# Wuthering Heights, Depths and Carparks - a charitable MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [November 27, 2006, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wuthering-heights-depths-and-carparks-a-charitable-mmp/381925 "2006-11-27T09:19:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wuthering-heights-depths-and-carparks-a-charitable-mmp/381925/221 "2006-11-29T23:07:13Z")
I cannot access the SDMB from my work 'puter (under my own codes). Damn :(:(:(☹ I’m using a generic 'puter now - I’ll try that tomorrow and see what happens I’ll catch up when I get home tonight. No word from friend’s brother yet. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wuthering-heights-depths-and-carparks-a-charitable-mmp/381925/222 "2006-11-29T23:17:21Z")
[QUOTE=Draelin] A good sex scene can use three to four thousand words, and I made the mistake of trying to get through this year’s novel without one. [/QUOTE] Why on Earth would you do such a thing… sleaze, we need more sleaze! ---
**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:** [November 29, 2006, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wuthering-heights-depths-and-carparks-a-charitable-mmp/381925/223 "2006-11-29T23:21:18Z")
[QUOTE=bigbabysweets2000] Why on Earth would you do such a thing… sleaze, we need more sleaze! [/QUOTE] Oh **sweetums** , you’re gonna fit right in here! 😃 ---
**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:** [November 30, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wuthering-heights-depths-and-carparks-a-charitable-mmp/381925/224 "2006-11-30T00:18:21Z")
[QUOTE=swampbear] [del]Old Broad[/del] **FCM** you did have the pleasure of my company [sub]you cheap date[/sub]. That’s worth way more than chocolate. [/QUOTE] While I will admit that you were a pleasant dinner companion, you ain’t on a par with Godivas or Lindt truffles… Sorry. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wuthering-heights-depths-and-carparks-a-charitable-mmp/381925/225 "2006-11-30T00:52:02Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > **Sweetums2K** (Sweetums for ultra short) works for me, and apparently most everyone else here. > [@VunderBob](#): > > So it’s fair to say that you’re interested in intercourse? :eek: 😉 why, of course. who wouldn’t be? 😉 😃 no need to look it up, I’m a Turtle **Drae** - cool beans! I don’t care how bad it is, nothing could be worse than **Blood and Cookies** (maybe I’ll enter that in next year’s contest - I will ask my co-authors if they mind) It lacks continuity and some basic believability but I think I could novelize it and **WoofWaiter** , I, too, am a zaftig redhead. take your pick > [@Rebo](#): > > Isn’t “Sweetums” the name of the big monster thing in Warner Brothers cartoons? Muppets. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wuthering-heights-depths-and-carparks-a-charitable-mmp/381925/226 "2006-11-30T00:54:27Z")
It’s so nice to see you back, **kai**! Yay! I was going to call dibs on **Attacks Husband** after **LiLi** mentioned his weekend kitchen cleaning. Guess I’m too late. ☹ Yes, he’s far younger than the men I’d usually be interested in, but clearly he’s older than his years AND possesses valuable skills. But hey, any of the husbands who is even mildly motivated would do. Of course, maybe **rosie’s** and **MBG’s** luck will rub off on me. (Oh, and **rosie** don’t worry too much if friend’s brother doesn’t call right away; boys are slow. Wasn’t there someone here who finally had to call the boy herself?) Welcome, **Sweetums2K**! (That nick is too long…maybe **S2K** with the understanding that **S** = **Sweetums**?) Glad you jumped in. Make sure you come back or else I will scold you. Ask **Sean**. Or that **McCello** guy. Also, you should expect nicknames that - on the surface - bear no resemblance to the user name they go with. Also, some people have multiple, sometimes completely unrelated, nicknames. It would be practical to have a directory, but it would also be far less fun. (Where _is_ **donkeybear** , by the way?) Yay **Drae**! Does this mean we’ll be seeing **Meeks** again soon as well? (She was NaNoing too, no?) Sorry about the work computer situation, **rosie**. Clearly, they don’t have their priorities straight. I should make a Christmas list. Really, I should. (Oh, and I saw you wink too, **Bumba**.) I’m on the third load of miscellaneous laundry. I think I have one more and then I’m done. I’m going to pull all the sheets and towels out of the closets and re-organize them. Cuz