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{{quote| '''{{spoiler|Tarquin}}:''' You can't make an omelette without ruthlessly crushing dozens of eggs beneath your steel boot and then publicly disembowelling the chickens that laid them as a warning to others.}}

* ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'' also has its share of silly metaphors and analogies.

{{quote| '''Frank:''' When you make an omelette, sometimes you've got to kill a few people.}}

{{quote| '''Victim''': He beat me with a hammer until I went blind!<br />

'''Police Officer''': You know what else is blind? Justice. But Justice didn't get beat with a hammer. Justice is always blind. That's regular for Justice. }}

'''Riff''': What kind of sandwich are we talking about here?<br />

'''Torg''': Pitbull salad sandwich. }}

* ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'' does this periodically.

** [http://ozyandmillie.org/2008/05/28/ozy-and-millie-2086/ One example]:

{{quote| '''Woman''': "Steve, you and I...we're like apples and oranges. I'm the oranges, and the oranges are doing your brother."}}

** Also [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1502#comic this] strip shows how being absent-minded in the middle of a metaphor can have traumatic consequences.

** Also featuring [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1846#comic Overextended Metaphor Parrot].

* ''[[Pictures for Sad Children]]'' attempts to explain [http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=272 how time travel works]:

* ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'': T-Rex gets him metaphor deconstructed for him; its the second metaphor that's an example of this trope. Named in the RSS as "[http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2029 SOMETIMES your friends will ruin what you thought was a really great metaphor/relationship]"

* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' has this gem:

'''Nanase''': ... what? }}

 

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