# Things that go "HELP!!!!" in the night... my first MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [December 11, 2006, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-go-help-in-the-night-my-first-mmp/383657 "2006-12-11T05:36:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![The\_Blue-Sighted\_Shadow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@The\_Blue-Sighted\_Shadow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Blue-Sighted_Shadow)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-go-help-in-the-night-my-first-mmp/383657/121 "2006-12-12T17:40:42Z")
I’m back at work today. Still feel migraine-y and puky, but I made it in. I want to hoard those PTO days, especially if I’m quitting soon. I keep going back and forth about that: it’s comfortable here, I’ve got job security as much as you can have these days, the pay and benefits aren’t bad, especially with seniority, but, if I stay, I will never move beyond this desk, I loathe my management, who are not the people I work with (that part is extremely confusing to new hires, that the people they work for don’t have the final say over their evaluations, raises, bonuses, etc), and, well, it’s boring. On a good day, I have an hour of work a day. But sometimes weeks go by without my doing anything at all. So, you know, on the one hand, I get paid for doing nothing, and on the other hand, doing nothing is excruciatingly boring. **gotti** , no matter how you’re dressed, you don’t look like a lumberjack if your pants are hemmed. If you wear hemmed pants out in the woods, you’re going to get a broken leg, or worse. Pant hems _catch_ on things, like suddenly shifting logs. When I worked at the sawmill, telling someone they were dressed like a **logger** was a vile insult. **Haze** , take care of yourself! ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-go-help-in-the-night-my-first-mmp/383657/122 "2006-12-12T18:00:09Z")
[QUOTE=Taters] My favorites are the big round lebkuchen with dark chocolate. [/QUOTE] I’m having trouble assembling the words lebkuchen, round and chocolate. The lebkuchen I grew up with are more like blond brownies with bits of citron and a white glaze drizzled on top. Fairly brittle also - no idea how they could be made round, and chocolate would just be wrong. [QUOTE=Nava] I am in Deutschland, after alles! I hav more Deutsch cookies dan you! [/QUOTE] Just leave some springerle and pfefferneusse for me, OK? I’m waiting very impatiently for a package from Mom to arrive… It’s an icky, rainy day here today. Just the sort of day to curl up in front of the TV with cookies, but I don’t have the cookies, and I have to be here at work. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-go-help-in-the-night-my-first-mmp/383657/123 "2006-12-12T18:03:22Z")
[QUOTE=Jahdra] **gotti** , no matter how you’re dressed, you don’t look like a lumberjack if your pants are hemmed. If you wear hemmed pants out in the woods, you’re going to get a broken leg, or worse. Pant hems _catch_ on things, like suddenly shifting logs. When I worked at the sawmill, telling someone they were dressed like a **logger** was a vile insult. [/QUOTE] Hemmed or cuffed? I could see rolled-up or cuffed pants being a snag hazard, but unless a log reaches up 'twixt boot and leg to get at the inside of one’s pants, I can’t envision regular finished pants to be a problem. Or do lumberjacks buy pants and cut the ends off so they’re ragged? ---
**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:** [December 12, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-go-help-in-the-night-my-first-mmp/383657/124 "2006-12-12T18:13:32Z")
:eek: The scary giant inflated [Burl Ives snowman](http://www.maryholidays.com/christmas-inflatables/christmas-inflatable-sam-snowman-air-blown-inflatable-gemmy-airblown.html) is back at the hospital next door! :eek: Even worse, this year there’s **two** of 'em! :eek: Dang those things are scary! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-go-help-in-the-night-my-first-mmp/383657/125 "2006-12-12T18:30:09Z")
Oh oh oh! I forgot to tell you guys something really really important! Back in January, when I was packing up for the move to the Bell Tower, I had one final box. In this box were things I’d need immediately, like the remote for the television, a phone, the cable modem, an extra pack of smokes, toothpaste, etc. This box was labeled “Last Box.” Over the past 11 months, I have unpacked that box several times, and continually refilled it with things from _other_ boxes that I hadn’t found a place for. This past weekend, I removed everything from the Last Box and put it away. This morning, I filled the Last Box with garbage and took it down to the dumpster. I am unpacked. 11 months to the day after moving in. 😃 ---
