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.

I always tell people I'm having my happy childhood now!
I remember watching the movie of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" when I was about 11, and the scene at the end where all the girls are running out of the school on the last day of term hit me like a ton of bricks...somehow with the music and all it struck me that it was too late to have a happy childhood, to have a happy family etc. and I cried for hours. My mother finally got out of me what I was so upset about, and for awhile she accepted what I said...later of course she used it against me.

Have you ever carried/read a book to be seen reading it? I mean, yeah--when you were younger, like say on public transport or waiting in an airport, or if someone you wanted to impress was coming over, you'd just happen to leave a certain book in plain sight.

I have known people who do this. Or pretend to have read something and they haven't. And it's something you have read/studied, so you ask them about stuff and figure out they're just mouthing what they've heard other people say.

I do read Golden Age detectives (Ngaio Marsh, Sayers et al) but I guess I had enough "gritty violence" before I was 20 to do me.

After years of counselling, I realised around age 45 that I am no longer afraid of the dark! I told my former counsellor this and she was thrilled. When your worst enemies are members of your own family, you grow up scared.

Well, she told me she's dying, so I don't think I'll hear again. But I sent that message anyway, just in case she can check in without speaking. Sometimes it's important to say it, even if they can't hear.


Another topic: I read reviews of people who say they have depression and other horrible problems. I have it myself, I would be the last to make fun of it. But then you check their favourites and what they're reading, and they're filling their minds with vampires, dystopia, shape-shifters and violence. Serial killers and true crime and I don't know whatall.

No wonder they're depressed. I deal with cyclic depression, and I know that stuff would just bring it on, so I read escapist fluff. Or at least stuff that informs and interests.

She won't be online any more, too busy dealing with it. So I can't even send her little messages of support.

Just heard a dear online friend is dying of cancer. Trying to get my head around that. She has been such a tower of strength to me in the short time we've known each other.

Sorry to be a downer guys but...ouch.

Sometimes I wonder about these DNA tests, though. They always seem to come up with something normal and then something clear out in left field or even impossible. A guy I know of who was born in China and all his people since time, was told that he has Chinese and Mongol blood--and gypsy? No, don't think so. The Rom never made that far, and his people never stepped outside Sichuan until his father went to the States in the eighties, so...

It drives me nuts to hear or read someone refer to "an empty bottle of gin" or "an empty pot of yogurt" etc. It's an empty gin bottle, people! A bottle of gin or a pot of yogurt means there's something inside! If it's empty, it's a pot used for yogurt (yogurt pot) or a bottle used for gin (gin bottle). The use becomes a descriptive adjective.

I have heard this on the news and documentaries and read it in published books. Please!!

"Jiggery-pokery." It may sound like the jiggy, but it isn't. It means nefarious dealings.

I'm just glad you're back, honey.

I had a brush with depression this week--been under a lot of stress and v. busy for two weeks and didn't get enough rest. I actually walked out of church on Sunday--it was just too peopley out there for me.
Fortunately yesterday was a local holiday and it rained !!!! so I lay in bed and watched DVDs and chilled out.

Yeah, I carry my stress in my neck and shoulders. It's been H E double toothpicks for the past couple of weeks and I can feel myself tighten up. It makes my tinnitus worse, too.

Why should you never clean a clock in the kitchen?
Because you'll get ticks all over the table.

I often clean when I'm upset, to work off the adrenalin surge. I don't get mad often, LOL. Once when I was in highschool mom came home from work and found me vaccuuming and said, "WTH happened!"

Descartes is the one who said, "I think, therefore I am." So if he thinks not, he is not!

René Descartes walks into a bar and orders a beer.
Upon finishing it, the bartender asks if he’d like another, to which he replies “I think not” and disappears.

In the sky over a major city, a stork appears, heavily burdened and flying slowly. He flaps his way to the ground in a park, wearily deposits his bundle, and stretches his aching wings.

Out of the bundle pops the unshaven face of an 18-yr-old boy who says sarcastically: "Admit it, dude! You're lost!"

When did "reference" become a verb????

Not to mention "outro." As opposed to intro. Intro is the short form of "introduction." "Outro" is nothing.

Doing something "at one fell swoop." I love that phrase. "Fell" is used to mean "dark, evil or bad" but here it means "all at once." Never hear it anymore.

I have had a couple of days where I was thoroughly PO'd. This led to my doing heavy cleaning I've been putting off...Got a lot done at one fell swoop, but now my back muscles hurt because I'm not used to it!

I saw a documentary called After the Diary that said Mr Frank was already being blackmailed by someone before they went into hiding, which was why their going was so sudden, before their plans were complete. They said he was the person who sold them out to the Grunpolizei. It's possible that the people who broke into the office twice were aware of something, as well.

I've always had my suspicions of Van Maaren as a Nazi informer, myself.

Groovy wrote: "The actual Anne Frank, that's nice:)"

It's on YT too. Rare footage of Anne Frank, it's called.