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.

Like Miss Silver, Marple is excellent at untangling plots without getting them all balled up!

In Britain they use the term. In spanish of course we have our own word for it.

Now you've got me giggling. In French they have taken the verb "flash" to mean when you see someone and fall for them--"flasher" as they say. So if you say "I flashed on her" (J'ai flashé sur elle) it's actually a good thing, whereas in English it could get you fined.

Groovy wrote: "You're right, Orinoco. Just come out and say it plainly without trying to sound high-falutin:)"

I tell my students to remember KISS: Keep it short and simple. Or in the case of some who are always trying to use 25-cent words and getting it wrong: Keep it simple, stupid!

Morning all, lovely news--my pastor has started chemo and hasn't had a single side effect! No nausea/vomiting/etc, no dizziness. Just tired (of course). He got his appetite back, even while they were doing the session, which took about 8 hrs. His wife was told she could bring him juice or whatever he wanted, and he said, "Bring me one of those pastries I like (from the shop near the hospital)." And he ate it--this is the man who has had to force himself to eat bite by bite for the last 2-3 months! Everyone was expecting him to need a stretcher to go home on...but he said he was tired-but-fine. Went home, lay down and asked for something to eat!

"Defenestration": to be thrown out a window.

Sounds a lot classier to say that the cause of death was defenestration, doesn't it?

There's a strange tendency these days to change words that end in a silent E to a Y. Affluence is a word. "Affluency" is not.

I'm slowly reading The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan and while I know that it's written by an elderly professor for graduate students, I find the perceived need to use such high-flown language while "explaining" an ancient culture excessive. He speaks of court ladies preparing for a pilgrimage by means of "lustration", but that a taboo "renders their efforts nugatory." What he means is, the ladies made a number of offerings to prepare for their pilgrimage, but the taboo causes all their efforts to be useless, since now they can't set out. Why not just SAY that?

Not only that, he uses the word "paramountcy"...which while it may exist, is totally unnecessary and misused in context!

Quite seriously, one day my MIL (then in her 80s) and I were flashed by a man on our way back from the supermarket. Isabel gave him "that look" and said in her famous pseudo-kindly voice, "I wouldn't go round showing that off, dear, really." She managed to give the impression it wasn't worthy of notice!

Which reminds me of a joke. An old lady is walking down the street in the garment district, fondly remembering the good old days when her Hymie was alive and they worked their fingers to the bone just to get by. She's passing by the entrance to an alley when a man steps out, opens his raincoat and flashes her. She stands rooted to the spot, staring in disbelief.

When she can finally speak, she says incredulously: "You call that a lining?"

Oh, quilt callin' people names, Flo, or I'll give ya a batting!

Now, now, don't come unravelled! We all have to cut the coat according to our cloth...

Just remember the old saying: as ye sew, so shall ye rip!

T4bsF (Call me Flo) wrote: "....or you'll get COLLARED by the Fuzz!"

You gonna slap the cuffs on me, copper?

Don't get shirty!

Why rip up a good pattern?

Eye'm sure you'll get hooked, MrBooks, and find yourself zipping through some new jokes!

I used to be able to spool puns out by the yard, but I can't pin anything down today.

Ok so no matter what I choose I'm right! I'd have gone with "dower" but I wasn't sure.

Totally filthy day even for a Monday. My bestie was stressed out, and then my hairdresser simply didn't open today. No note saying "closed due to X" no nothing. I wouldn't mind but I have to speak on Sunday and I'd like to get the wig cut and coloured if I could.

No need to embroider the story--tell us what you really think!

Well then between us we've got it sewn up! Maybe he thinks it's a stitchup instead?