I really know how to have fun. Oooooh almost forgot two important announcements: I got a raise! It was my second raise this year and I only noticed it because they actually gave it to me later than apparently scheduled so they paid me for 6 weeks worth of raise all at once. Didn’t even notice the first one, but when I went back and looked: there it was. In April. Turns out HR has been looking at a bunch of managers and adjusting salaries so that we’re making what we’re supposed to. It wasn’t enormous (3% in April and then another 3% starting in October) but when you put them both together they’re rather nice. Plus I’ve been working my rear end off all year (not that I ever don’t; just there’s been more to do than usual), so it’s nice to feel like someone’s semi-recognizing that. I had a dream that I remembered. My conference room at work had turned into a bedroom. Only it looked more like I imagine a bedroom in a convent or monastery. Very plain and undecorated, with a rosary hanging over the post on the headboard just like there used to be on my grandma’s. The guy who has the office next to the conference room (who is a horrible prude - nice guy in general, but very odd standards for offensiveness of dress etc.) wandered in and talked to me about work stuff just like it was normal. The thought made me \ when I woke up. Also, there were MMPers in the background. I suspect **swampy**. Off to be disgustingly productive or something. GT ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wuthering-heights-depths-and-carparks-a-charitable-mmp/381925/227 "2006-11-30T02:14:24Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] why, of course. who wouldn’t be? 😉 😃 no need to look it up, I’m a Turtle [/QUOTE] You bet your sweet ass I am too. I haven’t come across a fellow Turtle in several years… ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wuthering-heights-depths-and-carparks-a-charitable-mmp/381925/228 "2006-11-30T02:19:28Z")
**Sweetums** , are you dude or fem? If you’re fem, then we finally have someone here to call **Sugartits** … ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wuthering-heights-depths-and-carparks-a-charitable-mmp/381925/229 "2006-11-30T02:21:48Z")
Ok **Rosie** , if you truly are a Turtle, answer this riddle: What des a man do standing up that a woman does sitting down that a dog does on 3 legs? ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wuthering-heights-depths-and-carparks-a-charitable-mmp/381925/230 "2006-11-30T02:23:45Z")
He’s a boy, **Bobbio**. See, [here’s a thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=397501). With pictures even. It involves tinfoil. GT ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wuthering-heights-depths-and-carparks-a-charitable-mmp/381925/231 "2006-11-30T02:30:42Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] Ok **Rosie** , if you truly are a Turtle, answer this riddle: What des a man do standing up that a woman does sitting down that a dog does on 3 legs? [/QUOTE] why pee of course What, on a man’s body, sticks far enough out of his pajamas he could put a hat on it? (lousy grammar I know, but screw it) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wuthering-heights-depths-and-carparks-a-charitable-mmp/381925/232 "2006-11-30T02:34:02Z")
and while we’re at it - What does a cow have four of that a wonan only has two? ---
**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:** [November 30, 2006, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wuthering-heights-depths-and-carparks-a-charitable-mmp/381925/233 "2006-11-30T04:34:42Z")
I spent the afternoon cramming 10 hours of training into 4. Does that make me a bad person? See, we have this contest where each hour of training equals a point, and if you have 30 points as of tomorrow, you get a $100 gift certificate. Each quarter, the dollar amount gets higher. If I accumulate 120 points by June, I get a $500 gift certificate. If I were to be obnoxious, and try for the most points (last year’s high was 180), I wonder how high I could go? That’s worth another $500 if I have the most points. We have hundreds of online training programs and a lot of them allow you to challenge them, and if you pass the final test, you don’t have to take the entire course. I could accumulate a lot of points that way. Is that wrong? Nah. I got my book on [exploded lace](http://www.amazon.com/Amazing-Crochet-Lace-Fashions-Old-Fashioned/dp/0307339750/sr=8-1/qid=1164860263/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-0197377-8907111?ie=UTF8&s=books) today. It travelled far and wide to get to me. It left New Jersey on Monday, arrived in San Jose 12 hours and 5 minutes later and then, inexplicably, it went to Oakland, where it spent the day yesterday. So, theoretically, I could have gotten it yesterday, if it hadn’t jauntered off to Oakland. Oh, and **rosie** : his head; legs ---
