this is ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY...

NOT TRUE...

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it lies...

it should be 100%!

i love metaphor...

because it is intended to provide imagery about something or someone to provoke emphasis and add color. Sometimes it is used as a double entendre - having a couched meaning.

In today's Chicago Sun-Times, Neil Steinberg wrote about a trip he and his family took over spring break to the capitol of Illinois - Springfield. While looking for a hotel in the area to stay, he called an acquaintance at the local newspaper to inquire about lodgings. The person spoke of the main hotel in the city - the Hilton in metaphor -

"The Hilton is the most horrific piece of Freudian architecture you'll ever witness,..."

It is an apt description. Judge for yourself. Here is a photo.



Having stayed at the hotel quite a number of times in working for the state education department and attending conferences and conventions, I can, with great enthusiasm, tell you that the locals and those of us who have been to Springfield have a different metaphor for it. We refer to it as -



The Penis on the Prairie


needless to say, i prefer the local methaphor...

totally useless information...

Those of you who are on the youngish side will not comprehend the graphic organizer below. The rest of us will remember it as a sentence diagram. It was a way to identify parts of speech in English classes that research has proven taught absolutely nothing. Well, except how to make straight lines, maybe...



for anyone who doesn't recognize the sentence, it is the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution.

now, aren't you glad you know this?

i'm not................



[thanks QT]