# Expressionism: The Game

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressionism-the-game/401441
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 24, 2007, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressionism-the-game/401441 "2007-04-24T12:38:12Z")
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### Author: ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2007, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expressionism-the-game/401441/1 "2007-04-24T12:38:12Z")

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Crazy like a fox. A boatload of anvils. More fun than a barrel of monkeys. Aren’t you getting tired of modern colloquialisms? They’re always the same old thing. Sure, there have been attempts at bringing such terms up to date. Replacing _boatload_ with _buttload_ or _metric assload_ for a cheap laugh, or coming up with new topical references to replace old, dated references. But even these have gotten stale. So let’s make new ones. Any sort. For example:

**Comparative**  
_The diamond gleamed like sweat on a bald man._

**Qualitative**  
_That was trouser-tentingly exciting!_

**Quantitative**  
_A Hummer’s-worth of assholes._

I’m sure there are better examples than this crotchful of Gallagher-smashing crap, so let’s have 'em!