Cliche- Rotation Project
Occasionally in my travels across the 987 corners of the web I encounter something a bit different and this one comes under the title of sustainable cliches. Old cliches are overused, hackneyed, weary and just deserve their final moment in an electric box or car crusher.
The people at the defectiveyeti website decided to get new versions of old well loved cliches. So instead of “Made a mountain out of a molehill” they suggest “Saw a duck and shouted “dragon!”‘ (there is something ineffably lame about that I’m afraid… It sounds a bit newage to me). Whereas “Wore his heart on his sleeve” has been taken out and left in the wood and replaced by “Flew his feelings from a flagpole”. That’s much better.
So here’s one I just thought up “Out on a limb” now replaced by “No seat at Stalin’s table.” Well ok, its rubbish albeit true. If you were out of favour with Russia’s favourite man of steel then they’d arrange a meeting early and when you got there there was no seat for you. However the nice soldiers would take you out the back, stand you up against a wall and …
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Posted: October 26th, 2007 under humour, words.
Tags: cliche, humour, new, old
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