[Michael.SF.]

Well written?

Maybe you can translate this for me and I am sure others:

smash-the-cucumber-frames style

[lee martell]

That was the only analogy I didn’t get. No idea.

[Fai Mao]

Camille writes in a passive academic voice and uses an academic vocabulary with very long, highly modified sentences as do many people with a professional background in the Liberal Arts. It can be an acquired taste.

But, yeah, if you are used to reading that sort of thing she is funny. She is a rare breed, an honest leftist who doesn’t deal in platitudes and ad hominem attacks.

[Bobalu]

Cucumber frames are generally wispy trellis frames used for raising cucumbers.

Being so flimsy and weak I suppose she meant it would be rather oafish behavior to smash such things flat.

IMO a strange and very obscure analogy.

[Neanderthal]

"Cucumber frames often turn up in 19th century children's stories, where boys were constantly in trouble for breaking the glass. They warmed the earth and extended the growing season, so were crucial to the supply of "Mediterranean" summer vegetables in Britain, before the age of horticultural polythene and container-loads of tomatoes crossing the English Channel."

http://www.oldandinteresting.com/victorian-garden-frames.aspx

[InterceptPoint]

"Smash the cucumber-frames". That caught my eye as well. Welcome to Camille. But, just for the record, there is such a thing as a cucumber-frame.