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Concretized metaphor runs wild in Lancashire

Concretized metaphor runs wild in Lancashire -- comment #1 from Avram

Thu, 29 May 2003 00:28:12 -0500

Nothing to do with the subject, but have you seen Seanan do her Iron Poet trick? You give her three words, and she writes a poem. This time she's even letting people suggest the form.

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Posted May 29, 2003 12:28 AM by Avram

Concretized metaphor runs wild in Lancashire -- comment #2 from Jane Yolen

Thu, 29 May 2003 06:27:02 -0500

That sort of trick is done all the time in poetry workshops. Done a bunch myself.

But about that bull--why do I smell an urban myth? Maybe because it's too comfortable a story?

Jane

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Posted May 29, 2003 6:27 AM by Jane Yolen

Concretized metaphor runs wild in Lancashire -- comment #3 from Dylan O'Donnell

Thu, 29 May 2003 06:47:09 -0500

While the Mirror's report is short on details, the BBC's version
has some checkable facts; a GB Antiques exists in Lancaster, and an A.B. Blackburn manages it.

(The antique furniture store's metamorphosing into a china shop does appear to be a case of a story making a break for folklore status, though.)

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Posted May 29, 2003 6:47 AM by Dylan O'Donnell

Concretized metaphor runs wild in Lancashire -- comment #4 from A Hosth

Thu, 29 May 2003 07:43:29 -0500

I've seen the footage of them clearing the shop up on the news (Aus). If it's a hoax, it's an improbably elaborate one.

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Posted May 29, 2003 7:43 AM by A Hosth

Concretized metaphor runs wild in Lancashire -- comment #5 from John Farrell

Thu, 29 May 2003 09:37:08 -0500

Figures there wasn't anyone hanging around with a camcorder there....(just when you needed one).

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Posted May 29, 2003 9:37 AM by John Farrell

Concretized metaphor runs wild in Lancashire -- comment #6 from Jo Walton

Thu, 29 May 2003 14:53:56 -0500

Oh, there, yes, that's just round the corner from where I used to live, in fact that's where I got my desk from, on which I am typing these very words.

It does sell china as well as furniture, of the antique and collectible kind.

I wonder where the bull came from.

I wonder if they had metaphor insurance.

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Posted May 29, 2003 2:53 PM by Jo Walton

Concretized metaphor runs wild in Lancashire -- comment #7 from Kate Yule

Thu, 29 May 2003 15:09:00 -0500

Any establishment from which one can evacuate 200 people is no mere "china shop".

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Posted May 29, 2003 3:09 PM by Kate Yule

Concretized metaphor runs wild in Lancashire -- comment #8 from Lis Carey

Thu, 29 May 2003 22:07:11 -0500

There is videotape of the bull in the china shop. The footage was on CNN and NECN, and probably quite a few other networks.

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Posted May 29, 2003 10:07 PM by Lis Carey

Concretized metaphor runs wild in Lancashire -- comment #9 from Jon H

Mon, 02 Jun 2003 10:47:30 -0500

It would have been nice if the bull had managed to not break anything, thus invalidating he metaphor.

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Posted June 2, 2003 10:47 AM by Jon H

Concretized metaphor runs wild in Lancashire -- comment #10 from Daniel Martin

Mon, 02 Jun 2003 15:44:30 -0500

According to the version of the story I heard on NPR, the Bull did in fact not break anything on the first run through the shop, but then turned around and did some damage on later passes.

It was eventually trapped by the staff moving two large organs in to cut off its escape route, and a police sharpshooter was brought in to put the bull down.

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Posted June 2, 2003 3:44 PM by Daniel Martin