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 happens to a frog's car when it breaks down?
It gets toad away.

I've heard that doghair is the new tweed!

On Eastenders it's usually "luv" (said by men) or "sweetheart" (said by women).

What a sneaker you are, MB, to go back to that topic!

mrbooks wrote: "Wow I actually used a word in the right context for once, will wonders never cease."

Hey MB, how do you feel about being called "luv" or "ducks" by older women? ;P

Holy jumper--for a vicar? LOL teasing you.
Shoot Jane, the pre-wrecked jeans are more expensive than the decent ones.

In Spain, the older generation of workmen like plumbers, electricians etc who come round to fix things used to adress the man they were working for as "maestro"--the master builder on a job, but also "teacher." My husband used to snap back, "Travel agent!" because that is what he was.

Calling someone "maestro" in that context was a sure indication that whoever it was had left school at age 12 or 13 and gone straight to work.

I have to agree. Like someone you're not a close friend of, calling you "girl." Ugh.

Hey Groovy--I just saw a GR review that started with the phrase: "The thing is this (blablabla)." shudder

I hear you! The kind of person who "puts" quotation marks "where they don't belong" as if that were some kind of substitute for italics or underlining or whatever. And USES CAPS!! With "multiple" exclamation! POINTS!!!

Thanks for the chuckle...my upstairs neighbour actually has one...but I don't think she's ever waved it! However the mental image made me LOL till the tears rained down my cheeks, much to DH's bemusement.

Well, crepe! What do you expect? He just bared his sole! Sounds like a laceup to me!

Groovy wrote: "Or their friends give them all 5 stars knowing the book sucks, and that's not helpful either. Because when the reader gets the book based on those glowing statements, then they're very disappointed..."

Excellent point! There's one GR reviewer in particular that if I see they luv, luv, luvved a book--I know I won't like it.

Once again the manufacturers think their customers are stupid...or perhaps they are! I just bought a lipbalm stick. Not only are several ingredients repeated on the same list (for example, they list "carnuba wax" and then further down the same ingredient by its Latin name) but we are also told the stick contains "synthetic beeswax!" Excuse me? If it's synthetic, it's not beeswax. Geh.

Do people still say someone is "dressed to the nines"? Where are "the nines"? And why do we have to dress up that far? LOL

"Unconscionable." Now there's an interesting word. I know what it means...but when I was in highschool, I often heard girls and young women try to come up with a verb for it. "I couldn't conscion that," they'd say! I used it myself on occasion until I stopped and asked myself what I was saying.

Well, yes, but Groovy won't know. They're crepe soled shoes with suede uppers, Groove.

Of course he does, he's a brothel creeper! (MB might get that, otherwise google.)

Un, Deux and Trois were three French cats. One winter day they were trying to cross the river on the ice, when suddenly it cracked and broke.

Un, Deux, Trois cats sank.

Whole business stinks if you ask me. It fits.

I think a lot of voters just couldn't handle the idea of a "first woman pres" right after the "first black pres."

And can we get back to the jokes, now? We need some comic relief that's actually funny!

What would you get if you crossed a vampire with a dwarf?

A creature that sucks blood from your knees.