Metaphor Enthusiasts Gifts

Since I don't understand sports, I have no metaphors to use for our business situation.'

It's more about the journey for me!

Al, what advice would you give me as I begin my journey on the highway of adulthood? Pull over onto the shoulder and pretend you have engine trouble. With luck, a beautiful female mechanic will stop to help.

I'm fixated on the question of flossing. It's such a valuable metaphor. Why? We, our generation, we're such short-term thinkers. We want immediate gratification. Why would we ever floss? Why take precious, painful seconds? It's not like showering or cleaning up your house. The implications can't be felt immediately. This one's got me tied up, sir! Exactly how I feel about the deficit!!!

Information. If you can't put toothpaste back in the tube, how did it get there in the first place?

'We don't think of it as an investment but as a metaphor.'

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

'The whole universe maybe just an atom underneath a giants fingernail...'

'No, I didn't sow them - we had a pop concert here last year.'

'They're talking about us again, and you won't believe the things they're saying!'

"To me, baseball is a metaphor for football."

The face mask

Reading my Critics

Why we need poetry. . .

Race track - with the race being to apply the white lines between lanes

Nails pinning down the hammer that usually strikes them.

"He was a big man, but he moved like a cat."

Henrik Ibsen,

'I'd put it on the back burner, but the stove's been repossessed.'

"We had a brainstorm - I hope it's a brainchild."

'Not now, dear, I'm trying to listen to the Muse.'

'When I said I would move mountains for you, it was just a figure of speech!'

"You know what I think, babe? Seven on the Richter scale."

"Honestly, I thought you were a metaphor."

Out of control

When Tia Carmen says... "A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner" it means "I can fix it with a hammer."

A Poem about Sand

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

'Are we watching business news or sports news?'

"Good news. You know that elephant in the room we never talk about? He's now in the other room."

Rats deserting a sinking ship

"I'm the bluebird of low expectations."

'I don't suppose I need to remind anyone that when I use the term 'bite the bullet,' I mean it metaphorically.'

'Stick and Carrot Business Incentive Consultants.'

'Are those physical or metaphorical thunderclouds moving in.'