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.

mrbooks wrote: "it might be. Tel me how it is made and I will tell you if it is or not."

There are many versions. You can use leeks or onions, plain broth or with meat bits, but it must contain day-old bread. French onion soup is a form of panades. I'll have to search out my old recipe from when we were first married; we ate more bread then and I made it a lot.

Breathing is good, Groovy!! Good to have you back! Take a few deep cleansing breaths, grab a cuppa something and wade in! We missed you.

Heeey Groovy!! Good to see ya!!

Another pet hate you see online every day: "(Topic): 10 Things You're Doing Wrong."
And then you read the article and discover it's total clickbait. Things a five year old would know, or things that simply aren't true.

Every time you told the plumber's daughter a spicy joke, her cheeks flushed.

Sounds like what I know as Panades.

Oh yes guesstimate--top hate and source of mockery!!

Papa al Pomodoro--The Pope in tomato sauce? That's what it sounds like!

The doctor's daughter was a real case!

MrBooks is doing surgery I guess and Groovy has something to deal with on the home front, so it's just you and me. Don't know what all the other noncom members are up to. Sigh.

Haha!
I am so glad you're back, Emma...it gets lonesome in here.

Proof positive that people no longer read authors who actually know the language: "for all intensive purposes" instead of "to all intents and purposes."

The person was talking about losing belief in Santa, and how they miss that innocence. Of all things.

Thanks honey. We'll be here. I will be.

She was only a bootlegger's daughter...but he loved her still.

Classic theatre gives you great insults that nobody else knows. Try "wittal" or "witling" for "idiot." Or even "fop doodle." My mother (b. 1924) used to use the term "flapdoodle" but this is the original form.

Chap-fallen...which is the look on someone's face when they don't get what they want. Disappointment with a hey-nonny-no.

Flummox, now there's a nice word!! It sounds like someone dropping a huge flan from a great height--flummox!!

It was a great day when I got too tall for my grandma to thump comfortably, I'll tell you that. Apparently according to "Little Women", being thumped like that is known as "being given a thimble pie." Why pie, I cannot tell you.

Groovy, is this an AA thing, or just a women-I-knew thing? The beautiful ladies of colour I knew back home, particularly of a certain age, if someone had let them down or was doing things back asswards, would say "Well, it's not my salvation he's working for." Like, and it's a good thing too. I have a tendency to say it and my DH who is not a believer told me it's harsh. I told him no, it would be harsher if I said, "It's not his salvation I'm working for!"

Surely shortly after? If someone used one on me I'd surely catawaller!

Been reading Epsom-Wells. a Comedy, Acted at the Duke's Theatre. One woman refers to her husband as a "nincompoop", which was a word my grandmother used a lot back in the sixties (along with "saphead!", accompanied by the saphead being thumped on the top of the head by her finger encased in a thimble). A few lines later the same character in the play calls hubby a "lolpoop." That did make me laugh! I had a mental image of someone, well, lolling around in a great big poop!

Just read Eastward Ho! (Which makes me laugh because in England there's a town called Westward Ho!) and now I have to read Epsom Wells. At least it's not "Tis Pity She's a Whore."