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.

Exactly! If they get the sniffles they're off to the hospital; if you are in bed with flu, you should "just" take some aspirin and get up and out, the fresh air will do you good!

If bread always lands butter side down, and cats always land on their feet--what would happen if you buttered bread and then strapped it on the back of a cat?

Trouble is, Mr Books, that the person is often in all other ways completely agreeable as company. But when you least expect it, they hit you with that "just." I'm not whining; when someone tells me about a problem, I consciously try not to "just" at them; if I have advice to offer, I say something like, "Do you think it would help if you..." But mostly, I say things like, "How dreadful for you!" and try to just offer my friendship and support.

"You should just..." when glibly said by someone handing out free advice on your life. Said someone has never lived in your situation or had the problem you're facing. It's the "just" that really gets me; that and the tone of voice that says "what a fuss you're making about nothing!"

And yet when they have a problem, the roof is falling in and you just don't GET it.

Ah, like the White Queen, who could read words of one letter.

mrbooks wrote: "When is a word not a word ?

When it is a letter"

Huh?

Iongeddit.

Here's a real joke. I just got a text from a UK phone number telling me I won almost 2 million Euros in a prize draw, and to contact a certain Gmail address to confirm.

Boy, how lucky do you have to be to win a drawing you never participated in? In the UK, yet?

What a joke.

Sounds like you have fragile bones! You should watch that, it could be a mineral deficiency.

There's no need to go round and round about this, now.

And if you use a gramophone you risk becoming a parallelogramme.

"out the door" is okay, because without "of" you mean the space. But "out OF the door" means coming from within the door itself, jsut as you take your pen out OF your purse because it was inside what? your purse.

When "Murder She Wrote" first got started, ol' Jessica was supposedly a retired English teacher. And yet the typewriter at the beginning shows her writing, "So-and-so ran out of the door."

If you are putting the phrase "Did I hear you right?" in the mouth of a person in the region where it's normal, there's nothing wrong with that. Now, to put US regional English in the mouth of an English lord in the late 19th century, that's pretty bad. And I have seen it; someone asks a lord what he thinks of his new daughter-in-law and he replies, "I like her fine."

Uh.

Here's another one. I've heard it, yes, but most often see it in books:
"He ran out of the door."
Did he now? Unless he was hiding in a knothole, he ran out of the room, or the house, or he ran through the doorway. He did not run out of a solid object.

And they always think they've got an angle on the problem!

Better than being squares! I always feel so cornered around them...

That's why they call him a turkey--he always chickens out when things get tough.

That'll clip his wings I'm sure.

He should never have listened to The Cranberries.

On a wing and a prayer!

"The oo-ah bird is so called because it lays square eggs."
(Thank you Tom Good!)

Why did the chicken cross the road?

To see the Duchess lay a foundation stone!