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Someone help me... please.
I've just had one of those moments where you're halfway through describing something, and suddenly realise that all who are listening are looking at you funny, in that "she's lost it" sort of way.
So: a children's TV programme/film, in which hordes of <something> chant "Increase the vat!" to encourage <someone> to add more nasty things to a vat of <substance>.
I thought it might have been Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which does include a vat of nasty goo, and my memory of <someone> (holding a bat to add to the vat) does look a bit like the evil dude in WFRR. Google has not yet been any help, and the blankness of my colleagues on the subject seems to have ruled WFRR out as a likely candidate.
Any ideas, anyone ?
(It came up because there was a conversation about VAT going on, I started chanting "increase the VAT!". Disappointingly, google just turns up lots of dull commentary on VAT-increase if you search for the phrase.)
I've just had one of those moments where you're halfway through describing something, and suddenly realise that all who are listening are looking at you funny, in that "she's lost it" sort of way.
So: a children's TV programme/film, in which hordes of <something> chant "Increase the vat!" to encourage <someone> to add more nasty things to a vat of <substance>.
I thought it might have been Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which does include a vat of nasty goo, and my memory of <someone> (holding a bat to add to the vat) does look a bit like the evil dude in WFRR. Google has not yet been any help, and the blankness of my colleagues on the subject seems to have ruled WFRR out as a likely candidate.
Any ideas, anyone ?
(It came up because there was a conversation about VAT going on, I started chanting "increase the VAT!". Disappointingly, google just turns up lots of dull commentary on VAT-increase if you search for the phrase.)
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Sounds like any one of those kiddie gameshows where you get horribly messy and fall in vats of gunk, but I couldn't begin to tell you which one. If it's anything earlier than about 1985, or later than 1994, I wouldn't have been watching it. Does Google have anything useful under things like Crackerjack, Tiswas, Swap shop etc? Or, gods help us, Noel Edmonds House Party?
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In addition, Google cannot reveal even one hit for any of
"increase the vat" "game show"
"increase the vat" gameshow
"increase the vat" slime
"increase the vat" gunk
"increase the vat" gunge
"increase the vat" "get your own back"
...so I think you're OK.
Perhaps you dreamt it?
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Which may well be contender for best-album-bought-this-year-but-not-released-this-year (currently fighting a live Squeeze album for the top spot).
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I have never knowingly heard of that program, let alone seen it.
I guess I must have wandered into a room when someone else was watching it, or summat. Wonder why it stuck so in my mind ?
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IMDB rocks.
Livejournal Knows All
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How's that different from the usual look?
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I think I'd better dispose of it before he gets back at the weekend, but even I probably can't eat a whole one in that time.
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Other than that, I am, as usual, of no value, whatsoever, other than as a great way of distributing, commas.
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Speaking as leader of the Grammar Nazi Group Marriage, I must insist that two of those commas are removed, with photographs of the disarmament process, within the next ten days.
I am willing to compromise on a futher one to be removed over the course of the next year.
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Maybe he, just speaks, like, William, Shatner?
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Other than that, I am (as usual!) of no value whatsoever, other than as a great way of distributing commas.
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Other than that I am - as usual - of no value whatsoever, other than as a great way of distributing commas.
[Note that I've also removed the first comma, since it didn't correspond to a pause the way I would speak the sentence !]
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Oh, I thought the whole point of this thread was to find punctuation illustrate the pauses which _Corpse_ had put in in places people wouldn't normally pause :)
If we just want standard punctuation, then surely "Other than that I am, as usual, of no value whatsoever other than as a great way of distributing commas." does fine - although it removes the relevance of the comma remark.
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That last comma is clearly just wrong, and it may well be this one that
(Although she did make reference to a second comma she'd like culled. But now I don't know which that is!)
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By some arbitrary set of rules someone invented some years ago, of course. Commas are more of an art form than a science in my book :)
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Compare: "Other than that I am, as usual, of no value whatsoever other than as a great way of distributing commas, there's nothing wrong with me".
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Other than that I am, as usual, of no value whatsoever; other than as a great way of distributing commas.
I'm old fashioned in that respect.
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She claimed that it wasn't porn, because it had semi-colons in. (I hope this was meant humorously, but was never sure). This has, however, become a metric of porn-ness ever since, so I'm pleased to see a ; cropping up here every now and again.
I like semi-colons.
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