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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jackmore who wrote (5051)	8/4/2002 9:01:19 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 12252

Well Jack, that's true, but since Koreans stopped whining like a fleet of 747s and started giggling [due to the amount of money they are making from CDMA], there isn't much use for the 747 metaphor. Rather than let it die from lack of usage, I thought we should morph it to something else. A metaphor in search of a home. We'll have to hurry, because as aircraft technology continues to improve, the whine and 747s will be obsolete and it'll be like making obscure horseshoe or onager metaphors. People will say "Huh?" Oh for the days of a good onager simile or metaphor. Heck, we could bring back Buridan's Ass too. users.ids.net An onager is a kind of ass but also a medieval weapon for firing stuff over ramparts. An ass is like a donkey, not a buttocks [when used in English, not American]. It's a shame how quickly the future becomes the present, then almost instantly becomes prosaic and soon disappears into the boring and obsolete past. Mqurice