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The Metaphor Observatory is dedicated to the study of metaphor usage in contemporary media. Selected metaphors will be tracked as they pass by, and an attempt will be made to determine their - and therefore our - trajectory.
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Selecting An Alpha Candidate: Our Primitive Primaries
Candidates butt heads... The advantage of having a dictator is that you can obey them without ever having to listen to them. That is, a dictator's voice is heard as "do as I say", not "listen to what I say". A sublty not lost on Observers, who are be...
Boxing Metaphors Take A Dive
Put up your dukes and vote!Face it. Every four years, like a greasy clockwork, the candidates spin into position and chime off. The Metaphor Observatory heard the ticks, then the cuckoos, and now the bells. The boxing metaphors have struck again. Don...
Top Ten Metaphors of 2007
2007: A Titanic year for metaphor!This marks the third year for the Metaphor Observatory's ever-so-nerdpopular Top Ten Metaphors List. In years past, the Observatory staff had gorged themselves on a slurry of metaphor from the media trough, digested ...
Is "The Penn" Is Mightier Than "The Word"?
Two metaphorists take the ring, only one will take the cake.Due to an unfortunate outbreak of Droopy Drawers Syndrome, the entire staff of the Metaphor Observatory had been on hiatus awaiting improved health. We gave up, and have arrived here, four m...
Top Ten Metaphors of 2006
(A brief list of metaphors can be found below)2006 has offered us a juicy smorgasbord of metaphor that connects us to both past and future, far away lands and seas, and the largest and smallest of things. Coming out of a year of great disaster and co...
