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While going round some bends, this thread reaches new heights  !
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or perhaps it was a red herring?
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While going round some bends, this thread reaches new heights
Like when a fish cycles up a mountain road?
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> Like when a fish cycles up a mountain road
John Denver's not good for the brain, Hilary!
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John Denver's not good for the brain
Watch it, Bub--John Denver is my all-time favorite singer,
more really for his attitude and song-writing than voice, however. He was wonderful, and I mourn for all the songs
he'll never write.
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John Denver is my all-time favorite singer, more really for his attitude and song-writing than voice, however. He was wonderful, and I mourn for all the songs he'll never write.Your meat is definitely my poison, Jackie. What do you get if you play a country record backwards? You get your woman back, your job back, and your house back. 
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All right, Max, I am not--quite--bristling up, on account of you not only being so sweet, but not from the U.S.
This is the second time you have said that music I like is
"country" music, and I cannot let this one pass. Here, the
definition of country music is a song that consists of, but is not limited to, a twangy dobro (yuck), a nasal, twangy
voice (yuck), and some variation on the theme: "well she done gone and left me, and I'm cryin' in my beer" (double yuck).
'Cool water', and most of John Denver's songs are what I call folk songs or ballads, something altogether different. I will admit that some of my hero's songs could sound "country" if performed in a different way by a different vocalist, but the way he sang them was not country singing. He loved his family, he loved the earth,
he loved life, and his songs praised and glorified all of those, even the sadder aspects. Do you know the words to
"Matthew"? His lyrics paint crystal-clear pictures, and tell some very poignant stories.
I could go on, but this soapbox is starting to get slippery from my tears.
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just a quick word of support for jackie here.
try "annie's song" out on your non-country speakers and then judge the man.
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I thought perhaps people would enjoy sharing some favorite similes that have been composed, or just read somewhere.
Forgive me, all, for returning to the original subject, but I just rediscovered what purports to be a list of winning entries in a "worst analogies ever written in an essay" contest. Here are just a few:
"She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again."
"Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze."
"The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease."
"John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met."
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this has been mentioned here before, but here is the "Lyttony of Grand Prize Winners" http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/lyttony.htm
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