Comments on: Metaphors Be With You

By: Multiheaded

Multiheaded — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 01:57:13 +0000

It’s rare that a spambot starts with a polite and well-reasoned argument as to why we shouldn’t buy the advertised product.

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By: cat boutique

cat boutique — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 23:53:11 +0000

This is something which is frequently promoted by the business entities that profit from it,
but that in itself does not imply that we should all run out and buy the new Joan Brooks
cat clothes that just came on sale. Today, more and more cat lovers are
pampering their feline companions with pet apparel that include designer clothes,
costumes, coats, fancy collars, and jackets that are specially designed for cats.
Good examples of these materials are fleece, flannel, wool, cashmere, cotton, and polyester.

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By: Dindane

Dindane — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 17:25:46 +0000

“Causality is like a water-hungry front-yard lawn in Los Angeles: we know we want it, but it’s not easy to explain why.”
From an explanation of special relativity (and how Newton’s laws are time-symmetric) at
http://www.lightandmatter.com/html_books/0sn/ch07/ch07.html

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By: Rory O’Kane

Rory O’Kane — Sat, 10 May 2014 07:51:10 +0000

Here is the source for this quote of yours:

Rowling is as subtle as a large elephant with a big sign reading “I am subtle.”

– “MightyGodKing”, in So you don’t have to read it: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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By: Manfred Buehler

Manfred Buehler — Thu, 01 May 2014 23:00:35 +0000

I think this would be a fantastic addition to your collection: “Quacks are organic forms of artificial intelligence: They would not pass the Turing test applied to a physics conversation.”

Source: http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~siegel/quack.html

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By: Randy M

Randy M — Thu, 01 May 2014 15:37:30 +0000

Love it.

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By: Randy M

Randy M — Thu, 01 May 2014 15:36:28 +0000

Maybe “like showing up at a knife fight with a slightly crappeir knife, but also five buddies so equiped.”?

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By: Mike Blume

Mike Blume — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 20:30:40 +0000

“You’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.”

“What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?”

“You ask a glass of water.”

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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By: Mike Blume

Mike Blume — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 20:28:44 +0000

If you took a couple of David Bowies and stuck one of the David Bowies on the top of the other David Bowie, then attached another David Bowie to the end of each of the arms of the upper of the first two David Bowies and wrapped the whole business up in a dirty beach robe you would then have something which didn’t exactly look like John Watson, but which those who knew him would find hauntingly familiar.

Douglas Adams, So Long and Thanks For All the Fish

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By: Taymon A. Beal

Taymon A. Beal — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 18:57:20 +0000

I was surprised not to see this one on the list:

“Analogies are like sandwiches in that I’m making one now.”
—xkcd

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