Re: Senseless Banter...

ashort 12/20/2011, 9:21 pm

llama momma wrote:
boffer wrote:There're 8 'M' states. Anybody have a mental trick to keeping the abbreviations straight?

(The subject came up here:
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t9397-my-results#90326

I don't know if there is a "common" way to remember but I thought about it and came up with this: From a grammar class I recall that a, e, i, o, are common vowels that come after four of the "M" states. As in MA, ME, etc. Then you are left with the other four states that end in s,t,d, and n. Those letters make me think of a simple sentence, "STD-No!"
So here are your 8 "M" states-
MA, ME, MI, MO, MS, MT, MD, MN
I swear I just made this up.

SEDATION

MS
ME
MD
MA
MT
MI
MO
MN

**llama momma** 12/20/2011, 9:21 pm

Although SEDATION works perfectly fine too!

martha 12/20/2011, 9:29 pm

Llama Momma, you are obviously a youngster. When I was in grade school, state abbreviations were things like Mass. Conn. Wash. Calif. Wis. etc. etc. etc.

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I am soooo old.....

madnicmom 12/20/2011, 9:31 pm

Martha , I'm with you on the "old school" abbr. i had to think what MS was. LOL

ashort 12/20/2011, 9:32 pm

llama momma wrote:Although SEDATION works perfectly fine too!

HA! I love scrabble cheats.... just put in the letters you want and they spit out words.... great way to come up with mnemonic devices...

ashort 12/20/2011, 9:34 pm

madnicmom wrote:Martha , I'm with you on the "old school" abbr. i had to think what MS was. LOL

MS can stand for a lot of things... Acroynm Finder

**llama momma** 12/20/2011, 9:34 pm

Very funny Martha, did you notice we're the same age? But I do remember when they were abbreviated like that too.

martha 12/20/2011, 9:38 pm

llama momma wrote:Very funny Martha, did you notice we're the same age?

**llama momma** 12/20/2011, 9:38 pm

ashort wrote:
madnicmom wrote:Martha , I'm with you on the "old school" abbr. i had to think what MS was. LOL

MS can stand for a lot of things... Acroynm Finder

Ashort -- Maybesince the 3 word game is nearly over, you would like to try to start a game of who can guess the fastest acronym for... (your choice ashort?)

**llama momma** 12/20/2011, 9:42 pm

martha wrote:
llama momma wrote:Very funny Martha, did you notice we're the same age?

Thats ok I was laughing! If you wanna talk about "old" anytime I'm game! I remember the sisters in parochial school (1960's) wacking rulers on students knuckles, I believe these days that would be abuse!

martha 12/20/2011, 9:43 pm

Oh, yes, it would! Back then it was SOP.

**RoOsTeR** 12/20/2011, 9:44 pm

HA! I love scrabble cheats.... just put in the letters you want and they spit out words.... great way to come up with mnemonic devices...

Doh! Remind me NOT to play Words with Friends with you Razz

**RoOsTeR** 12/20/2011, 9:46 pm

And I agree llama momma. YOU guys get to come up with the next game!! Very Happy

**llama momma** 12/20/2011, 9:47 pm

Martha, yes, corporal punishment was SOP

**llama momma** 12/20/2011, 9:52 pm

nKedrOoStEr wrote:And I agree llama momma. YOU guys get to come up with the next game!!

Great! Ashort put on your thinking cap too, what do you suppose would be interesting?

martha 12/20/2011, 10:19 pm

I know there is an on-line Scrabble game, although I don't know how it is played.

boffer 12/20/2011, 10:58 pm

game ends at the end of the day ? That's NR's time, right? I get two more hours to play than you!

Lindacol 12/20/2011, 11:18 pm

I remember in public school in the 50s one of my teachers whaked knuckles with a ruler. Not me of course. I was a good kid Laughing

Hey Boffer, why is you signature showing today as a box with a red x in it?

boffer 12/20/2011, 11:22 pm

dunno, I'm using the weather thing that looks like yours; for some reason it didn't load.

Boys still got swats when I was in school. What hurt the most though, was that the wood shop teacher would make us make our own paddle for him to use on us. He had quite a wall full of paddles.

**RoOsTeR** 12/21/2011, 12:02 am

I'm turning in. If no one minds, I will just leave the 3 word up until I get up in the morning. Around 5 a.m. Shocked

Doubt it will see much more action, but feel free to carry it on till then...

ashort 12/21/2011, 9:17 am

Let's see... there is the movie game - Name a movie - next poster must name an actor in the movie, next post is a different movie, followed by a different actor kinda like the following:

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Jimmy Stewart

It's a wonderful Life

Donna Reed

....

martha 12/21/2011, 12:16 pm

boffer wrote:dunno, I'm using the weather thing that looks like yours; for some reason it didn't load.

Boys still got swats when I was in school. What hurt the most though, was that the wood shop teacher would make us make our own paddle for him to use on us. He had quite a wall full of paddles.

Wow! That's not nice!

When I was in school, my class was the first one to have the girls take shop and the boys take Home-Ec for a quarter. I'm surprised the HE teacher survived - although there was only one incident of one of the boys smashing on egg on his friend's head!

On the other hand, the shop teacher (whose name - no kidding -was Mr. Carpenter) said he never had it so easy as with us perfect girls! (NR - did you get us the shiny halo emoticon yet? Twisted Evil

)

**RoOsTeR** 12/21/2011, 2:13 pm

Happy Birthday plantoid! Senseless Banter... - Page 4 Wheelchair

jkahn2eb 12/21/2011, 3:09 pm

NFL games are required to give TV networks 5 commercial breaks per quarter.
cheers

Long live DVR/TiVo

Chopper 12/21/2011, 4:58 pm

ashort wrote:Let's see... there is the movie game - Name a movie - next poster must name an actor in the movie, next post is a different movie, followed by a different actor kinda like the following:

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Jimmy Stewart

It's a wonderful Life

Donna Reed

....

From Here To Eternity (I assume the movie must be one that the immediate previous actor was in)

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