Visual Metaphor Explorers Gifts

Graph leads down into egg with a big crack.

"Staff support"

Reading my Critics

"Puss in cement boots"

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

"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?"

"I see the White House didn't lower the flag to half staff."

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

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

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

A Poem about Sand

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

"Destroyers"

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

'Are those physical or metaphorical thunderclouds moving in.'

"I'm more interested in hearing about the eggs you're hiding from yourself."

"The elephant is in the OTHER room. I want to talk about the PENGUIN in the room."

"now let's try one without the tusks."

Ambitions...To Eat My Words: "Lobster, Fllet Steak, Peaches in Brandy."

If poets wrote road signs.

'I had a nest egg once, but I sat on it too long, and ended up with nothing but a frozen asset.'

The Nature Writer Writer.

"There are far too many balls in your court, Brintner!"

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

"I've fallen for you hook, line and really BIG sinker."

"he's out of the woods and resting comfortably in a sunlit glade."

"In the land of toast the butter is spread very thin."

Life can be beautiful, Al. But for you, the fly in the ointment is your self-loathing. So, my question to you is, what's the fly doing in the ointment? The backstroke!

Executive Coach: Specializing in sports metaphores.

English As A Second Language

"... And this, gentlemen, is our target for the next six months."

Broccoli reading: 'Coping with Anthropomorphism'.

"It's the new business model - my ideas have sex with your ideas."

'What's this, Dawkins?another of you 'visual metaphors'?'

A bird's song is trapped in a musical stave.