American Beer is a lot like making love on a canoe - it's fucking close to water.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Idle compares American Beer to making love on a canoe, emphasizing how close to disaster it is.
- In plain terms
- The product is dangerously flawed or impractical.
- What can you take from it?
- Some efforts are inherently risky.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do we judge product quality?
- What makes a comparison effective?
Another view
The analogy is crude and may alienate audiences.
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