So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[GHT]

George Macdonald Fraser relates in Quartered Safe Out Here, his autobiographical account of his time as an infantryman fighting in Burma during the Second World War, that his hard-case Cumbrian sergeant, after reading Henry V, was also of the opinion that Shakespeare had been a soldier.

Shakespeare had a turn of phrase for all of life's vagaries and vicissitudes. In school some mention was made
that a decade of his life had never been fully accounted for and remained open to conjecture. From what I have
read of the man I suspect that at some point in life he had been a soldier.

You both make a very valid point about Shakespeare, the so called, lost years and his knowledge of the military. Remember, during those lost years, 1588 to be exact, England was in turmoil because of the threat of invasion by The Spanish Armada. He was probably mustered, the term used in those days for conscription.

 

[2jakes]

Halloween displays in Sept.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Aaah, I made a federal german citizenship test, just for fun. Like the original test with 33 coincidence-questions out of 300.
I got 97% correct, puh!

Can I grant me something nice, now? A new wristwatch or other nice stuff??

 

[Harp]

Halloween displays in Sept.

My kind of witch.

 

[Formeruser012523]

My kind of witch.

And witch costumes haven't changed at all since then.

 

[GHT]

And witch costumes haven't changed at all since then.

When Gil Elvgren came up with his sexy witch, he changed perceptions forever. How I love Halloween these days.

 

[2jakes]

Aaah, I made a federal german citizenship test, just for fun. Like the original test with 33 coincidence-questions out of 300.
I got 97% correct, puh!

Can I grant me something nice, now? A new wristwatch or other nice stuff??

 

[2jakes]

Favorite all-time Witch...

The wicked witch of the West from
"The Wizard of Oz” (1939)

Basically, it's a story of two women fighting over a pair of shoes.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Mister Rogers demystifies Margaret Hamilton.

 

[Fading Fast]

Just noting that the sexy witch goes back, at least (I'd bet earlier), to 1942's "I Married a Witch" with Veronica Lake:

 

[2jakes]

@ LizzieMaine

Of my five sisters, one of them is just as sweet as this lady.
When I go visit her, I become Mister Rogers in the sense that
I enjoy being with her...happily talking about many things when
we were kids.
I am blessed to have her in my life.
Can't say the same about the other witches.

 

[Haversack]

Back a couple of years ago, the Disney Family Museum at the Presidio in San Francisco had a special exhibition on the creation of the Disney Snow White movie. In it there was a development sketch of the Evil Queen wearing a side-slit dress showing a lot of leg leading a panther on a leash. I've looked for it on line but have had no luck. The museum has a lot of stuff that has never been published.

 

[GHT]

@ LizzieMaine
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Of my five sisters, one of them is just as sweet as this lady.
When I go visit her, I become Mister Rogers in the sense that
I enjoy being with her...happily talking about many things when
we were kids.
I am blessed to have her in my life.
Can't say the same about the other witches.

My wife's a witch, well that's the theory of her ambulance colleagues. She's retired now but back in her working days an incident occurred that gave rise to her witch status. Racing along to an emergency, all the sirens and flashing lights going, whilst motorists were getting out of the way, the driver of an Audi overtook the ambulance and then had to swerve violently to avoid an oncoming car. Thankfully it was a near miss, but it could have been something very serious.
"A hex on you," said my missus, more as a stress reliever, she's not one to swear. Rounding a bend a few minutes later, the Audi was at the side of the road, it's front and rear offside tyres punctured. My missus' partner that day did a jaw drop, then regaled the incident to all once back at the ambulance station.
On my wife's right shoulder is a small tattoo of a witch in flight, whenever anyone remarks about her tattoo, she answers, "what tattoo? It's a birthmark.

 

[GHT]

Favorite all-time Witch...
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The wicked witch of the West from
"The Wizard of Oz” (1939)

Basically, it's a story of two women fighting over a pair of shoes.

Had a crush on Elizabeth Montgomery when I was an adolescent.

 

[2jakes]

Had a crush on Elizabeth Montgomery when I was an adolescent.
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Luv Nicole...

although here she looks like something crawled up her broomstick!

 

[tonyb]

Had a crush on Elizabeth Montgomery when I was an adolescent.
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Didn’t everybody? If she could do all that with just a wiggle of her nose, just imagine what else she might do.

 

[2jakes]

Didn’t everybody? If she could do all that with just her nose, just imagine what else she might do.

She could do the “boogaloo” !

 

[GHT]

Didn’t everybody? If she could do all that with just her nose, just imagine what else she might do.

The mind boggles:

 

[Haversack]

To quote Claudette Colbert's character in The Palm Beach Story: "You have no idea what a long-legged woman can do without doing anything."

 

[tonyb]

The mind boggles:
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Nice, um, chair.