Your Favorite Mixed Metaphors

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Your Favorite Mixed Metaphors

Post by Chai Guy » Wed Feb 11, 2004 4:08 pm

“I always like to beef up these vegetarian dishes with a little broccoli.”

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Post by theCryptofishist » Tue Aug 16, 2005 1:01 pm

This thread sank to the bottom of the pond like a lead ballon...
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Post by ThePikey » Tue Aug 16, 2005 6:20 pm

You can beat a dead horse with an ugly stick, but you can't make him drink.

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Post by AntiM » Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:27 am

He's not the brightest bulb in the knife drawer.

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Post by MissNev » Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:44 pm

It's not so funny when the horse is on the other shoe!!
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Post by ThePikey » Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:14 pm

Don't count your chickens before they go to hell in a handbasket.

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Post by Ranger Genius » Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:19 pm

"We're gonna pick up the pieces, and retie the knot."

"Our goal was seventeen percent, and as you can see, we knocked that one out of the water."
(Actual quote from corporate middle management type)
“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”

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Post by JediDale » Wed Aug 17, 2005 11:21 pm

"Just stop moving forward in a backward fashion"
"Feel the numbness create nothiness"
"Enjoy your delusions, for reality may cause you pain"
"He who knows, knows not, yet he who knows not, knows"
"Negativity is positively the best worst experience"
"Just let go, and hang on"
"Whats the difference between apathy and empathy? I don't know and I don't care!"


Ok! So if some of these seem a little flaky, it's probably because earilier tonight I got whacked in the head with a a bolt sticking out of my fire staff and drew blood as well as received a nice little lump! Teach me to twirl in the gusting wind! Luckily, I had some sense and it was not lit!

"Practicing new moves in the wind can cause me to feel old and stationary"

Genuinely In Pain,

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You don't have to..Believe Everything I Say...because your unconscious will hear this.
Your unconscious can Do anything It wishes..
But your conscious mind isn't going to do
anything of Importance for Now. And...My Voice Will Go With You...

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Post by robotland » Thu Aug 18, 2005 7:47 am

I'd call you a bestial, sadistic necrophile....But that'd be beating a dead horse.
Howdy From Kalamazoo

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Post by Fat SAM » Fri Aug 26, 2005 11:13 pm

If the shoe fits, you have to break a few eggs.
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Post by Ranger Genius » Sat Aug 27, 2005 10:10 am

To make an omelette, you're going to have to step on a few toes.
“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”

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Post by people for sale » Sat Aug 27, 2005 12:18 pm

"Black & White Night: Bring unique black and white clothes for a very colorful evening."
--actual event description on resort website

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Post by AntiM » Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:56 pm

No good deed goes unpunished.

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Post by Fat SAM » Sat Aug 27, 2005 6:24 pm

AntiM wrote:No good deed goes unpunished.
As a philosophy student, I can't read stuff like that without overthinking it...BUT I LOVE THE METAPHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THAT STATEMENT!!!
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Post by JediDale » Sat Aug 27, 2005 7:24 pm

"Some minds can't grasp what the hands can't feel"
You don't have to..Believe Everything I Say...because your unconscious will hear this.
Your unconscious can Do anything It wishes..
But your conscious mind isn't going to do
anything of Importance for Now. And...My Voice Will Go With You...

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Post by Ranger Genius » Thu Sep 08, 2005 10:48 am

"Put your money where your horse's mouth is."
--RStevens
“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”

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Post by AntiM » Thu Sep 08, 2005 11:30 am

The fat lady has left the building.

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Post by joel the ornery » Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:28 am

"You can't play hide the salami, or whatever it's called. He's got to out there and say something about this woman."

-Howard Dean, on President Bush and his Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers

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Post by Ranger Genius » Mon Oct 10, 2005 9:59 am

Let's get this ball on the road.
“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”

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Post by EvilDustBooger » Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:09 am

I took an awful spill
and now I`ve got a crack in my butt.

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Post by kilngod » Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:05 pm

Does the Pope wear his pointy hat while he's shitting in the woods?

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Post by EvilDustBooger » Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:31 pm

Pull your head out of your ass
and smell the roses.

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Post by Cabanasprings » Tue Oct 11, 2005 2:21 pm

Give him enough rope and he will die by the sword.

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Post by EvilDustBooger » Tue Oct 11, 2005 2:32 pm

Paper Tigers
Nipping at my heels

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Post by CoworkerLurker » Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:20 pm

We don't want to open THAT Pandora's box of worms!

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Post by Ranger Genius » Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:13 pm

Ten points for CWL.
“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”

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Post by Cabanasprings » Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:26 pm

Three warning shots to the head.

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Post by EvilDustBooger » Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:36 pm

Preaching to the choir while hiding the salami.

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Post by AntiM » Wed Oct 12, 2005 1:51 pm

That's putting a stitch in time before the horse.

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