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Author Topic: Lifestyle is to diabetes what a nail is to a hammer 12/09/05  (Read 5737 times)

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Lifestyle is to diabetes what a nail is to a hammer 12/09/05
« Reply #30 on: December 11, 2005, 05:06:44 am »
I took it to mean that his lifestyle was making his diabetes worse.

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Lifestyle is to diabetes what a nail is to a hammer 12/09/05
« Reply #31 on: December 11, 2005, 08:17:52 am »
"This is the kind of lifestyle that diabetes is designed to smack into".
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Lifestyle is to diabetes what a nail is to a hammer 12/09/05
« Reply #32 on: December 11, 2005, 04:32:30 pm »
Yeah, I don't think that was what Onstad meant.  I believe it's more of a "Ray's lifestyle drives in diabetes like a hammer does a nail."

But still, it's not a very good analogy/simile.
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Lifestyle is to diabetes what a nail is to a hammer 12/09/05
« Reply #33 on: December 11, 2005, 04:39:00 pm »
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Yeah, I don't think that was what Onstad meant.  I believe it's more of a "Ray's lifestyle drives in diabetes like a hammer does a nail."

But still, it's not a very good analogy/simile.


Dr. Andretti didn't go to med school to craft witty analogies. He went to med school to become a doctor.
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Lifestyle is to diabetes what a nail is to a hammer 12/09/05
« Reply #34 on: December 11, 2005, 05:20:34 pm »
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Yeah, I don't think that was what Onstad meant.  I believe it's more of a "Ray's lifestyle drives in diabetes like a hammer does a nail."

But still, it's not a very good analogy/simile.


Dr. Andretti didn't go to med school to craft witty analogies. He went to med school to become a doctor.

I dunno, I thought his bathroom poem was pretty deft. (Can't be bothered to CortJstr -- my apologies.)
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Lifestyle is to diabetes what a nail is to a hammer 12/09/05
« Reply #35 on: December 11, 2005, 06:30:27 pm »
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Yeah, I don't think that was what Onstad meant.  I believe it's more of a "Ray's lifestyle drives in diabetes like a hammer does a nail."

But still, it's not a very good analogy/simile.

Dr. Andretti didn't go to med school to craft witty analogies. He went to med school to become a doctor.

I dunno, I thought his bathroom poem was pretty deft. (Can't be bothered to CortJstr -- my apologies.)

You mean If It's Yellow Let it Mellow?
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Lifestyle is to diabetes what a nail is to a hammer 12/09/05
« Reply #36 on: December 11, 2005, 06:34:18 pm »
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Yeah, I don't think that was what Onstad meant.  I believe it's more of a "Ray's lifestyle drives in diabetes like a hammer does a nail."

But still, it's not a very good analogy/simile.

Dr. Andretti didn't go to med school to craft witty analogies. He went to med school to become a doctor.

I dunno, I thought his bathroom poem was pretty deft. (Can't be bothered to CortJstr -- my apologies.)

You mean If It's Yellow Let it Mellow?

Thank you, Cort. Truly you are the CortJstr of my soul.
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Lifestyle is to diabetes what a nail is to a hammer 12/09/05
« Reply #37 on: December 11, 2005, 06:37:28 pm »
August west--
there are no longer analogies on the SAT. I cried hot tears when I discovered this.

And then, a -year- after they made all of the changes, my school asked me to write an article about it for the school paper. long after people had stopped caring. I got pretty upset about that, too.
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« Reply #38 on: December 12, 2005, 12:16:27 am »
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Yeah, I don't think that was what Onstad meant.  I believe it's more of a "Ray's lifestyle drives in diabetes like a hammer does a nail."

But still, it's not a very good analogy/simile.

Dr. Andretti didn't go to med school to craft witty analogies. He went to med school to become a doctor.

I dunno, I thought his bathroom poem was pretty deft. (Can't be bothered to CortJstr -- my apologies.)

You mean If It's Yellow Let it Mellow?


That's not an Andretti original, though. I heard it a long time ago in the context of correct toilet practice during water shortages, albeit not with the final line.
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Lifestyle is to diabetes what a nail is to a hammer 12/09/05
« Reply #39 on: December 12, 2005, 04:49:00 am »
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That's not an Andretti original, though. I heard it a long time ago in the context of correct toilet practice during water shortages, albeit not with the final line.


We've all heard that part, but the final line is what makes it brilliant.
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