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.

Be careful y'all don't eat too much, you might find yourselves in the Cal-zone!

Here's a phrase I'm actually ambivalent about:
"By and large." Where did it come from, I wonder?

By is a preposition. Large is an adjective. "By and large"?
By what?

Tis puzzling.

Not to mention uxorious!

You telllin' me Groovy's got a flat, mate?
Don't get too pumped up about it, I got it! LOL

Trisha wrote: "Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya! You killed my father. Prepare to die."

Inconceivable!

Pizza days were big days, in highschool you were allowed a double main dish for 20 cents or a double lunch for fifty.

*swoon*

Oh yeah...Midwestern food was bland enough in the 60s and 70s but when they cooked institutional meals, it was horrible! Lots of potato flakes, lots of bread, and that awful "sunshine salad" (jello with grated carrots in it).

Not a joke but a real ocurrence: on the bus, a young mum talking to her own mum about the lunches offered at her child's preschool. She was incensed because the kids were fed lentil stew followed by yogurt!! "Because after all, the yogurt just eats up all the iron in the lentils!"

The mental picture her language created had both DH and me trying hard not to laugh because after all, we weren't supposed to be listening in!

"Palindrome." Meaning a word or phrase that reads the same backwards and forwards, like Eve or "Madam, I'm Adam."

You'd think they would have made a word that IS a palindrome to describe the phenomenon, but they didn't.

Yup, EVE is a palindrome--lovely word! Can be read both ways. In Spanish the word is "capicua". Makes me laugh because surely the word for a palindrome should BE a palindrome?

"Madam, I'm Adam" is a palindrome, too.

My mother was always saying she "just about had a conniption." Originally, like in the 18th century, I believe it was a stroke.

Then of course in the seventies people began "having kittens" or in extreme cases, "she had a cow."

Who is Christian Bale? (scampers off to google)

Oh yes, Kipling refers to "the egregious Beetle" in Stalky & Co.

"I saw Esau,
He saw me.
The fact is, we all three saw.
For I saw Esau,
He saw me,
And Kate saw I saw Esau."

(from the play, DIRTY WORK AT THE CROSSROADS OR TEMPTED TRIED AND TRUE. First highschool play I ever attended, I must have been about nine, and I've never forgotten it.)

We've discussed "egregious" previously somewhere on this thread, too lazy to page back through the whole thing. In French and Spanish it's still a compliment, it means "of long standing" in the good sense, with a long and admirable tradition.

Here's another word Colin Firth taught me to say right: "implacable." All my life I have been saying it in my head as "im-play-cable." He says "im-plaque-able". He's a trained British actor, working on a period film, if he'd said it wrong somebody would have called him on it.

What we call French toast, they call "lost bread" because you dip it in the egg and it's "lost."

There's a story of a famous Paris chef being invited to a NY millionaire's hunting expedition. The rich guy enjoyed making pancakes for the crew the first day, and watching him flip them in the air the chef beamed and said, "Tiens! Crepes sauvages!"

And eating and running is known in England as "taking French leave" while in France and Spain it's known as "saying goodbye the English way."

Groovy wrote: "Did ya'll know what kind of man Boaz was before he got married? Ruthless

I don't know if I'm Abel to keep this up:)"

You know why Adam and Eve were chucked out of the garden? Because after the Apple Incident they really started raisin' Cain!

The apple wasn't the problem, though...it was the pair underneath.

They say that if Adam and Eve had been Chinese we'd still be in Paradise because they would have left the apple alone, and eaten the serpent!