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.

mrbooks wrote: "Not scary at all, what's scary is me looking in the mirror"

Especially if you do the old Mary Worth thing. Scared me of looking in mirrors in a shadowy room for many many years.

Read Shakespeare for some lovely old words most people don't know. Like "rump-fed runion" in MacBeth. Runion (runyon) in those days basically meant a ho. So a rump-fed runion....wow. But nowadays nobody knows what you mean. I even looked in online dictionaries and kept getting Damon Runyon as a definition!

Yeah, a week or so ago somebody stole about 200 lbs of fresh strawberries from a grower in Kent...word was put out that the fruit was "coated with a poisonous substance" in hopes the punters wouldn't by any down the local bring-and-buy sale! Just like the live salmon that escaped from a fish farm into the estuary a few years ago were supposedly full of "toxic chemicals" to keep people from scooping them up. If that fruit had been sold by the grower, it would have been fine!

Emma wrote: "My friend started coming back to most things now by turning it round on people, for example if you say 'that's impossible' she says 'you're impossible'.

Now I just try to think of really long thi..."

Emma, I<3 you. Srsly.

I also hate when you cook for someone and they pick, and when you ask them if they don't like it, they reply: "It's edible." Why not just say "I don't like this." Saying "it's edible" implies "only just."

Just be careful the strawberries aren't from Kent! (news report)

"I can read you like a book!" That one still makes me boil. My father said it to me all the time. He was sooo wrong. Had no idea how I felt about him, for one thing--which is probably a good thing.

People who say that are just reading to themselves anyway, out of their own self-congratulatory songbook.

All because somebody jumped over the net into someone else's court.

mrbooks wrote: "I thought they used a the divine light."

Wouldn't that be the Pentecostals, though? (LOL)

Oh, that's from my mother, born 1924. She had "jitters" and "jimjams" as well as "heebie jeebies." Jitters, for her, were just nerves (like too much coffee, not enough sleep). Jimjams were apprehension (like waiting for medical test results). And heebie-jeebies were more like fear, in her vocabulary, like having watched Psycho, or seeing a big hairy spider, or like that.

As my old auntie said: "The rich are eccentric. The poor are just odd."

To me, an eccentric knows they are--doesn't care, and enjoys it!

Oh Lor', y'all remind me of the annual general meetings they held in the Episcopal congregation I attended for years. Took me several to realise that these folks just wanted to sit around and hash and re-hash, they had no intention of actually DOING anything. I finally left about six years ago in desperation; met a friend from the group a couple of weeks ago. They changed venues too far away for me to attend...and are still faffing about.

Which reminds me of the old joke:
"How many Episcopalians does it take to change a light bulb?"
"Don't know yet, it's still in committee."

Collywobbles is also that funny feeling in your stomach. You can get it from heights, or from a doubtful snack. One's physical, the other's emotional.
Collywobbles
Heebie jeebies
Jimjams

When I work too hard in our summer temperatures, sometimes I get the shakes...I think it's low potassium. I like the Australian phrase for it: "She came over all unnecessary."

mrbooks wrote: "And when they get divorced there ex shouts out new balls please..."

And when they realise it's all over, one of them shouts: "OUT!!!"

Go ahead and vent--that's what this thread is for! You're right, when I hear people say "think outside the box" I just want to go up and pinch them. Hard. Repeatedly.

Emma wrote:" I like the word 'collywobble'. Don't know why, it just makes me think of jelly and then I smile! ."

I get the same reaction when someone mentions "throwing a wobbly." I try not to grin when someone's telling me they did it, as it means they were very upset, but it does make me grin inside!

Back in the days when the Internet was new, a lot of people would pronounce the WWW part of a web adress. Hard to say quickly, so I got the habit of saying "wobblywobblywobbly" instead.

Makes me laugh, in France when young people speak of someone who's fit and attractive they use the word "croquant(e)"--crunchy!

Himself, of course.

mrbooks wrote: "I like the feel of tasty in my mouth, just the sound of it makes the mouth water."

It does! "Crunchy" does the same thing to me.

"Eponymous". Meaning "having the same name." I just used it in my latest GR book review. I love the feel of it in the mouth.