because it’s not Tuesday or Wednesday. And I realized that with the exception of a birthday party tomorrow night (which counts as fun, anyway), I have _nothing_ to do this weekend. Nothing at all. Except maybe clean out my Tivo watch list–I’ve got four episodes of _Smallville_ saved up, and a date with the couch for Saturday afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-about-canada-eh-mmp/354936/183 "2006-05-04T14:37:58Z")
Congrats to Mr. Lissar!! It’s my last day at my current job. I’m kinda sad. I’ve been here on and off since summer 2000 and full time for 2 1/2 years. That’s the longest I’ve done anything! And as much as they annoy me sometimes, I really do like the people here. So I’m sad. But I’m also excited about moving and the new apartment and the new job and about living with **KeithT**. Mostly. I’ve never lived with a boy before so that’s kinda scary. And I’m very particular about how things get done so I may be really bitchy to him. Poor guy. It’ll work out in the end though. Anyway, I’m just kinda sad about my last day of work. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-about-canada-eh-mmp/354936/184 "2006-05-04T14:39:59Z")
Aww, **taxi** , that’s understandable. I got weepy leaving a job I voluntarily quit, once. But you get to go on adventures in a new place and yell at **KeithT** for leaving the seat up and putting the toilet paper on the roll backwards and drinking from the carton, so how fun is _that_? 😃 ---
**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 4, 2006, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-about-canada-eh-mmp/354936/185 "2006-05-04T15:12:26Z")
Ok folks, **Rifty** has volunteered to head up next week’s MMP. All in favor say “Aye”. \*\* AYE!!! \*\* All those opposed say “Nay”. \*\* ::CRICKETS:: \*\* The Ayes have it. **Rifty** shall host next week’s MMP. Have it up by 6 A.M. young man. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-about-canada-eh-mmp/354936/186 "2006-05-04T15:17:21Z")
Yeah. Think of all the fun you’ll have arguing about the best way to hang toilet paper. Leaving a job you like kind of sucks, but you’re getting so many wonderful and exciting things in exchange. **welby** , oddly, no, I haven’t finished all the chocolate yet. I don’t know what’s wrong with me, but if I eat more than a pound of chocolate almonds at a sitting, I feel a little sick. Isn’t that odd? **rigs** , you should have smacked her repeatedly with the linoleum sample. Last night became a full-blown congratulatory party. Driving Husband came over for the evening, so I suggested that we pick Mr. Lissar up from work and go out for dinner, and then Lazy Husband wanted to come (insofar as we would be driving and it wouldn’t require effort), and then his brother wanted to come… We got home at about 2, which was reasonable, because Mr. Lissar finished work at midnight. There’s a lovely pub near where I met the **welbys** that has the kitchen open until 2 every night. It was fun. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2006, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-about-canada-eh-mmp/354936/187 "2006-05-04T15:36:13Z")
Drive-by!!! I’m swamped… ( **N.O.S.** )! Congrats to Mr Lissar! Happy Happy Joy Joy to all. Feel better sickos - er - I mean sickies. Ok - back to work… (reminds self to breathe…) ---
**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:** [May 4, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-about-canada-eh-mmp/354936/188 "2006-05-04T16:01:50Z")
Good morning all. Just popping in very quickly to say hello. Things are hectic because I’m trying to get as much work done as possible because I won’t be at work next week. **taxi,** I know it’s sad to leave someplace you like, but you’re moving on to a new and exciting chapter in your life. **MBG,** I’ll leave some beverages out with the cookies too. I’ll try to do better about passing by the windows more often and gazing longingly up at the sky. I’m a hair flipper from way back, so I don’t know how you’re missing that. Okay folks, I’ve checked next week’s for the Alexandria/DC area and while not awful, it’s certainly not what I want. Please ensure the sun is out and temps are around 70 degrees or so. I think that’s a reasonable request, don’t you? 😉 Back to work! ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-about-canada-eh-mmp/354936/189 "2006-05-04T16:04:08Z")
[QUOTE=Draelin] Aww, **taxi** , that’s understandable. I got weepy leaving a job I voluntarily quit, once. But you get to go on adventures in a new place and yell at **KeithT** for leaving the seat up and putting the toilet paper on the roll backwards and drinking from the carton, so how fun is _that_? 😃 [/QUOTE] 😃 Yeah, that will be fun. As will watching our cats try to get along. :rolleyes: Ya know, I kinda feel like I should hang out in the building bathroom to say “bye” to all the people who work at the other companies in this building who I don’t really know but who I talk to in the bathroom. But that’d be weird. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-about-canada-eh-mmp/354936/190 "2006-05-04T16:08:18Z")
