Random Analogies
Plastic Surgery Is Farting And Nose Picking..
a: Plastic surgery ~
b: farting and picking your nose
What: "Plastic surgery is like farting and picking your nose. we know everyone does it, but please do it in private where none of us have to suffer the indignity with you." The link is a well written article about life in New York.
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Writer: Brian Moylan
LCC: RD
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Date: Aug 23 2011 10:29 AM
# 1214 Critique Analogy
The Earth As Giant Chocolate Cake
a: A tectonic plate ~
b: cracked cake icing
What: Tectonic plates are part of the outer layer of the earth the way icing coats a cake. The outer layer of the earth is somewhat like stale icing, in that the outer icing layer is cooling and drying out. When this occurs, the outer layer cracks and comes apart. The linked cake-cookies approximates what tectonic plates look like.
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Writer: LucretiaGermanica
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Date: Mar 17 2012 11:31 AM
# 1751 Critique Analogy
A Pool Of Electrons That Needs A Push
a: Negative terminal ~
b: a sump
What: "When a source of electromotive force (EMF) is connect to a complete circuit, the EMF supplies the energy to create free electrons. At the same time the negative terminal is like a large bucket of electrons forcing free electrons away (like charges repel) from the negative terminal and the positive terminal attracts free electrons (opposite charges attract). The net effect is electrons flow from the negative terminal of the battery to the positive terminal."
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Writer: godzyx
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Date: Oct 2 2013 1:08 PM
# 3747 Critique Analogy
a: natural gas ~
b: veins of our respective economies
What:
Yvette Burghgraef-van Eechoud, Dutch Ambassador to Qatar chooses to categorise the importance of gas to both these economies by saying, "Natural gas is like the veins of our respective economies and the gas dialogue is very intense between us. Royal Dutch Shell has been present in Qatar for a long time, with its investment in the Pearl Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) project running into more than USD25 billion (QAR91 billion) and is not break-even yet,"
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Writer: Yvette Burghgraef-van Eechoud
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Date: Feb 27 2015 10:37 AM
# 7409 Critique Analogy
