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.

Mantle: totally superficial way of looking at Planet Earth. If you want to get some dirt on our world, you're gonna have to dig for it!

I've been a housewife for 35 years. Don't talk to me about neverending housework! (And me with this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side...)

With a word like that, they must be! LOL

Oh I know they don't, Groovy. I was just letting off steam. It's an automated message, probably meant for the sort of GR member who reads 10 books a year to meet a "challenge." I don't need challenges to read! Now if they came up with a housework challenge, that might be interesting...."You cleaned the whole kitchen! Congratulations! What's next?" LOL

Dear Goodreads: STOP sending me emails to inform me I finished a book I just posted a review on!! Are you really that stupid, or do you think I am? I KNOW I finished it, I was there!!! And I posted a freaking REVIEW.
Just stop it. NOW.

"Spelunking." Fantastic shape in the mouth.
It's another word for caving, ie potholing.

Aw, shucks, 'twerent nothin'! LOL Words are my job.

A former student asked me to proofread her final paper for her degree, on Hamlet. She was telling me she focussed on three scenes in particular, and started explaining the scene between Hamlet and Polonius. I said, "I know thee--thou art a fishmonger!" and she was soooo surprised that I could quote it. What, she thinks she's the only fan of Onkel Willy?

The way it sounds! And of course it means what it sounds like. Fulsome praise--packed full.
There's a line in the wonderful Jeremy Brett version of The Hound of the Baskervilles that isn't in the original but I wish it were.

"It is not my wish to be fulsome, but--I covet your skull!"
"Behave and sit down, Dr Mortimer!"

When fish are in schools, they sometimes take debate.

Apparently Gelet Burgess coined the word "blurb." From Burgess’s Burgess Unabridged, 1914:

Blurb 1. A flamboyant advertisement; an inspired testimonial. 2. Fulsome praise; a sound like a publisher...On the “jacket” of the “latest” fiction, we find the blurb; abounding in agile adjectives and adverbs, attesting that this book is the “sensation of the year.”

... Did you hear about the fellow whose entire left side was cut off? He's all right now.

Acupuncture is a jab well done. That's the point of it.

Every time Charlie Brown's sister leaves the house, it's a sally!

Charlie would drive a yellow car with a brown zigzag stripe painted around the middle, of course.

I could see Peppermint Patty in a jeep, or maybe a Landrover.

Groovy wrote: "Speaking of Apple--if Apple made a car, would it have Windows?"

Lucy would drive an iCar, but Linux sure wouldn't.

Maybe it comes from "blurt out"--where you just say something without thinking?

"It's not easy being a chimp in a world of oversized gorillas."
Seen in the GR blurb for Willy and Hugh
Indeed it isn't.
Brought a smile to my face this morning.

An extra-cheezy joke! LOL

Ohhhh I am on the boil! Went for coffee with some people. I was carrying a vintage Garfield paperback and something happened. I had to leave quickly and it got left behind. One of the people said she had picked it up. When I asked for it back on a later day, she said, "Oh yeah, it's at home." I asked for it again another day. She blinked and said, "Oh, it's just a book." Meaning, either she has no intention of returning it, or--more likely--her kids got hold of it and either tore it up or scribbled all over it or both.

"Just" a book!

Just MY book.

I would swear this book was by Mary Stewart. I read it in the mid-1970s.
An English woman and her husband in Italy, on holiday or something. He is rumoured to be in love/cheating with a lady opera singer named Mallory. His name is Roarke. Wife hears rumours about "Roarke and La Mallory." But is he faithful, or not?

There's a recurring motif of a mosaic (I think) of a boy riding on a dolphin.

Some sort of mystery to do with a villa, an aging rich woman and her male protegé who goes around in slippers "to protect the mosaic floors."