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 suppose because to whoever created it, calling it "French" sounded real classy, since Paris is supposedly the centre of the fashion world. Think about it, calling it a "New York Manicure" or a "Chicago Manicure" just wouldn't have the same ring.

I posted this on another thread but Groovy pointed out they're jokes and belong here.

Who was the smallest man in the Bible?

It's either Bildad the Shuhite (shoe-height)
or
the man who fell asleep on his watch.

Vegetarians can, vegans wouldn't because they are only half-baked and think cheese is a gateway substance that might lead to...bacon!

Not a "love" as such, but interesting. Americans talk about the "French manicure"--white tips, glossy sealer coat, poss decoration. For a long time I wondered what the French call it, if indeed they do it. We watch a lot of French TV, and some of it of course is US-made series dubbed into French. I was amused to catch a bit of a US hospital drama in which one doctor tells the other something like, "That French manicure is really nice." In French, c'est un French Manicure! Just like that--they don't have a word for it at all!

So yeah, it's not French. We knew this. LOL

"Serendipitous."

Spain doesn't "get" bacon. Bacon should crisp up when fried, not lie there flabby and basically a piece of pork belly. But then it's never smoked here. They don't smoke anything in S. Spain and a pain it is, too.

Grits....golly I miss cheese grits. And hominy. Fried hominy with bacon and onion....I could weep.

Jane Jago wrote: "On a related theme, men that refer to 'the wife'. Might as well talk about the table or the dog!"

Or "the little woman!" You don't hear that so much anymore. "'Er indoors" makes me grind my teeth. In the US it was "my old lady". That divided generations...for the seventies crowd your old lady was your "woman" (not married to, but sleeping with) while for the older folks "my old lady" was your mother,.

"Indubitably!" Another good one.

Or when it quits entirely/starts acting really erratic and all the virus sweeps etc don't help. I usually have to get a new one when the old one simply won't start, but then in our hot summers a lot of things give out all of a sudden--cars, computers, people...

Hello back, my Groovy friend! Cuz you are!

And there's a word I like. But I prefer it spelled 'cos.

'Cos why? Just 'cos.

(Or as they say in Spanish, "porque sí." Because yes!)

Yup. Once in awhile I trip up on things like that, because most Iowans think the way they talk, think or vote is the only right way.

Yeah I know but here, it's in context! ;P

Another one I really dislike: I've been re-reading Modesty Blaise. I really, really dislike when an author says a man "possesses" a woman to mean having sex. Ugh. Nobody owns me or my body except Jesus, and he's not into me "that way."
Granted the book was written in the sixties but still. That same person writes romance novels under a woman's name, maybe that's his problem. (I sussed that out way before I discovered that Peter O'Donnell was also Madeleine Brent--way too much attention to details of clothes and furnishings for your standard James-Bond-type action novel.)

Groovy wrote: "Oh, I forgot my phrase: Not so much as hate, but it's really annoying, "Not on my watch." I don't know why it annoys me, but it does!!

I prefer: "As long as I can do something about it.""

Who was the smallest man in the Bible? The one who fell asleep on his watch.

Either him, or Bildad the Shuhite (shoe-height).

"Fictional novels", as seen used in far too many GR blubs. Not the reviews, no. The blurbs--which are so often lifted from the jacket.
A novel is by definition fiction. So a fictional novel would be like a dead cadaver.

The standup version is funny, but no singin'. ;)

"Supposititious". A word I read for many years in books like Jane Austen's before I ever heard it pronounced, and realised I'd been pronouncing it wrong. A problem I also had with "abhorrent" until I heard Colin Firth say it. My first reaction (Iowa girl!) was "that's not right!" until I realised hey, he's a classically-trained English actor--it is.

Plenipotentiary......not for the meaning, just the sound.

Along with impunity!

Along with "Felicitations!"
Doesn't that sound more elegant than "congratulations"?

Groovy, MrBooks--do you remember the comedy song "Here's Your Sign"? I got it in the head the other day. I looked for it on Youtube but could only find the standup version, not the song they played on the radio back when.