things to use as the tail end of an analogy

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thought for several confusing lines of text that the title of this thread was "things to use as the tail end of an apology"

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...like having a drink in each hand
...like jumping all over the jeopardy board
...like failing a drug test for eating a poppyseed bagel
...like being the only one to laugh at a joke your teacher made in class
...like we were thelma and louise driving into the canyon
...like dropping your meal on the ground
...words cannot adequately how sorry i am for everything. oops got confused again

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...like not nicknaming your pokemon

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...like coming back to the site after you told everyone you were leaving

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

practicing organ at midnight core

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what "...like picking at a scab" lacks in novel writership it makes up for in multiemotional tenderness

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...like the last few weeks of living somewhere when you have finalized plans to leave

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...like having a conversation with an acquaintance who doesn't know it's your birthday

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...like putting the wrapper in your drink and throwing away the straw

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...like the honest labor of getting the wordle in 6

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...like a book club that dissolves after the first book

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...like the scrapes one earns in childhood from an afternoon of unflinching play

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Spoiler: cw needle

...like horrifying ricky gervais by pushing a needle through your arm

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...like the first time the detective opens his mouth in knives out

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...like still not having listened to the new mitski album but choosing to actively continue queueing up e.g. "Geyser"

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...like having to enable pop-ups in order to allow safe passage for a desired pop-up

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...like the feeling of having chosen the better option on a restaurant menu than the other person

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i never really liked the book but i very often find myself in situations where i think its "...like the giver"

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...like the 70th like on a youtube comment

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...like this video

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...like extraneous automatic flushing, falsely detected

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...like a meteorologist in a comedic situation

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...like giving up your spot in line to join a friend in the back

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...like when a vlog manages to be creatively groundbreaking

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...like watching an event through the phone presently recording it

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...like looking up a proper noun from a book and finding out that it was invented for the book

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...like an American opera

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...like the dizziness of finding yourself in a rapidly rekindled relationship

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Dats what i do over there too

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...like saying good morning at 12:30

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...like the discomfort of finding one's own writing unrecognizable

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...like triumphantly answering the phone when your friend calls to help you find it

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...like touching a bike chain

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...like when the audience knows more about the thing than the speaker

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...like the collective zipping up of backpacks

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...like a lawyer's rumpled suit

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...like being a fan of trader joe's

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...like saying "underwater basket weaving" dismissively

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this, of course, analogizing only to acts of Pure Evil

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...like Scheherazade

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...like using your phone in the bath

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...like a sandcastle's fall

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...like a pinned insect

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...like discussion questions at the end of a book

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...like an ambulance at a gas station

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...like car conversation with your mother

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...like a movie about struggling actors

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...like a nice, ripe aubergine early in the morning.

really liked this one