things to use as the tail end of an analogy

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...like putting a tea bag in cold water [cross post]
...like putting ice in milk
...like covering a led zeppelin song
...like making a thread outside of speakeasy
...like making fun of conan o'brien
...like walking
...like being a fan of the la dodgers
...like being a fan of mcdonalds
...like being a fan of an insurance company [i've already used this [as i've used several of these] and it's to describe the deep embarrassment that comes from consistently liking movies from a24 and/or shows from hbo]

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maybe ...like being a fan of berkshire hathaway

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...like having ythan post in your thread

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...like the 'e' marvin gaye added to his last name

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...as if I were the Lindbergh baby all grown up and had arrived with my wife, Amelia Earhart.

mike reiss,

springfield confidential

page 150-something

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...like the way mobile game ads show their game being played in an obviously wrong way that makes you go "oogghh!!! no!!" so that you want to do it yourself

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like trying to figure out which web forum user sent me bjork

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like the ^_^ face [there is nothing that can be on the left side of this]

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...like we were two lovers forming from friction
...like we were hummingbirds screaming at ravens
[big thief,

lorraine

]

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...like putting kimchi in a stew
...like watching skinamarink while named kevin

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...like the beginning of 2001 a space odyssey
...like the end of 2001 a space odyssey

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...like putting bags in bags
...like the period of trying to be extremely nice to your cat after you accidentally step on it (and how this period kind of just lasts forever)

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...like the difference between playing a zachtronics game and just writing assembly code

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...like an illuminated exit sign you can see inside a small church at night

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...like finding your dad's keys on his birthday

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...like the horrifying intensity with which cats scratch themselves

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...like the relative ease of adding to someone else's discord reaction vs coming up with your own

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...like a moth that barely bounces off the top of your bottom lip while you're bicycling

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...like a chess grandmaster when they have the chance to move their bishop to a back rank [to be clear i'm imagining like frothing fanatical excitement with this]

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...like liking the prelude more than the fugue
...like in 2017 when i saw somebody ask "whats your favorite subforum" and killthestory said "speakeasy" and i was like huhhh cool what is that
...like the thing in movies where two characters with a language barrier magically become able to talk to each other for no reason as the movie goes on

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...like scabbing at a picket

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...like uninstalling lyft from your phone without having had to use it

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...like a cicada killer when it sees a cicada

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...like saying "i like this" about your own song in song game

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so this doesnt fit into my format exactly but like theres the way you mention curveballs and softballs as like an analogy for a kind of question and/or conversational interlude. and less attested there is like a hardball / maybe a fastball which is just like a straightforward difficult question e.g. should i get a divorce. and i'm thinking of maybe like a cut fastball would be a tough question that takes things in a slightly different direction than you thought. and a sinker would be something thats like more of a bummer than it initially sounded. i guess changeup already kind of tracks as a way to describe a question without needing to analogize to anything. 4 seam fastball would be like ok i'm actually just pretending to understand the different kinds of pitches... AS IS EVERYONE ELSE

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especially pitchers. no pitcher has ever known how they were throwing the ball before it left their hand

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whenever they do the little thing where they shake their head at the catcher's signs they're saying "i dont know what that is" "i dont know how to do that" "i think youre making that up" and then there's one they're like "ok i guess that one can be like my theoretical model"

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ok i'm screwing up my own thread uhh

...like zoinks scoob

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...like writing over eraser shreds

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like the word prediction in this blurb

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...like the soreness you get in your lips from salt

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...like getting off the train at different stops

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...like having to explain without an example

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...like the vegetable fixings on a veggie burger

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...like not knowing a trivia question in your area of study

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...like finding out whether your windshield wiper is off or intermittent

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...like the state of one's mouth after eating popcorn

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...like when its not raining hard enough for you to want to open the umbrella you're carrying

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like taking a shower and putting on the same clothes

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...like the eagerness to please of the second season of the simpsons

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...like a kid during a rest period at the pool

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...like a guy who looks kind of like jeffrey dahmer on halloween

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...like the water that is residually contained in a plunger

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[i got the flight at noon & i don't really give a fuck but i still spit] like i got something to prove

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...like the possessive form of you guys

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...like the difference of lighting in your room when there's snow on the ground

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...like sailing

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...like james gandolfini's loud breathing

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...like money given to a losing candidate in a primary

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...like eating more spicy food to get rid of the hot mouth feeling

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...like the hair of the dog that bit you

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...like a cy young winner streaming on twitch.............

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...like reading out the card from a gift in front of the gift giver

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like how chino moreno pronounces the word "care"

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...like specifying the other car was a tesla in your driving story

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...like an irish folk band who doesn't have a recording of wild mountain thyme

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...like the first ten seconds of a scene in jackass

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...like adam sandler's eyes

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...like the little pang of pain everybody seems to get from having to answer the 12 favorite players question

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...like the part of the show before the theme song

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...like jimmy stewart's voice

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...like unwrapping an airheads

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...like a leashed dog running at an angle

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...like the relationship youtube wants you to have with the like button

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I got about as much business with another mouth to feed as a cat has with side pockets.

claudia's mom in

the bluest eye

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And you look like the north side of a southbound mule.

miss china, ibid.

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The 205-pound (93 kg) Denis Potvin, a fellow hall of famer, compared attempting to hit Gretzky to "wrapping your arms around fog. You saw him but when you reached out to grab him your hands felt nothing, maybe just a chill."

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mary oliver or 205-pound (93 kg) hockey player

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...like hanging up a coat by the hood versus the loop near the top

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...like making eye contact with someone on the street who also happens to be smiling in that moment

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...like the interstitial music in arthur

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...like a group of daytime news reporters having an extended moment of silliness

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...like when they just wordlessly laugh at the show in the simpsons commentaries

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...like when the app instantly gulps down the verification code out of the notification somehow

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...like setting a cup of tea down on the ground

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the parallel play in terraria is so awesome. hellbooks and i would be like off doing our own things and occasionally noting "wow this is so pleasantly antisocial of us" and then we would eventually both come back to our spawn area which is like kitted out with geysers arrow traps and intractable architecture that we set up for ourselves

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...like the onset of confidence that this movie's just not gonna explain any of the shit that's been happening

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...like how hockey refs have to be good at skating

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wehh

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...like emotional resonance from poll questions

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...like a picture of a librarian

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...like using the white skin tone emojies

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...like telling someone to use context clues

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...like grabbing at your breast pocket and only finding a breast

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...like turning off a CRT tv

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...like the random spots in the air where a bunch of gnats congregate

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...like laughing at something meant as a satire of "this is the sort of thing people would laugh at"

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...like doing a good impression of someone who's also in the room

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...like the half-of-a-roll of a face of an apple which was just cut off