# Time Warp MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [August 17, 2015, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-warp-mmp/728044 "2015-08-17T04:28:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [August 17, 2015, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-warp-mmp/728044/21 "2015-08-17T14:38:32Z")
\*\*MetalMouse \*\*- I’ll take it upon myself to answer your queries, because I’m nice, dammit! I’m pretty sure F stands for Future, but Fabulous or Fantastic may also applyl OYKW is Ol’ Y’all Know Who, **swampy** ’s main squeeze. He’s gay, you know. 😉 Of course, none of us have met him or seen a photo, so it could well be an imaginary friend or his childhood teddy bear. I’ve met \*\*swampy \*\*and he seemed perfectly normal, but it was about 12 years ago, and people change… And I decided to brave the heat (it’s still not all that hot) and do the trash and recycling run this morning. Not only that - I’ve got both garbage cans rinsed and sitting with spray cleaner to help de-gunk and de-stinkify them. I’ll let them sit for a bit, then rinse them again and let them bake in the sun for a few hours. Plus I’ve watered my plants and scooped cat poop. Go me!! ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-warp-mmp/728044/22 "2015-08-17T14:45:39Z")
Happy Moonday! Finally had to close the windows and put on the AC. The heat is here. I feel all blurfy because I woke early and fell back asleep. Weird dream, my father was alive and yelling at me, kept telling me I was going to lose my government job. I don’t have a government job. Well good news, I just won two free boarding passes for a trip to the Bahamas. All I had to do is press 1 so a travel consultant will call me. I suspect the travel consultant will call even though I didn’t press 1. Congrats **BBBobbio** and family. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-warp-mmp/728044/23 "2015-08-17T15:01:24Z")
Ages ago, the block next to Pitt, I’m sitting on my Harley minding my own business and having some fries and a beverage from Dirty O’s when this guy comes up to me and says “You can pull around back and park on the stage”. Huh? “You can pull around back and park on the stage”. Well, I had enough beverage in me that I had no idea what he was talking about but what the hell – it could be fun. That was how I attended my first RHPS. I did quite a few after that, and still do one now and then today. I always got stuck as a Little Ed but my favorite character was always Riff. Ahhhh - to have been thin enough to actually do that one! The Time Warp was always my favorite number from us shouting “Hey Riff - show us your mother!!!” on. Great song and good memories. Don’t know that I would go back to another point in my life and change much - the things I would like to change couldn’t be changed - but I still do like the tune. This past summer during our coaster convention we were in a park when their muzac system started playing the Time Warp. Me and about 6 other ACErs around me automatically went into the dance. And many young people passing by were looking at us like we were strange. Kids today – they have no idea what they are missing locking themselves into computer games and texting. They should say goodbye to all if this (goodbye all of this) and hello (hello there) to oblivion. (Hello Oblivion - hows the wife and family) ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-warp-mmp/728044/24 "2015-08-17T15:10:02Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Long as I’m asking, **Swampy** , who is OYKW? I am divided between son/daughter/wife/husband/lover/cousin/Alien from Epsilon Erandi VI? You should read the MMP Stickie at the top part of MPSIMS; half of it is about Swampy. 😃 Oh You Know Who – otherwise known as Swampykins partner through this part of his Mortal Coil. I haven’t met Swampy but one of my goals in life is to see them both in person and maybe the Cement Pond as well. OK – it’s not that much of a goal. But its mine and I’m proud of it. 😉 ---
**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:** [August 17, 2015, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-warp-mmp/728044/25 "2015-08-17T15:12:12Z")
\*\*kopek \*\*- I have his address - I’m sure he’d be delighted to have you roll up his driveway on your Hog!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-warp-mmp/728044/26 "2015-08-17T15:19:51Z")
> [@Sahirrnee](#): > > Weird dream, my father was alive and yelling at me, kept telling me I was going to lose my government job. I don’t have a government job. Paging Sigmund Freud. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-warp-mmp/728044/27 "2015-08-17T15:31:51Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > \*\*MetalMouse \*\*- I’ll take it upon myself to answer your queries, because I’m nice, dammit! I’m willing to take that as a working hypothesis. 😛 > [@](#): > > I’m pretty sure F stands for Future, but Fabulous or Fantastic may also applyl Should have thought of that..Moanday morning indeed. > [@](#): > > OYKW is Ol’ Y’all Know Who, **swampy** ’s main squeeze. He’s gay, you know. 😉 I’m shocked. SHOCKED!! to find out swampy is gay! :eek:🆒😃 . Yeah, I sorta figured that out, jsut added the options to keep my PC credentials in order. > [@kopek](#): > > You should read the MMP Stickie at the top part of MPSIMS; half of it is about Swampy. 😃 But it’s no fun if you read the instructions!! ---
**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:** [August 17, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-warp-mmp/728044/28 "2015-08-17T15:44:42Z")
Wait! What?!?!?! I’m **GAY**???!!! Just. Does. Not. Get. Old. 😃 Howdy from Mickey D’s just on the outskirts of large and in charge downtown Cairo (pronounced Kay-ro), Jawja. I’m havin’ N.O.L. and moochin’ off the wifi. Two more places to monitor and then I head to da cave. From thence, I shall head on over to the church house. Steaks are marinatin’ and beer is chillin’. Da bear is lookin’ forward to this. OK, gotta finish up N.O.L. and get busy again. Laterz! ---
