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.

Groovy wrote: "Remember--keep your friends close
And your anemones closer"

Oh very good! Well plaiced!

I shoal have a care and be very careful. I'm sure eel behave himself if we don't tease him!

Yup, nothing to blubber about!

Can't help musseling in on the beach bit, I clam what I clam!

I just learned how to tuna fish--you run your fingers up and down the scales.

"It goes to motive, your honour." As heard on courtroom drama TV. I am told real lawyers never say this unless they're very young and watch too much TV.

"(an idea) speaks to the issue of..." as seen in an Introduction to A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay. Ideas do not speak, and issues do not hold conversations.

They can't gull me, though--I prefer the mountains.

Mindless babble annoys me. I use a particular e-card website for birthdays, holidays etc. I found this in my Inbox yesterday as a reminder that it's a friend's birthday:

"Life is busy, times are demanding, yet dear ones need to be wished."

"Need to be wished"?? Remembered, certainly. Sounds like a straight translation from the French, only it's a US website.


Where I come from "wishing" someone meant hanging onto a person who is dying, by pure force of will and emotionYes the person will eventually die but "wishing" them can prolong the agony by hours or days. A few years ago I had a beloved pet that was old and weak and ill, and I realised to my horror I was "wishing" him. I told him (in two languages) in so many words, "You have my permission to die, it's OK, go." A few seconds later, he was gone.

I certainly would not "wish" my loved ones.

How do I get out of this chicken outfit? (and boy did I just date myself!)

Groovy wrote: "I absolutely love it! Even though I wasn't in the mood, you made me laugh!"

That's a job well done, then!

And just in case you didn't get that number:
https://youtu.be/0Cl7TY92rd4

Groovy wrote: "This is a NUMBER phrase I absolutely hate!!!!!

I don't know about other countries, but here in the US, we have commercials that offer services nobody in their right mind would pick up the phone an..."

Just for you, Groovy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN2Wz...

Seen just this morning on a packet of salt-free butter: "Allergy warning: contains milk products." Oh golly, you mean BUTTER has MILK in it? Who'da thunk it!

Or the warning on my new thermos, that states that if you fill it with hot liquids you might burn yourself with them, or that if you tilt it over the liquid inside will spill out.
Golly.

mrbooks wrote: "dammed if you do and dammed if you don't flip a coin it doesn't matter either way."

My mother had an odd way of describing dilemmas: "You don't know whether to (crap) or go blind." Where she got it I have no idea.

And there was her famous description of a bad day where everything goes wrong: "Some days, everything you touch turns to snot."

Yup. "Half-hour" programmes were actually 22 minutes, and "hour" shows were 44. I say "were" because when they hit the rerun circuit they cut subthreads etc to whack in more ad time. When I bought The Cosby Show on DVD I discovered whole subplots had been cut out of the reruns my mother recorded on home video, which was why some remarks didn't make sense when she sent me her old stuff.

I'll duck down--you buzzards will never see me!

Just trying to get you to come out of your shell, Jane...

And if you're not careful you can end up with some real turkeys!

Why did the chicken cross the railroad track, lie down and roll in the mud, and then go back to the other side?

Because he was a dirty double crosser!

Here I was thinking this joke topic would gel, but y'all have got style!