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[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.)

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_corpse_/]

Had I not been attempting humour, I might have written:

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.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Eew.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I remember my mum reading out to me, ages ago, part of an interview with a writer of "romantic fiction". Said writer was attempting to defend herself against the charge that what she was writing was basically porn, but under a polite name.

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.