[QUOTE=Taters] Good morning all. Just popping in very quickly to say hello. Things are hectic because I’m trying to get as much work done as possible because I won’t be at work next week. **taxi,** I know it’s sad to leave someplace you like, but you’re moving on to a new and exciting chapter in your life. **MBG,** I’ll leave some beverages out with the cookies too. I’ll try to do better about passing by the windows more often and gazing longingly up at the sky. I’m a hair flipper from way back, so I don’t know how you’re missing that. Okay folks, I’ve checked next week’s for the Alexandria/DC area and while not awful, it’s certainly not what I want. Please ensure the sun is out and temps are around 70 degrees or so. I think that’s a reasonable request, don’t you? 😉 Back to work! [/QUOTE] Cripes! That would be "I checked next week’s WEATHER… That’s what I get for multi-tasking. Obviously, I’m not doing it very well. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-about-canada-eh-mmp/354936/191 "2006-05-04T16:27:46Z")
Hello, just popping out of the bushes here to say Congratulations Mr. Lissar! And please forgive the asking, since I’m pretty new to the MMP, but is it just me or does **Lissla** have more than her fair share of husbands? No wonder the rest of us can’t get a date! ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-about-canada-eh-mmp/354936/192 "2006-05-04T16:31:52Z")
[QUOTE=The Weird One] Hello, just popping out of the bushes here to say Congratulations Mr. Lissar! And please forgive the asking, since I’m pretty new to the MMP, but is it just me or does **Lissla** have more than her fair share of husbands? No wonder the rest of us can’t get a date! [/QUOTE] Yes, she does. There’s Driving Husband, Lazy Husband, Washes Dishes Husband, American Husband and Attacks Things Randomly Husband. It works quite well. She bakes, you see. She also has two quasi daughters. 🙂 Did I leave anybody out? ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-about-canada-eh-mmp/354936/193 "2006-05-04T16:58:35Z")
Sorry about the late post today. I assure you it won’t happen on Monday morning. 🙂 It’s much easier to oversleep when you don’t actually have to get up for a 10 am class. Anyway, I won’t hold you in suspense. Here’s today’s Fruit: > [@](#): > > Fruit of the Day: Grape > Grape \GRAYP\ noun > Definition: Grapes are the fruit that grow on a woody grape vine, belonging to the family Vitaceae. Grapes grow in clusters of 6 to 300, and can be black, blue, golden, green, purple-red and white. They can be eaten raw or used for making grape juice, jelly, wine, and grape seed oil. Raisins are the dried fruit of the grapevine, and their name comes from the French word for “grape.” > Example sentence: The monkeys at the zoo went grape over their new fruit diet. Sorry, **donkeybear** , grapes beat you out for Thursday’s fruit. Better luck next time. Today I have to finish my undergraduate thesis, and go to Poly Dinner. That’s where the staff of the student newspaper that I used to be an editor of goes out to dinner somewhere. As this is my last few weeks here, I want to go to sort of say goodbye to everyone, but mostly to hang out with them for a while longer. 🙂 **taxi** , I think the sadness is natural. I mean, you’ve been working at your old job for I don’t know how long, years I’m sure, and that means you grow accustomed to a place. So enjoy your sadness, or something, as a sign of the transition. Use it to calibrate your new life in Minneapolis. (Does this make any sense? Ignore me if it doesn’t.) And now I’m off to the Physics Dept. picnic. See you later! ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-about-canada-eh-mmp/354936/194 "2006-05-04T17:04:08Z")
[QUOTE=Spatial Rift 47] **taxi** , I think the sadness is natural. I mean, you’ve been working at your old job for I don’t know how long, years I’m sure, and that means you grow accustomed to a place. So enjoy your sadness, or something, as a sign of the transition. Use it to calibrate your new life in Minneapolis. (Does this make any sense? Ignore me if it doesn’t.) [/QUOTE] It does. I do enjoy transition times. I like new things. But in the past, I’ve always been leaving something I didn’t like so it was easier to walk away. This time I’m leaving a job that I mostly like. That’s what makes it tougher. But overall I am enjoying the challenges of moving and starting something new. Anyway, when are you leaving? Do you have time for lunch at Ali Baba again sometime before you leave? Once Mika’s through with her busy season, we should see if she’s free and all get together. Maybe for dinner then instead of lunch. Let me know if/when you’re free. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-about-canada-eh-mmp/354936/195 "2006-05-04T17:34:26Z")
[QUOTE=Spatial Rift 47] And now I’m off to the Physics Dept. picnic. See you later! [/QUOTE] visions of several dozen lab coated individuals stretching Slinkys® along the grass to demonstrate wave motion to their young’uns ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-about-canada-eh-mmp/354936/196 "2006-05-04T18:04:06Z")
