Don’t Be a Chicken With Your Head Cut Off: Veganize Your Metaphors
I am moving in three weeks. I have just started a new job at a local recreation center. My other job’s boss is going away for a few weeks and I’ll be manning the headquarters. Basically … there are a lot of things going around in my head. I can’t walk down the street without constantly making mental to-do lists.
As I was doing just that the other day I started to think, “I’m running around like a chicken with its head cut off.” Then I stopped (as in I actually stopped walking, in the middle of one of the busiest sidewalks in Center City Philadelphia). Mental note: must come up with a vegan equivalent to this saying.
A few days later, when I still hadn’t come up with a animal-friendly version (clever metaphors have never been my strength), I overheard one of my friend’s compare himself to a headless chicken. I tried finding an alternative online, but only found “in a frenzy.”
So, creative vegans, I need your help! Can anyone out there help us all come up with something to say instead of “running around like a chicken with his head cut off”?
In other vegan metaphor news … at the moment I watching Confessions of a Shopaholic and caught wind of one I like. When Isla Fisher’s character, the title in-debt shopaholic, accidentally gets a job at a financial magazine her roommates proclaims: “It’s like when an animal rights activist gets attacked by a bear. … What do you call that? Ironic!”
July 17th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
In Joanne Stepaniak’s Farm Sanctuary-inspired cookbook Vegan Vittles, numerous “veganisms” are given. On page 159 she writes:
“Instead of:
Running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off.
Use:
Running around in circles.”
Not too inspiring, but it works.
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