**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:** [December 12, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-go-help-in-the-night-my-first-mmp/383657/126 "2006-12-12T18:47:24Z")
[QUOTE=gotpasswords] I’m having trouble assembling the words lebkuchen, round and chocolate. The lebkuchen I grew up with are more like blond brownies with bits of citron and a white glaze drizzled on top. Fairly brittle also - no idea how they could be made round, and chocolate would just be wrong. Just leave some springerle and pfefferneusse for me, OK? I’m waiting very impatiently for a package from Mom to arrive… It’s an icky, rainy day here today. Just the sort of day to curl up in front of the TV with cookies, but I don’t have the cookies, and I have to be here at work. ☹ [/QUOTE] There are all different types. Here, I’ve attached a link to the type I was talking about. FWIW, I love all lebkuchen, glazed, unglazed, with apricot filling, or without. [German Cookies](http://http://www.germandeli.com/wechco.html) Scroll down the page to Weiss Fidelis Oblaten Lebkuchen Schoko. Another favorite are the Weiss Contrella Classic. Actually, there are so many good German treats, I don’t know where to begin. I stayed home with a massive headache today. Nothing I was taking touched it. I was and am feeling all pukey and stuff too. Not fun..not fun at ALL. I am having a difficult time concentrating, so I think I’m just going to read here for awhile. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-go-help-in-the-night-my-first-mmp/383657/127 "2006-12-12T19:03:31Z")
Interesting. Not a single one of those delicious looking cookies is anything at all like what I know as lebkuchen. Not to worry, they still taste good! But it does make me curious what we’re really eating. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-go-help-in-the-night-my-first-mmp/383657/128 "2006-12-12T19:10:56Z")
I do believe there are different styles of lebkuchen. Additionally, some styles are regional styles. I’ve had the type of lebkuchen you wrote about. I spent three years living next Nuremburg and spent each and every Christmas while there at my Oma and Opa’s house in Dollnstein. The variety of treats was amazing. If you check out the whole site, you’ll see there are different brands and different styles. What I don’t particularly care for is Stollen (I don’t have umlaut thingies). I find this particular treat dry and weird tasting. Anisseed cookies are also very tasty, but I can’t find any. My mother wanted some, but no one seems to have them in stock. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-go-help-in-the-night-my-first-mmp/383657/129 "2006-12-12T19:37:20Z")
I have just baked a cake, and I’m making those Oreo truffle things from **GingeroftheNorth’s** candy thread. Grind up one package of Oreos, mix with cream cheese, freeze, and then dip in chocolate. I’m at the freezing stage. Anyone want some? ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-go-help-in-the-night-my-first-mmp/383657/130 "2006-12-12T19:38:26Z")
[QUOTE=Taters] What I don’t particularly care for is Stollen (I don’t have umlaut thingies). [/QUOTE] **Taters** , you would not need an _umlaut_ for the plural of “Stollen”. It already \*is \* in its plural form as you wrote it. (Singular is _Stolle_). **But** , depending on which operating system you have, you should be able to create your own umlauts by going to the character map under accessories (Windows is mine), and pressing the appropriate keys. For example, ü is created by pressing the Alt key and 0252. ö is Alt 0246… Of course this is a moot point if you use anything other than Windows. Q ---
**Author:** ![The\_Blue-Sighted\_Shadow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@The\_Blue-Sighted\_Shadow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Blue-Sighted_Shadow)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-go-help-in-the-night-my-first-mmp/383657/131 "2006-12-12T19:46:25Z")
[QUOTE=gotpasswords] Hemmed or cuffed? I could see rolled-up or cuffed pants being a snag hazard, but unless a log reaches up 'twixt boot and leg to get at the inside of one’s pants, I can’t envision regular finished pants to be a problem. Or do lumberjacks buy pants and cut the ends off so they’re ragged? [/QUOTE] Pants don’t get tucked into boots. They buy their pants unfinished. Oh, and no belts, either, suspenders only, the