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When I built a turkey coop this past spring, plywood price was at its peak, so I decided I'd side and roof it with 18-gauge steel. It was quick, easy, looks gr
by JasonFruit 5y ago
When I built a turkey coop this past spring, plywood price was at its peak, so I decided I'd side and roof it with 18-gauge steel. It was quick, easy, looks great, and has proven itself weather-tight. I love working with wood, but I have to say the ease, cost, and looks of the steel have converted me for this purpose.
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> More intuitively, consider a common pizza-eating strategy: gently bending your slice before bringing it to your mouth obviates the risk of buckling and consequent mess.
is a perfect, natural analogy. Why can I never come up with such beautiful explanations?
- enchiridion 5y agoIMO good analogies come from a place of empathy. An understanding that the people you are talking to are not dumb, just uninitiated. Not sure how applicable that observation is. Just sharing a thought.
- dmurray 5y ago> is a perfect, natural analogy. Why can I never come up with such beautiful explanations? Good writers borrow: great writers steal. It would be nice to come up with the right analogy from whole cloth, but especially in non-fiction writing it's almost as good to recognize a great analogy or turn of phrase, store it away in your mind, and reproduce it (rewritten in the house style, perhaps) when you need the mot juste for your own readers. I've heard the analogy before, and I suspect the writer or editor of the Economist had too.