metaphors

Beavers, Beavers & More Beavers...

Hello fellow Mounties,I picked Canada because I hear there's a lot of beavers in them there parts... And that's something along the lines of what cheeses me off here. There's a TV ad here...

Too Many Metaphors?

Now I am a big sports fan, but I notice this more and more with my boss. He's just someone who totally overuses sports metaphors when talking to us. It's okay for me, cause I get them, but it's funny...

do you like the song:hotel california? what do you think of it? thank you .

i like this song:hotel california very much. it is a wonderful song. but today someone told me that this song have a terrible story. but after i listen again and again, i still couldn't understand...

internet culture . . . . . .

We have geographically based cultures ....is cyber culture a culture in the same way??? Do we have rituals? Communities???? Lots to think about here ....

Parables of the Kingdom.....

A Parable is a sort of "extended metaphor;" a comparison; illustrating spiritual things by ordinary. Roughly speaking, parables, are stories to illustrate certain truths. What is your idea of a...

Sam Zell Burns Boats On Shore Of New Tribune World! [Capitalism And Its Discontents]

Tim Rutten's last media column for the LA Times is about the purchase of the paper's parent company by Sam Zell:[W]hen Cortés landed on the shores of the New World, he burned his ships so that his...

There is a video of a young girl vogueng ... [Songs Of Innocence]

There is a video of a young girl vogueng in her living room while her dog does something filthy to a plush snake toy in the background that somehow seems to embody the way Americans of a certain age...

There is a video of a young girl voguing ... [Songs Of Innocence]

There is a video of a young girl voguing in her living room while her dog does something filthy to a plush snake toy in the background that somehow seems to embody the way Americans of a certain age...

How to Own the Incredible Influence of a 65th Crayon

When I was little, I used to play with crayons. They were like people to me. In some ways, crayons helped form my philosophy of life. Now sometimes I think of people as if they are crayons. For me,...

This Week In Commenter Redundancies

Hey, remember when the owner of the Washington Bullets changed the team's name to the Washington Wizards? Because he suddenly realized that bullets kill and violence is bad? Given the events earlier...