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.

Perhaps not a "love" but some phrases are a lot of fun.
Someone asked me to do them what they thought was a horrid great big old favour. To me, it was no big deal. I was happy to help, so my reply was, "I'm on it like a bonnet!"

What? they said.

"I'm all over it like a rash!" I said.

Things like this don't translate into Spanish. LOL

Got any more?

The Lone Ranger always made me laugh. Tonto means "stupid" in Spanish, and Kemo Sabi is a joke-rendering of "quien lo sabe"--Who knows? So you have Dummy and Who Knows.

mrbooks wrote: "What do you call a man who hunts love?

Dear hunter"

Oh that's good!

What you call a lousy hunter who can't fish? A vegan.

I've learned from Fiona to keep it cool and controlled, instead of ripping off his head and handing it back to him--fun as that might be.

Her channel is fblairmd, if you want to see her content, Groovy. The troll's post has been deleted, along with my response.

OK, so I know Youtube trolls (or any other kind) are scum, but still. There's this beautiful Jamaican American woman on Youtube that I seriously admire. She posts her random thoughts on things like politics, race, upbringing of kids (she's a Harvard-educated pediatrician) and whatever else comes to mind, but in an intelligent way.

Her latest post tells us why she won't be posting for a while. Her only daughter, Harvard senior, athlete, beautiful intelligent woman, died in her sleep last Tuesday. No evident reason, she just--stopped living. Her mother is understandably devastated, and yet had the control to make the post "without showing emotion" (unless you looked a her eyes). I mean, she didn't cry on the outside, but her heart was bleeding in silence. Most people posted their compassion for her, and many spoke of praying for her.

So some asswhole troll takes the opportunity to mock Dr Blair's religious beliefs, along the lines of "so where is this loving God now, and when children are being raped, etc."?

Ass.

Yeah, I know. It's what trolls do. But still.

A relief map shows where the restrooms are.

You know what a lot of people say: past perfect, future...conditional.

So you're saying we need a colon cleanse?

I hate books that speak of a man's genitalia as "his organ." Like, what--he has no liver? No lungs? No heart or spleen or pancreas? His only organ is his penis?

I know there's a meme out there that says a lot of guys think with it, but still, find a synonym or call it what it actually is, people!

The exclamation point was ready to just jump straight up to the sky, but stopped in time.

Those quotations marks are just a coupla hookers. (Think about it).

Oh golly, it's been years since I heard a "little moron" joke. Decades, actually.


Here in Spain there's a village called Lepe, and people from there are called Leperos. The poor old Leperos are the butt of all "moron" type jokes here for some reason. Like, why do all Leperos comb their hair, dress up and go outside at noon? So they'll look good on the weather satellite photo!

One of those wonderful overheard things: Two young women talking about a new project one of them is undertaking, discussing possible problems etc. The girl in question said, "I'd be scared if I thought it would do any good, but it won't, so I'll just have to...you know, do it."

Yup. Being scared of a new challenge never does any good, so just...you know, do it.

Come down to the Common and meet the Wombles while you're there!

I thought I'd have a lot of free time this summer, so I started a quilt project. Of course now I have new students coming at odd times which don't leave me time to drag it all out (no sewing room) before I have to put it all away again.

I twig your problem, Groovy, you need to branch out more.

mrbooks wrote: "Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) wrote: "Add a good pinch of dill to that, and you have one of my summer favourites!!"

What ruin my good summer salad with dill? that's what the lemon juice does."

It's a raita, anyway. LOL And why are there recipes on the words and phrases thread?

Groovy wrote: ""Curry"--it reminds me of spicy, hot, tongue-burning Indian food."

Not all curry is as hot as a two-dollar shotgun, Groovy. Korma for example is mild and creamy.

The BFG by Roald Dahl. Not well known in the US I'm thinking.

Or, when you get what you wanted, "There now!"

I'm stamen out of this...