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size=2>Hey, my grandmother used to "go with", and she was from
Utah!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=604365117-21022003><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>Charlotte Foust</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
budge@magicaldesk.com [mailto:budge@magicaldesk.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday,
February 21, 2003 9:39 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
accessd@databaseadvisors.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: RE: [AccessD] OT Friday
Analogies<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Not to mention Uff Da and the ubiquitous = wanna
go with?
<BR><BR>;-)<BR><BR>Pamela<BR><BR><BR>************************************************************<BR>BBarabash@tappeconstruction.com
wrote on
2/21/2003<BR>************************************************************<BR>Or
there is the Minnesota variant, Doncha know?<BR><BR>-----Original
Message-----<BR>From: Charlotte Foust
[mailto:cfoust@infostatsystems.com]<BR>Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 11:15
AM<BR>To: accessd@databaseadvisors.com<BR>Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT Friday
Analogies<BR><BR><BR>Hah! "Y'know" was *invented* in the San Fernando valley
in Southern<BR>California. I believe you Brits have your own version, a
contraction of<BR>"do you know" as well, but the rest of that "like,
whatever", etc. is<BR>pure valley-speak!<BR><BR>Charlotte
Foust<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: andy@minstersystems.co.uk
[mailto:andy@minstersystems.co.uk] <BR>Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 8:57
AM<BR>To: accessd@databaseadvisors.com<BR>Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT Friday
Analogies<BR><BR><BR>My favourite too, although I thought it lacked a "y'know"
or is that<BR>just an epidemic over here?<BR><BR>Andy Lacey<BR><A
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--<BR>From: Charlotte Foust <CFOUST@INFOSTATSYSTEMS.COM><BR>To:
accessd@databaseadvisors.com<BR>Send: 2003-02-21<BR>Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT
Friday Analogies<BR><BR>>>Her vocabulary was as bad as, like,
whatever.<BR><BR>I LOVED that one!! :o}<BR><BR>Charlotte
Foust<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Andy Lacey
[mailto:andy@minstersystems.co.uk]<BR><BR>Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003
11:49 PM<BR>To: accessd@databaseadvisors.com<BR>Subject: [AccessD] OT Friday
Analogies<BR><BR><BR><BR>Analogies and Metaphors Found in School Essays,
stupid but funny:<BR><BR><BR>His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and
breaking alliances like<BR>underpants in a dryer without Cling
Free.<BR><BR><BR>He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience,
like a guy<BR>who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one
of those<BR>boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country
speaking at<BR>high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse
without one<BR>of those boxes with a pinhole in it.<BR><BR><BR>The little boat
gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling<BR>ball
wouldn't.<BR><BR><BR>From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene
had an eerie,<BR>surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city
and<BR>"Jeopardy" comes on at 7:00 pm instead of 7:30.<BR><BR><BR>Her hair
glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.<BR><BR><BR>Her eyes were
like two brown circles with big black dots in the centre.<BR><BR><BR>Her
vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.<BR><BR><BR>He was as tall as a
six-foot-three-inch tree.<BR><BR><BR>The hailstones leaped from the pavement,
just like maggots when you fry<BR>them in hot grease.<BR><BR><BR>Long
separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the<BR>grassy
field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left<BR>Cleveland
at 6:36 p.m. travelling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at<BR>4:19 p.m. at a
speed of 35 mph.<BR><BR><BR>The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the
full stop after the Dr.<BR>on a Dr Pepper can.<BR><BR><BR>John and Mary had
never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had<BR>also never
met.<BR><BR><BR>The thunder was ominous sounding, much like the sound of a
thin sheet of<BR>metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a
play.<BR><BR><BR>The red brick wall was the colour of a brick-red
crayon.<BR><BR><BR>He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she
was the East<BR>River.<BR><BR><BR>Even in his last years, Grandpa had a mind
like a steel trap, only one<BR>that had been left out so long, it had rusted
shut.<BR><BR><BR>The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike
Phil, this<BR>plan just might work.<BR><BR><BR>The young fighter had a hungry
look, the kind you get from not eating<BR>for a while.<BR><BR><BR>Her artistic
sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can tell<BR>butter from I
Can't Believe It's Not Butter.<BR><BR><BR>She had a deep, throaty, genuine
laugh like that sound a dog makes just<BR>before it throws up.<BR><BR><BR>It
came down the stairs looking very much like something no one had ever<BR>seen
before.<BR><BR><BR>The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one
slender leg<BR>behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.<BR><BR><BR>It was an
American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with<BR>power
tools.<BR><BR><BR>She was as easy as the "TV Guide" crossword.<BR><BR><BR>She
grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was<BR>room-temperature
beef.<BR><BR><BR>She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing
legs.<BR><BR><BR>It hurt - the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally
staple it to<BR>the wall.<BR><BR><BR>Andy Lacey<BR><A
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Found in School Essays, stupid but funny:<BR><BR><BR>His thoughts tumbled in
his head, making and breaking alliances like<BR>underpants in a dryer without
Cling Free.<BR><BR><BR>He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from
experience, like a guy<BR>who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse
without one of those<BR>boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the
country speaking at<BR>high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar
eclipse without one<BR>of those boxes with a pinhole in it.<BR><BR><BR>The
little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling<BR>ball
wouldn't.<BR><BR><BR>From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene
had an eerie,<BR>surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city
and<BR>"Jeopardy" comes on at 7:00 pm instead of 7:30.<BR><BR><BR>Her hair
glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.<BR><BR><BR>Her eyes were
like two brown circles with big black dots in the centre.<BR><BR><BR>Her
vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.<BR><BR><BR>He was as tall as a
six-foot-three-inch tree.<BR><BR><BR>The hailstones leaped from the pavement,
just like maggots when you fry<BR>them in hot grease.<BR><BR><BR>Long
separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the<BR>grassy
field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left<BR>Cleveland
at 6:36 p.m. travelling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at<BR>4:19 p.m. at a
speed of 35 mph.<BR><BR><BR>The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the
full stop after the Dr.<BR>on a Dr Pepper can.<BR><BR><BR>John and Mary had
never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had<BR>also never
met.<BR><BR><BR>The thunder was ominous sounding, much like the sound of a
thin sheet of<BR>metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a
play.<BR><BR><BR>The red brick wall was the colour of a brick-red
crayon.<BR><BR><BR>He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she
was the East<BR>River.<BR><BR><BR>Even in his last years, Grandpa had a mind
like a steel trap, only one<BR>that had been left out so long, it had rusted
shut.<BR><BR><BR>The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike
Phil, this<BR>plan just might work.<BR><BR><BR>The young fighter had a hungry
look, the kind you get from not eating<BR>for a while.<BR><BR><BR>Her artistic
sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can tell<BR>butter from I
Can't Believe It's Not Butter.<BR><BR><BR>She had a deep, throaty, genuine
laugh like that sound a dog makes just<BR>before it throws up.<BR><BR><BR>It
came down the stairs looking very much like something no one had ever<BR>seen
before.<BR><BR><BR>The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one
slender leg<BR>behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.<BR><BR><BR>It was an
American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with<BR>power
tools.<BR><BR><BR>She was as easy as the "TV Guide" crossword.<BR><BR><BR>She
grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was<BR>room-temperature
beef.<BR><BR><BR>She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing
legs.<BR><BR><BR>It hurt - the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally
staple it to<BR>the wall.<BR><BR><BR>Andy Lacey<BR><A
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