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when saying "thats like comparing apples and oranges"
"Why do you keep saying that?" he asked in response. "Apples and oranges aren't that different, really. I mean they're both fruit. Their weight is extremely similar. They both contain acidic elements. They're both roughly spherical. They serve the same social purpose. With the possible exception of a tangerine, I can't think of anything more similar to an orange than an apple. If I was having lunch with a man who was eating an apple and - while I was looking away- he replaced that apple with an orange, I doubt I'd even notice. So how is this a metaphor for difference? I could understand if you said, 'That's like comparing apples and uranium,' or 'That's like comparing apples with baby wolverines,' or 'That's like comparing apples with the early work of Raymond Carver,' or 'That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths.' Those would all be valid examples of profound disparity. But not apples and oranges. In every meaningful way, they're virtually identical."
This is all by Chuck Klosterman in a book called "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs*" It's an incredible book inwhich he attacks our pop culture. Currently I am at the part in which he compares marilyn monroe with pamela andersson (i know i was mad too, but not after i read his philosophy: it makes sense).
Every week I have a three day weekend. No classes friday. So what have I been doing with my time. Absolutely nothing, and then some. i have been making what people call, "collage art" it's for people who either can't draw(like me), or people with ADD, that have to look at a zillian things at once (like me). Heres an example
"Why do you keep saying that?" he asked in response. "Apples and oranges aren't that different, really. I mean they're both fruit. Their weight is extremely similar. They both contain acidic elements. They're both roughly spherical. They serve the same social purpose. With the possible exception of a tangerine, I can't think of anything more similar to an orange than an apple. If I was having lunch with a man who was eating an apple and - while I was looking away- he replaced that apple with an orange, I doubt I'd even notice. So how is this a metaphor for difference? I could understand if you said, 'That's like comparing apples and uranium,' or 'That's like comparing apples with baby wolverines,' or 'That's like comparing apples with the early work of Raymond Carver,' or 'That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths.' Those would all be valid examples of profound disparity. But not apples and oranges. In every meaningful way, they're virtually identical."
This is all by Chuck Klosterman in a book called "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs*" It's an incredible book inwhich he attacks our pop culture. Currently I am at the part in which he compares marilyn monroe with pamela andersson (i know i was mad too, but not after i read his philosophy: it makes sense).
Every week I have a three day weekend. No classes friday. So what have I been doing with my time. Absolutely nothing, and then some. i have been making what people call, "collage art" it's for people who either can't draw(like me), or people with ADD, that have to look at a zillian things at once (like me). Heres an example