Great Metaphors of our time

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>>Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two other
> > sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
> >
> > 2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances
> > like underpants in a tumble dryer.
> >
> > 3. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a
> > bowling ball wouldn't.
> >
> > 4. McMurphy fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a paper bag
> > filled with vegetable soup.
> >
> > 5. Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.
> >
> > 6. Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the
> > centre
> >
> > 7. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
> >
> > 8. He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
> >
> > 9. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you
> > fry them in hot grease.
> >
> > 10. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across
> > the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one
having
> > left York at 6:36 p.m. travelling at 55 mph, the other from
> > Peterborough at 4:19p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
> >
> > 11. The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the full stop after
> > the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can.
> >
> > 12. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who
> > had also never met.
> >
> > 13. The thunder was ominous sounding, much like the sound of a thin
> > sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a
> > play.
> >
> > 14. The red brick wall was the colour of a brick-red crayon.
> >
> > 15. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap,
> > only one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut.
> >
> > 16. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
> >
> > 17. The plan was simple, like my mate Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan
> > just might work.
> >
> > 18. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not
> > eating for while.
> >
> > 19. "Oh, Jason, take me!" she panted, her breasts heaving like a
> > student on 31p-a-pint night.
> >
> > 20. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck either,
> > but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a
land
> > mine or something.
> >
> > 21. Her artistic sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can
> > tell butter from "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter."
> >
> > 22. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog
> > makes just before it throws up.
> >
> > 23. The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender
> > leg behind her, like a dog at a lamppost.
> >
> > 24. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated
> > because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a
> > surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free cashpoint.
> >
> > 25. The dandelion swayed in the gentle breeze like an oscillating
> > electric fan set on medium.
> >
> > 26. It was a working class tradition, like fathers chasing kids around
> > with their power tools.
> >
> > 27. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells,
> > as if she were a dustcart reversing.
> >
> > 28. She was as easy as the Daily Star crossword.
> >
> > 29. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was
> > room-temperature British beef.
> >
> > 30. She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.
> >
> > 31. Her voice had that tense, grating quality, like a first-generation
> > thermal paper fax machine that needed a band tightened.
> >
> > 32. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it
> > to the wall.
> >
> >


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New Darwin Awards ?

For Stupidity :-

The Darwin Awards are out!!!!

For those that don't know, the Darwin awards are given
out every year and are to showcase the stupidity of
humanity. Usually the awards go to people who killed
or maimed themselves in the most ludicrous but it
isn't exclusive. It sounds gruesome but read on. T'is funny:

1). A young Canadian man, searching for a way of getting drunk cheaply,
because he had no money with which to buy alcohol, mixed gasoline with
milk. Not surprisingly, this concoction made him ill, and he vomited
into the fireplace in his house. This resulting explosion and fire
burned his house down, killing both him and his sister.

2). A 34-year-old white male found dead in the basement of his home died
of suffocation, according to police. He was approximately 6'2" tall and
weighed 225 pounds. He was wearing a pleated skirt, white bra, black
and white saddle shoes, and a woman's wig. It appeared that he was
trying to create a schoolgirl's uniform look. He was also wearing a
military gas mask that had the filter canister removed and a rubber hose
attached in its place. The other end of the hose was connected to one
end of a hollow wooden tube approx. 12" long and 3" in diameter. The
tube's other end was inserted into his rectum for reasons unknown, and
was the cause of his suffocation. Police found the task of explaining
the circumstances of his death to his family very awkward.

3). Three Brazilian men were flying in a light aircraft at low altitude
when another plane approached. It appears that they decided to moon the
occupants of the other plane, but lost control of their own aircraft
and crashed. They were all found dead in the wreckage
with their pants around their ankles.

4. A police officer in Ohio responded to a 911 call. She had no details
before arriving, except that someone had reported that his father was
not breathing. Upon arrival, the officer found the man face down on the
couch naked. When she rolled him over to check for a pulse and to start
CPR, she noticed burn marks around his genitals. After the ambulance
arrived and removed the man - who was declared dead on arrival at the
hospital - the police made a closer inspection of the couch, and noticed
that the man had made a hole between the cushions. Upon flipping the
couch over, they discovered what had caused his death. Apparently, the
man had a habit of putting his penis between the cushions, down into
the hole and between two electrical sanders (with the sandpaper
removed, for obvious reasons). According to the story, after his orgasm
the discharge shorted out one of the sanders, electrocuting him.

