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Metaphor of the Week: Trump is the world’s best wearer of Shredded Wheat hair

August

This one tops last week’s analogy of an art installation to Stephen Baldwin’s kidney.

In a discussion of Trump’s new celebrity version of “The Appentice”—in particular his courting of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and Britney Spears (to go along with the aready signed up Joan Rivers, Tony Hawk, George Foreman, Carmen Electra)—Holy Moly says,

Donald Trump, the world’s best wearer of Shredded Wheat hair since Arthur Scargill, is hoping to produce the best piece of car crash telly the world has ever seen. Better even than watching Jodie Marsh trying to explain what she does for a living.

I love this quote for a number of reasons. First, the Shredded Wheat reference is plain brilliant—especially if you’re reading it with the accompanying photo. Second, thanks to the obscure Arthur Scargill reference, I learned a thing or two from Wikipedia about the National Union of Mineworkers. And finally, thanks to the equally obscure reference to Jodie Marsh, I’ve been introduced to a whole new breed of British softcore superstars. It’s like a Vonnegut novel, history lesson, and issue of FHM all rolled into one.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 at 9:00 am by Ted Mann.
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