A tip of my coolie hat to one of the All-Time great...

[OU Chinaman]

...BEAUTIES! RAQUEL WELCH!!!!
R.I.P. BABY! You personified glamour.

(The memory of the fur bikini she wore in One Million Years B.C. is forever a part of my boyhood fantasies

[OU Guy]

I’ll toast to that, RIP!!

[OU Guy]

Chinaman, here you go:



There’s no doubt that she was a stunningly beautiful woman, with sex appeal to spare, but there is one thing I find very interesting about her…

In short, she never posed nude, and she never appeared nude on the silver screen. About that, she said “I am my father's daughter and that's just not the way you behave. You don't do that if you are a certain kind of a woman and that's the kind of woman I was raised to be.”

She also said “I’ve definitely used my body and sex appeal to advantage in my work, but always within limits. I reserve some things for my private life, and they are not for sale.”

[OU Chinaman]

...she accompanied Bob Hope on a trip to Viet Nam to remind combat soldiers of why they went where their Uncle Sam sent them.

To behold, to view, to see a woman that drop dead gorgeous was inspiration, even if just for a moment, for men at arms in peril.
A moment, a glimpse of home, of that which forever abides for men.
Pulchritude to be placed on a pedestal.
Chivalry still enough to make you WANT to endure. To survive!
She had it. She knew it. And she shared it because she understood.

I'll always remember her as one of the most beautiful women I ever saw.