What is this?

[Michael McKernan]

Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
>My goodness.  Put her in print, coin a word, and she'll live forever
>alongside spoonerisms.
>
>Joel
>
>At 6/8/2005 04:17 PM, you wrote:
>>have a colleague who specializes in these blends.  She doesn't even try,
>>she just does it. I think it's so cool that I have tried to master this
>>art, but I am convinced it's a gift.  I come up with stupid things like
>>"Don't cross your chickens 'til your bridges have hatched." But she's
>>brilliant.
>>Just this morning, she said "Song and pony show." This just flows.
>>My favorite?: "This is so easy, it's like shooting babies in a barrel."
>>
>>Fritz J

Pardon my ignorance, but I can't see why these aren't covered by the term
'mixed metaphors.' As it was put to me by my bookie when I was barking up
the wrong door after the horse got out, 'don't mix your metaphors, and I
won't question my bettors.'

Michael McKernan