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Entry: Apple Bobbing - A87880107
Author: Bluebottle - U43530

A topical Flea Market Rescue of:

Entry: A586965 - Bobbing for Apples
Author: vogonpoet - U174321

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Nicely polished Entry

Good entry!

A few tiny tweaks:

Apples a plenty -->
Apples aplenty

there are slightly messier, but undeniably humorous second option

-- the grammar of this needs to be sorted. It starts out talking about something plural but changes to a singular second option.

Following this, suggest doughnut-bobbing

-- I think this would be better as:

Following this, we suggest doughnut-bobbing

It was supposed that the better you are at apple bobbing, the more likely you'd soon get married and be fruitful2.

-- The grammar of this is wrong. "you are" doesn't match with "you would".

-->
It was supposed that the better you were at apple bobbing, the more likely you'd soon get married and be fruitful2.

Thanks for the tweaks, all applied.
Out of curiosity, how widespread is Apple Bobbing? I certainly often saw it growing up, but normally associated with late summer and Bonfire Night – we didn't celebrate Halloween..

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It was certainly common in Ireland at Halloween when I was a child but I haven't heard of it recently. Nobody thinks of apples as a treat only available at one time of the year now.

Lovely rescue thank you BB

GB

This entry was well worth rescuing.

It's a pity apple bobbing seems to have gone out.

Nice rescue

I saw Apple Bobbing once when I was a child, but it wasn't my idea of fun. I therefore haven't been looking out for it since then, but it does seem to have gone out of fashion, that nobody mentioned it at the Apple Festival I helped at at the end of September...

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Well done vogonpoet!

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Nice work

GB

It zoomed through Peer Review, that did

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