DISCUSSION THREAD -- October 2020 75 -Word Writing Challenge

Danny McG said:
When I was seven that would be 2 bob's worth of ha'penny chews :D
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I was thinking along those lines but didn't want to confuse any of our non UK friends who probably still don't have a clue what we're on about :LOL:

Corner shops, those and greasy food cafes, a dying sight in our streets.
 
Hugh said:
This month the "Shoehorn Award" for insertion of literary references by hook or by crook goes to @Ursa major
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In case anyone was wondering, the references and hints (including the sound of the title) were to Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, a 1932 parody of the "romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time", as Wikipedia puts it.
 
Congratulations to Danny!

I liked the genre this month so I thought I’d stick my toe in the water. So glad I did. Thank you so much
for the votes. (Am on my phone and I can’t see where the bullet points are coming from, sorry, not trying to be dramatic)

Also many thanks for the shortlistings.

I voted for Chrispy. It was a toss up between AstrO Pen and him.
 
Ursa major said:
In case anyone was wondering, the references and hints (including the sound of the title) were to Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, a 1932 parody of the "romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time", as Wikipedia puts it.
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Proving my literary ignorance --- I've never heard of Stella Gibbons or Cold Comfort Farm.

*****Went and "Googled" it. Now I think I understand, as a peon from the colonies such mid-30's lampooning would have been largely untranslatable for me.
 
Parson said:
Now I think I understand, as a peon from the colonies such mid-30's lampooning would have been largely untranslatable for me.
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Don't worry about it: I wasn't expecting many people, from wherever they hail, to realise what was going on in terms of my word choices.

It was, I admit, done mostly to amuse myself, as the punchline -- based on a (formerly) much quoted line from the book (spoken by Ada Doom, also many times: "I saw something nasty in the woodshed" -- had popped into my head unbidden. The story soon followed when I realised that woodshed and woods head looked remarkably similar and that a wood with a "head" might be at least sentient.

As usual, the story appeared without me thinking about the theme (aka remembering what it was :whistle:), but this time the story matched the theme with no need for any changes. All that was required was to add a few more hints to the book, such as getting the words Doom and stark in there, and coming up with a title that confirmed that, if the hints had been seen, they'd been correctly interpreted or not.
 
My short list was Astro Pen, Luiglin, MikeAnderson, mosaix, Starbeast and TheEndIsNigh, and I voted for MikeAnderson.

Thank you Phyrebrat and Moonbat, for votes I certainlly hadn't expected at all - as not being good at feeling horror, thus not being capable of writing it, I chose to wonder what a woodland would find most horrible, and decided that, for a plantation of young conifers in neat rows, it was probably the couple of weeks before Christmas where countless tree-hours - tree years - are chopped short for a couple of weeks of sitting-room display.

And ma regular - but still heart felt - thanks to Victoria and Parson; you analyses might not make my voting any easier, but it certainly increases the number of reference points to start from

And congratulations, Danny McG junior.
 
Ursa major said:
In case anyone was wondering, the references and hints (including the sound of the title) were to Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, a 1932 parody of the "romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time", as Wikipedia puts it.
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I recognised it from your last line, about something nasty in the woodshed...:LOL:
 
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