Reply to the Brits / Comment on Crock (Was other things)

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Goddlefrood" <gav_fiji at ...> wrote:
 
Geoff:
> > In general terms, I like the book and the series 'warts and all'. 
> > There are some things which are missing or I would like to have 
> > happened differently. But that is so with, say, LOTR and Narnia. 
> > And with real life also... ?

Goddlefrood:
> The expression in quotation marks has been attributed to a certain 
> Oliver Cromwell. He never said what he is supposed to have saids, 
> which was along the line of: "I want to be painted warts and all". 
> The resulting picture by Lely did show a warty Cromwell, but the 
> first use of the phrase 'warts and all' appeared over a century 
> later. 

Geoff:
Ah. Interesting. Puts it in the same category as "Lead on, MacDuff" then.