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 do miss winter snow, but then I can't drive...and in the Midwest that made a difference! Here in S. Spain the winter is far too mild and warm. Doesn't bode well for agriculture. We did have a brief, very violent thunderstorm last night--I couldn't decide if it was thunder, explosions or what just at first.

These two men are walking through the woods one day and they come across a big hole in the ground. Now this hole is huge, like some sort of endless pit. So the one man says to the other, “I wonder how deep this hole is?”

He then proceeds to pick up a rock and toss it in the humongous hole. They listen… nothing. The other man then grabs a large stick and throws it in…. Nothing.

At this point the two men are really intrigued over this large hole. So they look around for something bigger to throw in, and they come across a railroad tie. They both grab an end, walk it over to the hole, and throw it in.

The men are looking down the hole when all of a sudden they hear this noise in the woods. They look over and see this goat running all over the place. It’s zigging and zagging between trees and going all over the place. Then it runs right up and dives into the hole.

Now the two men are thinking, what the heck was that? They had no idea what that goat was doing. So they decide to just keep walking.

A little ways down they run into a farmer, and the farmer asks them if they’d seen his goat. The two men tell him they saw a goat come running out of the woods and jump into this huge hole. But the farmer says that couldn’t be his, ’cause he tied his goat to a railroad tie.

They say 1 in every 3 people is mentally unstable. So if you have two friends who are perfectly normal...

T4bsF (Call me Flo) wrote: "I was having a couple of salted peanuts and just happened to glance at the ingredients bit. It said, and I quote "PEANUTS, Sunflower oil, salt.
For allergens see ingredients in bold. Also may cont..."

Actually, they post those warnings on the packet ("also may contain") because it means the machines that they used to process the food are also used to process those other things. Some people's allergies are so severe that the merest trace of whatever is enough to make them seriously ill. I have a friend whose body reacts like that to kiwis. A drop of kiwi juice on a dish will make her ill if she eats food from it.

I love it when you buy a package of salad greens and there's this big label: Contains No Gluten Or Cholesterol.
Well, I should think not!

And who dries their hair while sitting in the bathtub? Someone must have done at some point...but really!

Frenchie wrote: "I think my favourite of all favourites is :
''Ok, I'll put the kettle on...."
A dangerous phrase sometimes, as it often includes what Pooh called "a little smackerel of something." When I did the Wales trip I was always hearing it--gained nearly half a stone just from tasting!

FARCEbook.
Because it is.
I graduated from middleschool a long time ago, I don't need to feel that in my head I'm still sittin' at the cool kids' table.

I have heard so often here in Europe about people getting their details "harvested" off Farcebook, if I weren't already against it in principle that would do it for me.

From the looks of policy, I think they're onto the cheap whiskey Frenchie...LOL

Groovy wrote: "Orinoco, what is this word, eejit? Is it Spanish for something?"

Dublin Irish for "idiot." Ee-jit.

Frenchie wrote: "Ori, have you ever worked in Customer Care?
You would not imagine the questions asked... lol"

It's a large, tabletop papercutter--I'm just wondering how they got their toes in past the saftey guard!! And who it occurred to that it was a good idea!!

This isn't a literal joke, but...I finally got a paper cutter yesterday. In the box there was an instruction booklet, and in the book this warning: "This device should not be used to cut fingernails or toenails."

Uh...yeah. Who would have thought?
How stupid have people become?
Because they probably wouldn't put that disclaimer in, unless some eejit had tried it.

Evolution in action.

I would walk 500 miles, then I would walk 500 more...

"Country X has an extraordinarily rich culture..." This is one of those phrases that looks like a compliment but is actually condescending. What it means is, oh look, this country so quaint! Or at the very best, this country is way different from mine and I knew very little about it before I decided/was paid to write this book. Seriously--is there, anywhere, an "extraordinarily poor" culture?

HRHDogMatix [True] King of the month wrote: "Nothing can replace the look, feel, or even smell of a new paper book, but on the other hand, if I had the amount of books I have on my Kindle as paper books, I'd fill a rather large space, so ther..."

Where I live not only do I have very limited space, but the climate is not kind to paper in any form. The paper used for books goes yellowish brown and becomes fragile in a very few years. Also, books are subject to luxury tax of about 30-35%, especially those in English!! Even a battered second hand paperback will run you 10-12 Euros; and that doesn't count a trip to the coastal towns where you can get them, and the fact that your choices are limited to those of the holiday makers who sold them on.

With my ebook I can download a much wider variety and have more books at my fingertips (literally!) than I will probably be able to read in what's left of my lifetime.

For years I thought that song said, "How does it feel when you've got no fool?"

Did you ask how they FELT about it? LOL

Dunno if I've posted this one here and I'm too lazy to read the whole thread, so here goes and sorry if it's a repeater:

Q. Why did the chicken cross the road?
A. To see the Duchess lay a foundation stone!

Don't sweater it!

Being very naughty again, I have several books in progress because I've been a bit moody and it depends on how I feel or the time of day, what I'm in the mood to read.

Wales is populated mostly by sheep. You eat mint sauce with roast lamb.