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"Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze."
Thanks, for that, Marty - a great laugh was just what I needed to help restore my bonhomie after a 12 hour blackout.
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"Lyttony of Grand Prize Winners"
Brilliant! Thank you, tsuwm
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Forgive me, all, for returning to the original subject
But the endless charm of this string is the tendency to lurch around a bend as sickening as a fairground ride, yet periodically return to topic with the sudden flick of attention like one of those strange sticky green things that grab your ankles when coming through a clearing in the middle of the jungle whilst on holiday but lost somewhere deep in the rainforests of South America.
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>What do you get if you play a country record backwards? You get your woman back, your job back, and your house back.
Of course all art forms are open to a little un-ravelling.
Take some of these songs/genres backwards and insert the following phrase:
Opera – eg La Traviata
“So the doctor said, “take these new antibiotics, they will do you a world of good”…..”
Blues –
“So I decided that springing out of bed on a lovely sunny day was so important to me that I should give up women and alcohol …”
Folk – eg Simon & Garfunkle’s “Homeward Bound”
“I was always grateful that my parents steered me into a happy and successful job in the Civil Service …”
Stevie Wonder’s “Isn’t she Lovely?”
“My wife was very pleased with the new contraceptive prescribed by the doctor….”
Songs by Leonard Cohen
“So I took the Prozac and everything seemed a lot brighter …”
Songs by Barry Manilow
“Participating in team sports has always been very important to me, I’ve never had much time to spend with members of the opposite sex …”
Heavy Metal
“I grew to love quiet natural sounds, the bee humming as it hovered over the flowers, the gentle trickle of water in a stream ….”
Rap
“I’ve always found that speaking slowly and clearly is the best way to be understood …”
Country and Western – Eg Tammy Wynette
“The divorce was really quite straightforward ….”
or
“I headed off to the bright lights of New York to take up a career in banking … ”
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>try "annie's song" out on your non-country speakers and then judge the man.
But his grasp of geography was suspect at best. His song about West Virginia implies quite strongly that the Shenandoah River is in WV. Take a close look at a US map. The total length of the Shenandoah, North and South branches and then Shenandoah itself, is about 300 miles. Only the last five miles or so is in WV. The vastly greater part is in Virginia.
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Only the last five miles or so is in WV.
And the anchor man (cf YAT) holds only the last few yards of the rope. Nevertheless, he is still part of the team.
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But his grasp of geography was suspect at bestGRR! Ted, I am definitely bristled up, now! SO WHAT??? If part of the river is there, then it IS THERE!! Speaking of semantics: he didn't say the whole river was contained in WV, DID HE???? He certainly knew a lot about geography, sir! He wrote songs about Alaska, Africa, and did a TV special from Ayers Rock, because he had BEEN to these places, and more besides! OOOOH!  Do NOT malign my hero!
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Geez, I've bent 'round the nudge right along with my thread.
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along with my thread
Jackie, this lil' thread is gonna to run and run like a...
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I'd like to straighten out this thread by going back to the original subject of similes and then tie it in a knot with the Olympic (Australian) vocabulary.
HOw to do this? Insert one of my favourite pieces of Australian slang:
'I'll be off like a bucket of prawns in the sun.'
Yes, prawns, NOT shrimps.
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