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.

What do you call it when you steal someone else's cheese to make your own snack?

Nacho cheese!

Dear Goodreads: I do not need to be told I've finished reading any book. I am fully aware of that! I was there! STOP IT!! An Unsatisfied Customer

Groovy wrote: "Is that an English word or American? I've never heard of it either. I don't think it'll be part of my vocabulary, though:)
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I certainly came across it in the US, in the 70s. (And not the 1870s, either! LOL)

A green onion is what's called a scallion in some places. And you can use the whole thing. Asians love the green tops, UK cookery books always say "white part only." I use it all. We certainly get them roots and all, and in Iowa they sold them that way too.
This year it's hard to get green onions here, they let them grow too long so they are sold as "fresh onions" with huge big bulbs and a strong taste.
Leeks, now, are a different critter altogether. Same family, different beast, much beloved by the Welsh and worn on St. David's Day, pinned to your clothes, in some schools. I like leek soup, and often put it in any broth I'm making. Much milder flavour than a scallion.

"Eschew." Isn't that a lovely word? It means to avoid something, as in to eschew chocolate in favour of fresh fruit. I know it kind of sounds like a sneeze.

I found myself telling my bestie that if she really wanted to lose some weight she should eschew junk food and soda. She is an English major but didn't know the word.

It's thinking" out of the box" I know but seems to work for me.


Question is, though--does it work for your readership? If it doesn't, you may end up writing for yourself alone. If you don't mind not being published/sold, that's another thing.

This is Feria de Sevilla week. Google it...used to be a horse and cattle fair, now reduced to wearing "traditional dress", drinking and dancing. Foreigners often try to go, but haven't learned to handle dry sherry.

This led to a conversation overheard in town, in English:
"Girl, what's wrong? You look like crap."
"I feel like crap. It's a set."
(Proceeds to moan about hangover, exhaustion and how is she going to get up early to go to work...etc)

Groovy wrote: "LOL!"

LOL: Little Old Lady

Post makes sense...but what about "mail"? Where did we get that term? And is it specifically American I wonder.

I knew you'd say something about that!! Heavy petting is when you adopt a mastiff.

What cracks me up is the heavy betting they did while playing jacks and hopscotch!

mrbooks wrote: "How did the primitives play jacks they didn't have rubber balls to bounce back then.

Rubber was known to the indigenous peoples of the Americas long before the arrival of European explorers. In 1525, Padre d'Anghieria reported that he had seen Mexican
tribespeople playing with elastic balls. The first scientific study of rubber was undertaken by Charles de la Condamine, when he encountered it during his trip to Peru in 1735.
The people who were playing the form of "jacks" picked it up from the Mexican natives.

Chinese and Japanese rice is meant to be sticky, so you can eat it with chopsticks. But not wallpaper paste sticky.

No, they had a primitive form of jacks as well. But you'd be surprised the amount they won and lost playing hopscotch.

True anecdote: I worked at the Archive of the Indies for about 3 years back in the 90s, helping a friend do some research on 17th century Mexico. The great and the good used to gamble on pitching pennies...and a form of hopscotch!

I don't mind kids playing hopscotch in most places, but my driveway is where I draw the line.

It's oakay, Mr Books. I'm sure you'll sprout in new directions soon!

I'm pining to see what you can come up with!

mrbooks wrote: "Here's the question if you blow dry it does it become rice crispy hair? I just wash and go my self don't have to worry about all those conditioners. a quick brush and done I normally wear a cap at ..."

LOL, it does--which is why I let it air-dry in the summer. I wear a short 1920s bob myself, just comb it smooth and let it go. In winter, though, with no heat in our apartment if I don't dry it I freeze.

Groovy wrote: "LOL! Wow, you learn something new everyday. I guess since they've come out with the instant rice in the perforated bags, the rice here in the US is no longer clumpy or sticky. You just boil for ten..."

Instant rice...in perforated bags!! Eek! Does it taste like the cardboard box it comes in? :·}