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.

Alright, everyone – read this aloud

One hen

Two ducks

Three squawking geese

Four Limerick oysters

Five corpulent porpoises

Six pairs of Don Alverzo’s tweezers

Seven thousand Macedonians in full battle array

Eight brass monkeys from the ancient, sacred crypts of Egypt

Nine apathetic, sympathetic, diabetic, old men on roller skates with a marked propensity towards procrastination and sloth

Ten lyrical, spherical, diabolical denizens of the deep who haul stall around the corner of the quo of the quay of the quivery, all at the same time

(Background …According to Wikipedia this test was given “cold” (without an opportunity to warm up) to prospective radio announcers to demonstrate their speaking ability at Radio Central New York in the early 1940s.)

I have no idea if that is true but I love it anyway.

We plan a late lunch or early tea/dinner, with prawn salad, white asparagus and hard-boiled eggs (DH's fave). Have to sit up till late because of the firecrackers (there are a preponderance of Chinese neighbours in our area) but Spanish TV's way of seeing the new year in is pretty darn dull so it will be DVDs for us. I don't want to sit and watch two aging "celebrities" chatter about nothing until midnight, which is what they usually do.

Ladies, ladies! Read Message 477, where I said I would start the 2019 chat thread--but you gotta wait for New Year!! It's still 2018!!

Spent yesterday proofreading a science article for publication. They are so gonna have to do more than that!! I am no botanist and I realised they really didn't have anything new to say.

I agree with you whole heartedly, my beloved Patricia! I did enjoy the camera work, India being a beautiful place, but he came across to me as a PRAT, especially when he claimed to know more about Bengalese cooking than his guides!!
Most excellent to see you again and any contributions will be received with cries of gladness by all here.

Particularly as "nice" meant "picky" to Will, or at the very most "well made." LOL

BTW I know it's my turn to start the 2019 Chat thread, since we can't depend on MrBooks and no one else seems to contribute anyway.

I am really enjoying our version of Christmas. Here in Spain the 24th is the big day for some reason. I made a curried duck roast with roast potatoes which refused to get brown and crunchy. Ah well.
I became curious about my recipe, which is good, but I began to think. The book I got it from is Rick Stein's India, which came out when spice rubs for "pulled pork" and such were all the rage. None of my Indian cookbooks or websites talk about roasting whole birds or other critters; rather things are usually cooked in a sauce. I toddled off to do a little websearch of your actual blogs and websites made by your actual Indian people.

Guess what? "Kerala roast" duck or chicken is not actually roast, but fried and then finished off in a sauce.

I was right. Stein adapted an authentic idea to his own preferences and palmed it off as a "traditional Keralan dish." Which it is not.

This gives me an excuse to buy another duck and experiment.

Gosh, Groovy--hope you're OK! That post sounds kinda down.

Absolutely Geat, couldn't be better!

A welcome invader if ever there was one!

Heeey Miss Patty! Good to see you in here!! Hope you are well.

"We've passed your feedback on to our developers."

Which, sadly, means just nothing. It doesn't mean the developers (whoever those people in the shadows may be) will read the feedback, take in on board, or do anything with/about it. In fact most likely nothing will happen at all. Kind of like making a suggestion to my boss, back when I had one. She'd say, "Oh, okay, thanks for your input" and that would be all.

It drives me nuts when you're watching a live show of theatre or skating or whatever, and every 15 seconds they're cutting to a member of the audience. People, I don't want to see the spectators, I want to see the show!! Especially when it's something like special acrobats or whatever--let me see what they're doing, not how some Average Joe or Jane feels about it!! It's so annoying, especially when something happens on stage but since they're focussing on somebody in the audience, all you get is the gasp. What Happened???

Many engineers are lonely, as we know, Groovy.

Back along there somewhere we began a discussion of human body parts that have found their way into the language to describe the world around us. We talked about the brow of a hill, a neck of the woods etc. Here are others I have thought of:

An ear of corn
A head of lettuce
A head of steam (where did that come from?)
The eye of a needle
In the teeth of the evidence (since when does evidence have teeth?)
A chest of drawers
The spine of a book
And most interestingly, a "knee" of cypress. Not the island, the plant.

Lexie wrote: "Any band with a Latin name can't be all bad!"

I don't know how many times I've had to explain the lyrics of "Whiter Shade of Pale" to confused Spanish men of a certain age. LOL

Not forgetting Procol Harum!!

Anybody here remember "Rapper's Delight"? Came out the summer I first came to Spain and even made it over here.

"Ho-tel, mo-tel, Holiday INNNNNNN!"

The little white smalltown Midwesterners in the Regent's tour group couldn't believe their ears, not even those from Iowa City, aka Sin City!

Usually I don't have to wonder. Do they still make Irish Spring soap? One sniff and I am back in the dorms during my freshman year at college, hearing "Pop Music" by a band called M.

"New York, London, Paris, Munich--everybody talk about mmmpop music! Talk about! Pop music!"

That sad little ditty would grow up to be what we know as rap, though fortunately not at the hands of M.

Went out this morning and spent some mad money on a bottle of Lush's "Amelie Mae" perfume. It reminds me of something but I don't know what! Not a smell, but a place or an event.