5. A 27-year-old French woman lost control of her car on a highway near
Marseilles and crashed into a tree, seriously injuring her passenger
and killing herself. As a commonplace road accident, this would not
have qualified for a Darwin nomination, were it not for the fact that
the driver's attention had been distracted by her Tamagotchi key ring,
which had started urgently beeping for food as she drove along. In an
attempt to press the correct buttons to save the Tamagotchi's life, the
woman lost her own.

6 A 22-year-old Reston, VA, man was found dead after he tried to use
octopus straps to bungee jump off a 70-foot railroad trestle. Fairfax
County police said Eric Barcia, a fast-food worker, taped a bunch of
these straps together, wrapped one end around one foot, anchored the
other end to the trestle at Lake Accotink Park, jumped and hit the
pavement. Warren Carmichael, a police spokesman, said investigators
think Barcia was alone because his car was found nearby. "The length of
the cord that he had assembled was greater than the distance between
the trestle and the ground" Carmichael said. Police say the apparent
cause of death was "major trauma".

7 A man in Alabama died from rattlesnake bites. It seems that he and a
friend were playing a game of catch, using the rattlesnake as a ball.
The friend - no doubt a future Darwin Awards candidate - was
hospitalised.

8. Employees in a medium-sized warehouse in west Texas noticed the
smell of a gas leak. Sensibly, management evacuated the building
extinguishing all potential sources of ignition; lights, power,etc.
After the building had been evacuated, two technicians from the gas
company were dispatched. Upon entering the building, they found they
had difficulty navigating in the dark. To their frustration, none of the
lights worked. Witnesses later described the sight of one of the
technicians reaching into his pocket and retrieving an object that
resembled a cigarette lighter. Upon operation of the lighter like
object, the gas in the warehouse exploded, sending pieces if it up to
three miles away.

Nothing was found of the technicians,but the lighter was virtually
untouched by the explosion. The technician suspected of causing the
blast had never been thought of as 'bright' by his peers.

And now the winner: The latest nominee for this year's Darwin Award
(awarded to people for incredible feats of stupidity) goes to....

1. Based on a bet by the other members of his threesome, Everitt
Sanchez tried to wash his own "balls" in a ball washer at the local
golf course. Proving once again that beer and testosterone are a bad
mix, Sanchez managed to straddle the ball washer and dangle his scrotum
in the machine. Much to his dismay, one of his buddies upped the ante
by spinning the crank on the machine with Sanchez's scrotum in place,
thus wedging them solidly in the mechanism. Sanchez, who immediately
passed his threshold of pain, collapsed and tumbled from his perch.
Unfortunately for Sanchez,the height of the ball washer was more than a
foot higher off the ground than his testicles are in a normal stance,
and the scrotum was the weakest link. Sanchez's scrotum was ripped
open during the fall, and one testicle was plucked from him forever and
remained in the ball washer, while the other testicle was compressed
and flattened as it was pulled between the housing of the washer, and
the rotating machinery inside. To add insult to injury, Sanchez broke a
new $300.00 driver that he had just purchased from the pro shop, and
was using to balance himself. Sanchez was rushed to the hospital for
surgery, and the remaining threesome was asked to leave the course.

Nm --- promise


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They are wonderfully evocative - and funny. But, Learner, sorry to "rain on your parade" (which is a metaphor), most of these are similes.
 
Re: ? Best ever Darwin Award

Unfortunately has been debunked
but surely THE all-time classic

<<
Jet Assisted Take-Off
1995 Darwin Awards Winner

Confirmed Bogus by Darwin

The Arizona Highway Patrol were mystified when they came upon a pile of smoldering wreckage embedded in the side of a cliff rising above the road at the apex of a curve. The metal debris resembled the site of an airplane crash, but it turned out to be the vaporized remains of an automobile. The make of the vehicle was unidentifiable at the scene.

