A recent Washington Post Style Invitational contest asked us to “suggest some new movie ratings to warn against various objectionable aspects of films.”<\/p>\n
Here are my entries, one of which won me Second prize. Yippee!!! Can you guess which? (The answer will appear \u201cupside down\u201d at the end of this post.)<\/p>\n
Rated BYOJ: A comedy so unfunny, you should “Bring Your Own Jokes.”<\/p>\n
Rated DDM: “Dreadful Dramatic Music” can’t disguise the lack of a plot.<\/p>\n
Rated THU: Too Hard to understand.<\/p>\n
Rated WEF: Weird Enough to be Foreign.<\/p>\n
Rated PGD: Rated “Please Get Dressed” because it features barely clad actors who don’t exercise enough.<\/p>\n
Rated WOR: Way Over-Rated.<\/p>\n
Rated DBG: “Don’t Bring your Girlfriend,” if you ever want to see her again.<\/p>\n
Rated TVEFQT: Too Violent Even For Quenton Tarantino.<\/p>\n
Rated P2BP: Pretending to be Profound.<\/p>\n
Rated ZZZ: Impossible not to sleep through.<\/p>\n
Rated SHIT: Stay Home. It’s Terrible. <\/p>\n
And here (in upside down form) is the entry that won Second Prize:<\/p>\n
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