[Ads-l] over-the-top metaphor of the week

[James A. Landau]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 10:08:41 Zone-0400 Neal Whitman <nwhitman at AMERITECH.NET> posted:

>I first heard this one in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
>
>> On Apr 10, 2018, at 10:07 PM, James A. Landau 
><JJJRLandau at NETSCAPE.COM> wrote:
>> 
>> 
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/10/1755961/-Cohen-Might-Have-Kryptonite-Of-Trump-s-Fragile-Self-Worth-Tax-Returns
>> 
>> If Cohen had a lump of coal in his ass the moment those search 
>>warrants arrived, he could have popped out a diamond. 

I'm afraid I haven't seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off.  More relevant might be the Thor movies.  The original "Kryptonite" article consisted of a long string of juvenile invective in which the coal/diamond imagery stuck out like a thor sumb.

- Jim Landau

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