Cover Snark: Does Jane Austen Know About This?
by Amanda · Sep 8, 2025 at 3:00 am · View all 15 comments
Welcome back to Cover Snark!
Snippet:
Carrie: He looks like he’s cold but can’t figure out how his zipper works
Sarah: Shirts! Shirts are a great choice!
Kiki: Wash your belly-button, bud.
That tattoo is reminding me of a radioactive symbol.
Sarah: I think it is?
No, it’s not I’m wrong.
Kiki: I thought it was too, so I have to assume his belly button has got some stuff going on.
Amanda: It’s a biohazard sign which I think might be worse.
Kiki: That’s it! Yeah, that’s absolutely worse.
Sarah: You don’t want your belly button to be a biohazard.
I remember when mine nearly turned inside out while I was pregnant. I looked like a torpedo, all out in front. But I wasn’t a biohazard. I was cute.
(MORE-it’s as hilarious as usual)
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Scottie's Playtime 
I cannot imagine getting tatooed around your belly button. No. Just no. Actually I cannot imagine getting tatooed anywhere, for any reason although if you were in a terrible accident someone might be able to recognize you by the tatoo you had…somewhere…
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At one time in my 20s, I thought about getting a tattoo, so that later in life in the nursing home, staff would see it and remember that I’d been young. Then it occurred to me that all they’d likely think is, “Ew. I need to get mine removed before I get old.”🤷
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No, no, no … he can use a zipper all right. No doubt spent forty-five minutes in front of the mirror getting it just so
Wings go on your back, like a proper Hell’s Angel …
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🤣
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Jane Austen was quite aware of such fellows by repute and would have snarked them in her books.
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That’s the general consensus of SBTB Austen readers, too! Of course she would lampoon them.🤣 And beautifully!
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I’ll pass that on to my wife Sheila, Ali she was the girl who introduced me to Jane Austen 🙂
(Though never read the books under Sheila’s careful scrutiny I’ve seen all the best dramatisations. And have listened to her commentaries on the works as well her reading of extracts)
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I think that’s a fine way to go about it!
I haven’t read all the Jane Austen, yet. I cannot make myself finish “Sense and Sensibility,” as an example, but “Pride and Prejudice” is among my top favorite novels (also “Mansfield Park,”) along with a sort of satirical re-write entitled “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.” I did make it through an entire “Sense and Sensibility” movie, on the Hallmark Channel even, though. They did a faithful production, but with a diverse cast, and it was excellent.
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For ‘Sense and Sensibility’ I recommend the 1995 movie starring Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman and Hugh Grant along with other impressive cast members. Emma Thompson wrote the screen play and directed by Ang Lee.
Emma Thompson worked on this against the backdrop of her separation from Kenneth Branagh when her emotions were raw, which comes through in some of the emotional parts of the film.
For ‘Pride and Prejudice’ it simply has to be the 1995 BBC Mini Series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice_(1995_TV_series)
1995 eh? There’s more
Persuasion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persuasion_(1995_film)
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I’ll try Emma Thompson’s movie again. No aspersion to her; I think she’s highly talented; I think it’s that the story just doesn’t grab me. But that Hallmark movie did keep me with it, so I’ll try the 1995 one again. Thanks!
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I notice we have the Halmark version on UK Amazon Prime, my subscription is due to run out, let’s see if it can be squeezed in the viewing time.
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