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.

One from Alfred Hitchcock, no less:

"A man is riding on a train when a second gentleman gets on and sits down across from him. The first man notices the second is holding an oddly shaped package.
"What is that?" the first man asks.
"A MacGuffin, a tool used to hunt lions in the Scottish highlands."
"But there are no lions in the Scottish highlands," says the first man.
"Well then," says the other, "That's no MacGuffin".

Cockney cowboys, who knew...LOL

Don't worry, it's all tripe anyway.

Course you can you silly sausage!

What did the pig learn at self-defense class? Karate Chops.

The Dorothy character in the books is about 9, so yeah. They made Garland wear a bust-band and those ankle-strap shoes to look younger. I've read that no matter what she ordered in the studio commissary they had orders to give her plain chicken broth.

Gail wrote: "During times of war, they especially needed uplifting movies. What am I saying... We always need uplifting movies... And books!"

Yeah, that's what I thought. I guess the studios felt a need to be more "serious" in time of war, for some reason. And yet they fed the populace musicals all through the Depression.

We've been having temps in excess of 106ºF for a week.

It's so hot the minute you take an egg out of the fridge it's soft boiled. Set it on the counter for three minutes and you can shell it and make egg salad.

I exagerrate...but not much. Truth of the matter is, with no exagerration, I got up at 7 AM yesterday, went to the cupboard and reached for a glass. All of them were hot to the touch.

Not quite a century yet! LOL--it was made in 1939. But yeah, 75. And to think they almost pulled it from production/release because of the war!

There are two or three movies that I've seen so often I can quote them chapter and verse from memory. The top one in that sense is "Vanya on 42nd Street," which seems to have a line for every occasion. Another is "Moonstruck."

Jane wrote: "Yup. Just be yourself does my tiny head in too. I always want to riposte 'Who the f**k else would I be?'

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Exactly! If "being yourself" worked, you wouldn't be asking their advice, now would you? A friend of mine is in her late thirties and worried about her seeming inability to find a partner, and she keeps getting this "be yourself" thing. As she said to me, "I AM myself--obviously that's not what guys want."

I just picked up a great phrase someone used reviewing the Mapp and Lucia novels. The reviewer spoke of "potato chip syndrome"--ah yes. Know it well, with other series. You shouldn't, you know there's no real brain-food in them, but once you start...well ...you know you're gonna empty the bag.

And it sounds a lot better than "guilty pleasure."

"Just be yourself." It annoys me because it's such a cop-out. This is the biggest piece of non-advice. If a person finds they're not fitting in, obviously they are being themselves, and not cutting it, and they need a couple of pointers. And so often the person saying "just be yourself" actually means "be like me."

Because yeah, some people, sometimes, do actually need a little help. It can be hard to frame things like, "You need to listen when others in the group are talking, and not just shout over them" or whatever--but saying "just be yourself" is totally unhelpful.

They love a good BBQ takeaway too, because they can pick up spare ribs.

How does a skeleton tell fortunes at the fair?
He throws the bones, of course!

Why don't people like skeletons?
Because they always have a bone to pick with somebody.

(I just made that up.)

Where do they build skeletons?

In the boneyard!

What do you call a skeleton found in the desert?
Bone dry.

What do you call it when a lady skeleton and a man skeleton end their longterm relationship?

A bone-apart!

Guy goes into the doctor's office. Doctor says, "What seems to be the problem?"

"Well doc," says the guy, "people just ignore me. It's like I don't exist. They bump into me on the street, people at work walk away when I'm talking to them--I'm starting to feel like I'm invisible or something!"

Doctor opens the door and calls to the nurse, "Next patient!"