things to use as the tail end of an analogy
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things to use as the tail end of an analogy
...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 threadLast edited by schadd_ on Mon Jul 31, 2023 12:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.-
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...like the 'e' marvin gaye added to his last name-
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mike reiss,...as if I were the Lindbergh baby all grown up and had arrived with my wife, Amelia Earhart.springfield confidentialpage 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
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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 relative ease of adding to someone else's discord reaction vs coming up with your own-
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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 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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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
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curren$y, "the final board" wrote:[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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