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.

Here in Spain they say a priest is a man everyone calls Father...except his own children, who call him Uncle.

And a nun is a woman who married God because God himself wouldn't marry her!

(Oops...three Our Fathers and three Hail Marys...)

Noah buddy knows the troubles he'd seen!

Yes indeed...it reminds me of Tom Sawyer's Aunt Polly using "a chunk of fire" (ie a live coal) to remove Sid's tooth--by suddenly pushing the "chunk" into his face, so he'd jerk away!

Not so much a love, as a curiosity. My mother tended to elaborate traditional sayings. For her it wasn't enough to "raise cane" which she used to mean be angry or act wild and crazy, she was always saying somebody "was gonna raise cane and put a chunk under it!"

I never did figure out--a chunk of what?

If Adam and Eve had been Chinese we'd be fine; they'd have left the apple alone and eaten the snake!

Instead of that, they picked the wrong thing and were soon raising Cain...

As the pastor said, it wasn't the apple on the tree that created the problem, it was the pair underneath!

Groovy wrote: "That's because plants have all the anthers"

Ohhh girl you are such a pistil!

I tried to make friends with Viney but she's such a clinger, and Rose can be a bit thorny!

I'll just have to leaf the situation to blossom in its own time.

Oh yes, my roots strike deep!

Thistle suprise you--I'vy never felt ferrrn here in Spain!

To go with its rosebud mouth!

The flower children went to seed and became bloomin' idiots.

And I don't do math puzzles.

I think they do, at a grassroots level, even though they might not be best buds!

Said by a native English speaker: "You buttered your bread, now sleep in it!"

I saw an interesting credit on an ITV programme: "Data Wrangler." For a series about adoptions at Battersea Dogs' Home???

Theron wrote: "I like On fait ce qu'on peut: One does what one can. "

There's another version of that, which I like: "Je fais mon petit possible." Means basically the same thing.

Little Kathy took a drink
But she shall drink no more
For what she thought was H20
Was H2SO4.

(Sulfuric acid).

Have we discussed the word "unconscionable"? I do use it...and I began to wonder what the root verb is. Because "changeable" comes from "to change," "cultivable" comes from "cultivate"...and because I obsess over words, aright? When I was young if someone talked about doing something edgy, I would often say, "Oh, I couldn't conscion that!" I said it aloud to a couple of friends who are both university Doctors (physics on the one hand, chemical engineering and psychology on the other--don't ask). They looked at me like O.o and asked me where I got it. Out of my head, I guess!

I used the phrase "I spent an unconscionable amount of money" to one of my conversational students yesterday and got the same look! LOL

I hear you both! A prologue is usually safe, as it's written by the author and forms an integral part of the text...but those intros written by someone else, no thank you.