With regard to the frigid mother, I'm reminded of this old limerick:

There was a young widow named Brice,
Who kept her dead husband on ice;
She said, "T'was hard when I lost him,
I'll never defrost him;
Cold comfort but cheap at the price."

Who knows, maybe we'll find an appropriate article any day now!

Amos- "oral deposition" smacks of "contempt of court." You should be ashamed to make such a suggestion...

Cheerily,
Charley Noble