Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Metaphor Alert

From Ryan Sager at True/Slant
A research team out in Texas decided to tackle the concept of butterfaces through the lens of evolutionary psychology. (We have people tackling concepts through lenses today. Metaphor status: Awesome.)

2 comments:

  1. lelia7:05 PM

    I had to look up butterface to see what it meant. Huh. And there are whole websites devoted to that. Why?
    I suppose it's a male thing.

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  2. I didn't know either until Insty linked over to it. I guess I'm out of the slang loop on such things.

    I just loved the metaphor crunch. Another all-time fave: "It was as if the hand of God had stepped in."

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