"To be sure, there are many places where talk of recession still seems as out of place as a diner trying to score a table at a trendy Los Angeles restaurant without reservations on a Saturday night."
I think there should be a law about the ratio of syllables in the two terms of a simile, with increasingly severe punishments for ratios less than 1:2.
"talk of recession" = 5
"a diner trying to score a table at a trendy Los Angeles restaurant without reservations on a Saturday night" = 33
punishment = death
On 3/21/08, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hats off to the famed American pop star Moby, whose Iraq War as Venus
> Flytrap, or "shark's mouth," was the most tortured of literally
> hundreds of tortured analogies tossed from press-conference folding
> tables and a St Ann's stage during Speak Up!: A Benefit Concert for
> Peace in Iraq and Justice at Home.
>
> http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2008/03/no_context_spea.php
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