What would you like as your epitaph?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Maybe the synonyms for being dead from the Monty Python parrot sketch would work.

Aren't they similies? IGMC

I always liked Spike's, but failing that, I also liked Captain Sensible's answer "Ee was a decent geezer who always done 'is best" as what he hoped people would say about him. Fat chance of that in my case.

[expat]

Aren't they similies? IGMC

I always liked Spike's, but failing that, I also liked Captain Sensible's answer "Ee was a decent geezer who always done 'is best" as what he hoped people would say about him. Fat chance of that in my case.

Simile = "like" or "as", roughly speaking. E.g. as dead as a dodo.

Synonym = another word with the same meaning.

I would say that the predominant figure of speech used in the dead parrot sketch is euphemism by metaphor.

[eliquant]

"You Live,
You Learn,
You Die,
And Then Forget it All".

[RichardCranium]

I would like:

(except for the tree planted on the site)

to leave no mark at all in my passing.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Simile = "like" or "as", roughly speaking. E.g. as dead as a dodo.

Synonym = another word with the same meaning.

I would say that the predominant figure of speech used in the dead parrot sketch is euphemism by metaphor.

Thanks you are of course correct.

[DaveB]

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"