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.

Doctor, Doctor! It hurts when I do this!
So don't do that!

Doctor, Doctor! I have a pain here, and here, and here, and here!
Your problem is, your finger's broken.

Ohhh Doggy now I have an earworm: "Doctor, Doctor gimme the news, I gotta bad case of lovin' you. No pills gonna cure my ills, I gotta bad case of lovin' you."

I hate you.

That goes on the joke thread! LOL

I'm making myself a Totoro-themed tote bag. Got the basic idea from Youtube but the lady there used fake fur which I didn't want. DH told me "take your time, think it out, don't get in a hurry" and he was so right. I've been mulling over the design of the actual bag construction and it's gonna be good. Just struck me today to put some pockets in the lining for my keys, mobile etc so they don't go down to the very bottom and have to be dug for. Originally I was going to use some prequilted bedspread type scraps for lining, but it struck me, talking it over with DH, that the scraps are deep red...put them in water, and yup--they started to bleed dye. Would have ruined my project! I wanted a closure of some kind but am not in love with Velcro...just realised I have a metal zip I took out of a garment that is the ideal length!

Why is it hard to carry on a conversation with a goat?
Because they are always butting in.

And here's one for Doggy:

""Doctor, Doctor I feel like a goat".
"How long have you felt like that"?
....."Since I was a kid".

boom boom

Yesss. One of the reasons I have resisted the whole smartphone/Wassap thing until now is that I know some students will use it to bail at the last possible second, so they don't have to actually call or text me.

Now the lady in question is off to the beach so instead of coming in person she wants me to do the review via email. And she will complain about the price.

Groovy wrote:
On another note, I really don't like the new Goodreads' homepage. If it ain't broke why fix it? Now I'm going to have to get used to navigating. And I really don't want to se..."

After the last bout of changes before this one, I bookmarked my group-pages and just go to them, ignoring the GR "homepage" entirely. I get friend reviews via email, so they're all in one place--the place I chose for them.

I am that oddity, an un-fan of watching the Olympics. The only time I really sort of enjoyed them was when Arnie Schwarzenegger won all those medals for weight-lifting (and we know now, he was chock-full of steroids). But as I got older I found that in my mind I ran every mile, swam every length, jumped every hurdle--and ended up exhausted.

That reminds me of the lion who came upon 2 men as it was searching for food - one was a reader and the other was a writer. Do you know which one he chose to eat?
The reader, of course, because reader's digest and writer's cramp.

Pompous interview on Radio 4, just now: "This is fortunately not common, but it is not uncommon."


Well? Which is it?

"I'll call you." To set up something they want, that is supposedly important to them. And then they don't.

This is with reference to a former student who is acting head of the biology department at the university. She had me hanging around all day waiting for that call, for something she wanted help with. Did you call me? Because she sure didn't.

I'm here, any time after 2 PM CET, until the next morning at 10. But no, I will not chase you down.

(Yes, I know she probably either got someone else to do it or changed her mind. But I'm tired of getting jerked around. It's been happening a lot lately. Sometimes I think somebody stamped "USE ME" on my forehead.)

Can you Bear another round of puns, Honey?

Oh Pooh--of course I can, my little Piglet!

HRHDogMatix [True] King of the month wrote: "And what do you call a Bear with too much facial hair?

BearD"

No, Bear-d is what you call a bear that's been shaved!

True story that happened to a friend's niece and her daughter:

The little girl was very upset to be in church that day.
Her mother reminded the daughter that this was God's house. She told her mother that it wasn't God she disliked, it was church.

A teacher brings in a test tube of alcohol and drops a worm in it. The worm promptly dies.
"What does this tell you, " he asks his students.
A hand shoots up to answer.
"Yes? " allows the teacher.
"It says if you drink alcohol you'll never get worms, " the student proudly replies.

Yeah. On the economic side, it's not going to be any fun at all. I shall have to play the game. Ugh. "The game" consists of no treats or extras...if I get to the end of the month with 20 Euros in hand, I break even. Anything over that means I win. I seldom win.

Last church service till Sept 4. I am officially on vacation, as I have no classes slated for the month. Anyone who wants to get in touch can find me here after 2 PM CET.

Here's another "joke"--just bought a battery-operated pencil sharpener. Packaging, instructions, and the object itself feature huge warnings that you should NOT stick your finger in the hole and then push the "sharpen" button!!
Duh, duh, duy duh--whoda thunk it?

They were all wildcats anyway!

And the elephants accused the chimps of blacklegging during the PU (pachyderm union) strike.

He ran away because they were paying him chicken feed.

During a financial downturn back a while, there was a joke going around – what’s the difference between a bird and a yuppie?
Ans: Only the bird can leave a deposit on a BMW