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¿Question #4173?
ssmooth: What is the world's best metaphor?

hal9600: a couple cans short of a 6 pack
jperez01: Jumbo shrimp
Der Clown: none
ajax013: naming the world's best metaphor is like catching a runaway train with your teeth.
Woelf: HMS Titanic
aleo09: You are my sunshine
Spatulaguy: Life is like a box of chocolates.
craniac: The windows "desktop."
chockle: "A metaphore is like a simile"
Beowulf: Sliding down the razor blade of life.
DHEK: I don't know of any world-class ones offhand, sorry.
william_henshaw: Well I'd say when I metaphor a date and got luckt
POvidiusNaso: The ship of state.
Sifu: Probably the Buddha's metaphor equating enlightenment to crossing a river. You're still "in the world", but you don't need the boat anymore.
Otter: Cuts like a knife.
onky: Blue, but only when green.
scriptorum: I don't speak most of the world's languages, only English, and since metaphors are language dependent, I don't have a complete sample set to answer this question.
arkibet: The little paper sailboat glided gently down the river how a bowling ball wouldn't.
MisterCranky: Lark's Tongues in Aspic
Helenoftroy: Setting/physical house representing the character which is the Southern Gothic element in "A Rose for Emily"
Deeghter: Jesus
MochaKimono: "Diarrhea is like when there's a race out of my tooshie and everybody wins!"
brainrob: What's a meta?
skrutsch: Big Blue Marble
confuse_a_cat: Life IS a box of chocolates
ssmooth: Please don't take this question seriously.
axarca: My love is like a red, red roast...
Cavedog_pdx: the Chevrolet Corvette ;)
Dave: stage, heh-heh.
puffinge: your ass is grass
snoozefest: isn't just one - would vary with the situation
Lord_Prussian: A mixed one
chaddyboy_2000: Fnord.
skelebone: The sky is a blue canvas.
CDRodeffer: God is love.
jttm: Like having wood for sheep.