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.

I meant the bear of Wall Street, who always puts the bull in its place.

And gingerbread! The darker the molasses the better it turns out and the longer it keeps.

If it gets out of control, send in the bear!

It's super thick and very rich in iron and other minerals. I quote: "It is made from the third boiling of the sugar syrup and is therefore the concentrated byproduct left over after the sugar's sucrose has been crystallized." Very strong in flavour. Basically black treacle.

Just because it's the same ol bull don't mean it ain't effective!

Whenever you were down with one of the "viruses" beloved of our doctor ("It's going around, there's no real treatment I can give you, you'll just have to push fluids and get some rest" while it destroys Christmas/your birthday/your hopes of summer camp for a week), my grandma used to say "She's got the epizootic!"

Not until I had Google did I find out it's a real word.

Blast from the past--my mum and much older sister were always "gonna have a conniption" or saying "she just about had conniptions!"

What do you call the place robbers stash their loot?
A cache point. (only the UK contingent will get that).

Groovy, I just emailed you. ;)

What do you call a skilled barmaid? Phyllis Glass

We'll have to make sure the jokes are up to scratch...

Walking down the street yesterday I overheard two highschool girls walking behind us. One said to the other: "I hardly have enough time in the day to study...how can I have time to think, too?"

Well, I think it's the cat's meow!

She makes juicy, cheesy burgers as well--ever eat Juicy Lucy?

I made it up just for you, Groovy girl!

"This message has been truncated. Show full message."

I'm sure there's a valid reason for that, even though the long detailed emails full of images etc I get from others are never truncated, and I can see the whole thing.

It's very, very annoying.

Why don't dwarves and orcs get along?
Because when an orc sees a dwarf they just want to munch kin...

(I made that up, does it show?)

Groovy wrote: "Punch would be insulted! How that show was made for kids I will never understand..."

I don't think Punch was originally intended for kids, but rather for grownups. The whole biz with the devil and the hangman etc. harks back to mideval miracle plays. Gotta remember that Punch started as Policcinello in 16th century Italy, as a character from the Commedia Dell'Arte, but probably goes back farther. It was first seen in England in the 1660s as a puppet show in Covent Garden (thank you Mr Pepys).

Jane Jago wrote: "But does his nose grow if he tells a fib?"

That was Pinnochio, not Punch!

You knock me on the head for
Something I must have said, oh no!
It's like a Punch and Judy show.
But I'm not a piece of wood
And I want that understood,
So don't pull the cord,
There are no strings on me..."
(Jack Wild, Punch and Judy)