kind that attach to buttons on the pants, not the clippy kind. The suspenders are your chance to go wild: rainbow, leather, whatever floats your boat. Rainbows don’t hold up real well to a continual assault of sun, mud, and tree bark, though. I think the suspenders are mainly to keep from getting pantsed in the woods, either by machinery or co-workers. If you go commando, sooner or later, everyone will know. Trust me. Also, if you should, um, soil your undies due to a close call, you can bury your boxers/tighty whiteys in an undisclosed location and not ruin your pants. Although you may be found out anyway. Always tie your boot laces. One of our associate foresters was on crutches for weeks because his bootlace got caught under a fast moving log and broke his ankle. Ouch. No safety money for the woods crew _that_ month. Of course, it could be a regional thing, since our loggers and foresters were also surfers. 😃 There. Is that more than you ever wanted to know about working out in the woods or what? Oh, and don’t forget your chainsaw chaps. Or your hard hat. They call those branches widowmakers for a reason, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-go-help-in-the-night-my-first-mmp/383657/132 "2006-12-12T19:52:22Z")
[QUOTE=Draelin] Oh oh oh! I forgot to tell you guys something really really important! Back in January, when I was packing up for the move to the Bell Tower, I had one final box. In this box were things I’d need immediately, like the remote for the television, a phone, the cable modem, an extra pack of smokes, toothpaste, etc. This box was labeled “Last Box.” Over the past 11 months, I have unpacked that box several times, and continually refilled it with things from _other_ boxes that I hadn’t found a place for. This past weekend, I removed everything from the Last Box and put it away. This morning, I filled the Last Box with garbage and took it down to the dumpster. I am unpacked. 11 months to the day after moving in. 😃 [/QUOTE] When I move, that’s always the bag, or box that stays with me, in the car, by my side every moment. **Sean** - At last count, I’ve forwarded the joke to 12 people. (Without your name on it, so no Po-lice should come for you!) 😉 ---
**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:** [December 12, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-go-help-in-the-night-my-first-mmp/383657/133 "2006-12-12T20:04:23Z")
[QUOTE=Mr Bus Guy] **Sean** - At last count, I’ve forwarded the joke to 12 people. (Without your name on it, so no Po-lice should come for you!) 😉 [/QUOTE] What? We were supposed to remove **Sean’s** name? Why didn’t anybody tell me! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-go-help-in-the-night-my-first-mmp/383657/134 "2006-12-12T20:10:19Z")
**Lis-lis** , I was recently introduced to the joy that is Oreo truffles. A friend of mine made some for a party, and I was instantly addicted. Another made some Sunday night using Mint Chocolate oreos, and brought me a few of them. Yummy! And so easy! SIL is home with a clean (yikes!) bill of health. **Swampy** - you are correct. She was _very_ hungry, so I took her to get breakfast before I took her home. The staff in the hospital was very, very nice to her. I am just puttering around without much ambition. I need to get something done! ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-go-help-in-the-night-my-first-mmp/383657/135 "2006-12-12T20:32:18Z")
Those Oreo truffles sounds scrumptious! I just finished backing a batch of chocolate chip cookies myself. These have a dash of coffee in them and they are absolutely heavenly. I’m just about to take a batch to a couple of my friends who are working at the Frank Lloyd Wright house on campus. Thanks for all the concern and sympathy. 🙂 I wasn’t able to go to to the doctor’s today - I had an appointment to sign my new lease and I absolutely had to get it done today (it was either today or Friday, but I’m leaving for DC on Thursday). My right leg is definitely sorer today, but otherwise there is nothing to worry about. Merely a flesh wound. 😉 **Drae** , congrats on unpacking! It takes forEVER for me to unpack completely after a move. Literally years. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2006, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-go-help-in-the-night-my-first-mmp/383657/136 "2006-12-12T20:46:13Z")
