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Plastic Surgery is like a game of Poker

a: Plastic Surgery ~
b: a game of Poker where you cannot get new cards

What: "Plastic Surgery is like a game of Poker where you cannot get new cards. As a surgeon, I must "play" the hand you, the patient, deals me as best as I can."

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Writer: Peter A. Aldea, MD
LCC: R
Where:
Date: Aug 23 2011 10:42 AM


It Go Slow And It Go Fast

a: Comcast ~
b: a yoyo

What: "Comcast is like a yoyo this morning. Up-down-up-down-up-down. Mostly down though. "

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Writer: Charlie Kindel ̴
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Where:
Date: Apr 15 2012 11:13 PM


Cleveland As Meatloaf

a: Cleveland ~
b: meatloaf

What: "Cleveland is like meatloaf, comforting, warm like gravy, smooth like mashed potatoes. I could tell Cleveland anything, we could sleep naked without having sex. I just can't see us being anything more than friends."

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Writer: Laura Taylor Lambros
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Where:
Date: Jun 2 2012 11:32 AM



a: City ~
b: a body

What:

"A city is like a body. It eats, it breathes, it metabolizes. And when a city gets sick-coughing up things like pollution, poverty and crime-there are different ways to treat it."


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Writer: Adam Kuby
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Where:
Date: Jul 23 2015 7:59 PM



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