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: "I'm not one to gossip

Well if you start out with that you obviously are."

"I'm just saying this to help you..." No you're not. You're saying it to hurt me, or to make yourself feel superior to me.

Groovy wrote: "That's just another Graze Anatomy story..."

Graze Anatomy? That's what picky cannibals do at a buffet.

Enid Blyton wasn't all that stuck on kids, either.

I remember my sister's bestie made up a joke about that in highschool.

These cowboys are having a cattledrive to Dodge. Suddenly there's a stampede. All the cows fall over and lie there kicking. The bulls can't run straight but they keep going. One looks at the other and says, "We bulls wobble, but we don't fall down."

I remember as a kid hearing the librarian speak of Theodore Geissel (sp?) and wondering who that was--it was my beloved Dr Seuss! My favourite was the Birthday Bird.

Was it? Okay, I only ever saw the posters, mustn't have been paying attention. Dear old Anthony Newley, v. underrated in the US. I thought he was the last possible word when I was about 10.

Though healthy otherwise, kid never speaks. Soon after he’s turned four, at breakfast he suddenly pushes his plate away and says, “The eggs are cold.” The parents are amazed. The father says, “You can talk! Why didn’t you ever speak before?” Kid says, “Well, up till just now, everything was just fine.”

Gail wrote: "Groovy wrote: "Tell the world to stop! I want to get off!
(I forgot who said it:)"

That's my problem... I forget who said the quote... So here's my favorite... A little heavy... But not really...
..."
Rogers and Hammmerstien had a musical called "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off" but I don't know if they originated the phrase or not.

We're really going out on a limb.

He was barking up the wrong tree.

What do you call two poisonous snakes on the hood of a Volkswagen? Vindsheild Vipers!

And vice versa!

Groovy wrote: "No one is going to get this one:

A bartender walks into a horse stall. The horse asks, "Why the normally proportioned human face?""

I did though! But then I like Dylan Thomas, who wrote of "the duchess-faced horse."

Groovy wrote: "I've been going through a lot, lately. And whenever I need to laugh, I'm going to think of that joke:) I would love to hear you "turn the air blue in three different languages", that's so cute. I h..."

Feel free to use it. To splendiferous, add "splendiloquent." It comes from the play, The Miracle Worker. Annie puts on smoked glasses and the blind children ask her how she looks. She replies, "Splendiloquent! Like a racehorse!"

He's saying it was a rough ride. She's agreeing, it was for her too.

I know, and the cover could be the "lid", but i meant about hiding "golden treasure." Books are my treasure chests. Of course, a huge number of promising "chests" are also full of dross--even some that have achieved classical status.

Groovy wrote: "Orinoco, thank you so much for that still hilarious joke. I've been feeling kind of down all day, then I read your joke. And every time I think of it, I burst out laughing--oh my goodness! "

Then my work here is done! *takes bow*

Really, though, I know what a blessing a good laugh is. And how hard we laugh when we really need to--over the silliest things! It's a great de-stresser. A few years back I was going though quite a crisis time in my own life. One morning I was taking in the laundry from the lines in the airspace and as I turned back into the utility space, banged my head smartly on the window frame! Oh that hurt! But instead of turning the air blue in three languages as usual, I heard myself say in this little-girl voice, "Jiminy!" Which is not a word I use. For some reason it struck me funny and I laughed so hard tears poured down my face--my neighbours must have thought I'd finally lost it. For several days, every time I remembered it I'd get severe giggles. But it did me good!

Thor the thunder-god went for a gallop
on a golden Filly
"I'm THOR!" he Cried
The Horse replied
"Forgot your thaddle, thilly!"

I know what that riddle refers to, but it could also be a book!

What with one thing and another, we haven't had services this month and won't until Sept 4. So nobody has seen it yet.