Wow.

[venta]

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."

Comments

[lathany.livejournal.com]

Maybe he has a "Dr Frankenstein" secret life.

Re: Wow.

[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..

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

Despite complaints from 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..

[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

[condign.livejournal.com]

I do suppose you recommended he go to the doctor so he can get that coalface removed...

[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)

[cuthbertcross.livejournal.com]

Sounds like your boss has a miner problem with his insides....

[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>