My mom has officially made it to the Meh forums.

MEHcus shared some links said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 2:10pm ET

Yep, that's my mom over there commenting on my Puerto Rico thread. Everyone, meet mom. @melindakirksey, meet everyone.

Let's giver her a mediocre welcome. Share you favorite gif with her and let's see if she can figure out how to post one herself.

This oughta be great.

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Foosh said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 2:11pm ET:

HI MOM

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medz said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 2:18pm ET:

@melindakirksey Howdy, Ma'am.

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Thumperchick said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 2:19pm ET:

@melindakirksey aka @MEHcusMOM

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lilystang said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 2:20pm ET:

Mom doesn't get a special Mom badge? wth?

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- @lilystang A "Mediocre Mom" badge.
  
  medz said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 2:44pm ET
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mediobarkre said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 2:29pm ET:

Hi MOMcus!

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KittySprinkles said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 2:35pm ET:

Why hello there @melindakirksey ! I sure hope you can bear us!

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melindakirksey said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 2:38pm ET:

Well hi everyone, good luck putting up with my son. He can be trying at times.

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melindakirksey said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 2:40pm ET:

Oh and what the heck is a gif?

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- @melindakirksey Here you go. Sites like giphy.com are full of them.
  
  MEHcus said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 2:43pm ET
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- @melindakirksey
  
  Welcome :-)
  
  connorbush said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 2:49pm ET
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mfladd said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 2:53pm ET:

Hi MOMcus!

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melindakirksey said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 2:56pm ET:

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- @melindakirksey
  
  sammydog01 said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 3:00pm ET
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- @melindakirksey
  
  hollboll said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 3:45pm ET
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- @melindakirksey
  
  mfladd said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 5:10pm ET
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Ignorant said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 3:25pm ET:

Hi!

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Pavlov said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 3:39pm ET:

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pooflady said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 3:42pm ET:

Glad to meet you.

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studerc said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 3:47pm ET:

Oh my gosh, FINALLY, I've been waiting to use the hallowed, "MOM?!" from deals.woot lore. Oh Cheri, how I miss the antics.

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- @studerc Thank you for this morning's first touch of nostalgia.
  
  LaVikinga said Wed, Oct 21st 2015 at 4:59am ET
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joelmw said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 3:54pm ET:

I see that everyone is sucking up and ignoring @MEHcus' specific request that we give @mommeh a mediocre welcome. Y'all are trying too hard.

I know how to follow instructions, @melindakirksey. And you can always count on me to be straight with you. I'm sure you're a lovely lady, but I'm somewhat obligated to just say "meh" and indifferently shrug.

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carl669 said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 3:55pm ET:

hi @melindakirksey! will you be regaling us with stories of @MEHcus's youth?

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- hi I came for the embarrassing stories
  
  Lotsofgoats said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 4:03pm ET
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- @carl669 Yes, @melindakirksey, make with the dirt!
  1) Does @MEHcus make you proud? (what do you think of his current job)
  2) What's something you could tell us that he would find embarrassing?
  3) If there was 1 thing you could change about him, what would it be?
  
  medz said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 4:10pm ET
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  Thumperchick said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 4:13pm ET
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editorkid said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 4:32pm ET:

Welcome, @melindakirksey, even if you didn't spell it "mehlinda." Also, now you know what your son is getting you for Christmas, and it's only October, so you have plenty of time to practice being surprised.

Let's hope Meh sells a scanner by then so you can post his baby pictures here. For, you know, the holiday.

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Pamtha said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 6:33pm ET:

If I wasn't too busy being a mom, I'd stop and say "hi". Hey kid, STOP POOPING IN THE YARD!!

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hallmike said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 6:52pm ET:

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ceagee said Tue, Oct 20th 2015 at 7:03pm ET:

@melindakirksey

Welcome to meh.

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melindakirksey said Wed, Oct 21st 2015 at 12:00am ET:

@carl669 yes I am proud of him. This job is perfect for him. I'm not sure that any story I could tell about @MEHcus would embarrass him. I don't think anything needs to change about him. Well maybe he should be involved with his niece and nephews a little more, they are growing up fast!

