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.

"Based off" instead of "based on." Based ON your review, I think I would enjoy this book. The movie is based ON the novel of the same title.

You can't base something OFF something else, because then it will have no base!

How hard is that, people?

Sign on the music store door: “Out to lunch. Bach at 1, Offenbach earlier.”

Gotta match ya, pun for pun!

Can't hold a candle to you!

Nobody here gonna be throwin' shade!

It's good to see your face light up, MrB.

How do you find Will Smith in the snow?

Look for the fresh prints.

I have often "pilled" my dog by simply pretending to eat the pill with great enjoyment. They just gotta have some of that! So I'd push away the inquiring nose, saying, "No, yumyum, you can't have any, this is mine, yumyum, sooo good!" After about the third push-away they'd gulp anything down, solid or liquid, no matter how foul.

And from cats to mice...this thread reminded me of when in highschool our Language Arts teacher begged students to try and come up with some replacements for "grossed out" and "ticked off" which were on everyone's tongue with variations ("oh gag me with a spoon! Gross me gone! Gross me dead!" and such.)

I brought up my British penpal's phrase "cheesed off" which according to the dictionary is 18th century! but she wanted new ones, to see if we could create a fashion.

One of the winners, strangely, was "moused off" or "moused".
"Oh I am so moused off! My new calculator's broken!" (Calculators were a big deal then). I heard myself use it the other day...had to explain to my ESL student that no, it's not common usage!

If they break into your house to steal it, that's a cat burglar!

Dog? What dog?

If bread always lands butter side down, and cats always land on their feet--what would happen if you buttered your bread and strapped it on the back of a cat?

I'm so hoppy we got away from shoes and on to frogs and fish.

Rotten day. Please cheer me up.

No point in my getting a kindle as most if not all US and UK releases are "unavailable in my country."
Nice.
Like nobody here reads English.

KU?

Kickstart University?
Sorry, ;) but no idea what it means.

Riding the wave...COWABUNGA!!

"Quash." Isn't that a lovely sound? It sounds like what it is.

Two phrases that cause a knee-jerk reaction of dislike, even today. I came across one in an old book from the 1950s just this morning.

"Morning comes early" and "Tomorrow's another day."

It's like, "Thank you Mrs Obvious!" Even as a kid I felt that way. Also because adults (particularly mothers and other women) used it to quash your fun and send you to bed. There was always this sort of implied menace about "morning comes early"...well "menace" isn't what I mean, but it was like "you're such a stupid little kid and when morning comes you will be unprepared for it and suffer for it." They always said it in the context of "stop what you're enjoying doing now and go to bed."

I remember often hearing a criticism that "So and So is a real going concern--he's always "going" to do something and never does."

Groovy wrote: "My friend called me on the Tadlephone, that's who..."

Would that be Sally Mander?