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| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 01/08/2008 : 12:20:56
I often submit variant reviews because I am not sure which one I like best, meaning to delete one later although often i become too attached to both/all to go through with it. Normally, they are different enough to (just about) justify their dual/multiple existence, but not in this case. In fact, I think I submitted the second one at the same time as resubmitting the first one, in case that again did not get through.
Which shall I retain? The first is closer (indeed, identical) to the phrase I am punning on, while the second is a full grammatical* sentence and thus clearer in terms of the real meaning.
*O.K., more grammatical, since tops is a transitive verb. |
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| Tori |
Posted - 01/10/2008 : 05:59:56
LOL |
| turrell |
Posted - 01/10/2008 : 05:49:13
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Originally posted by Tori
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Originally posted by turrell
I agree with the consensus here - send the second one to Alan Smithee and be done with it.
Oh, Turrell.
Who says you don't get it?  |
| Tori |
Posted - 01/10/2008 : 03:36:32
quote:
Originally posted by turrell
I agree with the consensus here - send the second one to Alan Smithee and be done with it.
Oh, Turrell. |
| Canklefish |
Posted - 01/10/2008 : 00:43:56
Ah hell, delete 'em both(tho I like the first best) and the controversy along with it...
oh, you decided...
Never mind! |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 01/09/2008 : 23:28:49
Since everyone is in agreement, I've reported the second review. |
| Chris C |
Posted - 01/09/2008 : 17:21:31
Did you hear the one about the ice-cream seller found dead in his truck, covered in strawberry sauce and chocolate sprinkles?
Police believe he topped himself.
P.S. Go with the first review.
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| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 01/09/2008 : 09:30:02
quote:
Originally posted by turrell
I agree with the consensus here - send the second one to Alan Smithee and be done with it.
No way. No review should go to Alan Smithee, but near duplicates are certainly not appropriate for 'him'. |
| turrell |
Posted - 01/09/2008 : 03:36:09
I agree with the consensus here - send the second one to Alan Smithee and be done with it. |
| Yukon |
Posted - 01/09/2008 : 02:37:41
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Originally posted by Se�n
It wouldn't be the first reveiw on the site that's region-specific. English/Irish/Kiwi/Aussies would get it, Nth Americans wouldn't.
For me, the classic example is Obie's "It is a bird" for Supergirl. I couldn't understand why it had 123 votes.
Then I read a post in the Fourum by a British fwiffer that refered to a woman as a "bird" and then it finally understood the review.
North Americans prefer to call woman "dames" "broads" "chicks", not birds. |
| Sean |
Posted - 01/08/2008 : 23:10:47
It wouldn't be the first reveiw on the site that's region-specific. English/Irish/Kiwi/Aussies would get it, Nth Americans wouldn't.
I'd drop the "a". Shorter is better. |
| Cheese_Ed |
Posted - 01/08/2008 : 22:48:22
To top means to kill? Well that tops it.
Off the top of my head I would have said, "Orange you mistaken?"
But I just looked in the Compact Oxford and if you carrot all here's the definition:
� verb (topped, topping) 1 be more, better, or taller than. 2 be at the highest place or rank in. 3 reach the top of (a hill, rise, etc.). 4 (usu. be topped) provide with a top or topping. 5 informal kill. 6 Golf mishit (the ball) by hitting above the centre of the ball.
You da man, Sal.
Now, if only there was a redhead in the film.  |
| turrell |
Posted - 01/08/2008 : 22:43:56
What about your beloved "Top of the Pops" is that what they're doing to Britney? |
| RockGolf |
Posted - 01/08/2008 : 21:57:53
Topper was a hitman? |
| Yukon |
Posted - 01/08/2008 : 20:28:57
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
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Originally posted by Salopian
Never heard of Carrot Top. It's a play on carrot tops (redheads). I'm not quite clear on you agreeing that the carrot is used as a weapon, but disagreeing that it is used to top someone. Do you think that the person attacked with the carrot survives? I cannot now remember, but at the time of submission I was reasonably sure that that was not the case.
I agree, Sal - but I'm also not sure the Americans know that to top someone means to kill them. I also agree that Carrot Tops is the more succint of the two. And that's it's a spot on review!
Top means to kill somebody? Canadians didn't know that either. The review seems a lot more clever now knowing that. |
| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 01/08/2008 : 19:21:13
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Originally posted by Salopian
Never heard of Carrot Top. It's a play on carrot tops (redheads). I'm not quite clear on you agreeing that the carrot is used as a weapon, but disagreeing that it is used to top someone. Do you think that the person attacked with the carrot survives? I cannot now remember, but at the time of submission I was reasonably sure that that was not the case.
I agree, Sal - but I'm also not sure the Americans know that to top someone means to kill them. I also agree that Carrot Tops is the more succint of the two. And that's it's a spot on review!
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