The folks in the lab finally figured out what it was, and pieced together the events that led up to its demise.

It seems that a former Air Force sergeant had somehow got hold of a JATO (Jet Assisted Take-Off) unit. JATO units are solid fuel rockets used to give heavy military transport airplanes an extra push for take-off from short airfields.

Dried desert lakebeds are the location of choice for breaking the world ground vehicle speed record. The sergeant took the JATO unit into the Arizona desert and found a long, straight stretch of road. He attached the JATO unit to his car, jumped in, accelerated to a high speed, and fired off the rocket.

The facts, as best as could be determined, are as follows:

The operator was driving a 1967 Chevy Impala. He ignited the JATO unit approximately 3.9 miles from the crash site. This was established by the location of a prominently scorched and melted strip of asphalt. The vehicle quickly reached a speed of between 250 and 300 mph and continued at that speed, under full power, for an additional 20-25 seconds. The soon-to-be pilot experienced G-forces usually reserved for dog-fighting F-14 jocks under full afterburners.

The Chevy remained on the straight highway for approximately 2.6 miles (15-20 seconds) before the driver applied the brakes, completely melting them, blowing the tires, and leaving thick rubber marks on the road surface. The vehicle then became airborne for an additional 1.3 miles, impacted the cliff face at a height of 125 feet, and left a blackened crater 3 feet deep in the rock.

Most of the driver's remains were not recovered; however, small fragments of bone, teeth, and hair were extracted from the crater, and fingernail and bone shards were removed from a piece of debris believed to be a portion of the steering wheel.

Ironically a still-legible bumper sticker was found, reading
"How do you like my driving? Dial 1-800-EAT-SHIT."



This Darwin Award is the most popular of all time. Considered true for years, it was later debunked as an Urban Legend by the Arizona Department of Public Safety. The story fooled the judges in 1995, so JATO has been grandfathered in as a Darwin Award Winner. Officer Bob Stein of the Arizona Department of Public Safety says, "I receive inquiries several times a day about accidents, drug busts, and investigations we are conducting. About two years ago I picked up the phone and researched the answer to what has now become an Arizona myth. Even after all this time, I still receive about five calls a month from people wanting to know, did it really happen?"

The author of the JATO legend would enjoy a cult notoriety were his identity known today. He is unknown; however, there are several who claim of ownership of the idea of strapping a jet engine onto a vehicle. One man's story of the JATO and the Railroad Cart is a 25,000- word essay on what NOT to do if your father own a scrapyard.

Keith Cody reports, "Steve Lubars called the Arizona Highway Patrol in July 1996 to research this story. According to Charles DeCarolis at the Arizona Department of Public Safety, "No such incident has ever been described in any Highway Patrol accident or crime scene reports," and he said I could quote him 'on the record.'"

etc etc >>
 
Welcome to the forum and its surreal (humour) ???????????

You must be a raggie to have added up both !! /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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Raggie? How dare you?

Thanks for the welcome. I was active a year or so back but then lost the plot - or found it. God! Things must be quiet if I can find time for all this.

The Darwin awards are .... [searching for words].... just indescribable! I've seen (some of) them before but they're just as funny second time round.

Cheers.
 
Learner should perhaps learn two precepts: (1) This is a boating web site; there exist hundreds of others for his style of output. (2) He should find out the difference between a metaphor and a simile.
 
Well stop cluttering up this boating forum with well worn arguements we've seen before. We already know your views on this topic, and you haven't added anything new
 
Ah thanks for putting us right about the purpoe of this site dickmeister. And there's me thinking that it's people with one common interst, boating, interacting with each other on a variety of subjects and having a bit of fun.

Bet you've got a wide circle of friends eh?
 
I totally agree with you this is a Motor Boat Chat site ...... and so should be restricted to exactly that - "Chat that you would expect to hear on a Motor Boat".

OK - I'm sure others may talk about different things but on my boat anything goes.

So role on ..................................... /forums/images/icons/crazy.gif well everything really - except we would not discuss what not to talk about - so you are out of line with me anyway. /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

Adrian
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Thanks

..I am actually going to wait until Monday before replying this time.

Maybe the hand cranker would like to meet up.

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