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"the song was about a guy getting out of prison after all and not a war hero."
Coffee through my nose funny!!
I've long thought of myself as having "low social cohesion factor," evidenced by my desire to run the other way when seeing a mob on the march. I liken social cohesion factor to the attractive Van Der Wahl forces that holds water molecules tightly together, causing surface tension. In my metaphor, surface tension is the resistance you run into when trying to use simple reason to refute widely held foolishness.
Your points helped to clarify my own little theory. It's hard for most people to deal with thoughts that run contrary to the crowd.
OTOH, isn't using "synecdoche" as a verb itself a metonymy? Or is it just a misuse? :)
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