**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 30, 2006, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wuthering-heights-depths-and-carparks-a-charitable-mmp/381925/234 "2006-11-30T04:45:25Z")
Ummm, I may have overstated the extent of **Wifey** ’s procrastination. [sub]I think she’s been reading this thread. :smack: [/sub] She called me about an hour after I posted that post to tell me what she’d bought for various relatives for Xmas, and we agreed to go shopping together this Friday and Saturday. :eek: We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread, already in progress. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wuthering-heights-depths-and-carparks-a-charitable-mmp/381925/235 "2006-11-30T05:30:53Z")
Well, no call from the guy today. If he wants to see me this weekend, he’d better call soon, or I may just “have plans” (I probably won’t, but I’m not going to let him think I waited for him to call…) ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wuthering-heights-depths-and-carparks-a-charitable-mmp/381925/236 "2006-11-30T05:41:10Z")
I have sketched out a rough plan for The Paper and I have compiled my bibliography (which always takes me longer than the paper!), so it’s going. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wuthering-heights-depths-and-carparks-a-charitable-mmp/381925/237 "2006-11-30T06:58:20Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] Well, no call from the guy today. If he wants to see me this weekend, he’d better call soon, or I may just “have plans” (I probably won’t, but I’m not going to let him think I waited for him to call…) [/QUOTE] That’s right, tug the line softly and reel him in slow. **Vunderbob** , sorry to disappoint. We’ll just have to keep patiently waiting for that day to come. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wuthering-heights-depths-and-carparks-a-charitable-mmp/381925/238 "2006-11-30T09:23:50Z")
Happy Thursday, folks! Well, technically it’s Friday for me as I’m off tomorrow for a long weekend. That’ll be four days without me…how will you cope? Congrats on the award, **Drae** , that’s way more dedication than I’ve ever had to writing. I can just about manage 5,000 words for an assignment, any more than that is just asking too much. **LiLi** - any chance of a description of the Husbands? Otherwise how will I know which one I really want? And if I ship them over here, will you take 'im indoors in exchange? **Sean** - be very worried if the roofers come back with an Irish bloke called James who will offer to tarmac your drive for a pittance. He’ll make a lovely job of it, so he will… What am I doing today? Who knows! I’m out of here early today to take [Ophelia](http://mups.fotki.com/ophelia/face2006-11-10.html) to the cattery for her little holiday, she’ll be there until Tuesday afternoon because we get home too late on Monday to collect her. After that, it’s back home for a very quick dinner and then out to the Wulfrun Hall to see the [Oysterband](http://www.oysterband.co.uk/) for a bit of singing and bouncing. Then we have to be up early in the morning to get packed and ready to head off to the land of Stella Artois, fab chocolate and CET! Try not to miss me too much… ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wuthering-heights-depths-and-carparks-a-charitable-mmp/381925/239 "2006-11-30T10:25:34Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] why pee of course [/QUOTE] Oh **Rosie** , that’s the wrong answer. A true Turtle would know the answer is shake hands. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wuthering-heights-depths-and-carparks-a-charitable-mmp/381925/240 "2006-11-30T11:22:29Z")
Good morning everyone. Hope you have a great weekend, **BooFae**. You’re leaving **Ophie** with strict pedaling instructions, right? Cuz I’m pretty sure several MMPers still need them. Off to empty the dishwasher… GT [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wuthering-heights-depths-and-carparks-a-charitable-mmp/381925.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wuthering-heights-depths-and-carparks-a-charitable-mmp/381925.md?page=13)