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May 28,
2010
SportsSpeak
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doubt many of you will be with friends and families this holiday
weekend and may find yourselves playing your favorite sport. Jim
Micklos, VP Business Development at
Fusion Performance Marketing
and a long time fan of The Metaphor Minute, sent along this
wonderful
Sports Illustrated article about America’s widespread
attraction to sports for its metaphors. See how many you have
heard, how many you use, and how many you want to use. Go, team,
go!
Have a great holiday.
See you next month!.
Anne
Miller
Make What You Say, Pay — With Metaphors.
Would this have helped
Goldman Sachs?
Last month I invited metaphors that
Goldman Sachs could have used to combat the metaphors hurled at
them by Congress and the media to demonize them for the economic
crash (“great vampire squid wrapped around the face of
humanity,” “cracking down on Wall Street’s shell game,”
”tweaking the odds in their favor on a slot machine.”
One reader suggested the following:
Seems to me like the Sachs folks could have simply gone with a
fast food metaphor – “We're like McDonald's: you know the food
isn't quite that healthy, but the people want it anyway, so we
provide it. Fat people are no more McDonald's fault than broke
ones ours.”
Not sure that tone would have won them any
sympathy, but, at least, it would have presented an alternative
view of the situation.
Thank you, Mark Heminway.
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