The best of luck in your immortal quest.

Indrajit Gupta

On Jan 8, 2013, at 10:09 AM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am trying to recall a word for a figure of speech. It's a typical Brit
> thing where you deliberately make a really weak analogy ("as slippery as
> a really slippery thing", or, as you can see below)
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> __
>    ZAPHOD    Hey, this rock...
>    FORD    Marble...
>    ZAPHOD    Marble...
>    FORD    Ice-covered marble...
>    ZAPHOD    Right... it's as slippery as... as... What's the slipperiest
> thing you can think of?
>    FORD    At the moment? This marble.
>    ZAPHOD    Right. This marble is as slippery as this marble.
> 
> -- Zaphod and Ford trying to get a grip on things in Brontitall, Fit the
> Tenth.
> 

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