Ha! I found my explanation! [QUOTE=Lissla] I started out with only one husband- Mr. Lissar, to whom I am legally married. (Or would be if stupid minister, Best Friend, and Best Man had thought to check the name on the wedding certificate :rolleyes: but that’s another story). But during the wedding celebrations Mr. Lissar’s Second-Best Man kept hugging both of us, and saying, “oh, I’m so glad the three of us will be together forever now! What a good idea for us all the get married!”, and stuff like that. So, because he’s very very very smart (although deluded), he became Intellectual Husband. Driving Husband, the friend who introduced us, started referring to me as The Wife shortly after Mr. Lissar and I got married. He figured he must be my husband, because he got stuck with driving me around. And he comes over and takes naps and eats our food and drinks our booze. Basically a husband. Then I proposed to Dishwashing Husband because he came over a_and spontaneously did all the dishes!_ After that the guys (being Mr. Lissar, Dishwashing Husband, and Driving Husband) decided I should marry the only Saturday-night-video-game-and-pizza-group guy I wasn’t married to. Unfortunately he’s not useful. So I acquired Lazy Husband. **Exgineer** thought that I should have a Lazy American Husband to go with Lazy Canadian Husband, so he proposed, and he met my stringent requirements 😃 although he hasn’t sent me any chocolate yet. Attacks Things Randomly Husband started out as Friend From Work. I met him last spring, and he got voted into position after he started spending four evenings a week hanging out with us. And Attacks Husband sounds so much better than Friend From Work, don’t you think? Besides, he doesn’t work with me anymore. It is a joke, but it’s a complicated one. Husband is more or less my title for my close guy friends. Mr. Lissar is so trusting. [/QUOTE] I also have Quasi-Daughter and Other Quasi-Daughter. QD is practically a professional tidier, and OQD is the one who got married at Christmas, and has an unbelievable ability to create mess. Right. **scout** wanted to be Only Husband Who’s A Girl, but I don’t know if she counts because she’s left the boards. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-about-canada-eh-mmp/354936/197 "2006-05-04T18:38:52Z")
If that’s a physics picnic, I want to be there!!! I am afraid that it is going to rain on my way to work… and I am going to be bicycling… I guess I’ll… I don’t know. 😕 ---
**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:** [May 4, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-about-canada-eh-mmp/354936/198 "2006-05-04T18:40:32Z")
Home a little early today - yay! I trailered our old mower and cart into work - a guy there bought it but he had no means of transporting it. So I delivered. Luckily, he lived all of 3 miles from the base, so it wasn’t a huge inconvenience. He’s now got the mower and cart and I’m $150 richer. I’m taking **FCD** out to dinner if he gets home at a reasonable hour. Plus I got the refund on the balance of our boat insurance - that’s almost $200 I hadn’t counted on, so Yay for unexpected money! It’s beautiful out and I really should be doing something in the yard, but I’m sooooooo tired! I flopped around in bed last night for about 30 minutes before I gave up and came out to watch TV. At 10:30, I went back to bed and finally fell asleep, but since I get up at 4:45, that made for an especially short night - around 6 lousy hours. So I’m tired. So I’m not working in the yard. Shame on me. All in all, just glad the week’s almost over. Especially because it brings **Tater** Fest a day closer. So, we need a venue - where’s a not-too-pricy place with decent parking and at least one bland dish I can eat? **welby**? **susan**? Suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-about-canada-eh-mmp/354936/199 "2006-05-04T18:48:45Z")
[QUOTE=Lissla Lissar] Ha! I found my explanation! I also have Quasi-Daughter and Other Quasi-Daughter. QD is practically a professional tidier, and OQD is the one who got married at Christmas, and has an unbelievable ability to create mess. Right. **scout** wanted to be Only Husband Who’s A Girl, but I don’t know if she counts because she’s left the boards. [/QUOTE] Ah, thanks for the explanation. Until today, I thought it was all one person, whose title changed based on his mood or what he was doing. That last post was kinda like when you see twins around, but never together, so you don’t know they’re twins until suddenly you see them both together and then the part of your brain that recognizes that person has to undergo mitosis and you can kinda feel it splitting. Like that. I’m all better now, though. I’m so glad we planted our garden last weekend. Tuesday and Wednesday were rainy, and today and tomorrow are sunny and warm. Perfect weather for new plants and seeds! ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-about-canada-eh-mmp/354936/200 "2006-05-04T19:02:33Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] visions of several dozen lab coated individuals stretching Slinkys® along the grass to demonstrate wave motion to their young’uns [/QUOTE] Unfortunately there was nothing of the kind. In fact, there was nothing of any kind, because all the food was gone by the time I got there and they were packing things up. I arrived at 1 pm, and it was done even though I was told 12-2. I feel very ripped off. :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-about-canada-eh-mmp/354936.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-learned-about-canada-eh-mmp/354936.md?page=11)