active_apathy

"You've hidden me several times now. Would you like to turn me off?"

Yes. Yes, yes! Oh god, yes. Yes, I would. Now, I'm not saying it won't be hard; rather, it'll be incredibly easy. Incredibly, incredibly easy.

I am, of course, talking for the moment about the hideously annoying paperclip found in MS Office. For many, many months now, I haven't had to even touch that particular assortment of poorly-written features and soul-devouring bugs, so it's been a special experience to have to start submitting essays and reports electronically as MS Word files.

I just thought it was worth mentioning that, just once, the paperclip offered to do something useful.

From there, we move on to the spectacularly brilliant ratings advice for the Ice Age sequel. What ratings advice? The advice that parental guidance is recommended on account of a mild sense of menace.

Now, I could write something mildly menacing, or I could rant endlessly about there even being a tickybox on their classification forms for mild senses of menace, but that's not where my mind wants to take this one.

Oh, no. Not at all. It makes me want to find out what exactly appears on the Office of Film and Literature Classification Menace Scorecard. Are there set criteria for mild menace? Is there medium menace? Hot and spicy menace? Original recipe menace (which involves unusual colours and varying levels of stellar rightness)? If you're accompanied by a puppy, does that help offset the level of menace?

And could I get these answers, and more, by mildly menacing those in the know?

Possibly even by use of murderous stick figures: