things to use as the tail end of an analogy

[schadd_]

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

[schadd_]

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

miss china, ibid.

[Ythan]

I've heard that second one, I wonder if that's where they got it.

[hellbooks]

...like a meteorologist in a comedic situation

[hellbooks]

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

[Jake The Wolfie]

...like being the secret 3rd act in an HBomberGuy video

[Jake The Wolfie]

..like ego-posting in a necro game.

[T3]

…like signing up for a study that measures the effects of UBI and being assigned to the control group

[Jake The Wolfie]

..like quotations around one's job title.

[Cook]

...like a haunted house in june

[tris]

... like watching tv through a neighbor's window.

[Cook]

...like watching

The Neighbor

through a TV window

[light_ganski]

...like doing mathematics on acid

[hellbooks]

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

[Jake The Wolfie]

..like an entire kingdom's servants being blind

[hellbooks]

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

[Ythan]

I do that with the sun.

[schadd_]

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."

[schadd_]

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

[schadd_]

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

[schadd_]

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

[hellbooks]

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

[Jake The Wolfie]

...

Like a Virgin

[schadd_]

...like the interstitial music in arthur

[hellbooks]

...like an American opera