# What I Did This Weekend **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 17, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-did-this-weekend/213687 "2003-11-17T13:41:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-did-this-weekend/213687/41 "2003-11-19T17:07:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bumbazine \* > **Garius** , you lost me at flange, unless it has something to do with tab A and slot B. > \*\* No. women’s front bottoms. :o ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-did-this-weekend/213687/42 "2003-11-19T17:21:03Z")
**Bumb** - what?!?!? AARP promised me copious discounts! They didn’t say I had to wait till I was 60! Well, poo… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-did-this-weekend/213687/43 "2003-11-19T17:35:51Z")
Oh yeah, and since no **Rue** thread is complete without numerous hijacks, I want to direct your attention to today’s Weird Earl. Thank you. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-did-this-weekend/213687/44 "2003-11-19T17:43:47Z")
I’d respond, but the world is about to end. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-did-this-weekend/213687/45 "2003-11-19T17:52:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bumbazine \* > \*_Hey **Slortar** , ever hear this song? \* I’ve got a galllllll in Kalamazoo…_ > \*\* Hell, yeah. Got it on my playlist at home. 😃 “K-A-L-A-M-A-Z-OH-OH…I’ve got a gal in Kalamazoo…” Glenn Miller was the man. No, dammit. I’m not 50 years old, either. I’m just trying to figure out how we can get **Garius** to burst out of **Rue’s** birthday cake when **FCM’s** only going to be getting him a Ho-Ho…might be a tight fit, unless Garius is actually a leprechaun and he hasn’t told us… ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-did-this-weekend/213687/46 "2003-11-19T17:56:51Z")
I’m absolutely mystified at what a “women’s front bottom” could possibly be. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-did-this-weekend/213687/47 "2003-11-19T18:02:04Z")
**Lieu** , Slot B **Kallessa** , there’s someplace _else_ you’d rather be when the world ends? _sniff_ ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-did-this-weekend/213687/48 "2003-11-19T18:10:22Z")
Oh, **Bumbazine** , of course not! You’re just so sweet–are you sure you don’t have a brother or a son or some other male relative who is a lot like you, but not married? > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by slortar_ > I’m just trying to figure out how we can get Garius to burst out of Rue’s birthday cake when FCM’s only going to be getting him a Ho-Ho…might be a tight fit, unless Garius is actually a leprechaun and he hasn’t told us… Well, _part_ of **Garius** could burst out of the Ho-Ho . . . ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-did-this-weekend/213687/49 "2003-11-19T18:26:49Z")
Or I could contract for a special size **HO-HO** ---
**Author:** ![earthpuppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8c91f0/32.png) [@earthpuppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/earthpuppy)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-did-this-weekend/213687/50 "2003-11-19T18:59:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FairyChatMom \* > I want to direct your attention to today’s Weird Earl. too funny, **FCM**! ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-did-this-weekend/213687/51 "2003-11-19T20:24:49Z")
Just a bit of a round up: We have a trip (in a car that smelled of dog) to the Air Force Museum, featuring a Pink Fokker, a five-year old and a six-year old fitting into a locker, evil Quonsets, **FisherQueen’s** beautiful eyes, lavender tights, towel capes, a small dog terrorized by a skillet, the Mall of America, several bottles of wine, me (Kallessa) dateless and napping during a football game, the Great American Train Show (which wasn’t so great, after all), an enormous sculpture of Icarus, Boy Scouts, adult films, floozies, birthdays, flange (flange?), a dateless **swampy** longing for **Homebrew** , and **Garius** jumping out of a giant Ho-Ho wearing a fireman’s hat and suspenders. Oh, and the world is ending. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-did-this-weekend/213687/52 "2003-11-19T20:26:00Z")
Way cool that this ended up on the next page, if I do say so myself! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-did-this-weekend/213687/53 "2003-11-19T23:13:39Z")
Just a fireman’s hat and suspenders? I don’t dare ask what the suspenders are suspending… ---
**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-did-this-weekend/213687/54 "2003-11-20T00:03:00Z")
Things you can learn at the Museum of Flight (if you’re not carefull) There are planes that both drop bombs on things and also shoot at other planes. These are called “Fighter/ Bombers”. Pretty clever, huh? “Fighter/ Bombers” have their own song, The “Fighter/ Bombers” Song. It goes like this: They fight! They bomb! They fight and bomb and fight! Fight, fight, fight! Bomb, bomb, bomb! They’re fighter and bomber planes! Also, it’s not the size of your prop, it’s the amount of your thrust. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-did-this-weekend/213687/55 "2003-11-20T00:29:31Z")
**Rue** uses props!:eek: ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-did-this-weekend/213687/56 "2003-11-20T01:22:39Z")
There should be a (very small) award to the first one who rings in with the tune to **Rue** ’s song. And I’m glad that he remembers the “size of the prop” quote. FWIW, suspenders means something entirely different in Brit English than American English. Same may go for a ho, though I don’t know. And **Kallessa** , that’s pretty much an average first fifty posts for a MM thread, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-did-this-weekend/213687/57 "2003-11-20T01:29:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kallessa \* > **…featuring a Pink Fokker, a five-year old and a six-year old fitting into a locker…** I read this part and thought, cool, it’s all gonna rhyme! But alas. And now that you all know when my birthday is, can I just say that I can’t believe I’m gonna be 30? It seems like just yesterday I graduated from college. :: checks date book :: Nope, it was definitely _not_ yesterday! ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-did-this-weekend/213687/58 "2003-11-20T01:32:53Z")
There is nothing average about the MM threads. Everything in them is a sparkling gem of wit, wisdom and effervescent humor. And anybody who doesn’t agree is just a big poopy-brain! ---
**Author:** ![Elysian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@Elysian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysian)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-did-this-weekend/213687/59 "2003-11-20T03:27:05Z")
Ugh. The 25th is so not a good day for me. However, the weekend after Thanksgiving is crystal clear of all engagements. How about the 29th? Or is that too soon for everyone to make it to Cincy? That way we can have a **Rue DeDay** birthday celebration and we can see the lights festival thingamajig. I hardly know a thing about Cincy so I am probably not the best to set it up – nice way to shift the responsibility, **Rue** 😛 We could go to Jungle Jims (oh heaven) and then head over to **Shibb’s** house, so we can stock his place before we consume everything in sight. Then we can go to the lights thingummy. If you really want a pair of red leather underwear… Hows about drinks? Anyone like to drink? I’ve always heard about the drunken debauchery of Doperfests and wistfully wished I was there. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-did-this-weekend/213687/60 "2003-11-20T03:45:51Z")
This could get a bit tricky… ::checks social calendar:: Hmm, lessee… Nov 26-29 in Pittsburgh to visit brother’s family for Thanksgiving… Dec 4-7 in Atlanta for business… there could be a trip to Southeast Asia (Jakarta or Singapore) in the offing for business… Well, I’ll say if you’re serious let’s aim for the weekend of the 12th December, but if I’ve got to go someplace warm and exotic for work then that’s the breaks. Oh, and drinking and debauching is just fine, especially if I don’t have to drive anywhere afterwards. Especially the debauching Quickly looks up “debauch” in dictionary to make sure he hasn’t agreed to anything untowards. Lessee, “ **debauch** _vt_: to make disloyal”, that doesn’t sound so bad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-did-this-weekend/213687.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-i-did-this-weekend/213687.md?page=4)