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- @melindakirksey you're too sweet. I'm almost certain my mom would have taken the opportunity to share at least one embarrassing tale at my expense - you're a good MOMcus.
  
  Thumperchick said Wed, Oct 21st 2015 at 1:00am ET
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- @melindakirksey Spoken like a true mom! :-)
  
  medz said Wed, Oct 21st 2015 at 1:19am ET
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- @melindakirksey
  
  kdemo said Wed, Oct 21st 2015 at 2:36am ET
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jqubed said Wed, Oct 21st 2015 at 12:29am ET:

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LaVikinga said Wed, Oct 21st 2015 at 5:13am ET:

Hi, @melindakirksey! When worlds collide, what could possibly go wrong?

I'm envious. Two of three of my circus monkeys choose not acknowledge my presence on any social media of any sort "because it's safer that way, Mom." Poop heads.
However, my eldest has realized that it's the lazy/easy way of keeping in contact without having to make the effort of actually calling once or twice a month to check in and say "I love you, Mom." Not that I'm complaining, TORY. It's not like I tell the Tory & the deer poop story to ALL your friends...

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- @LaVikinga We're not Tory's friends; will you tell us?
  
  jqubed said Thu, Oct 22nd 2015 at 2:03am ET
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- @jqubed You asked for it...About 6 months after I delivered twins, we made the trip from DC to the family cabin in the middle of the central PA woods. The cabin has been in my Dad's family since the early 40s & sits at the top of a rather large meadow valley. I call it heaven on earth. When the wind & acoustics are just right, you can clearly hear conversations from over 500 yards away. (Yeah, it's my facebook account. Don't judge. Don't get weird on me, ok? https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=515053648521152&l=7b99ed8891 )
  Our eldest was 3 1/2 at the time. She loved going on nature walks with her GrinDaddy. My Dad happily carries on my grandparents' tradition of teaching woods lore-- what you can eat, what you shouldn't, how moss grows, what to do if you see animals, snakes, etc.
  They had walked all the way across the meadow and were on their return. We could distinctly hear Tory's voice chattering away as my dad answered her questions and could watch them as she picked flowers or pointed something out.
  
  Suddenly, she stopped in the middle of the path and I swear time slowed down to a crawl just like in the movies. We heard "OH, GrinDaddy!!! Emma Ems!!" and as she said this we saw her bending over to pick something up from the ground. Her little hand goes to her mouth as I'm trying to get the words "Nooooo, Tory! Don't!!" to come out of my mouth. Slow motion, I tell ya!
  The next thing we hear is "DAT'S not EMMA EMS!!" in a quite disappointed & disgusted voice, and my Dad chuckling away.
  To hear my Dad tell it, he saw the little pile and swears he "...had no idea the child would actually pick up deer droppings and PUT THEM IN HER MOUTH!! Any way, she didn't swallow them and they're just processed grass & berries. It was a good lesson and she's built a memory." He's big on building memories and that one was a whopper!
  
  LaVikinga said Thu, Oct 22nd 2015 at 11:16am ET
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- @LaVikinga
  creeping intensifies
  
  Thumperchick said Thu, Oct 22nd 2015 at 12:23pm ET
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- @LaVikinga Emma Ems are the best though
  
  MEHcus said Thu, Oct 22nd 2015 at 12:48pm ET
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- @Thumperchick Girl, you iz speshul!
  
  LaVikinga said Thu, Oct 22nd 2015 at 12:59pm ET
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- @LaVikinga That's funny! If she was only 3½ I don't see why she'd be embarrassed about that. Surely that's long enough ago to laugh now! Is she still school age or something?
  
  jqubed said Wed, Oct 28th 2015 at 5:15am ET
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- @jqubed I think it's more of a "yes, I've been an idiot from an early age" sort of thing. She hasn't been school aged in a long while. Too long awhile.
  
  LaVikinga said Wed, Oct 28th 2015 at 6:49am ET
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marklog said Wed, Oct 21st 2015 at 8:18am ET:

@mehcus I'll let you explain to your mom why I'm really hoping this never happens to me.

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- @marklog I just laughed so hard it didn't make noise.
  
  Thumperchick said Wed, Oct 21st 2015 at 12:09pm ET
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