Metaphorical Thinker Prints

"No matter what Mr Jones, I am sure we can pull you through!"

"Nation-building never works."

Reading my Critics

"Why is there so much emphasis put on our stupid race?" "I think people are more interested in it as a metaphor than as an actual race." "Slow and steady wins the race, that sort of thing." "That would explain why I always lose..." "Bartender, another please." "Maybe you should slow down." "You never learn do you?"

The Reason Ed isn't mentioned in the bible.

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

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

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

Sisyphus visits Stowe

"Hello - I'm from the future..."

Sisyphus and coronavirus

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

Out of control

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

'I want to find out what the formula was I wrote yesterday on the blackboard and was erased by the custodian.'

"The moon, the dinner, dancing. How could this night be more perfect?"

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

"Honestly, I thought you were a metaphor."

A Poem about Sand

Id/Ego/Superego.

'Are we watching business news or sports news?'

"Rapunzel,Rapunzel.Throw down your accounts for the last fiscal year!"

A voodoo doctor.

"OK, now what's the meaning of the other eight?"

"Oh my goodness. My lecture on John Donne has just been awarded Most Pizzazzy Metaphysical Lecture of the Year."

Priest with the Pet Devil.

"I'm the bluebird of low expectations."

Rats deserting a sinking ship

'I know you don't belong here, but if we let you go to Heaven, we couldn't not guarantee your safety.'

'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.'

"Naturally you have trouble getting in touch with your innermost feelings. You're a hollow choclate bunny."