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I don't know about rap music,
but the most amusing metaphor I've read this week comes from the World Gold Council, via a Portuguese news website:

The WGC stresses the obvious point that money (euros) “is abstract – numbers on a computer screen. By contrast, gold is concrete.”

It's got all the charm of a mixed metaphor, except it isn't mixed.
(, Sat 5 Jan 2013, 17:52, archived)
So before computers there was no money?

(, Sat 5 Jan 2013, 17:55, archived)
Yes but then it was just numbers in an account book.

(, Sat 5 Jan 2013, 17:56, archived)
There's nothing worse than improperly mixed concrete

(, Sat 5 Jan 2013, 17:56, archived)
I dunno being eaten by a shark sounds pretty bad

(, Sat 5 Jan 2013, 18:02, archived)
Have you been sending Gonz icebreakers?

(, Sat 5 Jan 2013, 18:04, archived)
might send him a croc clip muffin

(, Sat 5 Jan 2013, 18:05, archived)
and a juicer
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(, Sat 5 Jan 2013, 18:07, archived)
oh I thought you meant the sort of ship,
I've never heard it used in that context before. I've heard of breaking the ice at parties, thanks to Monty Python.
(, Sat 5 Jan 2013, 18:09, archived)
Yep "Tis a flesh wound"
always goes down well at a party when showing of your gash
(, Sat 5 Jan 2013, 18:11, archived)
I don't go to that kind of party.

(, Sat 5 Jan 2013, 18:12, archived)
*Retrieves car keys from the bowl*

(, Sat 5 Jan 2013, 18:13, archived)
One could lead to the other, you could be walking along the seafront minding your own business
and then you catch your foot in the flaking concrete path and trip over the wall, falling straight into the mouth of the shark waiting below
(, Sat 5 Jan 2013, 18:08, archived)
true, true,
then again you could get eaten by a shark just before you were about to finish mixing some concrete, and then the concrete wouldn't get mixed properly.
(, Sat 5 Jan 2013, 18:11, archived)
The number of times workmen have been to repair that path, and it always ends the same way :(

(, Sat 5 Jan 2013, 18:15, archived)