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.

Google's so good for finding poetry:
Knitted Things

by Karla Kuskin

There was a witch who knitted things:
Elephants and playground swings.
She knitted rain,
She knitted night,
But nothing really came out right.
The elephants had just one tusk
And night looked more
Like dawn or dusk.
The rain was snow
And when she tried
To knit an egg
It came out fried.
She knitted birds
With buttonholes
And twenty rubber butter rolls.
She knitted blue angora trees.
She purl stitched countless purple fleas.
She knitted a palace in need of a darn.
She knitted a battle and ran out of yarn.
She drew out a strand
Of her gleaming, green hair
And knitted a lawn
Till she just wasn’t there.


I found this as a comment on a book review and it cracked me up!

We devote ourselves religiously to puns!

Haters gonna hate, potaters gonna potate. I could change the thread to read "words and phrases we really dislike" but it's too late.

As an exclamation of surprise: "Well, fry my feet and call em drumsticks!"

I was told when they trail off it means "I'm just saying what everyone else is thinking," but basically when they chirp "I'm just saying" it's like they think that somehow excuses saying it.

Angel wrote: ""Original movie." And you find out it has the same tramlines as all the other movies you've seen on t.v. Not original dude, just regurgitated."

Reminds me of that Sheryl Crowe song:
"You're an original baby,
Like we've never seen before.
You're so original baby--
Turn around and you're lookin' at a hundred more."

Manufacturers again! Got a box of PG Tips tea the other day. (It's hard to get good tea here, I need to order some more Barry's but this is to tide me over. I don't understand why a parcel from Dublin will take three weeks to arrive in Spain?? Anyway.) I had given up on PG years ago when they changed the blend. Today, when I opened the box, on the inner flap it says, "New blend, same great taste!" Hmmm...if you've changed the blend, you've changed the taste. Plus, they talk about adding "juice from our freshly-pressed tea leaves" to the blend. Sounds like artificial processing to me! A good tea shouldn't need that, surely?

It's okay...but it ain't Barry's.

Here was me thinking more Butthead...

"I didn't steal that wallet, Your Honour, I found it on the street!"
"So why didn't you give it back?"
"It was late at night."
"What about the next day?"
"No point--it was empty by then."

In the cop shop:

"How long has it been since your last arrest?"
"Five years, Comissioner."
"That's quite a long time. What have you been doing all this time?"
"Three to five, Commissioner."

Oh yes "to die for." Very few things are!

Jane wrote: "My mother used to say:

Never trust a man with a clean Land Rover"

Never trust a man who wears white shoes.

A man goes to the movies and buys a ticket (like you do) and goes in. After a few minutes he comes back out and buys another ticket, and returns to the hall. This happens two or three times. Finally the cashier asks him what's up? Why does he need all these tickets?

"Well there's a guy at the door and he keeps taking them and tearing them up."

"I want to lick the platter, the gravy doesn't matter, it's a cold bowl of chile when love gets you down." (Neil Young)

I'm too old to ride the gravy train, you know...

I'm just trying to ketchup here, but I relish the puns!

mrbooks wrote: "I guess I would rather be classed as a real person verses an unreal person. What would an unreal person look like ?"

Kim Kardashian. Wossername Jenner. Like that.

"Personable." Which means pleasant and wellspoken, sometimes with good appearance thrown in. I like how it feels in the mouth, but it also reminds me of a phrase that was current when I was in college (at least in my circles): "Thanks. You're a real person."

Careful, we're using my best China!

Yes, I've heard that, even speaking of a man..."'Er told me not to worry about it." or whatever