Posted by Peter Flynn on 09/14/05 00:42

Toby Inkster wrote:

> Alan J. Flavell wrote:
>
>> You might as well try to convert cheese into fresh cream: both are
>> fine milk products, it's true, but instead of trying to convert the
>> one into the other, you'd do better to produce them both starting from
>> fresh milk.
>
> That is a very nice analogy -- I must try to remember it.

The others in common use are

Turning hamburgers back into cows
Turning scrambled eggs back into chickens

///Peter

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