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Best Analogy Evar™

Bobdude161

Bobdude161

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I was wondering what daily analogies that you use everyday. Kinda dumb subject but I thought I would just share mine.

Prairie Doggin' - A point in time where one is on the verge of soiling their drawers.

Think about it...

What say you?
 
I thought an anology was...

apple is to fruit
as
dog is to animal

you know SAT thingies.

Isn't your thing just a saying you use. *confuzzled* o_O
 
"You're about as useful as a poopie flavored lollypop!"

one of my favorite movie line analogies.

Prairie doggin' isn't an analogy....

D
 
Bobdude161 said:
Prairie Doggin' - A point in time where one is on the verge of soiling their drawers.
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=Touching cloth
=(To have) head of the tortoise

I think you mean euphemism. The best source for those is, as any true Englishman with a sense of humour will tell you, Viz. Here's a list from their 'profanisaurus'.

So how many Viz readers here? ;)
 
Mr. Anderson said:
"You're about as useful as a poopie flavored lollypop!"

one of my favorite movie line analogies.

Prairie doggin' isn't an analogy....

D
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That's not an analogy either. It's a simile.
 
MrSmith said:
=Touching cloth
=(To have) head of the tortoise

I think you mean euphemism. The best source for those is, as any true Englishman with a sense of humour will tell you, Viz. Here's a list from their 'profanisaurus'.

So how many Viz readers here? ;)
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VIZ RULES!!! Yea! ;)
 
A euphanism is like this... "Fussy eater, a euphanism for a big, pain in the butt". An analogy (kinda like a metaphore) is like this "I drop hits like Tony does tricks, a blizzard on a down, a king dawned his crown, euphoric words like the winters dance, words sewn, take them now, don't lose the chance!"

I drop hits, rhymes, like Tony Hawk does tricks, basically a comparison of two similar things, like "Diamonds shine like a car's new paint, the sun reflects, it's all but faint" Like a simile.
 
apfhex said:
Analogies are what you see on Star Trek. "It's like souring the milk!"
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Episode: Galaxy's Child (TNG)

and i always thought star trek was an allegory, not an analogy ;) :rolleyes:
 
Most people are giving similes, metaphors, or euphemisms. An analogy is a comparison between to things to explain or clarify. Here's an example:

"Opposition to the war is like a balloon. It keeps growing and growing, and eventually it's going to pop and all hell will break loose."

apfhex's Star Trek example was a good one, too. But Rapmastac1, all yours are similes because they are for description, not explanation or clarification. Diamonds do not shine like a car's new paint. They might look similar, but diamonds shine in a very different way.
 
apfhex said:
Analogies are what you see on Star Trek.
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I had no idea analogies were so sexy.

captain-kirk.jpg


Back on topic -- it's only a euphemism if it's using a more pleasant phrase to hide an uglier phrase, which I'm not sure is entirely true. It's almost more of a weird, highly localized idiom.
 
Rapmastac1 said:
A euphanism is like this... "Fussy eater, a euphanism for a big, pain in the butt". An analogy (kinda like a metaphore) is like this "I drop hits like Tony does tricks, a blizzard on a down, a king dawned his crown, euphoric words like the winters dance, words sewn, take them now, don't lose the chance!"
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Not too convinced that that's an analogy either. Looks more like you've jut got out a rhyming dictionary and made a bunch of similes.

"Blizzard on a down?" "King dawned his crown?" What does all that mean? How is a King donning his crown have anything to do with you dropping "hits"?

The bit about euphoric words and not losing a chance doesn't really have anything at all to do with the first bit.

What exactly were you trying to do here?
 
Bobdude161 said:
I was wondering what daily analogies that you use everyday. Kinda dumb subject but I thought I would just share mine.

Prairie Doggin' - A point in time where one is on the verge of soiling their drawers.

Think about it...

What say you?
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To me, prairie dogging has always been what happens when something unexpected happens in a cube farm and everyone pops their head up to see what's going on.
 
Hmm I think my favorite (from some author... can't remember which one) is :
Their strategy had all the vision and foresight of a well oiled weather vane.
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I often use it, it just fits so many situations I see.
 
Lau's Link said:
He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
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Freaking brilliant.

I haven't laughed so hard in a long time -- you made my night! :D

This, by the way, is the best thread evar™, for so many diffferent reasons.
 
thedude110 said:
Freaking brilliant.

I haven't laughed so hard in a long time -- you made my night! :D

This, by the way, is the best thread evar™, for so many diffferent reasons.
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Heh!

It was a random google hit, but I think has become one of my favourite links of all time. There's a certain poetic beauty to some — the one you quoted is almost a bit Richard Brautigan, in a way. :D Obviously, they're all also absolutely frickin' hilarious. :p
 
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