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Demisemicenturian 
"Four ever European"
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 Posted - 01/08/2008 : 12:20:56
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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. |
Edited by - Demisemicenturian on 01/08/2008 12:30:28 |
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benj clews 
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Posted - 01/08/2008 : 12:23:09
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| Keep the first one. It's shorter, snappier, funnier. |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 01/08/2008 : 12:24:11
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| I like "Carrot tops" better (although I might have put a comma in). |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 01/08/2008 : 12:28:41
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
I might have put a comma in.
It wouldn't then make any sense. 
Yes, that was my original preference (hence my first submission), but I had started to think that it was just too incomprehensible without seeing the film. Assuming others think the same as you/early me, I'll report the second (as I'm also assuming that it was not the same person who voted for them both). |
Edited by - Demisemicenturian on 01/08/2008 12:29:08 |
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benj clews
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Posted - 01/08/2008 : 12:37:32
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
I might have put a comma in.
It wouldn't then make any sense.
Yes, that was my original preference (hence my first submission), but I had started to think that it was just too incomprehensible without seeing the film. Assuming others think the same as you/early me, I'll report the second (as I'm also assuming that it was not the same person who voted for them both).
I don't believe anyone seriously comes to this site to read fwfrs on films they haven't seen. I'd say the majority of submissions here rely on you having seen the film, so don't let someone not having seen the film affect your decision. |
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Yukon
"Co-editor of FWFR book"
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Posted - 01/08/2008 : 12:48:51
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I'm with Benj.
Shorter is almost almost better. Go with two words over three. |
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 01/08/2008 : 13:16:34
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Originally posted by Yukon
Shorter is almost almost better.
My "irony detection alarm" just started beeping. 
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Ali 
"Those aren't pillows."
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Posted - 01/08/2008 : 13:30:38
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Keep the first one.
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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 01/08/2008 : 16:26:22
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| I wouldn't use the article, go with Carrot tops. |
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Cheese_Ed 
"The Provolone Ranger"
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Posted - 01/08/2008 : 18:18:02
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I get that it's a play on Carrot Top (one of the world's finest comedians  ) but the review doesn't make much sense to me in the context of the film. OK, the protagonist eats carrots and uses then as weapons a couple times, how is that equal to the carrot topping something or somebody?
How about "Carrot stops."? The play on words is weaker but it makes more sense for the film. |
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 01/08/2008 : 19:12:37
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| 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. |
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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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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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Yukon
"Co-editor of FWFR book"
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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. |
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RockGolf
"1500+ reviews. 1 joke."
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Posted - 01/08/2008 : 21:57:53
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| Topper was a hitman? |
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turrell
"Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh "
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Posted - 01/08/2008 : 22:43:56
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| What about your beloved "Top of the Pops" is that what they're doing to Britney? |
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Cheese_Ed
"The Provolone Ranger"
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Posted - 01/08/2008 : 22:48:22
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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. |
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Which review shall I delete?
