# Your best weird but appropriate analogy...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-weird-but-appropriate-analogy/233971
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 12, 2004, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-weird-but-appropriate-analogy/233971 "2004-03-12T21:33:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2004, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-weird-but-appropriate-analogy/233971/1 "2004-03-12T21:33:41Z")
**The RULES** (hey, it’s my thread, so I’m gonna set 'em!!):
The analogy you offer must:
1. Pertain to a _Cafe Society_-appropriate thing.
2. Stretch our thinking a bit - make a connection that is unexpected, but effective and insightful.
3. Not be obsure - relating a 14th century philosopher to an arcane subatomic particle may be cooler-than-thou, but so what?
Also:
1. If you _don’t like_ the analogy someone else has offered, you may only state so if you also: a) state _why_; and b) offer a _better analogy_ for the same thing in the original post. But…
5)…you are NOT allowed to hijack this thread for a multi-post debate or argument. If you want to have “tea parties” to discuss/debate/argue about a specific analogy, take it to your own thread!!
Okay - me first:
1. **A Gibson Les Paul Guitar is like Harvard, and a Fender Stratocaster Guitar is Like Cal Berkeley** :
Les Paul: Elite, expensive, a smaller-but-passionately-devoted enrollment who think the are the chosen few.
Strat: More populous and overall more popular, has more “Nobel Prize Winners” - i.e., guitar immortals, such as Hendrix, Clapton, Beck and SRV. Prestigious, but in a middle-class sort of way.
1. **Picasso is like Microsoft** :
- Started small but ended up the dominant player in their field
- Sustained dominance, earmarked by arrogance and ego - at times maintained with ruthless behavior
- clear innovation and creation of new schools of thought/applications within their areas, but also a lot of time spent as a “fast follower,” taking a dominant role in areas imagined/created by others.
- even people who hate them cannot deny their ongoing influence
Okay - yours?
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2004, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-weird-but-appropriate-analogy/233971/2 "2004-03-12T22:22:55Z")
This thread is like my life.
There’s too many rules and I can’t think of anything witty to say.
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### Author:  [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2004, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-weird-but-appropriate-analogy/233971/3 "2004-03-12T23:37:26Z")
“Okay, if your large intestine is a baseball diamond, the appendix is just around third base.”
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2004, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-best-weird-but-appropriate-analogy/233971/4 "2004-03-13T14:41:56Z")
_bump_ - one last shot for over the weekend…