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.

My mother could be very prissy, but one day she came out with that joke and floored everybody. They were afraid to laugh just at first! That must have been, oh lor', a good 40 years ago now.

Dunno if I've cracked this here and I'm too lazy to go back and check.

How does a mathematician cure constipation?
Work it out with a pencil.

6) they ask Mum for the money to buy her a birthday present...
7)When Mum gives them money to buy something, there is mysteriously never any change...

I have a question. When someone speaks of "the back streets" of a city, what do they mean? The outskirts? Or the inner alleyways that few people know about/use?
I remember a TV ad for the old "Persuaders!" TV series and the voiceover said, "From the French Riviera to the back streets of Naples...(blahblahblah)." I've always wondered where "the back streets" are.

I just found out that there actually is a little animal called a "pack rat." And it does.

Morning all. Busy morning for me, still have 2 days until Twelfth night so my schedule is still crazy. I have 3 sessions this morning, no time to make lunch and DH has important errands to run so it looks like sushi place for lunch! This afternoon no one without a death wish will go downtown (mad buying of presents for the kiddies) so I will stay in and work on the baby quilt.

Can you imagine spending all those hours in makeup--some of the characterisations take almost as long to remove as to put on!

What drives me nuts is when I get a song that I haven't even heard in about 30 years. Wake up and there it is! I mean it's different when a song is popular and wherever you go, shops or whatever, you hear it playing--but to have your brain sell you out with an ancient tune it refuses to stop playing--that's bad.

Thanks Mom--it's behaving itself now *giggles*. Just teasing you.

I was close to the edge anyway, having spent two days listening in my brain to "I Will Not Go Quietly" by Steven Curtis Chapman. Good song, but not forever like that.

"I don't remember being made responsible for anybody's gruntlement!" (Henry Blake in an episode of MASH)

Like so many US tv series, after about the first four seasons they ran out of ideas and started just getting weird. Also Roseanne married that Tom Arnold (from my home area, alas) and just had to put him in the series as Dan's buddy Arnie.

If you buy a US TV series on DVD, don't bother after about season 4. They start repeating themselves, or go clear off into crazy things.

I wanted to edit my first post to thank Frenchie for the link, but the group rules box covered the edit button so I couldn't. If you haven't noticed that big old thing that pops up when you hover over the comment box, you need glasses!

I'll never forget at the end of one episode of "Roseanne" Dan and his mates are sitting around playing poker, and while they run the credits the guys do a rap of the Beverly Hillbillies song! It was so unexpected, and so funny!

Thanks for posting that link, now I know why they do that! Sorry for the double post, but the big "group rules" thing covers the edit button now....

I guess because they're made by the same people who make the fireworks that go BOOM. That's them, all right. (Or rather, "Those are they." Which sounds even worse, LOL). Black Cat makes all kinds of fireworks. When I was growing up it was illegal for regular people to buy/have firecrackers etc in the state of Iowa where we lived; so once or twice a year my father and brother would take a trip to Missouri, the state just to the south of us. About a quarter mile over the state line, the fireworks shops started and there were dozens!

T4bsF (Call me Flo) wrote: "Is it funny in French then?? The "ad" bit, is it short for "advertisement" as it is in English?"

It's a pun in French.

Sorry, I'll go back under my rock now.

"Y'all come back now, hear?"
Oh yes, I remember that. I believe it was Minnie Pearl used to say that at the end of every Hee Haw.
*giggles and runs off*

Apropos of absolutely nothing...I was reading a book last night that mentioned "Snake's Eggs," a kind of firework without the bang that they sold when I was a kid. Does anyone else remember them? It was a round black thing like a cough lozenge and when you set fire to it, it put out a lot of smoke and a long tube of ash sort of "grew" out of it. No bangs, just the "snake." I had forgotten all about that until I read it.

HRHDogMatix [True] King of the month wrote: "I see! so now you're a load of swingers?"

Oh goody, now I have an earworm from the past: "England swings like a pendulum do, bobbies on bicycles two by two. Westminster Abbey, the top of Big Ben, the rosy red cheeks of the little children."