# Something nasty in the woodshed...Cold Comfort Farm

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 6, 2005, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-nasty-in-the-woodshed-cold-comfort-farm/288664 "2005-02-06T16:33:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-nasty-in-the-woodshed-cold-comfort-farm/288664/1 "2005-02-06T16:33:00Z")

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OK, never managed to find the book, and unless it is online in e-form, probably wont for quite a while…but is it ever explained what the nasty thing in the woodshed was?

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**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-nasty-in-the-woodshed-cold-comfort-farm/288664/2 "2005-02-06T19:06:59Z")

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I just re-read this recently. No, it’s never explained, except that the old lady has used the supposedly traumatic experience (the details of which she’s long ago forgotten) to get sympathy and rule her family throughout her life.

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**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-nasty-in-the-woodshed-cold-comfort-farm/288664/3 "2005-02-06T19:21:32Z")

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It drove me crazy for years too. We’ll never know. [cheesy science fiction voice] Maybe there are some things we were not meant to know, too horrible to imagine [/cheesy science fiction voice]

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**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-nasty-in-the-woodshed-cold-comfort-farm/288664/4 "2005-02-06T19:44:49Z")

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Wilbur Whateley’s twin brother?