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tomato

Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:15 am Post subject: correlatives |
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Art Linkletter is to children as Hugh Hefner is to women.
Pinky is to Blue Boy as Pagliacci is to Cavalleria Rusticana.
The Medium is to The Telephone as Tom Sawyer is to Huck Finn.
Mrs. Miller is to popular music as Florence Foster Jenkins is to classical music.
Barbara Mandrell is to women as Quisling is to Norway.
Transcendental Meditation is to Hinduism as Intelligent Design is to Creationism.
Kid's Talk is to English as Mondrian is to geometry.
Cassius Clay is to humility as Pat Robertson is to tolerance.
Bush is to atheist as Hitler is to Jew.
Dokdo is to Takeshima as chongicheopgi is to origami.
Christian Science is to physics as Mormonism is to anthropology.
Korean English school director is to foreign language education as Ann Landers is to clinical psychology.
Spectrum English netizen is to foreign English teacher as terrorist is to Moslem.
Parade is to English textbook as Edsel is to Ford.
Child U is to English school as Amway is to family.
This one is not original, but it's one of my favorites:
Military justice is to justice as military music is to music.
Betcha jajdude is going to come up with some good ones. |
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Links

Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Location: It's censorship and it's downright blasphemous
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Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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Bush is to competent as Korean immigration is to efficient. |
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EFLtrainer

Joined: 04 May 2005
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Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:21 am Post subject: |
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Korean English hagwons are to English acquisition as tugboats are to to yachting.
Kimchi is to health as magic elixers were to medicine.
The Iraq War is to terrorism as gasoline is to fire.
Dave's postings are to rational, civil debate as wigs are to hair.
Galbi is to meat dishes as Ricky Road is to ice cream.
PC bangs are to gaming as phones are to talking.
Any given Korean neighborhood is to cookie cutter as any given US tract home is to keeping up with the Joneses.
Any given Korean neighborhood is to convenience as a Swiss Army knife is to a hiker.
Fireign English teachers are to whining as grapes are to raisins. |
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tomato

Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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Miffy is to astronomy as The Flintstones is to paleontology.
Hwang is to genetics as Clifford Irving is to biography. |
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Mills
Joined: 07 Jan 2006 Location: Incheon
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Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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EFLtrainer wrote: |
The Iraq War is to terrorism as gasoline is to fire.
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Withholding aid and tax revenue from the Palestinians (because they democraticly elected the wrong party), is to peace as lawn darts are to safety. |
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tomato

Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:38 am Post subject: |
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Stokowski is to Bach as Disney is to Grimm Brothers.
McCarthy is to Communists as Cotton Mather is to witches. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 7:04 am Post subject: |
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Ok I'll try a few:
Rosie O'Donnell is to beauty as Shakespeare is to illiteracy
Tom Cruise is to religion as arsenic is to health
Idi Amin is to kindness as wealth is to hunger
North Korea is to freedom as schizophrenia is to sanity
"Ramyeon" is to food as Hannibal Lecter is to kindness
Seoul is to empty as the Sun is to cool
Smoking is to health as drinking is to sobriety
The Backstreet Boys are to music as the Muppets are to people |
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