Today, a third grade boy paid me the compliment of a lifetime; he said, “You look like Willy Wonka… … ’s wife!”
I was honored. What gave him the idea? My waistcoat and brown top hat? Perhaps his mother doesn’t dress that way.
“If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Want to change the world?
There’s nothing to it…”
Awwww…..sounds like a fabulous compliment to me.
I wonder which Willy he meant. Gene Wilder had very blue eyes…..but he’s probably too young to have seen that one.
WERE you wearing a waistcoat and top hat?
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Rebekah Reply:
January 30th, 2010 at 11:13 PM
I WAS wearing a waistcoat-ish vest and my top hat; it was “Hats On Day”, a fundraiser for children with cancer. For fifty cents, students and teachers were allowed to wear hats all day. Opportunity knocked.
Johnny Depp as Wonka wore a sweater and black top hat. I wouldn’t marry THAT guy for all tea in China. Gene Wilder, however…
Wilder’s Wonka is the only pop icon I can think of with a brown top hat.
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