Machine Metaphors Gifts

Relationship counselor: 'She started behaving strangely, and our man-machine interface has become unpredictable.'

"Nation-building never works."

'WD-40 un-sticks things that should move and duct tape makes things that shouldn't move, stop.'

"National Metaphor Day by the looks of it."

"While we're on the subject of earnings, does anyone have a clever metaphor using the word, 'toilet'?"

'...she still can't manage a decent sports metaphor.'

"See what you get for thinking outside the fishbowl!"

"This merger is not producing the expected synergies."

Poetry repairman

Guru. It's not some kind of zen metaphor --- I really do have an invisible fence!

"I'm the bluebird of low expectations."

'Stick and Carrot Business Incentive Consultants.'

"Darling Elizabeth! How I long to hold you betwixt my giant industrial clamps."

'He's trying to fine-tune the economy again.'

'So push has come to shove...'

"I've been feeling a bit empty lately."

"Inside you there are two wolves..."

'This is the eight hundred and sixty-seventh day of my captivity - How about you?'

'Let's put it on the back burner for now. Give us both a chance to cool down.'

Metaphors.

"The AI art generator became self-aware, and now it just procrastinates and questions itself."

The corner that Spring's around

Childhood's End

'You talk in riddles!' 'I'M A POET!

Two plugged in lovers try to reach each other, and in doing so, become unplugged.

"It's true! I heard this Bedouin boy calling us "ships of the desert". What on earth is a ship?"

'This citation is for finally making that U-Turn in your life.'

"Behaviour is the mirror in which everyone shows their image." Johann Walfgang von Goethe. An Antifa person lookign in the mirror with the reflection being a KKK member

'Why are women similar to a tropical hurricane? When they arrive they're wild and warm, when they leave they take your house.'

Thinking outside the box (or shell).

Writing about scientific progress in 1675, Isaac Newton said " If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." This metaphor is now commonly used to make the point that scientific advances are made using a foundation built by the work of those who came before. That Newton guy was right, you can see further when you're on the shoulders of Giants. I just wonder if he was talking about the players from the football Giants or the baseball Giants. Ernie is a much bigger fan

'Would you knock it off with the 'woulda-coulda-shoulda'!'

Car driving comes upon fork in road.

'One day, this will make a wonderful metaphor.'

Woman says treadmill reminds her of her life.