[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Reply to the Brits / Comment on Crock (Was other things)

[Sharon Hayes]

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.

Sharon:
...and "play it again, Sam" :-)