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.

Ohhhh...Chicago. "Hold me now, it's hard for me to say I'm sorry, but I just want you to know."

An inn where the caravans stopped; by extension, a large group of people travelling together. The old caravanserai were built around a large central courtyard where people could leave their camels and still keep an eye on them.

Okay, so this isn't really a "hate"--but I am not overly fond of the adjective "adorable". Puppies are adorable. Some people think babies are adorable (and when baby girls are dressed in tiny frilly flamenco outfits, they are!). But so often I find that women coo "That's adorable" about the silliest things. Like they feel they need to make some kind of noise, and can't think of anything else.

How is a haircut "adorable"? How is my new choice of colour "adorable"? It's pretty close to my natural colour when I had one--mouse.

HRHDogMatix [True] King of the month wrote: "Star Trek, had one disappointing theme running through it, at the start of each programme Captain Slog was mentioned but he never made an appearance"

Duh me--I had to read that twice to get it!

"Caravanserai." A word you never hear anymore but a lovely sound.

Since this is a book forum, I give you the literary angle:
WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?
Plato: For the greater good.
Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.
Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained.

Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out.

Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take.

Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road
gazes across you.
Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

Aristotle: To actualize its potential.

Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-
nature.

In honour of the Olympics, Howard Cosell: It may very well have been one of the most astonishing events to grace the annals of history. An historic, unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt such an herculean achievement formerly relegated to homo sapien pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurence.

Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death. Death kindly stopped for it in the fast lane.

Epicurus: For fun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.

Johann von Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it.

Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain. Alone.

Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast.

David Hume: Out of custom and habit.

Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?

The Sphinx: You tell me.

Mr. T: If you saw me coming you'd cross the road too! I pity the foo' who doesn't!

Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other side.

Chaucer: So priketh hem nature in hir corages.

Wordsworth: To wander lonely as a cloud.

The Godfather: I didn't want its mother to see it like that.

Keats: Philosophy will clip a chicken's wings.

Blake: To see heaven in a wild fowl.

Othello: Jealousy.

Dr Johnson: Sir, had you known the Chicken for as long as I have, you would not so readily enquire, but feel rather the Need to resist such a public Display of your own lamentable and incorrigible ignorance.

Mrs Thatcher: This chicken's not for turning.

James T. Kirk: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before!

Don't get in a flap, chick!

It's all horsefeathers! LOL

Ohh, Groovy...that pun is such a turkey! LOL

HRHDogMatix [True] King of the month wrote: "Maybe, but it would have been Robin Redbreast who started it"

Oh, dude, thanks for the earworm:

"Oh the birds of the air were a-sighin' and a-sobbin'
When they heard of the death of poor Cock Robin..."

I'm not chicken! I'll egg y'all on to bigger and badder puns! Y'all quack me up!

Be careful, somebody might Stork you if you're not careful.

Myself I prefer a bird of prAy.

Groovy, the bag came out OK--the applique motif is less than stellar, but I knew that when I went into it. DH liked the printout side better. Wish there were a way to post photos here. I know some folks know how to imbed them but I don't. Shoot, I don't even know how to get re-reads of a book I've already reviewed to count here. LOL

Seen on a Spanish-language buzzfeed: "I'm going to fall in love with summer, just to see if it will leave."

I remember coming to Spain with my mother and sister. We hired a cabby to drive us round for the ten days we were here. One night we stayed in a Parador, a hotel in the mountains of Jaen. We got there after dark (it was October) and he led us along a path to see the night-view of the valley. The whole way he was chuckling and saying things like "a brave woman is worth three men" etc and we wondered what the joke was. Next morning we went back down the path and realised how very sheer the drop on the other side was!

mrbooks wrote: "There is one I saw when I was in Cornwall and visiting Tintagel. "Tintagel ruins and the Path to heaven" I saw the ruins and yes if your not careful you will end up in heaven. I don't see how they ..."

You suppose the Led Zep guys visited Tintagel before writing Stairway to Heaven?

Naaaah...

That made me laugh! The last travel agency DH worked in before retirement opened in a place that had been a bar. The director liked the decoration (green and white tiles on the wall, which sounds hideous but it wasn't) so he just left it and moved in the desks and chairs etc.

People were so used to having their morning coffee there, they continued to walk in and order up without noticing it was a completely different business. Belly up to the desk and say, "Black coffee and a toasted croissant please!" in spite of all the paperwork and computer terminals and...no coffee machine!

And there were others who would bring DH their mobiles to fix, or ask for office supplies...people are weird.

Well, change comes from within, so they may have to give her some castor oil and wait a bit.

There are place names that always make me laugh, maybe it's the sound or the shape in your mouth as you say them...or maybe it's just me. San Luis Obispo is one of them, I can't say it without a chuckle.

Just so you know....I HATE GR's new homepage layout.