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.

They were a little too open in the eighties, now they're closing down tight.

Shoe, honey, don't boot him, he means well. I'm too busy scarfing down my breakfast to be short(s) with him.

I can never remember to button my lip, though.

Groovy wrote: "Should we just zip it then?"

You need to be more elastic!

"Do you need anything?"
"Yes; I need you to hold me close and promise me you'll never leave me."
"I meant...from the supermarket."

Serling, Taylor...potato, potahto.

Three hours of sleep last night. Cut me some slack. LOL

Groovy wrote: "I Yetta you won't say that to his face.

One more movie blurb:

The Martian--2 hours of my life I'll never get back."


Should have watched The Time Machine with Rod Serling...then you could have!

I feel the same way about the 1979 version of Superman. It only cost a dollar in those days and we felt cheated out of 99c.

HRHDogMatix wrote: "The Yetti: just too abominable for words"

Is the female of Yeti, Yetta? That would explain a lot...if you're jewish...(TV sitcom joke).

I've just finished listening to the audio CD of Pride and Prejudice, and I have to say I never liked Elizabeth Bennet much; she always seemed as arrogant as she accuses Darcy of being, passing judgement on everyone and always seeing herself as their intellectual superiors! Yet listening to it, I could see how the characters evolved, and when I realised that most of the characters are actually in their late teens and early twenties, it made a lot more sense. Elizabeth is "not yet one and twenty" and her sisters are younger; we aren't told how old Bingley is, though at the end we find out that Darcy is 28--making Lizzy that "half the man's age plus seven" held so dear in the old days.

The Invisible Man: Nothing to see, really.

It's so nice to know we're not alone. From a SW game site, this comment: "Trying to fit plants into groupings by their formations seems a little vexing at times. (Vexing? I've been reading too much Dorothy Sayers.)"

I feel you, fellow reader.

British made, I think. Martin Landau and Barbara Bain. 1975-6. Two whole seasons, just like The Persuaders! which I loved.

Anybody remember the old TV show, "Space 1999"? Even in the late 70s it was pretty naff. Basically Doctor Who meets Department S, with huge clunky digital watches. By then we supposedly would be living on space stations and claiming other planets to pollute I guess.

Groovy wrote: "Whatever pronunciation turns you on, Orinoco--LOL!

Here's one: Surfeit. Never heard this word used in my life. It means an excessive amount of something. As in, "My, you have a surfeit of DVD's." ..."

I have been known to use it in writing, though not in speaking (as again, I'm not sure how to pronouce it! LOL). One year some English acquaintances sent me a Christmas pud that I thought was fruit bread. Accordingly, I toasted a slice, buttered it, and ate it with a cup of very strong coffee, for breakfast--and nearly died of surfeit! Or so I wrote to a friend, heehee.

I just came across another word I mispronounced for most of my life, having only read it and never heard it said.

"Desirous." I know the root is Desire, but for some reason I always pronounced it DESirous, to rhyme with Desert!

Two teenagers walk into homeroom very late. The teacher asked the first boy, "What happened? Why are you so late?" He answered, "Oh I'm so sorry, I overslept. I was having a wonderful dream about visiting all the exotic countries of the world."
"What about you?" the teacher asked the second boy.
"Oh, I had to go to the airport to pick him up!"

He didn't rise to the occasion, eh? Well you don't knead a low roll-er like that!

That took crust, Groovy! But he was a crumb who wouldn't spend any dough on a lady.

mrbooks wrote: "violent vegetables, He practices throttling other veg, his name is Arty choke"

Mr books, Go to Youtube and pull up "Carrot Juice is Murder" by the Arrogant Worms. You'll enjoy it. Particularly the one with the animated vegetables.