The overload of metaphor used to describe the financial crisis and consequent bailout has caused our Metaphor Observation Circuits (MOC's) to blow. Please consult a technician.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
The 2008 Top Ten Metaphors List is finally here!!
The Observatory
Most Popular Posts
- Top Ten Metaphors 2007
- Outsourcing Blame: Metaphors of the Economic Crisis
- Joe The Plumber Gets (Ob)Served
- Yahoo Axes Staff, Then Dumps Bodies
- Troop Surge
- Top Ten Metaphors 2006
- PIGmalion - A Pork Opera
- Colbert Gets a Wedgie!
- North Korean Jackass
- Top Ten Metaphors 2005
- Selecting An Alpha Candidate: Our Primitive Primaries
- Abandon Ship!
Blog Archive
Followers
About Me
- J. D. Casnig
- How to reach the Metaphor Observatory: casnig-at-metaphorobservatory.com or, by snail mail, at... P.O. Box 1383 Kingston, Ontario Canada K7L-5C6
Labels
- 1F09 (1)
- 2007 (1)
- 2008 (1)
- Angry Whopper (1)
- award (1)
- axe (1)
- bailout (2)
- banks (1)
- Barack (3)
- baseball (1)
- battle (1)
- Ben (1)
- Biden (1)
- black widow (1)
- blackjack (1)
- Blagojevich (1)
- blood (1)
- Borrego (1)
- boxing (2)
- brakes (1)
- Buffett (1)
- Bush (1)
- cadbury (1)
- cars (1)
- Central (1)
- Chicago (1)
- chocolate (1)
- chocolates (1)
- city (1)
- Clinton (2)
- CNN (1)
- coin (1)
- Colbert (2)
- Comedy (1)
- commission (1)
- Condie (1)
- Condoleezza (1)
- Costello (1)
- crime (1)
- crisis (4)
- Daily Show (1)
- Day (1)
- debate (1)
- dig (1)
- dump (1)
- economic (4)
- economy (3)
- election (4)
- escalation (1)
- explode (1)
- fallout (3)
- financial (1)
- firewall (1)
- flowers (1)
- Foley (1)
- Ford (1)
- free (1)
- fusion (3)
- gambling (1)
- giant rat (1)
- Gillette (1)
- governor (1)
- Hezbollah (1)
- Hillary (1)
- Hilton (1)
- Hirsch (1)
- hole (1)
- hologram (1)
- Homer (1)
- Huckabee (1)
- Hur (1)
- hurricane (1)
- hybrid (1)
- hybrids (1)
- Illinois (1)
- imagination (1)
- inject (1)
- insurgent (1)
- Iran (1)
- Iraq (1)
- Israel (1)
- Jacko (1)
- Jackson (1)
- Jason (1)
- jazz (1)
- Joe (1)
- Joe The Plumber (2)
- John (1)
- Jong-il (1)
- Kim (1)
- Kingston (1)
- Korea (2)
- lamb (1)
- Laureate (1)
- lay (1)
- layoffs (1)
- Lebanon (1)
- lending (1)
- life (1)
- lipstick (1)
- list (1)
- love (1)
- married (1)
- mayor (1)
- McCain (4)
- meltdown (3)
- Meta-Free-For-All (1)
- metaphor (13)
- metaphorically (1)
- metaphors (10)
- Michael (1)
- mind (1)
- missile (1)
- mix (1)
- Nagin (1)
- New Orleans (1)
- New Way Forward (1)
- nominated (1)
- nominee (1)
- noose (1)
- nuclear (1)
- Obama (7)
- off (1)
- Oliver (1)
- Palin (2)
- Paris (1)
- Paul (1)
- PEA (1)
- Pearl Harbor (2)
- Penn (1)
- phenethylamine (1)
- pig (1)
- Pinsky (1)
- pitbull in lipstick (1)
- Poet (1)
- policy (1)
- ponder (1)
- President Obama (1)
- President-Elect Obama (1)
- psychopharma-parenting (1)
- race (1)
- rat (1)
- Report (2)
- Republic (1)
- Republican Democrat (1)
- rhetoric (2)
- Rice (1)
- Rita (1)
- road map (1)
- Robert (1)
- rock star (1)
- Rod (1)
- romance (1)
- Romney (1)
- scandal (1)
- Sean (1)
- shock the heart (1)
- Simpson (1)
- Siniora (1)
- slash (1)
- Spanish (1)
- speech (1)
- spiders (1)
- staff (1)
- stay the course (2)
- Stephen (1)
- Stephen Colbert (1)
- Taepodong (1)
- target (1)
- ten (3)
- The Daily Show (1)
- tidal wave (1)
- top (3)
- tournequet (1)
- toxic assets (1)
- train wreck (1)
- treasury (1)
- troop surge (2)
- tsunami (4)
- Valentines (1)
- video (1)
- wall (1)
- Wii (1)
- writer's block (1)
- Yahoo (1)
0 comments:
Post a Comment