Ah ! Remember the days well Jack, when you used a wooden "mushroom" to darn socks.
I was one of 60 kids in an orphanage (Dr. Barnardo's), and most of our clothes at the time came from war surplus.
It's not funny when you're 6 years old going to school dressed like a Japanese admiral.

 

I remember my brother and I being stylish in surplus USAF flightline jumpsuits. I didn't realize at the time that I outranked my brother.

As to the socks, I remember a cartoon with two men in a gym changing room and one man saying to the other, you are a lucky man, your wife staples socks much neater than my wife does.

 

"I am a man; I consider nothing foreign to me". ~ Terence. (Publius Terentius Afer)

 

"Life is warfare against the malice of others". ~ Baltasar Gracian.

 

" You and I do not see things as they are, we see things as we are"

Henry Ward Beecher

 

However painful, the naked truth is infinitely better than a well dressed lie.

 

"If you find a perfect Church, dont join it, you might spoil it!"
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I would not join any club that would have someone like me for a member. -Groucho Marks

 

"It is impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing someone's beard." ~ Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)