Fantastically accurate descriptions

Back in the days of a Shampoo and Set.....

how lovely, and yes, a fantastically accurate description.

Mr Norder describes a certain actress who plays a detective as 'the one whose voice needs some WD40'.

lol

A line in a favourite poem of mine by Vickram Seth,

'A pond as green as pea soup'.

I can't remember any of the rest of the poem, but that line has stayed with me for years.

Marvellous. Could link in with the “send dead in” thread.

Seen. Not send.??

My DH and I have always , since we were newly married, called old ladies cauliflowers. One reason my hair is straight ?

I can't be arsed to straighten my hair .. and as straight is very commonplace now people use straighteners I stick with my unruly curls...but do dye it to avoid the cauliflower look?????

I remember going to the cinema with my Mother in around
1969 ( she never liked to go on her own) and I was the only young-ish person there, it was an afternoon showing of Gone With The Wind, and I whispered to her ‘look at all those cauliflower heads!’ She couldn’t help laughing.
So I claim the phrase first vampire ?

Perhaps we should form a club and swear that we will never be cauliflowers ( or be expelled from it.) ?

Years ago a young hairdresser friend described older ladies perms as Nelly perms. My friend and I decided there and then we would never have a nelly perm or wear crimplene dresses!

That’s funny because I always think young women (teens and twenties) all look alike these days.

They all have the same hairstyle, long, straight, parted in the middle with no fringe.

Their clothes too follow a uniform as if they were still at school - jeans with the ubiquitous ripped knees, similar tops and trainers.

It is very true JenniferEccles. We all have our group identity, we can't help it.
It's much easier to conform than to stand out.
I like to think I don't look like all the other old ladies but I probably do.
I don't have cauliflower hair but I love curls.

I can't remember where I heard or read this, but the description of older couples - often of much the same height and outline - wearing matching anoraks, as "pepper pots" - is pretty accurate!

“ That’s funny because I always think young women (teens and twenties) all look alike these days”
They/we always did !
My age group around here don’t so much have the cauliflower head as the straight bob. (Including self)

I think that’s true of clothes Lucca (mini skirts, dresses and for a short while hot pants!) but I think our hairstyles were different in our youth.

My hair is fine and straight and oh how I envied girls with curly hair! Back-combing was in fashion but mine just was too fine to produce the desired result! My friends had a variety of styles from short to long with every length in between.

Perhaps we should form a club and swear that we will never be cauliflowers
How about "turnip heads!?
That would make you swear, too!

More the time of year for pumpkins Rufus ????

I have always been a nonconformist regarding clothes. A few years ago we went to Munich for the Christmas markets. OH said I was easy to spot in the crowds as my white with bright red flowers patterned coat stood out from all the dull coloured anoraks!

Of the sort of rough grey hair belonging to the sort of woman who could never be bothered with ‘titivation’ - looking like a used Brillo pad.

I had to look this up to get it verbatim, but it comes from the description of the deliciously ghastly Mr Slope’s nose in Trollope’s Barchester Towers.
‘It is pronounced, straight and well formed; though I myself should have liked it better did it not possess a somewhat spongy, porous appearance, as though it had been cleverly formed out of a red-coloured cork.’
I always loved that!

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I can't remember where I heard or read this, but the description of older couples - often of much the same height and outline - wearing matching anoraks, as "pepper pots" - is pretty accurate!

Howard and Hilda - anyone remember the series?

When my GS was younger his school always arranged a Christmas lunch for the elderly. My mum attended one in the school hall one year and my GS looked in the window to try and spot her but he said he couldn’t because all he could see were lots of white fluffy clouds !

Fevertree, my daughter and I play bookends when we go shopping. They are couples of any age who dress the same. If we are going out and DH has a similar colour to me, I change my clothes.

My wife worked fir some years as a school lunchtime supervisor (dinner lady) and the headmaster once informed me that she did a marvellous job in the playground:

“Surrounded by a crinoline of small children”

Priceless description of a wonderfully motherly woman.