Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)’s Comments (group member since Sep 20, 2013)

Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)’s comments from the Net Work Book Club group.

Hey Groovy girl! I just realised where the term "turkey" came from back in the day to mean an idiot or obnoxious person. A turkey is what? A big fat white bird that is too dumb to come in out of the rain. You can see why African Americans in the not so long ago might feel moved to apply it to some white people, particularly those in power.

Cracked up one of my students by using a phrase she didn't expect. I was working with my tablet and opened the wrong file. When I realised what I'd done I said, "Oh, not that one, you silly moo!" It broke her up and she asked me what it meant.

I realised that calling a woman a "stupid cow" is (obviously) quite insulting, while calling her a "silly moo" can be an affectionate thing.

She's not as hardboiled as she'd like to think, either. Just cracked!

I quite agree! I already have six phone numbers on my mobile's blacklist.

About ten or fifteen years back, at least in parts of the US, if a spammer phoned your mobile and you picked up, you got charged.

Kills me when they call pretending to be from my phone provider, and then want to ask me for all my data, including my phone number! The last time that happened I laughed my head off down the phone and said, "Listen, darling, I don't know who you are, but I know for sure you aren't Orange, because they already have all that stuff on file!" and hung up forthwith.

Oh so I shouldn't say he felt so betrayed he started calling her Benedict Eggnold!

Yes, it still happens. It depends on the culture and the level of education of both parties. When you consider that in Korea, for example, kissing in public is as scandalous as "doin' it" in public would be here...

I just heard myself use the phrase "sitting pretty", first time I've used or heard it in a long time as it's an old Americanism. We were discussing how in my youth some girls still thought it was a good scheme to get pregnant and then force the young man in question to marry them; usually the guy was well-placed financially, so she'd be "sitting pretty." And how that stopped working somewhere in the late seventies. A friend of my sister's tried it in our small town in about 1979 with the rich boy; he dropped her like a hot potato, even though they were both catholic and at that time in that place, it was usually a deciding factor. That was also the first time a pregnant girl was allowed to finish her senior year at that school.

He'd better hope Hungry Jack doesn't turn up though!

If she hasn't seen Sunny Again Tomorrow I recommend it. It's funny as well as dramatic. They're in the home stretch on KBS, but it's on Youtube. Even hubby got hooked!

I used to work with a Christian magazine here, and part of my duties was taking phone orders. So people would know they had the right place, when I picked up I'd say, "Jesus is Lord, how can I help you?" I got a lot of clicks, but no telemarketing calls in those days.

Now I just let my husband answer. He has finally learned that it's completely OK to hang up on them without saying a word. Or if we happen to be watching a Korean soap, we just set the phone near the TV speaker and let them listen to Korean for awhile. That seems to have helped.

She'd better pour on the honey or she'll be scramblin' for a date!

I do too, but after what she said about his "short stack" I doubt they'll be makin' bacon any time soon...

I've been enjoying the Jane Austen audiobook fest yet again, round my way...LOL

I have to say that the Phryne Fisher novels are way better than the TV series. They changed the plots completely!

I don't know what she's got to brag about, girl's not such a little sizzler herself!

It's because his girlfriend tweeted he's not such a hotcake after all.

Have you been watching the Miss Fisher Mysteries? "She'll be right" sounds Australian.

"Flibbertigibbet." I love the sound of that!! It's an Old English word meaning "chatterer." Now used for a flighty person who can't sit still.

Here's a question for the UK contingent: Why, if the original word is HALF penny, do they pronounce it "tuppence HAYpenny" when shortening it? Surely it would be HAHpenny? You don't talk about HAYLF of something.