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Posted by GruntDoc on September 6th, 2009
I just took down a post in which I had a terrific metaphor for my main point. I thought.
Unfortunately, my metaphor was wrong. So, it made my point, well, less pointed. So, I’ll approach the idea from a different tack.
Thanks to reader Eric for the early heads-up.
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September 6th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Oh, I hate that! The post and pic showed in my reader so what was the issue? Was it that the anchor was somehow perfectly accessible?
My policy when I get something terribly terribly wrong is to leave the post up, let my readers tell me what an idiot I am, and have several “beers of shame.”
September 7th, 2009 at 12:51 am
Spare, believe it or not.
I thought the rest of the post made sense, but having the central part of my metaphor so competely destroyed made it untenable. So, I’ll try again later.
September 7th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Mmmm… beers of shame…
September 7th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
I liked the metaphor, regardless of its truth. What was that anchor actually for in the picture?
September 7th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Ships’ anchor. Turns out it would actually be a spare, and therefore had a purpose that wasn’t as dumb as I had assumed.