I'm a person who speaks and a person who thinks

[venta]

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.)

Comments

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Between "value" and "whatsoever", assuming rudimentary non-crapness.

[venta.livejournal.com]

The comma between "that" and "I" is common but, I believe, superfluous and incorrect.

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 :)

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

The reason I don't mind it here is that it removes an ambiguity of syntax that otherwise remains until the end of the sentence. Which is some way off at the time.

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".

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yup, fair point.