Simile in the Sky

[fearfaoin]

[Nanohedron]

It lifts and separates? I smell a PROCTological issue.

No. I didn't just now say that.

[peeplj]

It lifts and separates? I smell a PROCTological issue.

No. I didn't just now say that.

I'd say that the words proctological and smell don't ever belong in the same sentence!

--James

[fearfaoin]

It lifts and separates?

Oh! How embarrassing, that was supposed to be "Smilie in the Sky".

[fearfaoin]

Semolina in the Sky?

[Denny]

printing?

do ya have to use a helicopter for that?

[MTGuru]

Like a wonderbra? Sure, who doesn't!

[MTGuru]

Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that ’s almost in shape of a camel?
Polonius: By the mass, and ’t is like a camel, indeed.
Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel.
Polonius: It is backed like a weasel.
Hamlet: Or like a whale?
Polonius: Very like a whale.

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Very Like a Whale

One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by the authors of simile and metaphor.
Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons or Celts,
Can't seem just to say that anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.
What does it mean when we are told
That that Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold?
In the first place, George Gordon Byron had enough experience
To know that it probably wasn't just one Assyrian, it was a lot of Assyrians.
However, as too many arguments are apt to induce apoplexy and thus hinder longevity.
We'll let it pass as one Assyrian for the sake of brevity.
Now then, this particular Assyrian, the one whose cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold,
Just what does the poet mean when he says he came down like a wolf on the fold?
In heaven and earth more than is dreamed of in our philosophy there are great many things.
But I don't imagine that among them there is a wolf with purple and gold cohorts or purple and gold anythings.
No, no, Lord Byron, before I'll believe that this Assyrian was actually like a wolf I must have some kind of proof;
Did he run on all fours and did he have a hairy tail and a big red mouth and big white teeth and did he say Woof Woof?
Frankly I think it is very unlikely, and all you were entitled to say, at the very most,
Was that the Assyrian cohorts came down like a lot of Assyrian cohorts about to destroy the Hebrew host.
But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them,
With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to people they say Oh yes, they're the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.
That's the kind of thing that's being done all the time by poets, from Homer to Tennyson;
They're always comparing ladies to lilies and veal to venison,
And they always say things like that the snow is a white blanket after a winter storm.
Oh it is, is it, all right then, you sleep under a six-inch blanket of snow and I'll sleep under a half-inch blanket of unpoetical blanket material and we'll see which one keeps warm,
And after that maybe you'll begin to comprehend dimly
What I mean by too much metaphor and simile.

Ogden Nash

[djm]

I just hate the way Ogden Nash tries to fold wolves so much I could crease him.

djm

[izzarina]

What is the significance of the American flag in the picture? Do only Americans wear Wonderbras? Or are they comparing the flag to a Wonderbra? I'm totally confused.

[Innocent Bystander]

Like a wonderbra? Sure, who doesn't!

Metonomy.

[fearfaoin]

What is the significance of the American flag in the picture? Do only Americans wear Wonderbras? Or are they comparing the flag to a Wonderbra? I'm totally confused.

It's just where the person happened to be
when he took the picture, I assume. Not
everything is significant. For example, the
tree to the left doesn't represent the way
one might sway in the breeze without said
miraculous garment.

This is the original pic, I just photoshopped
the rest because I needed a simile. Perhaps
the flag flies above the Wonderbra factory?



Speaking of juxtaposition, and textiles, when
I used to drive to visit my parents, I passed
through the town of Asheboro. Just visible
from I-85 was a factory whose sign boasted
the Sara Lee corporate logo. Next to that, in
a plain font, was the word "Underwear". I
always thought that must be where the make
the edible kind. Turns out Sara Lee used to
own Hanes. How boring.

[gonzo914]

Oh, to be a triglyph, now that metonymy is here.

(Or something like that.)

[Nanohedron]

It lifts and separates? I smell a PROCTological issue.

No. I didn't just now say that.

I'd say that the words proctological and smell don't ever belong in the same sentence!

--James

I hope you noted my choice of the word "issue", too.

[brewerpaul]

What is the significance of the American flag in the picture? Do only Americans wear Wonderbras? Or are they comparing the flag to a Wonderbra? I'm totally confused.

Both the flag and a wonderbra are uplifting...