mrbooks’s Comments (group member since Mar 19, 2014)

mrbooks’s comments from the Net Work Book Club group.

Ori, yes I live in the UK but I can still get and watch Jeopardy on base or on some of the older cable channels if I so desired. I grew up watching it, if I remember rightly on Friday night but it was in black and white back then. LOL no they did have color TV but we didn't so everything was in black and white.

If I remember rightly they give you the answer in Jeopardy and the contestant has to supply the question right.

A. Left Right
Q. How do military members march?

The choice of questions is supplied the have to pick the best one to get the points or money.

Means the same over here Groovy, and who are you calling an oxymoron...LOL

It is Diabolical how you use the words to turn the meaning into something other then what it is. He is a diabolical little angel said his mother.

I like Diabolical, it just sounds so bad...

Lambaste, isn't that what you do with a leg of lamb in the oven?

Yes it is from the English navy of Old. Think sails and wood old. "Scuttle Butt was the habit of sailors gathering around the water butt passing on the rumors of who did what and who was going to be flogged with the cat-o-nine-tails." The problem was resolved when the made passing Scuttle around the butt a punishable offense. The punishment was typically flogging any where from 5 to 50 lashes,

Sorry, old habits die hard I am a history nut.

Actually Ori the way you describe her back yard reminds me of a book I read. If you have a gigantic tree in your yard with a Peacock Tiger and Snake hanging around it and a fox that comes and goes and isn't afraid of the Tiger then it is proof positive.

The book is Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King.

But Ori is right better the devil you know then the devil you don't.

Hellooo.....

It has been quite here for a while. Groovy why would you curse your self by sending your neighbors to some place nice. If any one has to go to never never land it is you, think of everything nice in the world is in never never land why give it to people you don't like.

I'm wondering if you would rather like Commala it has so many different meanings in the Calla. I think Roland and his katet had oris it did foregather with the Folken of Calla.

LOL it will never leave them. I have lived the last 27 years in the UK and still have my American accent. Spring where we have had snow and cold and all kinds of winter weather. I have actually seen it snow in June, yes that's right June in England and there was snow.

The Beatles did speak like the were from oxford, the accent you heard was put on. They were all highly educated and in those days that meant oxford or Cambridge. Yes they were from Liverpool but there accent wasn't

Groovy wrote: "Don't you just love it??!!! That's one of the reasons I love watching PBS.

Here's another one: When some younger people speak, every sentence ends with a question. Why? I'll be so glad when that g..."

LOL you say that but you haven't heard the Liverpuddlian (someone from liverpool) and the brummy accent. Talk about thick. It drives me up the wall mind you I still haven't figured out what they are saying but it is still annoying. It like listening to someone from the deep Louisiana bayou, where men are men and everyone is afraid.

By the standards she probably meant you should be saying she is bigger then me, the cow... Typical street slang as you know. Or did she have you standing in the corner with a dictionary on your head saying "the rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain." OK couldn't resist

I got it groovy it's a good thing I have you to correct me. hat gets me is listening to how Americans pronounce things. Yes I know I am an American but have been here long enough to get irritated when the butcher a word. for example Shallot SHAL LOT not SHAL LET RRRRRRRRR.

Sorry I am here been a bit tied up with some other pages discussing Stephen King. Hile gunslinger.

Have you read Red Rising? Warning it is a Fantasy I have listened to it at work not to bad as it goes.

I prefer those that portray families as they really are. In each others faces but always having each others back. Yes me and my brother and sisters always fought, I mean from oldest to youngest there was only 6 years between the five of us. We probably drove my mother crazy but that's what kids do.

It's funny my kids were the same way they would fight but don't start picking on one if you do then you will be faced with three. Well others may but being dad I can still pick on them and not get ganged up on LOL. No I don't pick on my kids just your average parental joking around is all.

Wow that's good then, my wife says I am very good at provoking people. I have to admit I do enjoy doing it at work it brightens up the day. No I don't go after the regular workers I get the managers all the time. it is so much fun, (evil laugh) HAHAHA.

OK Ori on a serious note, remind me not to make you angry, that sounds scary.