[QUOTE=gardentraveler] I’m going to drive down to **Rue’s** and obligate him to post here sometime soon! (Of course that would be easier to do if I actually knew where he lived…) [/QUOTE] I’ve got his address… 😉 Exciting commute to the office today. First there were the two speedtraps which are long overdue - the limit on that stretch of road is 55, it’s pitch-black, unlit, dark dark dark, twisty and up-and-down-y and people blow thru there over 70. Except me - my cruise is set between 55 and 60, lower if it’s foggy. Anyway, 2 cars were pulled over, so yay for that. A little farther down the road, I saw a car on the opposite side of the road pulled all the way over on the shoulder with only a right-hand signal flashing and no other lights on. Shortly after passing it, I hit something or ran over something and it scared the bedoobies outta me!! :eek: :eek: :eek: It sounded like I hit a huge hunk of metal. I didn’t see anything in the road and it was too dark to just pull over - I’d become a hazard myself. My main concern was whether I killed the right front tire, but it continued to drive just fine, so I went all the way to work. When I got there, I couldn’t see anything wrong. However, just before the toll booths, there are rumble strips, and even tho they’re little more than thick paint crossing the lanes, they rattle my van something awful - almost as lond as when I hit whatever I hit. So I’m thinking it might have been a branch that I ran over. On the way home, I tried to remember where it happened, and the only thing I saw on that side of the road was a deer - its leg was stretched out toward the driving lane, so I’m guessing that’s what I ran over. Moral of the story - um, dunno, but Aerostars are great amplifiers of shakes and rattles and road hazards. Other than that, a boring day, with only 3 more to go before I’m off. Yay! I got an invite from my boss to a holiday party/going away party at his house on Friday. It’s over an hour away, but I like Al, so I’m hoping I can persuade \*\*FCD \*\* to attend. I don’t like schmoozing-type parties, but Al isn’t a schmoozing kinda guy. I shall muster my powers of persuasion, or I’ll cry - either way. And that’s all for now. Gotta load the dishwasher and think about something light for dinner. My sweetie isn’t feeling well so he doesn’t want a big meal. We may have breakfast for supper. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2006, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-go-help-in-the-night-my-first-mmp/383657/137 "2006-12-12T20:53:07Z")
They were relatively easy and they’re delicious. Easy except for the ‘dip in chocolate’ part, which ended up all over my hands. Anyone got an easier way that spearing the filling, dunking, and twirling? I’m making ganache to frost the cake with. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-go-help-in-the-night-my-first-mmp/383657/138 "2006-12-12T21:02:46Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] **Bibs** , how did it go last night? [/QUOTE] How did it go last night? HOW DID IT GO LAST NIGHT? \*\*IT WENT FREAKING GREAT \*\*- that’s how it went last night!!! I passed! Yay me! I got geared up in a minute and 50 seconds - all straps in, collar up, flaps down, on air and ready to go. We did stuff in pairs and in groups of four, but were evaluated on our own. When we were tying tools, I had a bit of trouble with the pike pole, and the evaluator said, “Are you sure that’s right?” so I kept at it till I had the knots going the right way. We were also evaluated on forcible entry and locks, ladders (throwing a 35-foot extension ladder, climbing it with an axe, locking in and working on it, lowering it, and carrying it), and salvage and overhaul. I don’t kow my score on my written test, but I passed. They’re supposed to email us the scores later this week. I’m offically a firefighter! You’re next, **Bobbio**! ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-go-help-in-the-night-my-first-mmp/383657/139 "2006-12-12T21:05:52Z")
**MBG** please to send the joke to me. I am thanking you. I am here, sort of. All this talk of baking is making me hanker for some carbs. I may just have to go do something about that… Tomorrow is Mental Health Day here. I am watching the entire first season of Six Feet Under, and not doing anything at all. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2006, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-go-help-in-the-night-my-first-mmp/383657/140 "2006-12-12T21:17:38Z")
CONGRATS, **BibKitty**!!! _\_ \*\*FCD \*\* wants N.O.T soup for dinner so as soon as I post, I’m off to peel and mash. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-go-help-in-the-night-my-first-mmp/383657.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-go-help-in-the-night-my-first-mmp/383657.md?page=8)