Wow.

May. 2nd, 2003 10:41 am
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Yesterday (during my performance review at work), one of our management types came out with the best mixed metaphor I've heard in ages:

"When you're inside a body you can see the liver and the heart and the kidney, and when you're outside you see the body as a whole and can't see the liver and the heart and the kidney, but when you're inside you're at the coalface."

Date: 2003-05-02 02:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lathany.livejournal.com
Maybe he has a "Dr Frankenstein" secret life.

Re: Wow.

Date: 2003-05-02 03:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leathellin.livejournal.com
"Make like a tree and get the f**k outta here"...

I hold your belongings to ransom until you talk to me...

Also..

Date: 2003-05-02 04:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leathellin.livejournal.com
Despite complaints from [livejournal.com profile] venta that these are in fact mixed proverbs this is still rather a fine bit of dialogue...

Doc: You know what they say: People in glass houses sink ships!
Rocco: I got to buy you a proverb book or something, because this mix 'n' match shit's got to go.
Conner MacManus: Well, a penny saved is worth two in the bush, right?
Murphy MacManus: And don't cross the road if you can't get out of the kitchen

From the Boondock Saints (a film...)

Re: Also..

Date: 2003-05-02 08:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
Now I think about it, the other top-quality quote from my review was:

"You can take a horse to water, but you can't make him code in java."

That's impressive

Date: 2003-05-02 04:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] condign.livejournal.com
I do suppose you recommended he go to the doctor so he can get that coalface removed...

Date: 2003-05-02 05:05 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] zotz
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.

Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

(Groucho, I think)

Date: 2003-05-02 06:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cuthbertcross.livejournal.com
Sounds like your boss has a miner problem with his insides....

Date: 2003-05-02 06:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
If you're going to make puns like that, just to remember you can't run away at the moment.

<SFX: hollow laughter>

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