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.

Today's phrase cracked me up, in the course of a discussion on tolerance: "If you wish me a happy Kwanzaa, I'm not going to stomp on your paper hat!" I think "paper" referred to party hats. But LOL!!

"That guy's gaga. He's so far out he's on the way back." The Owl Service

Let the church say A-men!!

Not a joke, a real-life event. There's one of these hair-growth-vitamin products at the drugstores, called Pilexil. The local pronunciation of Spanish makes people put an ah or eh-sound in front of certain consonants at the beginning of words. They say things like "ehstop" for "stop", or "amoto" for "moto" (scooter). Also, they aspirate the endings of many words.

One of my students is a pharmacist. She said a lady walked in and asked her for "epilepsy."

"Excuse me?"

"I want a packet of epilepsy!"

"Ma'am, you mean you want (naming an epilepsy medication)?"

"No, stupid! Epilepsy! Epilepsy! It's in the show window!! Are you deaf??"

Ah yes. Pilexil.

People who jump off bridges repeatedly have water on the brain!

Probably on your profile, then.

Got that shrinking feeling, huh Groovy? LOL

5 ft 7 but always wanted to be six feet tall. My other two sisters were both five nine.

When I was a kid, "petite" was in. All the Harlequin heroines were five foot two, blonde, blue eyes. These days, petite would be nice.

Groovy wrote: "Well, there's heartfelt"

Well, yes...but the "heart" that feels is actually the mind...

Groovy wrote: "My new favorite phrase:

"I compliment you highly all the time. Anything more than that would be worship.""

I feel I've read that somewhere. Have I?

Read online that this extreme sports guy killed himself jumping from one building to another...one of his friends says "He left us lots of mental memories."

Are there any other kind?

Lunch to me carries memories of plastic trays at school. At home we never had "lunch" but always midday "dinner" and "supper" at night. Supper always sounds delicious. It was our main meal of the day.

I asked a dwarf to lend me 5 dollars yesterday. He said, “Sorry, I’m a little short.”
Short people are oppressed. They’re always getting overlooked.

I have always preferred the phrase "a bite to eat" to "a snack" or "a lunch." If I said I had the munchies (another one I like) my mother would always say "well, fix a lunch" when she meant a snack. I think "a bite" sounds a lot more tasty!

"Portrait" is not a verb. That would be "portray." I keep reading in GR reviews that a book "portraits a young woman who..."

mrbooks wrote: "A dwarf and a midget are completely different.

A dwarf admits his size and is proud of it
A midget denies his size and says he is a little person"

A dwarf has a normal adult size head on a foreshortened body, often with mis-shapen limbs. A midget is a perfectly proportioned miniature person. There are a lot fewer midgets than dwarves.

Having said that:

I saw a midget nun today. All I could think was, “Oh ye of little faith.”

Ok, so I know I'm an ESL teacher, but our E is being destroyed. Seen on a packet of Barry's Irish Tea:

"This is printed in Ireland, 100% recyclable and made from renewable resources."

An admirable product in a recyclable box. Lovely so far, but the printing was finished long before the tea actually went into the box. That woudl be "This was printed in Ireland." Or just, "Printed in Ireland."

Tui, what makes me want to pinch babies is when a student whose English is poor and has come to me to learn (supposedly), insists that their skewed grammar is right and I am wrong. "Oh I'm sure I've seen it in my book..." Yeah, show me.

Mr Books, you reminded me of a coffee mug I loved that said:
"Open mouth, insert foot and chew vigorously!!"

Tui wrote: "And as for words or phrases I hate, I always twitch when I hear someone described as the something-or-other
"type"

Maybe, "He's the rowdy type," or "She's the bossy type."
Not sure why but I do..."

I see this all the time in golden-age detective novels, to the place that the author will have one character say of another, "She's a type." Just like that, no qualifier. Talk about pigeon-holing people!

What do a midget and a dwarf have in common? Very little.

I crashed into the back of a car at the lights today. A really short guy got out of it and said, “I’m not happy.” I said, “Well which one are you then?”

Two midgets walk into a mini-bar…