Comments on: Don’t Make Me Get The Supreme Court

By: Greg Knauss

Greg Knauss — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 22:26:49 +0000

Being sub-literate, I only remember when the movie version of “Cold Comfort Farm” came out: well-reviewed, sort of self-satisfied and very English, it doesn’t do half the justice to my understanding of the Genrich experience as “Morningwood.”
Nudge, nudge.

By: mg

mg — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 19:30:22 +0000

It’s a book, apparently:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/014018869X/qid=1047587134/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_2/104-5405319-9359153?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
“Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, Cold Comfort Farm is a witty, irreverent parody of the works of Thomas Hardy and D.H. Lawrence. Flora Poste, left an orphan at the end of her “expensive, athletic, and prolonged” education, sets off for her relatives at Cold Comfort Farm, despite dire warnings of doom and damnation. Once there she encounters Seth, full of rampant sexuality; Elfine, who flits in and out in a cloak that is decidedly the wrong color; Meriam, the hired girl who gets pregnant every year when the “sukebind is in bloom;” and Aunt Ada Doom, the aging, reclusive matriarch who once “saw something nasty in the woodshed.” Flora decides to “tidy up life at Cold Comfort Farm.” Mocking Hardy’s and Lawrence’s melodrama, sensuality, and use of symbolism, Stella Gibbons has Flora, with her no-nonsense attitude, give Elfine a good haircut, teach Meriam some elementary lessons in birth control and send various morose, rural relatives off to happier fates. Cold Comfort Farm is funny even without a background in Hardy or Lawrence, but for those readers who have been frustrated attempting to find exactly where in Tess of the D’Urbervilles Tess is “seduced,” or who have plowed through the intensity of Sons and Lovers, Cold Comfort Farm is sweet, hilarious revenge.”

By: gunge

gunge — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 19:19:52 +0000

I was gonna say it but Greg beat me to it.
I DEMAND a recount.
The ballot was unclear. IExplorer render the radio buttons wrong. There was a chicken in my ear.
Revote!
Recount!
What the hell does Cold Comfort mean anyway?

By: Greg Knauss

Greg Knauss — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:18:34 +0000

Re-count! Hanging chad! Goggle-eyed Florida officials, squinting at cardboard!
Lies!
There’s no way the that the excretable “Cold Comfort Farm” could have legitimately garnered that many votes. I know, because “Morningwood” is a much better name and I had to vote for _it_ twenty-five times.