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Janet

In article >,
says...
>
> On 7/9/2014 8:40 AM, wrote:
> >
> > Yes some of the parks even turned over the grass into veggie beds 'dig
> > for victory!' signs were plentiful. Kids also had lots jingles, I
> > still remember
> >
> > Whistle while you work
> > Hitler is a twerp
> > Goerings barmy
> > So's his army
> > Whistle while you work.
> >
> I know a slightly different version of that jingle:
>
> Whistle while you work
> Hitler is a jerk
> Mussolini bit his weenie
> Now it will not squirt.
>
> My mother must have taught me that one... I wasn't even a twinkle in
> someone's eye in the 1940's.
>
> The things my mom told me about WWII included rationing of silk (needed
> for parachutes) so they couldn't buy stockings. She said they used "leg
> makeup" (which stained their dresses terribly). They drew seams up the
> back of their legs using eyeliner pencil. I think I'd have just gone
> without the stockings.

My mother and her sisters all drew stocking seams up their legs, but
they used gravy browning.

Janet UK.