Ciao review 100!!!

See, that's the beauty of the question... it's not necessarily a "food" question. You can make of it what you will!

I mean, beef's not much cop at eating bananas, is it?

set 1000 sides of beef down in front of a typewriter for 1000 years and you'll get nothing apart from a bad smell). Set 1000 monkeys down in front of a typewriter and it's just possible one of them will win a diamond.

Ciao's Favourite Member wrote:

set 1000 sides of beef down in front of a typewriter for 1000 years and you'll get nothing apart from a bad smell). Set 1000 monkeys down in front of a typewriter and it's just possible one of them will win a diamond.

I suspect that may have already happened - possibly several times.

I'm only 9 reviews away from my 100 - I'm thinking of asking Duke to supply me with 20 questions and cut out all the pleasantries of involving my CoT.

What do you think Dukey? Would you be up for that?

*tents fingers*

Sounds like an intriguing proposition, K.

How long is that likely to be?

This thread actually makes me a bit sad... I did an essay for my 100th. How sad is that? And I didn't even include a questionnaire in the end.

I did nothing for my 100th. I did, however, post a 128th review spectacular.

Tradition, shmadition.

Ciao's Favourite Member wrote:

*tents fingers*

Sounds like an intriguing proposition, K.

How long is that likely to be?

That would depend on the questions but I'd be surprised if it was a short one. You'd be forced to give it an SH and accuse me of too much waffle.

And if my bear got involved (as happened in the travel challenge I did) it could take hours to read. You might even change dot colour by the time you got to the end.

Ciao's Favourite Member wrote:

I did nothing for my 100th. I did, however, post a 128th review spectacular.

Tradition, shmadition.

Well, I'm a sentimentalist, what can I do...

Ciao's Favourite Member wrote:

I challenge you to write a diamond winning review on books, films OR music in less than 800 words.

If one of these actually exists I want to see it!
Preferably a film one.

berlioz wrote:

That's the complexity of the challenge (it's a double conundrum of getting past that).

Hyphenate like you've never hyphenated before.

Or do it in German. They have lots of really long words that mean the equivalent of lots of English words stuck together.

koshkha wrote:

How long is that likely to be?

That would depend on the questions but I'd be surprised if it was a short one. You'd be forced to give it an SH and accuse me of too much waffle.

And if my bear got involved (as happened in the travel challenge I did) it could take hours to read. You might even change dot colour by the time you got to the end.

Oops! What I meant was "How long will itt ake you to get to 99 reviews?" to give me an idea of how long I had to formulate some questions.

And... would you like these questions to be personal or Ciao-related?

Would you like them to be posted publicly or should I PM them to you?

Please see your messages for responses on the above. Shall we say 50:50 personal and ciao?

That'll do.

Hmm, how about a review on the last 99 reviews, on second thoughts perhaps not, that could be worse than the question idea.

How about an story/essay where I hve to include a number of things/ criteria?

Done that one before and it wasn't that successful.

What about a consumer review?

Ciao's Favourite Member wrote:

What about a consumer review?

Jeez, all my flattering you about what great Qs you come up with and then you go and blow it!

Not everyone has to do a "community" piece for their 100th, K.

Where's the individual thought?

I say do a makeup review!

Wake up! Grababrushandputalittlemakeup.

koshkha wrote:

Or do it in German. They have lots of really long words

That's true! Topiary is "Formschnittgärtnerei" in German. Or we have words like "Raucherzielbestätigung". Unfortunately I'm not able to explain what it is because I don't know and I never met anyone who has heard this word before. But it seems to exist. I found it at Frankfurt Airport:

The Polar One wrote:

Ciao's Favourite Member wrote:

I challenge you to write a diamond winning review on books, films OR music in less than 800 words.

If one of these actually exists I want to see it!
Preferably a film one.

I've written one

SaschaT wrote:

Or we have words like "Raucherzielbestätigung". Unfortunately I'm not able to explain what it is because I don't know and I never met anyone who has heard this word before. But it seems to exist. I found it at Frankfurt Airport:

Apparently, according to an internet translator, it means 'smoker confirmation'.

to be exact, literally translating each part of the word separately it would be "smoker target confirmation". I have no clue.

Sorry for being off-topic

Ciao's Favourite Member wrote:

What about a consumer review?

You know, that might not a bad idea afterall. I was thinking of writing a review in a category that I don't usually post. That would be more sensible