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 have a new lovely word. I've been reading Begums, Thugs, and White Mughals: The Journals of Fanny Parkes which is an edited version of a text dating from the 1830s. The editor mentions a word applied to English businessmen of the India Company who "went native", eating Indian food, wearing Indian dress and marrying Indian wives. It was called "chutnification", from the word "chutney."

Love that word! I asked DH if I am becoming "chutnified" and he said that if I were there, I would be. ;)

Laugh-in was "cult" show when I was a kid. All those catchphrases: "Very interesting, but stupid!" "Ve haf vays off making you talk!"
"Fell for the old lookin-up gag!" and "I think I've got it, too!", to name just a few. Not to mention of course "Sock it to me!" repeated as fast as possible.

Frenchie wrote: "Ori, do you have an easy recipe ?"

For that cookie, or for something else? That is really easy, though it doesn't look easy. Cream the butter and sugar with the flour, bake it for 10 min. Beat the eggs and sugar and vanilla, whack in the coconut and nuts with the little bit of flour (helps thicken it), pour it over the hot base and spread it around. Back in the oven for 20 min. Done.
If it were hard I wouldn't bother with it! LOL
I chose that recipe precisely because it's a bar, you don't have to faff around shaping individual balls etc.

Henry ate a worm that was in his apple.
Henry "et" a worm.

That's the thing with knock-knock jokes. They thrive on puns. The dumber, the better.

Groovy wrote: "Frenchie, you must live in a very small town. One bus? Where I live, it's like a hundred:)

Orinoco, hope you can sleep now. Eat a few of those cookies for me:)"

For you, dear. Taking advantage of "whatever" in the title. I recommend pine nuts if you can get them, otherwise whatever's on hand.

CocoNut Bars
Base:
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar or panela
1 cup sifted flour (I used self-raising, makes the cooky lighter)
Mix these together and spread about 1/4 in thick on a greased cooky sheet. (Or use the bottom of a cake pan). Bake at 325ºF for ten minutes. Raise your oven temp to 375ºF. Cover base with topping as follows.

Topping:
2 eggs
1 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 Tablespoons self-raising flour
1/4 teaspoon salt (which I left out quite by accident and we never missed it)
1 1/2 cups coconut
1 cup chopped nuts of your choice (I used pine nuts)

Beat eggs, add brown sugar and vanilla and beat until light and fluffy. Mix nuts and coconut together, add flour and mix well. Stir into egg and sugar mixture and blend well. Pour over base and spread evenly. Bake at 375º for 15-20 min. Cool and cut into bars

Dirty old man on a park bench, sitting next to a young lady says, “Do you believe in the hereafter?” She answers, “yes”.
He replies, “then you know what I’m here after”. She slaps him silly. …… Artie Johnson, Laugh In, 1965 (and a thousand Vaudeville comics before that…..)

Could have slept all morning but the insurance repair guy turned up at 9 AM to treat the mold on the bathroom cieling, so Muggins here got the delightful treat of being whipped out of her basket at 8.30 AM.
Cold, windy day so after I aired the flat (man, that anti-fungal paint will put you away if you breathe enough of it) I made coconut/walnut bar cookies. That way the flat is warm and smells nice instead of like chemicals.

Morning all. Woke up at 4.30 AM and couldn't go back to sleep. Having not gone to sleep till midnight, I am not what you'd call thrilled.

And people ask me how I get so much reading done!

I'm lucky to live in a city with reasonably good bus and taxi service. It's probably better all round that I don't get behind a wheel!

Must have been a real heavy scene! He took that weighty decision a bit too lightly.

MrB, when I was in college a friend had some business-size cards printed up with a twee little border. Some of them said, "Were you forced to park like this, or are you (an SOB) by nature?" and other said, "You are cordially invited to go (entertain) yourself."

Taryn wrote: "Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) wrote: "One of my students is doing a paper on The Snow Queen (the fairytale). She asked her prof if she could do something about "the original version" of Sleepin..."

Should have made clear that I'm in Spain, I guess. She was doing her paper for Eng Lit at university. Did well, apparently.

One of my students gave me a tip yesterday, Frenchie. Your left hand is the one that makes an L with the index finger and thumb. Granted, that's not much help in driving...but maybe for other things!

Groovy wrote: "If you took Geometry together, then your lives have turned 360 degrees..."

You just reminded me of something that could go on "that other thread." A total about-face is 180. If you turn 360, you're right back where you started.

Head-in parking is almost unknown here unless you go to the outskirts of a city where Ikea etc tend to be. If you're going to park at all in the cities of Spain it's paralell every time, even if it's double parked or in a place that's not actually legal for parking in.

Another word that I hear constantly misused on TV is "painful." I watch a lot of those animal rescue/vet shows, and I keep hearing that an animal is "very painful." I know what they mean, they mean the animal is hurting or in a lot of pain. But Painful means "causing pain" as in a painful wound or painful arthritis or a painful situation. It describes the cause, not the sufferer.

Yes, cutting back the chili in curries was one of the hardest things I ever did...but once in awhile I get too much and remember why I had to.

Failed my driving exam in a parked car--it was parallel parked between 2 cars and I never got it out of the space! Oh it made me mad because my "teacher" hadn't taught me that skill--and he parked the car before the exam! Nowadays in the US apparently paralell isn't part of the test. Wouldn't you know.

Yes, my friend comes out in huge, painful hives all over, to the place she had to be hospitalised once--not to mention violent vomiting and horrible intestinal cramps. And that was from a salad that she sent back and was given "a different one"--meaning that the waitress simply took off the kiwis and mixed the rest around a little so it looked like a different salad.

Groovy wrote: "One day YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook will merge and be called YouTwitFace:)"

Love it!! The winnah and still champeen!!