**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:** [August 17, 2015, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-warp-mmp/728044/29 "2015-08-17T15:54:29Z")
Back from a local farm (non-Amish) where I got ‘maters SIX FOR A BUCK!!! I’m having one right now in a sammich - yum! I also picked up a few peaches for eatin’, not freezin’. And I rinsed the garbage cans, so they’re gonna sit out in the sun to dry and sanitize, or whatever. I’m thinkin’ supper tonight will be smoked ribs (currently frozen, but soon to be pulled out to thaw) and ‘maters, and whatever else I decide to make as sides. If we have the cuke salad, I won’t have to cook at all! Nukin’ ribs doesn’t count… ---
**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:** [August 17, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-warp-mmp/728044/30 "2015-08-17T15:56:06Z")
WAIT, **SWAMPY’S GAY??** Blurf ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-warp-mmp/728044/31 "2015-08-17T15:59:55Z")
Mornings! I am WFH today. Looks like I might have a trip to Germany in October. Could be interesting. We hit 108 yesterday. That’s just wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Wrong! Happy Moanday! ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-warp-mmp/728044/32 "2015-08-17T16:06:48Z")
Today is supposed to be the last day over a hundred for a couple of weeks. But Wednesday it’s supposed to be back to the low nineties. Yay. Ate a healthy breakfast then got cheesecake on the way in to work. Chocolate truffle cheesecake. Hate me if you like. 😃 ---
**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:** [August 17, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-warp-mmp/728044/33 "2015-08-17T16:34:51Z")
There are probably certain aspects of my life that I’d do over, but in general I don’t think I’d change much. 6 Sep 2015 marks my 32 year anniversary as a DoD federal employee. Honestly, I think that is the one thing I’d change about my life. Yes, it’s been steady employment, benefits, etc; but the politics both within my organization and in Crazy Washington drive me effin’ insane. Bah…don’t get me started. I can retire less than five years, but probably won’t. Not because I have any love for what I do, but because I probably can’t afford it. Besides, I’d only be 56. Many congrats, \*\*Bobbio,\*\*to you and the family! Happy news! ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-warp-mmp/728044/34 "2015-08-17T16:38:07Z")
I was right, even though I didn’t press 1 the travel consultant called. I told her I couldn’t travel because I have an ankle bracelet and am under house arrest for murdering telemarketers. Germany in Ocktoberfest! Cool **Sunny** My breakfast was left over steak sub from last night’s dinner. It was a good sub, very drippy. With a breakfast like that I can’t figure out why I am so hungry now. **Flytrap** , I think even Freud would have trouble with me. _ **Swampy’s** GAY!!! I thought he was grey?_ We need to go to the store sometime today. We’re out of drinks. Also need to check the furnace filter and vacuum. ---
**Author:** ![Sario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sario/32/18580_2.png) [@Sario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sario)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-warp-mmp/728044/35 "2015-08-17T17:16:06Z")
> [@Sahirrnee](#): > > _ **Swampy’s** GAY!!! I thought he was grey?_ That’s what I thought!!!:eek::eek::eek: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-warp-mmp/728044/36 "2015-08-17T17:27:56Z")
Congrats to the crazy kids, **bobbio**! What? **swamp** ’s gay?!!!:eek:;)😃 If I could go back in time, I’d have a do-over for college. I would have my degree and be a lot closer to retirement by now. In the unwarped present though, I think I’ll hit the county fair tonight. We’ve added a few things to our pioneer village and another music stage this year. The small animal barn and the exhibit buildings are fun too. I might even get a poke chop on a stick! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-warp-mmp/728044/37 "2015-08-17T18:22:43Z")
Time warp stuff is hard to think about because if I went back an undid some of the stupid stuff how do I know I wouldn’t have done something else just as stupid? Like I got married young and divorced young. It wasn’t complicated, he kept the house, we split the dogs. I could have gotten married later but then had a messy divorce with kids and more financial complications. Then again that marriage may have worked, or maybe I would have never married at all. The point is anything you go back to change will affect other things so how do you know it would be any better? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-warp-mmp/728044/38 "2015-08-17T18:33:38Z")
> [@Sahirrnee](#): > > we split the dogs. A veritable Judgement of Solomon, but did not the SPCAES resent that? ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-warp-mmp/728044/39 "2015-08-17T18:35:53Z")
I forgot to address the OP. Hmm. If I went back in time for a couple of days in the mid eighties, could I help myself move? The couch, it particular, was big and ungainly. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2015, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-warp-mmp/728044/40 "2015-08-17T19:05:39Z")
> [@Sahirrnee](#): > > The point is anything you go back to change will affect other things so how do you know it would be any better? That’s the way I see it. I’ve gotten things done today. Organized my files, revised my cover letter and posted it on Careerbuilder, uploaded several weeks worth of hiking pictures to Photobucket, [DEL]slogged through molasses[/DEL] wrote a bit more of my story, went to the library, played with the Redbox at the grocery store only to find the movie I want isn’t out yet, bought some windshield wiper fluid, went to put it in my car and realized the reservoir was full, am now not sure why my back wiper fluid thingy is not working. And on top of all that, I stopped by the [gas station gril](http://www.51grill.com/)l at the end of the Main Drag and had the second-best Cuban sammich in town. Sadly, I can no longer get the best as that place has closed down forever. ☹ Now it is time to study up some more on Vikings for my Continuing Epic (see previous molasses slog) and take a walk. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-warp-mmp/728044.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-warp-mmp/728044.md?page=3)