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Bypassing the Kerry Campaign

Rich Galen

Wednesday, September 8, 2004

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• "... simile ...": Pronounced: SIM-i-lee. From Webster's Third Unabridged:

  a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things and often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses, a heart as hard as flint) -- compare METAPHOR

  METAPHOR -
  1. a figure of speech in which a word or phrase denoting one kind of object or action is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in the ship plows the seas or in a marble brow)
  Contrast with the explicit comparison of the simile (as in a brow white as marble)

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  Here's an example of why those who call us "imperialists" are just dead wrong. Major General John Burgoyne, was a big deal during the Revolutionary War.

  In April, 1777, Burgoyne led about a billion Hessians, British regulars, and Iriquois indians against the Americans in Bennington, Vermont. The Yankees beat him.

  In September 1777 - September 19 through October 16 to be exact - Burgoyne went oh-for-two when, after the Battle of Saratoga he surrendered to American General Horatio Gates.

  Did Gates get Burgoyne's house here on Shepard Street in Westminster? Nope.

  Should have. It's worth a fortune, now.

  
  Some day I'm going to do a coffee table book entitled:
  "Paradoxical Pairs."

• Catchy Caption of the Day

  
  Actual Caption: "Vanessa Kerry, daughter of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, and Cam Kerry, his brother, react after an audience member proclaimed that she thought Sen. Kerry was 'hot,' during a campaign stop."

  I bet her name was Simone, or Babette, or Dominique or - maybe - Delta Dawn.

  (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert )