Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)’s Comments (group member since Sep 20, 2013)

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One of my students passed her B1 English exam (which you have to have, in some language other than your own, to get your degree). I was surprised, because even though it was originally created for middle-school kids, I never expected her to pass it!

We live in the age of the remake. Originality is passé.
That said, I loved the Tarzan movies...in the sixties...when I was about eight.

Troop is used for soldiers. Troupe is used for ballet and theatre companies (from the French). Therefore, "he's a trooper", not a "trouper"--meaning he's a good soldier, a real fighter, can be counted on in a tight.

Authors please take note. Also writers of subtitles and blogposts.

A tribe of monkeys, though in PC days you tend to hear "troop" more.

And the girls who don't get invited to the Space Party just moon around the house all night.

My brother was profoundly dislexic, and we attended the only school in the area with a "special education" unit--yet he wasn't put in that, he was called "lazy", a "goof-off", that he "wasn't paying attention" or "didn't try." Several boys in my own year had the same problems, and they were given Ds and passed on in the system because none of the teachers wanted to deal with them. Ah, the 60s and 70s in small-town American schools. "He's a Holmes--what can you expect?"

I read somewhere that a group of giraffes is called a "tower." Don't know if that's actually so, but I like it.

Q. Which side of a leopard has the most spots?





A: The outside!

FYI: Addition means the act of adding, either in mathematics or in life (the soup would be improved by the addition of a little salt). Edition is to do with printing, books etc. I just read a review where someone speaks of buying "a previous addition of this book."

Ow!

Surely not...an IQ of 60 is just-barely-teachable, as in tying your own shoes.

I bought a couple of those thermal cups from Aldi, that keep drinks hot/cold and have a top with a slider to avoid spills. I can deal with the instructions saying "don't put it in the dishwasher or microwave", but the joke comes in when they give you detailed instructions about how to put the top on! "Depending on which hand you intend to use, place the cup in front of yourself with the handle pointing in the proper direction. Then put on the lid so that the opening is at 3 o'clock. Screw the top down tight. Always carry the cup vertically, otherwise the contents may spill out."

The digital-kids generation might feasibly not know what is meant by "at 3 o'clock", but hey, if you can't manage to screw a lid on, you'd be better off with a trainer mug.

Spain's general elections today, after 6 mos of a totally divided administration...can't call it a government. At least we have a cool, cloudy day for it, maybe fewer voters will run off to the beach and say "sod it."

I have to lead the service at church today, a job I have successfully dodged for the past 23 yrs. Well there's a first time for everything.

Courtesy of my 80-something-year-old friend Sylvia:
"My neighbor was working in his yard when he was startled by a late model car that came crashing through
his hedge and ended up in his front lawn.

He rushed to help an elderly lady driver out of the car and sat her down on a lawn chair.

He said with excitement, "You appear quite elderly to be driving."

"Well, yes, I am," she replied proudly. "I'll be 97 next month, and I am now old enough, that I don't
even need a driver's license anymore."

He asked "How do you know?"

"The last time I went to my doctor, he examined me and asked if I had a driver's license.

I told him, yes and handed it to him."

He took scissors out of the drawer, cut the license into pieces, and threw them in the waste basket, saying,
'You won't need this anymore.'

So I thanked him and left!"

Ironic is correct. "Ironical" is lazy people who have said "ironically" and figured that "ironical" is the root form. It isn't.

Harrrumph!


Good to see you again, Frenchie! Hope you feel better!

All of my students who want to spend the summer working in England are horrified, but it's not all over, they're still shouting.

"The tower was built of empty pots of yogurt."

Really? No, not really. Empty yogurt pots, yes. This on a "serious" news programme.

Words like "ironical" instead of "ironic" really annoy me.

Vine-ot?

You Chita! You swung in a different direction!

Hope you had a marbelous time!

mrbooks wrote: "I feel something looming up on me and I am feeling all knotted up is it a half hitch or a slip knot..."

If Marple's on the case as your Nemesis, it'll be a running noose.