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.

Here's one for Frenchie and anyone else who can read it (with apologies for my orthography, or the lack thereof).

Qu'est-ce que l'ange Gabriel a dit a la Sainte Vierge?
"Je viens pour l'annonce."

(Je sais, c'est trop idiot!)

Glad to have you back, beauté. We've missed you.

mrbooks wrote: "Oh please tell her, if nothing else it would make here aware of the proper choice of words. "

She'd probably come back with a very snarky message asking me how I know what it really means! LOL

Well, for young folks today, if you say something and they mean, "I absolutely agree! That's right!" they say "Word!" or "Word up!" as if to say, "Those are true words."

I'm going to lower it even farther. I've been reading period noir fiction again:

and kids' books:
due to insomnia.

Another one is "here here!" as an exclamation of approval instead of "hear, hear!" meaning "Word!"
The exclamation "hear hear" can still be heard in the British Parliament sessions; it means "listen to that guy, he's right!" and when they do it, they draw it out so it's this low rumble of approval.

Helllooooo there!
Hope you all had a safe and fun NYE.

"Loose" instead of "lose". Lose is a verb, loose is an adjective.
Lately on the Internet I see a lot of people writing that something is "do to" something else, instead of "due to." On a serious, professional website!!

Did crack me up when I got an email from an otherwise strait-laced acquantaince (strait means tight or narrow!), telling me that she watched a certain movie (can't remember which one) and it made her "ball all night." I'm sure she meant "bawl", and I'm sure she'd be ever so offended if I told her what she actually said! LOL

They apparently never served the order. I'm gonna wait until about the 12th and then have one of my students order it for me. Book Depository ES did have the best price--guess now I know why.I haven't been charged, so I'm afraid to reorder in case they bill me twice or something silly like that.

Thanks Groovy. You live up to your name. I know--I'm a child of the 60s.

Flo, you and me both. I need a better year. Tired of this particular knife's edge I've been dancing on.

Be safe, friends, and as happy as you can. We will be awake to see the new year in, I'm sure--my neighbours really love their firecrackers and assorted explosions. I am not at my chirpiest for some reason but I do get reading done if nothing else!

Gotta be pretty high, to stalk a bean. Unless it's a human bean. And even then.

(sorry. two hours of sleep last night.)

Nobody knows the truffles I've seen!
(Thank you, BJ Hunnicutt!)

Back to the jokes...
A snowman walks into another snowman’s ice cream shop, and he says, “I’d like a snow cone, please.” The snowman behind the counter replies, “Just a minute. Let me get some snow out of the back.”

"Love means never having to say you're sorry." Love Story
...one of the biggest jokes of the 1970s.

8. No one has seen the back of their neck or the top of their own head without the help of at least 2 mirrors.

A 87 year-old man went to the doctor to get a physical.
A few days later, the doctor saw the man walking down
the street with a gorgeous young lady on his arm.
A couple of days later, when the old man had an
appointment with the doctor again, the doctor said,
"You're really doing great, aren't you?"
The man replied,
"Just doing what you said doctor,
"Get a hot mama and be cheerful."
The doctor said, "I didn't say that!...
I said you have got a heart murmur. Be careful!"

mrbooks wrote: "I tried it is like walking on an iceberg playing a song Slip sliding away"

Oh dude--earrrwoorrrrmmmm....I hate you! :P

"Don't cuss the climate; it probably doesn't like you any more than you like it." The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel

mrbooks wrote: "Ice see you are going around in circles with this."

Feeling a bit frosty, MrB?