Another Entry for "No, Really. We Talk Like This"

[gnomi]

(Scene: mabfan and gnomi are headed to the grocery store. That's not particularly relevant to this conversation. I just usually set the scene here, so it felt weird not to do so.)

mabfan: I'm a poet now, you know.

gnomi: You are?

mabfan: Yes! I'm a member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. That makes me a poet!

gnomi: No, it doesn't. That's like saying that my joining the National Rifle Association would make me a rifle!

Comments

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Narf! Bang!

[madfilkentist]

Actually, by that analogy, it makes you poetry.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

In motion, even. :-)

[sorek.livejournal.com]

Science!

[dpolicar]

No. Saying that you joining the National Rifle Association would make you a rifle is like saying that mabfan joining the Science Fiction Poetry Association would make mabfan science-fiction poetry.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Well, yes. But it was off-the-cuff while in traffic. And then mabfan told me to post it. So I did. :-)

[dpolicar]

(nods)
Not sayin' you shouldn't have posted it... or said it... just that you're wrong. WRONG WRONG WRONG, I say! Wrong! With wrong sauce!
(insert consequence-deflecting emoticon here)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

So, wait, what's the right sauce?

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Sauce bears-nose, of course.

[caryabend.livejournal.com]

In order for your simile to hold, wouldn't she have to be a National Rifle?

[dpolicar]

Perhaps.
Personally I parse "National" as modifying "Association" and "Science-Fiction" as modifying "Poetry", but I certainly acknowledge the ambiguity.

[braintraumered.livejournal.com]

Those of us in countries where we have banned civilian gun ownership have different terms to describe those who feel the need to join your NRA

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

Does turning into the garage make me a car?

*Not nearly as witty, mind you -- but guaranteed to make my kids dissolve into giggles, and Nadia say Beep Beep for hours afterward*

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Vroom! Vroom!

[kuroshii.livejournal.com]

that garage part right there is where i first heard this particular metaphor-use used:

"going to church makes you no more a christian than going to a garage makes you a car."

[kuroshii.livejournal.com]

er, simile. or whatever it is. i need more coffee.

::shuffles off to fetch more coffee::

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

Just scribble a few lines and we'll fake it. ;)

And btw, I do think the SFPA is a smashing group, and not just because I have the occasional piece in Star*Line!

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

It's inspired me to write a poem. I've already got two opening lines, and a few lines near the end.

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

You're certainly a pistol. :)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

::snerk::

[lonfiction.livejournal.com]

Two thoughts on this:

1) Poems, don't kill people. Poets kill people.

and 2) Does this mean that he'll soon be sporting bumper stickers that say "Deborah P. Kolodji is MY President"?

[lonfiction.livejournal.com]

grrr.. ignore that comma.

[batyatoon]

"My daddy was a rifle ... and I'm a son of a gun!"

[pressburger.livejournal.com]

Actually, it would be like him saying joining the NRA makes him a rifleman. He did not say that joining the Science Fiction Poetry Association makes him a poem.

[zsero.livejournal.com]

Though wouldn't it be cool if it did?

[jonbaker.livejournal.com]

I think that I shall never see
A MABFAN lovely as a tree
But if the MABFANs never fall
They (God-willing) will not injure themselves at all.