Friday, May 8, 2009

Apples to oranges


Comparing apples



to oranges



really shouldn't be taboo.
They're actually pretty similar.
Similarities:
Food
Fruit
Roundish
Yummy
Can make juice out of them
Grow on trees
Are picked by people on ladders.


See? They are actually very much alike. I don't know why the expression "that's like comparing comparing apples to oranges" is used when someone talks about putting dissimilar items in the same category.

Instead of simply complaining about a problem in the universe, I will offer several solutions:

"That's like comparing apples

to

airplanes."

or

"That's like comparing apples

to
piles of books."

or

"That's like comparing apples

to
70s rock bands."

or

"That's like comparing apples

to

video game consoles from the 1990s."

There are countless other items that are much more dissimilar from apples than oranges.
Whoever picked oranges as the contrast to apples is a fool.




2 comments:

Samuel Bradshaw said...

Why is it the oranges part that doesn't work? Maybe apples is the culprit... :)

Cameron Hilker said...

Haha!
It's because the apples come first in the expression, so they are the part that will stay. It doesn't necessarily have to be that way, but I thought it made sense. :)