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a: Tsa ~
b: a gate in a gated community
What: "Except that is is NOT real security. These knuckle-draggers working for TSA always miss guns, knives, and other items they are supposed to be checking whenever they run a test of their procedures. TSA is like a gate in a gated community. It provides no real security but it is there to make people feel safer."
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Writer: rogerbacon
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Date: Jan 23 2012 10:52 AM
# 1621 Critique Analogy
a: Tsa ~
b: a crap magnet
What: "I cannot think of anytime oppression and tyranny was not accompanied by abuse and perversion. The TSA is like a crap magnet. It seems very successful at attracting the lowest common denominator of applicant for its nefarious doings."
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Writer: andrewnappi
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Date: Jan 23 2012 11:00 AM
# 1624 Critique Analogy
a: The tsa ~
b: someone who only locks one car door
What: " The TSA is like someone who only locks one car door." A discussion of airport security.
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Writer: South Bend Seven
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Date: Jan 23 2012 10:56 AM
# 1622 Critique Analogy
a: The tsa ~
b: most Beltway ideas
What: "The TSA is like most other ideas that are hatched inside the Beltway in times of stress: Touchy-feely, look-at-what-I-did legislation that goes terribly wrong. And now they have a UNION to deal with. Sheesh - When will Congress learn to leave well enough alone?"
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Writer: OKC
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Date: Jan 23 2012 10:58 AM
# 1623 Critique Analogy
a: The tsa ~
b: China’s great wall
What: "The TSA is like China's great wall, there are soldiers behind it, but the point of the great wall was to keep people out so that that army doesn't have to fight."
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Writer: Desmond Saisitthidej
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Jan 23 2012 11:02 AM
# 1625 Critique Analogy
a: The tsa ~
b: playing beerpong with a jerk
What: "The TSA is like playing beerpong with a jerk. They keep changing the rules midgame and u just wanna have a drink."
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Writer: petewentz
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Date: Jan 23 2012 11:07 AM
# 1626 Critique Analogy
a: The tsa ~
b: most school systems
What: " Then today I see this. I heard about it on the radio this morning. The TSA is like most school systems. They set down rules and have no common sense. When the rules bite them in the ass their respose is rules are rules."
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Writer: mmmm
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Date: Jan 23 2012 11:10 AM
# 1627 Critique Analogy
a: The tsa ~
b: a toddler testing limits with its parents
What: "The situation is just waiting for someone to sue, and the ACLU to sign on to the case. It'll take some time, but that's the process. Oppression always marches on freedom, and freedom fights back. The TSA is like a toddler testing limits with its parents - and in this case, it's due for a spanking."
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Writer: SjG
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Date: Jan 23 2012 11:12 AM
# 1628 Critique Analogy
a: The tsa ~
b: my dog
What: "The TSA is like my dog. Once he spied a rabbit by a tree in our yard as we came in the back gate. Now, whenever we come through that gate, he freezes and stares bullets at the spot by the birch where a bunny once sat."
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Writer: IOWA CITY
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Date: Jan 23 2012 11:16 AM
# 1629 Critique Analogy
a: The tsa ~
b: a bad doctor
What: The TSA is like a bad doctor treating only the symptoms not the disease. Identify the a@@holes that want to do us harm, and stop them. If all you try to do is react to what the last jerk did, we will have a system that will fail totally when the succeed once.
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Writer: RJ Arena
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Date: Jan 23 2012 11:17 AM
# 1631 Critique Analogy
a: The tsa ~
b: every government agency
What: "And let's say they go overboard, at least you can sue them. The TSA is like every government agency, unaccountable."
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Writer: 23
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Date: Jan 23 2012 11:24 AM
# 1632 Critique Analogy
METAMIA is a free database of analogy and metaphor. Anyone can contribute or search. The subject matter can be anything. Science is popular, but poetry is encouraged. The goal is to integrate our fluid muses with the stark literalism of a relational database. Metamia is like a girdle for your muses, a cognitive girdle.