Posted by mbstevens on 09/30/46 11:53

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 08:44:10 +1000, dorayme wrote:

> In article <pan.2006.07.21.11.15.05.604133@XmbstevensX.com>,
> mbstevens <NOXwebmasterX@XmbstevensX.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 07:53:33 +0100, Andy Mabbett wrote:
>>
>> >>[1] needless to say, I actually made that up. I was using it as a
>> >>simile.
>> >
>> > No you weren't; you were suing it as a metaphor.
>>
>> Does suing as a metaphor require an imaginary lawyer, or can
>> you just take it to the small claims court in Oz?
>
> As it so happens, there is just such a court down under here. Its
> lists are chocker block covering cases to do with the use of the
> apostrophe, similes and metaphors, the confusion between irony
> and sarcasm, and so on are piled up behind... I have appeared
> before it myself. I got off with a plea of being Alien.

<rofl> Visitor from Kansas, I presume.

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