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.

If you lose your hearing, is it ear replaceable?

If a tin showing a picture of peas is a tin of peas, and a tin with a picture of peaches in syrup contains peaches in syrup, what’s inside a tin showing a picture of a laughing baby ?

Calling guacamole "guac" is just gross. It sounds like someone hawking before they spit.

This is just for fun. Somebody posted all these palindromes on another website and I thought y'all might enjoy them. A palindrome is a word or sentence that reads the same backwards and forwards.

I, man, am regal – a German am I
Never odd or even
If I had a hi-fi
Madam, I’m AdamT
oo hot to hoot
No lemons, no melon
Too bad I hid a boot
Lisa Bonet ate no basil
Warsaw was raw
Was it a car or a cat I saw?

Rise to vote, sir
Do geese see god?
“Do nine men interpret?” “Nine men,” I nod
Rats live on no evil star
Won’t lovers revolt now?
Race fast, safe car
Pa’s a sap
Ma is as selfless as I am
May a moody baby doom a yam?

Ah, Satan sees Natasha
No devil lived on
Lonely Tylenol
Not a banana baton
No “x” in “Nixon”
O, stone, be not so
O Geronimo, no minor ego
"Naomi,” I moan
“A Toyota’s a Toyota”
A dog, a panic in a pagoda

Oh no! Don Ho!
Nurse, I spy gypsies – run!
Senile felines
Now I see bees I won
UFO tofu
We panic in a pew
Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog!
Go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog

Dear Goodreads: Stop sending me invites to some mythical reading challenge. I do not need to be "challenged" to read. Some people do, I guess, but I have never been one. I taught myself to read at age 3. So far in 2017 I have read 57 books, and that's just since Jan 1.

I'm not bragging, I'm just telling you. Maybe your bots will read this post and get the message.

Don't string me along! You're a shoe-in to win!

Everytime I see a math story-problem, to me it looks like this: if I have 10 ice cubes and you have 11 apples, how many pancakes will fit on the roof?

answer: Purple because aliens don’t wear hats

Yeah, and often in the 80s they had this thing where supposedly you could "post" your letters and cards at your hotel. You gave them the stamp money and they were supposed to send them for you. Not one of the cards I sent from a hotel ever actually arrived; the receptionists were pocketing the cash and tossing the cards, I guess. Sounds stupid, because each card was not much money, but in a hotel if you do it over and over it would soon mount up.

Here in Spain letters marked "urgent" that pay the special (expensive) rate tend to take longer than normal delivery so...

"Post-haste." I know it means as fast as poss...but where does it come from I wonder! As fast as a post?

True story: once in our only local Indian restaurant, the waiter heard DH and I speaking English so he took our order etc in English. When dessert time came round, I ordered chai masala and he asked me how I liked it. Without thinking, I responded, "I like my chai the way I like my men: hot, strong, sweet, and black!" He made this sort of gasping noise and retired post-haste to the kitchen.

There was silence for a moment and then everyone in the kitchen bellowed with laughter. When the chai masala came, there were two chocolates on the saucer!

Could be that!

Another phrase that always gives me a chuckle is, "Give it some welly!" meaning "put your back into it!"

mrbooks wrote: "well how about that at least they tell you finished the book I don't even get those messages."

I think I get them because I read more than any sensible human being. So far this year I'm at 55 since Jan 1.

That doesn't make me particularly special--I just sleep really badly.

Cha! How can you say that! It's all a storm in a teacup!

Oh I do! I often review books I didn't finish, to let people know why I found it unfinishable. Some say that you "have no right" to review a book you didn't finish--oh really! I just figure if a friend of mine asked me about a book I didn't like enough to finish, what would I say? And that's what I tell em! No need to be excessively rude or anything,but clear. If the author is a friend, maybe he or she needs some constructive criticism so they can do better or rework what they've got. Cheerleading isn't going to help if they're putting all their effort into riding a dog.

mrbooks wrote: "Columbia gold, black gold Texas tea..."

"California is the place you wanna be!"

mrbooks wrote: "It might be a nice sounding word, but I don't think it's so nice to be named after a berry. In saying that I was named after a German shampoo my mother liked when I was born."

Or a book in the Bible...or a plant. (I'm assuming it's Timothy. I'm probably wrong.)
Huckleberry probably wasn't his real name, but a nickname. "I'm your huckleberry" was an expression to mean "I'm just the man you need for the job."

Known to her friends as Columbia Gold!

It's a nice sound, isn't it!

Groovy wrote: "Was her name Java The Hut?"

That's a good name for a coffee shop!